An important activity of the IFIP Technical Committees is to organise and sponsor high quality conferences and workshops in the field of ICT.
Sponsoring is generally in the form of Best Paper Awards (BPA) and/or Student Travel Grants (STG).
In preparation, UNESCO had organised the first International Conference on Information Processing, which took place in June 1959 in Paris, and is now considered the first IFIP Congress.
These groups, (with names like "WG 2.4 Software Implementation Technology") organise conferences and workshops, distribute technical papers and promote discussion and research outcomes.
Richard Buckingham of the University of London was appointed its first chairman and TC3 held its initial meeting in Paris in February 1964.
Membership of a TC6 WG or SIG is open to leading researchers within the field, independent of the national society within the country of origin.
Well-known (past) TC6 members include: Vint Cerf, André Danthine, Donald Davies, Roger Scantlebury, Peter Kirstein, Robert (Bob) Metcalfe, Louis Pouzin, Otto Spaniol and Hubert Zimmermann.
[28] The IFIP TC6 Open DL is currently operated by TC6 and eventually will move to the INRIA HAL system.
Conference organisers who intend to obtain IFIP sponsorship are encouraged to fill-in the online Event Request Form (ERF).
This committee aims to promote and encourage the advancement of research and practice of concepts, methods, techniques and issues related to information systems in organisations.
It aims to promote State-of-the-Art concepts, methodologies and tools in the life cycle of computer systems and to coordinate the exchange of information around these practices.
TC10 currently has four working groups: IFIP TC11 on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems was founded in 1984 and revised in 2006 and 2009.
TC 13 currently has nine working groups: Created in 2002 as SG16, on August 28, 2006, the General Assembly of IFIP decided to establish this new Technical Committee.