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{{Short description|19th & 20th Century gatherings of British Imperial officials}}
{{About|meetings in the British Empire|the Japanese imperial meetings|Gozen Kaigi}}
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[[File:ImperialConference.jpg|thumb|right|300px|King [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] (front, centre) with his prime ministers in 1926. Standing (left to right): [[Walter Stanley Monroe]] ([[Prime Minister of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]]), [[Gordon Coates]] ([[Prime Minister of New Zealand|New Zealand]]), [[Stanley Bruce]] ([[Prime Minister of Australia|Australia]]), 
[[J. B. M. Hertzog]] ([[Prime Minister of South Africa|Union of South Africa]]), 
[[W. T. Cosgrave]] ([[President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State|Irish Free State]]). Seated: [[Stanley Baldwin]] ([[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]), King George V, [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] ([[Prime Minister of Canada|Canada]]).]]

'''Imperial Conferences''' ('''Colonial Conferences''' before 1907) were periodic gatherings of government leaders from the self-governing colonies and dominions of the [[British Empire]] between 1887 and 1937, before the establishment of regular [[Meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers|Meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers]] in [[1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference|1944]]. They were held in [[First Colonial Conference|1887]], [[1894 Colonial Conference|1894]], [[1897 Colonial Conference|1897]], [[1902 Colonial Conference|1902]], [[1907 Imperial Conference|1907]], [[1911 Imperial Conference|1911]], [[1921 Imperial Conference|1921]], [[1923 Imperial Conference|1923]], [[1926 Imperial Conference|1926]], [[1930 Imperial Conference|1930]], [[British Empire Economic Conference|1932]] and [[1937 Imperial Conference|1937]].

All the conferences were held in London, the seat of the Empire, except for the 1894 and 1932 conferences which were held in [[Ottawa]], the capital of the senior [[Dominion]] of the Crown.  The 1907 conference changed the name of the meetings to Imperial Conferences and agreed that the meetings should henceforth be regular rather than taking place while overseas statesmen were visiting London for royal occasions (e.g. jubilees and coronations).