This conference series was initiated in 1986 and organised by professors Hans Tramper and Urs von Stockar at University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, both in 1986 and in 1992. In 2005 the conference was organised by prof. Rein Uljin, University of Manchester, UK.  In 2008, professor Vytas Svedas, Lomonosow State University in Moscow, Russia, chaired the conference.

In 2017 the fifth edition of this series was organised by professors Jan von Langermann, Selin Kara and Udo Kragl at University of Rostock, Germany. The hybrid edition of the sixt BNCM conference was held in Milano in May 2022 and chaired by professors Sergio Riva, Francesco Molinari, Daniela Ubiali and Francesco Secundo.