CHEP 2018: Preface to the Proceedings

The 23rd International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) took place in the National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria from 9th to 13th of July 2018. 575 participants joined the plenary and the eight parallel sessions dedicated to: online computing; offline computing; distributed computing; data handling; software development; machine learning and physics analysis; clouds, virtualisation and containers; networks and facilities. The conference hosted 35 plenary presentations, 323 parallel presentations and 188 posters.