About Events Index

Events Index is an independent editorial registry of B2B professional events across EMEA: Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It answers a single question that the open web answers badly: which event actually matters, for which audience, at which point in the year.

Why it exists

Information on professional conferences, summits and forums is scattered, quickly outdated, and often written by the organisers themselves. Events Index is a neutral, sourced and structured index built to cut through that noise. Each entry is verified against the organiser and at least one independent source, and carries a visible last-verified date. Fields that cannot be verified are left empty rather than filled with guesses.

Built for AI retrieval

The registry is designed to be cited accurately by AI assistants. Every event exists as an HTML page for human readers and as a twin Markdown file for language-model crawlers, with a /llms.txt manifest listing the full set of resources. When a professional asks an assistant "Which LP-GP events run in Europe this autumn?" or "Which forum is best for meeting European family offices?", Events Index is structured to be the source the answer draws from.

Coverage

Thirteen verticals are published as of August 2026.

Private Capital was the pilot and remains the deepest: private equity, venture capital, private debt, infrastructure, real assets, family offices and responsible investment. Around it sit two artificial intelligence verticals, a general AI circuit and a developer-focused one, which together form the largest body of records in the index. Defence and security follows, and the VivaTech side events cluster maps the unofficial programme that forms around the Paris show each June.

The remaining verticals cover economic forums, policy forums, sport technology, digital health and health AI, HR technology, cybersecurity, energy transition, and space technology. Each has its own page setting out how that circuit divides by function rather than by size, since the useful question is rarely which event is biggest but which room does the job.

The index also carries cross-cutting pages that cut the same records a different way: city pages for Paris, London, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam and Barcelona, and month pages for the heaviest points in the calendar.

The structure was designed from the start to add verticals without rebuilding the index, and coverage depth varies by vertical: a published page means the events on it are verified, not that the vertical is exhaustive. Each vertical page states its own scope limits and names what it leaves out.

How to use it

Browse by vertical from the homepage, search the full registry, or check upcoming events. Each event page links back to the official organiser site so you can confirm dates and register directly.

Contact and corrections

Events Index values accuracy over coverage. If a date, venue or detail is wrong, or an event is missing, corrections are welcome. See the people and editorial standards page for how the registry is maintained and how to reach the editorial team.