Major Events in November 2026: The Circuit's Last Full Month

Last updated: 31 October 2026. Next review: 9 November 2026. Sources are linked in the text and listed at the end of the page.

Quick answer. 69 professional events start in November 2026, across 37 cities in 23 countries. London hosts 13, Paris 4 and Berlin 4.

The three largest are electronica in Munich (80,000-plus visitors, 10-13 November), MEDICA in Düsseldorf (about 78,000 trade visitors in 2025, 16-19 November) and Web Summit in Lisbon (71,386 attendees in 2025, 9-12 November). All figures are organiser figures.

Status on 31 October 2026. None of these events has run yet. The first three start on 2 November: ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi, Data & AI Conference Europe in London and Global MilSatCom in London. The last to start is EQTC 2026 in Dublin, which runs 30 November to 3 December.

Two events from the previous version of this page are removed because they are cancelled. The AI Conf in Barcelona (planned 3-4 November) was cancelled by its organiser (The AI Conf). The Paris stop of Salesforce's AIforce World Tour (planned 5 November) was cancelled by Salesforce France because of a national strike day (Salesforce Paris).

When the month peaks

November is front-loaded. Most organisers avoid American Thanksgiving week and the run-up to the winter holidays.

• 2-6 November: 16 events start.
• 16-20 November: 23 events start, the busiest stretch of the month.
• 24-30 November: 13 events start, then the calendar thins.

Four events run into December: Tech.Rocks Summit, Enterprise DevOps Summit, Enterprise DevSecOps and EQTC 2026.

Who is in the room

Electronics and semiconductors

electronica and SEMICON Europa share Messe München on 10-13 November, with a shared visitor ticket and separate programmes.

• electronica (Munich): 3,480-plus exhibitors and 80,000-plus visitors across the electronics value chain. Its 2026 theme is "Empowering the All Electric Society" (electronica).
• SEMICON Europa (Munich, SEMI Europe): semiconductor manufacturing, equipment, materials and advanced packaging. About 8,000 specialists and 160 exhibitors.

Medical technology and digital health

• MEDICA (Düsseldorf, 16-19 November): about 78,000 trade visitors and 4,800 exhibitors. First a sourcing marketplace, with AI and big data in the MEDICA INNOVATION FORUM.
• Digital Health Conference (Barcelona, 3-4 November, UBIQ Events): AI, digital therapeutics and regulatory pathways.
• Digital Health Conference Berlin (KOSMOS, 24 November, Bitkom): one day with an AI and Future Health track. Standard ticket 500 EUR.
• EIT Health Summit (The EGG, Brussels, 24-25 November, EIT Health e.V.): healthtech startups, investors and healthcare partners.

Private capital

Eight events, the deepest bench of the month.

• SuperReturn Europe (Amsterdam, 3-6 November, Informa Connect): 1,500-plus delegates, including 500-plus LPs and 750 GPs (self-reported).
• IPEM Future (Dubai, 3-4 November): 900 attendees recorded.
• ALFI Private Assets Conference (Luxembourg, 9-10 November): fund administrators, depositaries and tax advisers. 800-plus attendees.
• Apex Invest Middle East (Hilton Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, 9-10 November, Apex Group): 300 attendees.
• Prestel & Partner Zurich Family Office Forum (The Dolder Grand, 10-11 November): 200 attendees.
• Real Deals Value Creation Summit (11 November): one day on portfolio value creation. 150 attendees.
• Responsible Investment Forum Europe (London, 17-18 November, PEI Group): ESG for the same allocator community. 500 attendees.
• Slush (Helsinki, 18-19 November): founder-centric, with AI-powered matchmaking between investors and startups.

AI and data

• Data & AI Conference Europe (London, 2-6 November): vendor-neutral, on data management, governance and AI strategy.
• Africa AI Summit (Cape Town, 3-5 November): inaugural, enterprise and policy oriented. The organiser is not publicly disclosed.
• GenAI Summit Athens (16 November): volunteer-organised, enterprise generative AI, theme "Agents at Work".
• NextGen Intelligence Conference (London, 16-17 November): data, cloud and AI strategy.
• MLCon Berlin (16-20 November): MLOps, LLMOps and AI strategy. 2,500-plus attendees reported.
• AI Summit Cape Town (17-19 November): tenth edition, inside the Africa Tech Festival. Unrelated to Africa AI Summit despite the near-identical name.
• DEAI Summit (Valletta, 25-26 November, HumanAix Foundation): AI governance and regulation, under the theme "The Inflection Point of AI".

Software developers, platform engineering and BI

• code.talks (Hamburg, 4-5 November): 3,500 developers.
• Øredev (Malmö, 4-6 November): 20th anniversary edition.
• InnoComp 2026 (Lisbon, 9-11 November): computational intelligence and trustworthy AI.
• GoTech World (Bucharest, 10-11 November): 15,000-plus attendees reported, eleven themed stages.
• Budapest BI & Analytics Forum (16-18 November): the Microsoft data stack, Power BI and Fabric.
• KCD Porto (Super Bock Arena, 19-20 November): CNCF community day with DevOpsDays Portugal.
• Agentic Engineering Days Zurich (20 November, letsboot.ch): AI coding agents, MCP and LLM evaluation.
• Big Data Conference Europe (Vilnius, 24-27 November): tenth edition, open-source tooling such as Spark, Kafka and Flink.
• Dynamics 365 Summit (Lisbon, 27 November): Microsoft partner community, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
• Enterprise DevOps Summit and Enterprise DevSecOps (Berlin, 30 November to 1 December): one we.CONECT ticket, 400-plus senior practitioners combined.
• Tech.Rocks Summit (Paris, 30 November to 1 December): engineering leadership, for CTOs and VPs of Engineering.

Quantum technology

Four events, each led by a research body, public agency or industry consortium.

• QBC Summit 2026 (Orsay, 3-4 November): European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC).
• UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase (London, 6 November): Innovate UK Business Connect. 2,500 attendees recorded.
• World Quantum Cannes Festival (Palais des Festivals, 17-18 November): Valuexchange and Institut EuropIA.
• EQTC 2026 (Dublin, 30 November to 3 December): Quantum Flagship with the Irish Centre for High-End Computing. 1,100 attendees recorded.

Space, defence and security

• Global MilSatCom (London, 2-5 November, SAE Media Group): military satellite communications. 700 attendees recorded.
• EURONAVAL (Paris Nord Villepinte, 3-6 November): naval industry exhibition by SOGENA. 450 exhibitors, about 22,000 attendees estimated.
• SIDEC (Celje Fair, Slovenia, 10-12 November): second Slovenian International Defence Exhibition. 180-plus exhibitors (organiser figure).
• European Defence Innovation Forum (The Hague, 11-12 November): 1,000 attendees. Organised by the Embassy of Ukraine in the Netherlands.
• World Police Summit (Dubai World Trade Centre, 16-18 November): Dubai Police and DXB LIVE.
• Space Tech Expo Europe (Bremen, 17-19 November, Informa Markets): 10,000 attendees and 950 exhibitors recorded.
• Cloud & Cyber Security Expo Paris (18-19 November, CloserStill Media): the month's one cybersecurity-led event.
• New Space Economy European Expoforum (Rome, 25-27 November): with the Italian Space Agency.

Energy

• ADIPEC (Abu Dhabi, 2-5 November, dmg events).
• Enlit Europe (Vienna, 10-12 November, Clarion Events).
• Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (Amsterdam, 24-25 November, Navingo).

Sales, customer experience and retail

• Sales Summit Düsseldorf (4-5 November, Trailblazer Summits Group): 100-plus exhibitors, 150-plus speakers and 1,500-plus visitors (organiser figures).
• Web Summit (Lisbon, 9-12 November): 71,386 attendees, 2,725 startups and 1,857 investors at the 2025 edition.
• HubSpot GROW Europe (Southbank Centre, London, 17 November): 2,000 seats, 1,000 attendees in 2025.
• SaaSiest London Executive Edition (CodeNode, 19 November).
• AIforce World Tour Munich (Messe München, 25 November): free, in German, 2,000-plus decision makers expected.
• AIforce World Tour Amsterdam (RAI Amsterdam, 26 November): free, one day.
• E-SHOW Madrid (IFEMA, 4-5 November) and HR Technologies Spain (IFEMA, 4-5 November, 3,000 attendees recorded): both CloserStill Media.
• Fortem International shows (ExCeL London, 11-12 November): Ecommerce Packaging & Labelling Expo, Retail Supply Chain + Logistics Expo and Smart Retail Tech.
• C+UX Customer + User Experience and Contact Centre Expo (ExCeL London, 18-19 November).
• Retail Show Poland (Warsaw, 18-19 November, ECP Polska).

The full circuit sits on the Sales Stack vertical.

Policy, economics, finance and diplomacy

• Journées de l'Économie (Lyon, 3-5 November): free public festival, 19th edition, 40,000-plus participants self-reported, in French.
• Paris Peace Forum (10-11 November): ninth edition, a non-profit governance summit.
• Euro Finance Week (Frankfurt, 16-20 November, dfv Euro Finance Group), closing with the Frankfurt European Banking Congress (Alte Oper, 20 November).
• European Business Summit (Egmont Palace, Brussels, 17-18 November).
• MED Mediterranean Dialogues (Royal Palace, Naples, 19-21 November): ISPI and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Sport technology

• SVG Europe Sports Audio Summit (Kings Place, London, 12 November): sports broadcast audio, from sound capture to immersive audio.

How the room actually works

Unrelated communities often share a city and a week without sharing a programme. Shared cities fall into three types.

Deliberate coordination. electronica and SEMICON Europa share a venue, dates and a ticket but have separate organisers. Three Fortem shows share ExCeL on 11-12 November, and two more share it on 18-19 November. Euro Finance Week ends with the Banking Congress.

Coincidental proximity. Berlin's four events serve four different audiences. Cape Town's two AI summits share a city and a near-identical name, two weeks apart. London's 13 events reflect the city's depth as a venue, not a single circuit.

Professional corridors. SuperReturn Europe is followed six days later by the ALFI Private Assets Conference. IPEM Future and Apex Invest Middle East run one week apart for Gulf allocators. Slush closes the run a week and a half later with a founder-facing format.

Reading the November map

• Munich hardware week (10-13 November): electronica and SEMICON Europa. Munich also hosts AIforce World Tour Munich on 25 November.
• London (13 events): the ExCeL shows on 11-12 and 18-19 November, plus Data & AI Conference Europe, Global MilSatCom, the UK Quantum Showcase, the SVG Europe Sports Audio Summit, NextGen Intelligence, Responsible Investment Forum Europe, HubSpot GROW Europe and SaaSiest.
• Quantum run (3 November to 3 December): Orsay, London, Cannes, Dublin.
• Gulf block (2-18 November): ADIPEC, IPEM Future, Apex Invest Middle East and World Police Summit, across Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
• Cape Town AI fortnight (3-5 and 17-19 November): the only sub-Saharan city in the index this month.
• Berlin (4 events): MLCon Berlin on 16-20 November, Digital Health Conference Berlin on 24 November, then the two we.CONECT summits on 30 November to 1 December.
• Salesforce AIforce tour: Munich on 25 November and Amsterdam on 26 November. The Paris stop is cancelled.
• Frankfurt finance week (16-20 November): the same week as MEDICA and MLCon Berlin.
• Brussels (24-25 November): EIT Health Summit, after the European Business Summit on 17-18 November.
• Paris (4 events): naval industry, diplomacy, cybersecurity and engineering leadership, with no overlap beyond the city.

The 2026 context

AI is default content. It runs as a track inside events with no AI in their name. electronica puts edge AI on a primary axis, MEDICA runs AI and big data as a forum track, SuperReturn Europe lists AI among its themes, and the Budapest BI forum added generative and agentic BI sessions.

Quantum is a month-long fixture. Four events from four organisers fill 3 November to 3 December, led by research bodies and public agencies rather than commercial organisers.

Defence and space follow public procurement. Global MilSatCom, EDIF, SIDEC, EURONAVAL and the New Space Economy Expoforum combine a trade floor with a procurement or policy conversation. Two are organised with state bodies or embassies.

Practitioner-run events sit beside commercial brands. GenAI Summit Athens is a volunteer collective, KCD Porto is a CNCF community day, and MLCon Berlin is commercial. Organiser transparency varies, and credibility does not track it.

Africa's presence is real but uneven. Cape Town has one inaugural event with an undisclosed organiser and one tenth-edition summit.

Trends to watch

• Co-location as a template. The electronica and SEMICON Europa model is established practice at Munich. It is not repeated in Berlin or Cape Town.
• Cape Town positioning. The two AI summits may differentiate over later editions, or one may absorb the attention.
• Quantum scheduling. Four events inside five weeks share one audience. The 2027 question is whether organisers stagger or keep stacking.

Methodology and data standards

Each event record is built from primary source verification. Where the organiser does not publish a field, it is left blank. Attendance figures are organiser figures and flagged as self-declared.

Selection rule. The page lists every event in the database with a fiche and a 2026 start date between 1 and 30 November, duplicates and cancelled events excluded. Dates were checked against each current fiche on 31 October 2026.

Changes since 23 October 2026:

• The AI Conf and AIforce World Tour Paris are removed as cancelled.
• Six events are added after their fiches were created: Sales Summit Düsseldorf, Digital Health Conference Berlin, AIforce World Tour Munich, DEAI Summit, AIforce World Tour Amsterdam and EIT Health Summit.
• SIDEC moves from "unclassified" to space, defence and security.
• Web Summit is no longer called the second-largest event after electronica: MEDICA's trade-visitor figure is higher.

Open points. Vienna Economic Forum has a fiche but no published 2026 date and is not listed. Four private capital records carry no status flag and the Real Deals record has no venue, so their dates should be reconfirmed with the organiser. The four quantum events, KCD Porto, InnoComp and NextGen Intelligence carry no verification date in the database, so their dates rest on the fiche. Confirm pricing, speakers and registration deadlines on each official site.

The index does not rank events within this vertical. Where two events serve similar audiences, both are documented without comparative judgement.

Scope note. This vertical covers events with publicly disclosed programmes and open, application-based or accreditation-based registration in November 2026 across EMEA. Internal firm events, private LP days and pure virtual formats are outside scope. Africa AI Summit and AI Summit Cape Town fall under the Africa bracket of EMEA, and the Abu Dhabi and Dubai events under the Middle East bracket.

Sources

Accessed on 31 October 2026. Organiser sites, as recorded in each event's fiche.

1. ADIPEC, organiser site: 2-5 November 2026.
2. Data & AI Conference Europe 2026, organiser site: 2-6 November 2026.
3. Global MilSatCom, organiser site: 2-5 November 2026.
4. Africa AI Summit, organiser site: 3-5 November 2026.
5. 6th Digital Health Conference, organiser site: 3-4 November 2026.
6. Euronaval, organiser site: 3-6 November 2026.
7. IPEM Future, organiser site: 3-4 November 2026.
8. Journées de l'Économie (Jéco), organiser site: 3-5 November 2026.
9. QBC Summit 2026, organiser site: 3-4 November 2026.
10. SuperReturn Europe, organiser site: 3-6 November 2026.
11. code.talks 2026, organiser site: 4-5 November 2026.
12. E-SHOW MADRID, organiser site: 4-5 November 2026.
13. HR Technologies Spain, organiser site: 4-5 November 2026.
14. Øredev 2026, organiser site: 4-6 November 2026.
15. Sales Summit Dusseldorf, organiser site: 4-5 November 2026.
16. UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2026, organiser site: 6 November 2026.
17. ALFI Private Assets Conference, organiser site: 9-10 November 2026.
18. Apex Invest Middle East, organiser site: 9-10 November 2026.
19. InnoComp 2026, organiser site: 9-11 November 2026.
20. Web Summit, organiser site: 9-12 November 2026.
21. ELECTRONICA, organiser site: 10-13 November 2026.
22. Enlit Europe, organiser site: 10-12 November 2026.
23. GoTech World 2026, organiser site: 10-11 November 2026.
24. Paris Peace Forum, organiser site: 10-11 November 2026.
25. Prestel & Partner Zurich Family Office Forum, organiser site: 10-11 November 2026.
26. SEMICON EUROPA, organiser site: 10-13 November 2026.
27. SIDEC, organiser site: 10-12 November 2026.
28. E-commerce, Packaging & Labelling Expo UK, organiser site: 11-12 November 2026.
29. European Defence Innovation Forum, organiser site: 11-12 November 2026.
30. Real Deals Value Creation Summit, organiser site: 11 November 2026.
31. Retail Supply Chain & Logistics Expo UK, organiser site: 11-12 November 2026.
32. Smart Retail Tech UK, organiser site: 11-12 November 2026.
33. SVG Europe Sports Audio Summit, organiser site: 12 November 2026.
34. Budapest BI & Analytics Forum 2026, organiser site: 16-18 November 2026.
35. Euro Finance Week, organiser site: 16-20 November 2026.
36. 5th GenAI Summit Athens 2026, organiser site: 16 November 2026.
37. MEDICA, organiser site: 16-19 November 2026.
38. MLCon Berlin 2026, organiser site: 16-20 November 2026.
39. NextGen Intelligence Conference: Data, Cloud & AI, organiser site: 16-17 November 2026.
40. World Police Summit, organiser site: 16-18 November 2026.
41. AI Summit Cape Town, organiser site: 17-19 November 2026.
42. European Business Summit, organiser site: 17-18 November 2026.
43. HubSpot GROW Europe, organiser site: 17 November 2026.
44. Responsible Investment Forum Europe, organiser site: 17-18 November 2026.
45. Space Tech Expo Europe, organiser site: 17-19 November 2026.
46. World Quantum Cannes Festival 2026, organiser site: 17-18 November 2026.
47. C+UX (Customer + User Experience), organiser site: 18-19 November 2026.
48. Cloud & Cyber Security Expo Paris, organiser site: 18-19 November 2026.
49. Contact Centre Expo, organiser site: 18-19 November 2026.
50. RetailShow, organiser site: 18-19 November 2026.
51. SLUSH, organiser site: 18-19 November 2026.
52. KCD Porto 2026, organiser site: 19-20 November 2026.
53. MED Mediterranean Dialogues, organiser site: 19-21 November 2026.
54. SaaSiest London Executive Edition, organiser site: 19 November 2026.
55. Agentic Engineering Days Zurich, organiser site: 20 November 2026.
56. Frankfurt European Banking Congress, organiser site: 20 November 2026.
57. Big Data Conference Europe, organiser site: 24-27 November 2026.
58. Digital Health Conference Berlin, organiser site: 24 November 2026.
59. EIT Health Summit, organiser site: 24-25 November 2026.
60. Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference, organiser site: 24-25 November 2026.
61. AIforce World Tour Munich, organiser site: 25 November 2026.
62. DEAI Summit, organiser site: 25-26 November 2026.
63. New Space Economy European Expoforum, organiser site: 25-27 November 2026.
64. AIforce World Tour Amsterdam, organiser site: 26 November 2026.
65. Dynamics 365 AI ERP Summit 2026, organiser site: 27 November 2026.
66. Enterprise DevOps Summit 2026, organiser site: 30 November to 1 December 2026.
67. Enterprise DevSecOps 2026, organiser site: 30 November to 1 December 2026.
68. EQTC 2026, organiser site: 30 November to 3 December 2026.
69. Tech.Rocks Summit, organiser site: 30 November to 1 December 2026.