Chronological calendar of verified events across private equity, private debt, infrastructure, venture capital, and family offices in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
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| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 23–25 | Greentech Festival | Berlin, Germany | Annual Berlin sustainability conference combining exhibition, awards and networking for cleantech decision-makers. |
| June 23–25 | Immersive Tech Week | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Ten editions in Rotterdam without relocating to Amsterdam or London is itself a signal: the Virtual Worlds Association has built a community rather than a travelling trade show, and the 10th edition's EU project partnerships give it an institutional depth unusual in the XR sector. |
| June 23–25 | TDWI München 2026 | Munich, Germany | TDWI Munchen is the reference BI and analytics conference in the German-speaking market: over 20 years of vendor-neutral editorial, 228 speakers from across the DACH enterprise landscape, and the breadth to cover everything from data engineering through cognitive computing in 130+ sessions. |
| June 23 | The Responsible AI Conference 2026 | London, United Kingdom | The speaker roster from HSBC, JPMorgan, and the FCA in the same room signals that responsible AI has moved from ethics committee to boardroom agenda; practitioners working on governance frameworks will find the cross-sector breadth useful. |
| June 23 | Webit Festival | Sofia, Bulgaria | Regional flagship for Balkans and South-East Europe technology and capital deployment discussions. |
| June 24 | AI Conf 2026 | Milan, Italy | Seven editions without rebranding or relocating is a reliable signal of community health; AI Conf holds a clear position as Italy's reference conference for ML practitioners who prefer sessions in Italian. |
| June 24 | DuckCon #7 Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Free, evening-format, co-creator-led: DuckCon is the canonical way to understand where DuckDB's roadmap is heading, and the borrel format keeps it grounded in community rather than marketing. |
| June 24–25 | European Women in Tech | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Long-running EMEA anchor for women in tech with dual focus on technical and leadership programming. |
| June 24–26 | We make future | Bologna, Italy | Major European tech and AI expo combining exhibition, training, and startup competition in Bologna. |
| June 25 | AgentCon Utrecht | Utrecht, Netherlands | Free, CFP-driven, and part of a global tour: AgentCon Utrecht is the Dutch node of a genuine practitioner community rather than a commercial conference with a community veneer. |
| June 25 | Operating Partners Summit | Paris, France | The only dedicated annual gathering for operating partners within the French private equity circuit: a specialist summit built by practitioners, for practitioners, on the concrete mechanics of value creation in PE-backed companies. |
| June 25 | Rev 2026 London (Domino) | London, United Kingdom | |
| June 27 | Asynconf | Paris, France | Free, broadly scoped across programming disciplines, and anchored in the French-speaking developer community: Asynconf fills a gap that larger French tech events -- oriented toward founders and investors -- tend to leave. |
| June 27 – July 4 | OFF des Rencontres Économiques d'Aix-en-Provence | Aix-en-Provence, France | The OFF positions itself as the democratic counterweight to one of France's most prestigious closed economic forums: a free, city-wide programme that brings the same annual debate theme into public squares, schools, and cinemas across Aix-en-Provence for eight days. |
| June 29 – July 2 | DWX 2026 | Mannheim, Germany | Germany's most established developer gathering, anchored in .NET and cloud but expanding steadily into AI and architecture topics. |
| June 29 – July 1 | ECB Forum on Central Banking (Sintra) | Sintra, Portugal | The one fixture on the European economic calendar where sitting central bank governors, not their deputies, share a stage with academics; Sintra sets the monetary-policy tone for the second half of the year. |
| June 29 – July 3 | MLSS on Reliability & Safety 2026 | Krakow, Poland | MLSS formats are the most direct route to foundational ML safety knowledge from researchers actively building the field; the ELLIS affiliation and Krakow location position this as a serious academic event rather than a practitioner bootcamp. |
| June 30 – July 1 | GITEX AI EUROPE | Berlin, Germany | Europe's flagship AI and tech conference, positioned as key networking hub for startup-investor-corporate convergence. |
| June 30 – July 1 | GITEX Europe 2026 | Berlin, Germany | The European arm of the Dubai-originating GITEX franchise, positioning Berlin as a crossroads for Gulf, MENA, and European tech investment flows. |
| June 30 | Institutional Day - AGEFI | Paris, France | The primary annual gathering of the French institutional investor community: a full day structured around the publication of the only comprehensive survey of French institutional portfolio allocations, making it both a conference and a reference event for the domestic insurance, pension, and sovereign wealth sectors. |
| June 30 – July 1 | Salon Souverainete Numerique | Paris, France | France's first purpose-built B2B marketplace for European digital sovereignty alternatives, arriving at the precise moment the geopolitical premium on non-GAFAM technology is at its highest. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | APE 2026 | Apenheul, Netherlands | Running a large technical meetup at a zoo in Apeldoorn is a deliberate choice that signals community over convention; the Azure-specific focus and free entry make it the natural annual gathering for Dutch platform engineers on the Microsoft stack. |
| July 2–5 | Festival der Zukunft | Munich, Germany | One of Germany's largest public-facing tech festivals, anchored by a science museum and backed by public-sector funding from the City of Munich and the Bavarian state government. |
| July 2–4 | Les Rencontres Économiques d'Aix-en-Provence | Aix-en-Provence, France | The civic counterpart to the closed-door circuit: France's economics establishment debating in public, on stage and on air, in front of 8,000 people and a national television audience. |
| July 4–6 | Cyprus AI Expo 2026 | Larnaka, Cyprus | Cyprus as a location positions the expo at the junction of European, Middle Eastern, and Eastern Mediterranean AI activity; it is neither a major research venue nor a large commercial event, but it occupies a specific regional coordination role that few other events fill. |
| July 6–7 | AI Coding Summit (London Edition) | London, United Kingdom | GitNation's decision to bring AI Coding Summit to London in-person for the first time, following online editions, is a reasonable bet that developers want to be in the room when workflows are changing this fast; the standard ticket at EUR 99 keeps the barrier low. |
| July 6–10 | ESSAI 2026 — European Summer School on AI | Vienna, Austria | Fourth edition of Europe's flagship AI summer school, combining foundational and applied AI training across six parallel tracks. |
| July 8–9 | Raise Summit | Paris, France | Europe's leading open-access AI networking event combining conference content with structured deal-making forums. |
| July 8–10 | SPORTEC Japan | Tokyo, Japan | Included for Asian coverage and the broad sports tech angle, but clearly more fitness and health tech than media. A geographic radar point rather than a core target. |
| July 8 | SVG Europe TranSPORT Forum | London, United Kingdom | A niche, high-value target for an infrastructure and edge focus: the transmission layer few conferences cover, with broadcasters' transmission leads and connectivity vendors in one room. |
| July 9–12 | European Defense Tech Hackathon Berlin | Berlin, Germany | The European Defense Tech Hub's Berlin hackathon is the sharpest tool in European defence-innovation community-building: four days of hands-on building with real challenges sourced from Ukraine and NATO, not whiteboard speculation. |
| July 11 | Data Saturday Rheinland 2026 | Augustin, Germany | Eleven editions at the same university venue with free entry and five parallel tracks is the community-event model at its most functional: no commercial pressure, consistent format, and an audience that comes back because the content is relevant to their actual work. |
| July 12 | New Defense Summit | Berlin, Germany | The New Defense Summit is deliberately anti-keynote: short pitches, workshops, and founders-only roundtables designed to produce decisions, not applause, inside a single day. |
| July 15–17 | Medica AI Conference | Lisbon, Portugal | |
| July 20–24 | Farnborough International Airshow | Farnborough, United Kingdom | The global apex of the aerospace and defence deal-making calendar, Farnborough 2026 arrives with 85% of floor space pre-sold and a defence spending surge that promises a record-breaking edition. |
| July 25–26 | KI FESTIVAL 2026 | Heilbronn, Germany | A free-admission public AI festival on a dedicated AI campus in Heilbronn, blending interactive exhibits, workshops, and keynotes for a broad audience including families and students. |
| July 27–28 | HealthAI 2026 — International Conference on Precision Medicine and AI Healthcare | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2–7 | Deep Learning Indaba | Lagos, Nigeria | Flagship African AI research event strengthening continental machine learning capabilities through academic and community programming. |
| August 15–21 | IJCAI-ECAI 2026 | Bremen, Germany | Europe's premier academic AI conference, uniting researchers across robotics, health AI, and AI for social impact. |
| August 19 | AI-konference: Når AI afgør, hvad vi ved | Copenhagen, Denmark | A short, focused conference on a question that practitioners rarely address directly: who controls what AI systems surface as knowledge, and under what conditions. |
| August 25–26 | techcamp 2026 | Hamburg, Germany | A Hamburg institution in its 9th edition: the barcamp format keeps the speaker list practitioner-driven rather than vendor-curated, which is increasingly rare in the German IT conference circuit. |
| August 26–27 | REF - Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France | Paris, France | La REF est la messe annuelle du patronat français organise par le MEDEF : le moment ou les chefs d'entreprise et le gouvernement se parlent directement, devant les cameras. Son poids politique est reel : les annonces qui y sont faites conditionnent souvent les orientations de la politique economique de rentree. Pour les decideurs corporate, c'est un barometre de l'etat des relations entre le monde des affaires et le pouvoir politique. |
| August 26–27 | Smart Data and AI Summit Saudi Arabia | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | A commercial summit that serves as one of the few concentrated access points for senior data and AI decision makers from Saudi public and private organisations in a single room. |
| August 29–30 | Data Saturday Oslo 2026 | Oslo, Norway | A volunteer-run, free community event with a narrow focus on Microsoft Data Platform: ideal for practitioners who want hands-on sessions without commercial noise. |
| August 31 – September 1 | Bled Strategic Forum | Bled, Slovenia | Central Europe's standing venue for foreign-policy debate: the place where the Western Balkans question, EU enlargement and regional security are argued out each September, a short drive from three borders. |
| August 31 – September 1 | German Fall Conference - Equity Forum | Frankfurt, Germany | Key autumn gathering for listed company engagement with European institutional capital and private investors. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2–4 | Container Days Hamburg 2026 | Hamburg, Germany | The harbour venue and MS Bleichen stage are genuine differentiators, but the depth of the technical programme, 336 speakers across 6 stages, is the real argument for attending over smaller Kubernetes-focused events. |
| September 3–4 | 12th Intelligent Systems Conference 2026 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | IntelliSys is one of the few recurring academic AI conferences with Springer LNNS proceedings that meets in continental Europe, making it relevant for researchers who need citation-indexed venue options outside the UK. |
| September 3–4 | MS&D | Hamburg, Germany | Europe's premier naval civil-military dialogue: two concentrated days where procurement authority meets defence industry against the backdrop of the world's largest maritime trade show. |
| September 4–6 | Ambrosetti Forum | Cernobbio, Italy | Italy's most influential closed-door summit: each September Villa d'Este hosts roughly 250 heads of state, ministers and global CEOs under Chatham House Rule, making Cernobbio a rare political-business dialogue point with no public registration pathway. |
| September 4 | Shift+Enter Summit 2026 | Budapest, Hungary | A community-organised Microsoft-stack event in Budapest with sessions in English: a practical option for Central European practitioners who want a peer-led day on Power Platform and Azure without travelling to a major western European city. |
| September 4 | cim lingen 2026 | Lingen, Germany | Twenty-plus editions in, cim lingen is a stable fixture for IT professionals in the Emsland region: not a flagship event, but one of the most consistent community touchpoints in northwestern Germany. |
| September 5 | Data Saturday Gothenburg | Goteborg, Sweden | A free, no-frills community event at a technology campus in Gothenburg: the Lindholmen location, shared with Chalmers and Volvo tech units, gives it practical accessibility within Sweden's second-largest city. |
| September 7–10 | SmashingConf Freiburg | Freiburg, Germany | 300 seats, single track, historic venue: SmashingConf Freiburg is deliberately small and curated, which produces a different quality of conversation than the multi-stage developer events on the same autumn circuit. |
| September 8–10 | Economic Forum Karpacz | Karpacz, Poland | The only CEE conference that reliably seats heads of government alongside corporate boardrooms and think-tank researchers in a single mountain resort, the Karpacz Economic Forum is the region's clearest bellwether for political risk and investment appetite in the post-Soviet neighbourhood. |
| September 8–10 | IPEM Global | Paris, France | Major pan-European private capital conference anchoring deal flow and LP-GP networking in Paris annually. |
| September 8–11 | MSPO | Kielce, Poland | The undisputed gateway to Central and Eastern European defence procurement: where Polish NATO spending translates into contracts, partnerships, and platform decisions in four concentrated September days. |
| September 9–10 | BVCA Summit | London, United Kingdom | UK private capital's primary annual forum for policy, market direction, and investment conditions. |
| September 9–11 | European Humanoid Robots Summit 2026 | Stuttgart, Germany | The leading European-focused humanoid robotics summit, organised by a China-headquartered events group with global industry reach; the 2026 Stuttgart edition follows a sold-out 2025 Berlin inaugural. |
| September 9–10 | Forum Économique Breton | Saint-Malo, France | The Forum Économique Breton is the most visible annual forum for Brittany's economic and civic leadership: a two-day, multi-track congress in Saint-Malo that combines hard business programming with genuine regional identity stakes, drawing 4,000 participants according to the organiser. |
| September 10 | SVG Europe Summit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | The annual meeting point for the people who run European sports broadcasting: technical and production directors, not sales teams. Selective, community-led, timed to the eve of IBC, and home to the Outstanding Contribution award that names the field's most influential figures. |
| September 10–11 | Signals Conference | Berlin, Germany | SRE and reliability engineering have historically been poorly served by the developer conference circuit; Signals fills a specific gap and its early-planning status makes it worth watching. |
| September 11–14 | IBC | Amsterdam, Netherlands | The global broadcast reference and the international version of the vertical's profiles. Essential for technology watch and vendor mapping, with a dedicated sport strand, and the calendar anchor right after the SVG Europe Summit. |
| September 12 | AI Industrial Summit 2026 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Eight editions in, BSC Academy has built one of Bulgaria's most consistent practitioner AI events; the Sofia Tech Park location is both symbolic and practical for a community focused on applied industrial AI. |
| September 12–14 | AIREX Istanbul Airshow | Istanbul, Turkey | Positioned at the crossroads of European and Central Asian aviation markets, AIREX Istanbul exploits Turkey's strategic geography to offer a Eurasian supply-chain platform that neither Paris nor Dubai can replicate. |
| September 12 | INIT 2026 Dev Conference | Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina | A non-profit, community-driven conference in Banja Luka with the explicit theme 'Beyond the AI Hype': this is one of the few events in the Western Balkans offering serious software engineering content at this scale. |
| September 13–15 | Infobip Shift Zadar 2026 | Zadar, Croatia | Infobip Shift is a corporate-organised developer conference with a decade of history in coastal Croatia, known for its unconventional Adriatic setting and a speaker roster that has included creators of PHP, CSS, and core contributors to major developer platforms. |
| September 14–15 | Brains on Silicon | Dresden, Germany | One of the few applied AI events anchored in Germany's semiconductor and hardware heartland; the Silicon Saxony context brings an edge computing and photonics dimension rarely found at software-first AI conferences. |
| September 14–15 | Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit | London, United Kingdom | A Gartner analyst-heavy format built for enterprise decision-makers rather than engineers; the ratio of research content to practitioner experience is high, and ticket price reflects that positioning. |
| September 14–17 | SPIE Security + Defence | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | The reference European conference for scientists and engineers working at the intersection of optics, photonics, quantum sensing and AI with defence applications, maintaining peer-reviewed rigour within a professional exhibition setting. |
| September 15–16 | Big Data & AI Paris | Paris, France | France's flagship data and AI event with emerging European visibility and mixed decision-maker attendance. |
| September 15–17 | Global AI Summit (GAIN) 2026 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Government-backed AI policy summit anchoring Saudi Arabia's regional technology leadership and Vision 2030 agenda. |
| September 15–16 | PERE Europe Forum | London, United Kingdom | Autumn London date for private real estate capital formation, now co-located with the Infrastructure Investor Forum for a combined real assets audience. |
| September 15–16 | TransformConf26 | London, United Kingdom | JetBrains occupies a rare position as both tooling vendor and credible technical voice for developers; TransformConf reflects that duality, making it more practitioner-oriented than a typical vendor conference. |
| September 15–16 | World Football Summit Madrid | Madrid, Spain | The European anchor of football's biggest business circuit. For the vertical it is the fan engagement, data and platform layer, with the data companies, club digital directors and the StartCup's emerging startups in the room. |
| September 16–20 | Africa Aerospace & Defence (AAD) | Centurion, South Africa | The only show on the continent that merges a serious procurement-grade defence exhibition with a live flying display, making it simultaneously Africa's most important B2B defence marketplace and its biggest public air event. |
| September 16 | FDDay - France Digitale Day | Paris, France | France's principal annual gathering for digital entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate partners seeking deal flow and innovation partnerships. |
| September 16–18 | Hatch Conference 2026 | Berlin, Germany | Hatch stands apart from the broader tech conference circuit by requiring an invite application for onsite attendance; that friction is deliberate, filtering for the seniority level that makes the peer conversation worth having. |
| September 17–18 | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe | Amsterdam, Netherlands | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe is the formal institutionalisation of the agentic AI developer community in Europe; the AAIF and Linux Foundation pairing gives it governance credibility that community-run events typically lack at this stage of a technology cycle. |
| September 17–18 | Agent Conf 2026 | Warsaw, Poland | Callstack's credibility in the React Native and JavaScript ecosystem gives Agent Conf a clear audience identity that many agentic AI events lack; engineers from that community who are moving into AI orchestration have a natural home here. |
| September 17–18 | MCP Dev Summit Europe | Amsterdam, Netherlands | The Linux Foundation's decision to establish a dedicated MCP summit signals that the protocol is moving from experimental to infrastructure-grade; this is where the specification debates and reference implementations will happen. |
| September 17 | dotAI 2026 | Paris, France | dotConferences brings the curation standards of its long-running developer series to AI engineering: single stage, 20-minute sessions sold entirely on content quality rather than sponsor budget. |
| September 17 | entwickler Summit 2026 | Berlin, Germany | The most community-focused developer conference in the DACH region, built around the premise that the human remains the measure of all things even as AI reshapes software practice. |
| September 21–25 | Estonian Defence Week | Tallinn, Estonia | The Nordic-Baltic defence calendar's anchor week, packing innovation day, industry symposium, NATO open innovation and a policy conference into five days on NATO's eastern flank. |
| September 22–24 | AD2S - AEROSPACE & DEFENCE SUPPORT AND SERVICES | Mérignac, France | |
| September 22–23 | AI Summit Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | Key annual gathering for enterprise AI strategy and deployment across EMEA. |
| September 22–23 | AI Week Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | Key annual AI festival anchoring Barcelona's position as a European tech hub. |
| September 22 | Civo Navigate London 2026 | London, United Kingdom | Civo Navigate's single-day format and City of London venue keeps it accessible for developers who cannot commit to a multi-day conference; the cloud-native scope is tight enough to attract practitioners who know exactly what they are coming for. |
| September 22–25 | Euro Defence Expo | Essen, Germany | Germany's first dedicated defence trade fair integrates civil and military security under one roof, arriving at a moment of acute European rearmament pressure. |
| September 22 | Salon Data 2026 | Nantes, France | Eleven editions in, Salon de la Data has become the anchor date for the French data practitioner community outside Paris; the volunteer-run model keeps it free, honest, and free of the vendor capture that afflicts most events at this scale. |
| September 23–24 | AI horizons 2026 | Prague, Czech Republic | AI Horizons Prague is one of the few Central European AI conferences to explicitly include a public sector track alongside corporate and technical ones, reflecting Prague's position as both a tech hub and a capital city with significant government digitisation agenda. |
| September 23–24 | BED-Con 2026 | Berlin, Germany | BED-Con's university campus setting and community-association structure keep it genuinely independent from vendor agendas; its bilingual format makes it one of the few German developer conferences that is explicitly accessible to international attendees. |
| September 23–24 | Berlin Expert Days 2026 | Berlin, Germany | Berlin Expert Days is the full name behind the BED-Con abbreviation; the university campus setting and non-profit organiser structure give it a peer-learning character that most commercially run developer conferences cannot replicate. |
| September 24–26 | SHAKA Biarritz 2026 | Biarritz, France | France's most distinctive tech gathering by format: surf, talks and startup networking compressed into three days on the Atlantic coast, with genuine community loyalty across four editions. |
| September 25 | LPGP Connect | London, United Kingdom | Dedicated LP-GP matchmaking conference serving the broader private capital ecosystem across multiple strategies. |
| September 25 | LPGP Connect Women in Private Debt London | London, United Kingdom | Annual community event for women in private debt, built on a selective audience model and positioned at the opening of the London autumn calendar. |
| September 25 | PE Insights DACH | Munich, Germany | Munich-anchored annual event serving as the primary gathering point for DACH-region private capital professionals. |
| September 28–29 | AI Infrastructure Summit 2026 | Berlin, Germany | The co-location model at Maritim Berlin creates practical value: one ticket covering four concurrent summits means attendees can sample adjacent disciplines without additional cost or travel. |
| September 28 – October 2 | BASTA! Herbst 2026 | Mainz, Germany | One of Germany's most established .NET-focused events, BASTA! Herbst anchors the German-language developer calendar with a consistently practical programme that spans the full .NET stack and now AI integration. |
| September 28–29 | Big Data Minds 2026 | Berlin, Germany | Big Data Minds targets the data leadership layer specifically, a cohort that finds general AI conferences too shallow on data architecture but pure infrastructure events too narrow on governance and strategy. |
| September 28–29 | Enterprise AI Summit 2026 | Berlin, Germany | With speakers drawn from German academic and applied research institutions, Enterprise AI Summit reflects the distinctly DACH approach to enterprise AI: methodical, compliance-aware, and oriented toward measurable operational outcomes. |
| September 28–30 | TSAIR 2026 | Paris, France | TSAIR sits at the academic-industry boundary; Aver Conferences operates a portfolio of similar summits across AI and engineering topics, and the low public profile of this edition warrants independent verification of dates and venue before travel planning. |
| September 29–30 | CV Summit 2026 | Zurich, Switzerland | CV Summit is the gravitational centre of Crypto Valley's institutional layer: the convergence of Swiss private banks, global asset managers and blockchain builders in one room is a combination most European crypto events cannot replicate. |
| September 29–30 | International Security Expo | London, United Kingdom | International Security Expo is the UK's pre-eminent security industry gathering, distinguished by its direct links to the Home Office, UK Defence & Security Exports, and an international delegations programme that brings vetted buyers from government and critical infrastructure directly to exhibitor stands. |
| September 29–30 | SportsPro AI + Tech | London, United Kingdom | The most direct target in the vertical on AI in sport. The audience is the technology decision-makers we want to map, and the speaker roster, from Formula E to Warner Bros Discovery, matches exactly the profiles in scope. |
| September 30 – October 2 | ADEX | Baku, Azerbaijan | ADEX is the Caspian region's flagship defence exhibition and the primary gateway for international defence companies seeking direct access to Azerbaijani military procurement and the wider South Caucasus market. |
| September 30 – October 1 | PATRIMONIA | Lyon, France | France's principal annual gathering for independent wealth advisors and private banking professionals. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1–2 | Compass AI & Tech Summit | Budapest, Hungary | CraftHub Events applies to AI the same cross-disciplinary format that made Craft Conference a reference point in the Central European developer calendar: senior speakers, integrated tracks, no single-stack silo. |
| October 1–2 | Data Science & AI Summit | London, United Kingdom | A practitioner-first event with an application-based attendance model, Data Science & AI Summit positions itself as a curated gathering rather than an open-access conference, which shapes both the room quality and the limited public information available ahead of the event. |
| October 1–3 | Innovation Week 2026 | Prague, Czech Republic | Prague's principal multi-day tech event, with 11 editions of history and a startup-investor matchmaking layer that anchors the Central European innovation circuit in autumn. |
| October 5–7 | AI Everything Global | Abu Dhabi, UAE | Government-partnered AI summit in Abu Dhabi combining enterprise and startup access with public-sector AI procurement conversations, rescheduled from May to October 2026. |
| October 5–9 | Devoxx Belgium 2026 | Antwerp, Belgium | Devoxx Belgium is the original and most established edition of the global Devoxx conference brand, running for over two decades in Antwerp at a multiplex cinema venue, with a reputation for practitioner-driven technical content and a loyal pan-European Java developer community. |
| October 5–8 | Leaders Week London | London, United Kingdom | The most senior room in the sports business calendar. For the vertical it is access to the commissioning layer, owners, presidents and media chiefs, with technology and fan engagement sessions worth tracking. |
| October 5–7 | SuperReturn CFO/COO | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Europe's premier back-office operational summit for PE firm financial and compliance leadership. |
| October 5–6 | The Resilience Conference | London, United Kingdom | The sharpest intersection of defence-tech venture capital and national security in the UK calendar, built by former TechCrunch editors who understand how to convene builders and buyers. |
| October 6–8 | Bezpeka / Security 2.0 | Kyiv, Ukraine | Ukraine's longest-running security exhibition, now rebranded as a wartime civil-protection and dual-use technology platform, making it uniquely relevant to practitioners operating under active conflict conditions. |
| October 7 | AI and Business Strategies Nordic | Espoo, Finland | A Nordic executive event that frames AI adoption as an organisational architecture problem rather than a technology procurement question. |
| October 7–8 | Adria Security Summit 2026 | Zagreb, Croatia | Adria Security Summit is the annual reference event for the security and physical-cyber convergence market in a region largely absent from the agendas of Western European security conferences; a&s Adria's Messe Frankfurt backing gives it trade-show credibility without losing its regional character. |
| October 7–10 | ISAF International | Istanbul, Turkey | ISAF International's 30th edition marks the coming-of-age of Turkey's security technology export ambitions -- with a target of tripling its international buyer programme and establishing Istanbul as the gateway fair for security suppliers entering MENA, Central Asia, and Eastern European markets. |
| October 7–10 | Marrakech Air Show | Marrakech, Morocco | Africa's most credible aerospace-and-defence airshow, MAS is the gateway to a continent of fast-growing procurement budgets and Morocco's own booming aerospace industrial base of 150-plus companies. |
| October 7–10 | SportBiz Europe | Barcelona, Spain | A long-format Barcelona play on business and innovation with a bridge to Latin America. A secondary European target for the commercial and fan-engagement layer, best paired with WFS Madrid and the SportsPro Media Summit. |
| October 7–8 | World AI Expo Dubai | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | A commercially produced multi-format AI gathering in Dubai Business Bay that bundles an expo, startup pitching, and investor sessions under one roof; the organiser is transparent about its commercial model and the disclaimer on the website is unusually candid about the estimates-only status of all published figures. |
| October 7–8 | World Summit AI | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Europe's principal generalist AI conference, used by hyperscalers, enterprise CDOs and policy-makers as a yearly read on the state of the field; the InspiredMinds machine packages it inside the broader World AI Week cluster for a five-day Amsterdam takeover. |
| October 7–9 | ai devCon | Berlin, Germany | Originally branded as 'ai devCon', the event was rebranded to 'agentic codeCon' on the organiser's website by June 2026, reflecting a pivot toward agentic AI workflows and production-grade engineering rather than AI tooling in general. |
| October 7–8 | data2day | Cologne, Germany | data2day serves a specific and underserved cohort: German-language data practitioners who want substantive technical depth without travelling to English-language international conferences or navigating a multilingual programme. |
| October 7–9 | droidCon Berlin | Berlin, Germany | droidCon Berlin is the flagship edition of the global droidCon franchise and one of the most established Android-focused developer conferences in Europe, running continuously since the early 2010s at the same Berlin venue. |
| October 7–9 | xr&gamesCon | Berlin, Germany | xr&gamesCon fills a practical gap in the European conference calendar: a developer-focused XR and mobile games track embedded within a broader mobile engineering event, rather than a standalone XR expo or a consumer gaming show. |
| October 8 | Industrial AI Summit Munich | Munich, Germany | An invitation-only event co-produced by three European industrial AI scale-ups, using the EU AI Champions Initiative as a legitimising frame for a CxO gathering in manufacturing. |
| October 8–10 | ML in PL Conference 2026 | Warsaw, Poland | ML in PL Conference occupies a distinct position in the Central European AI calendar: it is a non-archival, non-profit scientific gathering that prioritises intellectual exchange over commercial networking, making it the primary venue for ML research discussion in Poland. |
| October 8–9 | Tech Tour Quantum & Defence | Berlin, Germany | Europe's most tightly curated defence-tech investment matchmaking, where investor density per startup is higher than almost any comparable forum. |
| October 10 | Data Saturday Holland 2026 | Utrecht, Netherlands | One of the Netherlands' largest free Microsoft data community days, built around practitioner-to-practitioner knowledge sharing rather than vendor messaging. |
| October 10 | Data Saturdays Sofia 2026 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Sofia's free Microsoft data community day, held at one of the Balkans' main tech hubs, with a programme driven entirely by community speakers. |
| October 10 | Lakehouse Day EU 2026 | Glasgow, United Kingdom | Duplicate record of EI-06913 (Lakehouse Day EU 2026). See the canonical fiche at lakehouse-day-eu-2026.md. |
| October 10 | Lakehouse Day EU 2026 | Glasgow, United Kingdom | The dedicated EU forum for Apache open lakehouse standards, positioned as the practitioner counterpart to the broader Community Over Code week. |
| October 11 | AI-Driven Local Marketing Strategies Conference | Marbella, Spain | A tightly scoped half-day SIINDA industry session at a resort setting, aimed at practitioners building AI products for local search and local digital marketing platforms. |
| October 12–14 | dataMinds Connect 2026 | Mechelen, Belgium | One of Belgium's established Microsoft data community events, now in its nineteenth year, with a three-day format that allows deeper technical coverage than most single-day alternatives. |
| October 13 | Experts Live Sweden 2026 | Stockholm, Sweden | Sweden's main community-run Microsoft technology day, with a programme selected through open CFP on Sessionize and driven by practitioners rather than vendor representatives. |
| October 13–15 | SuperReturn Global Infrastructure | London, United Kingdom | Flagship infrastructure investing conference anchoring the SuperReturn franchise within EMEA's private capital calendar. |
| October 13 | ai-PULSE | Paris, France | Scaleway's annual bet on a technically grounded AI conference at Station F: a Paris venue that carries its own signal, and a programme pitched at engineers rather than business audiences. |
| October 14–16 | Daten-WG 2026 | Cologne, Germany | An intentionally relaxed community format for German-speaking Power BI and Microsoft Fabric practitioners, held in an unconventional venue that reflects the event's informal character. |
| October 14–17 | HrOUG 2026 | Rovinj, Croatia | An island-venue conference format that creates genuine separation from daily work; HrOUG draws Oracle professionals from across the region for four intensive days of technical exchange. |
| October 14–16 | IDA Turkiye (ICDDA) | Ankara, Turkey | IDA Turkiye is Turkey's B2B-first defence matchmaking event: less spectacle than IDEF, but uniquely designed around structured supply-chain meetings that open the Turkish and OSSA SME ecosystem to international prime contractors and procurement authorities. |
| October 14–15 | Invest Europe Venture Capital Forum | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Premier annual gathering for European venture capital fund managers and institutional investors focused on deal flow and LP/GP dialogue. |
| October 15–16 | Angular - KI-Bootcamp | Berlin, Germany | A focused two-day GenAI skills bootcamp for Angular frontend developers, part of JavaScript and Angular Days Berlin, with practical coverage of AI integration patterns relevant to frontend engineering. |
| October 16 | CollabDays Portugal 2026 - Porto Edition | Porto, Portugal | Porto's free Microsoft cloud community day: a CFP-driven programme delivered by MVPs and practitioners, with no ticket cost and a venue still to be confirmed. |
| October 19–20 | AI Infrastructure and Data Centers Summit | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Annual Riyadh-based infrastructure summit positioned within Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 digitalisation framework. |
| October 19–20 | Global Summit on Data Science and Cloud Computing | Rome, Italy | An academic-conference format for data science and cloud computing professionals in Rome, organised by Noveltics Group; exact venue within Rome not yet confirmed. |
| October 19–21 | SPORTEL MONACO | Monaco, Monaco | The deal-making hub of sports media, where the commercial and technology decision-makers of the industry meet at C-level around rights and streaming. The priority business target of the vertical, complementary to IBC and the SVG circuit. |
| October 20–21 | Data Centre Expo at TechEx Europe | Amsterdam, Netherlands | A large co-located expo at Amsterdam RAI where data centre infrastructure professionals examine the operational consequences of AI demand growth; the scale separates it from practitioner-focused boutique events. |
| October 20 | Defence Disrupted | London, United Kingdom | The tightest curated gathering on the UK defence innovation circuit: 150 seats, zero exhibitor stands, all conversation. |
| October 20–22 | Milipol Qatar | Doha, Qatar | Milipol Qatar is the Gulf's most authoritative homeland security procurement event: direct Ministry of Interior involvement generates on-site contract announcements reaching hundreds of millions of Qatari riyals, making it a serious procurement forum rather than a showcase-only show. |
| October 20–22 | swampUP Europe 2026 | Barcelona, Spain | JFrog's European edition of swampUP positions itself at the junction of DevSecOps and AI governance: a practitioner conference for engineers who care about how AI code and models are secured, delivered, and operated in production. |
| October 21–23 | Future Forces Exhibition & Forum | Prague, Czech Republic | Prague's premier biennial defence showcase combines a 400-exhibitor trade floor with official NATO working group sessions and fifteen concurrent expert conferences, making it the most institutionally dense event in Central European security. |
| October 22–23 | AI Summit Styria 2026 | Kapfenberg, Austria | An academic-practitioner crossover event in Styria with four technical tracks: the FH JOANNEUM institution gives it credibility in the Austrian research and applied-AI community, though scale remains modest. |
| October 22 | Business Agility Bulgaria 2026 | Sofia, Bulgaria | A focused one-day event for practitioners who want concrete Agile and AI adaptation frameworks, not vendor pitches -- the three-track structure and open CFP signal a community-driven programme. |
| October 23–26 | React Advanced 2026 | London, United Kingdom | React Advanced is one of the most technically dense React events in Europe: 33 speakers and 50+ talks in a hybrid format at The Brewery give it a strong signal-to-noise ratio compared to broader JavaScript generalist conferences. |
| October 24 | Birmingham Tech Week 2026: AI Symposium | Birmingham, United Kingdom | The AI Symposium sits inside the UK's largest regional tech festival and draws a cross-sector audience rather than a purely technical one -- useful for gauging AI adoption in the West Midlands business community. |
| October 24–26 | Encode London 2026 | London, United Kingdom | Free entry, 24/7 venue access, and a builder-first format position Encode London as a construction event rather than a lecture circuit -- suited to developers who arrive with a project in mind. |
| October 25–27 | UNCTAD World Investment Forum | Doha, Qatar | The only UN-mandated global investment forum, WIF 2026 in Doha brings together sovereign, institutional and private capital alongside government ministers to set the terms of cross-border investment for the coming cycle, with no commercial admission fee and no equivalent at this altitude of state-level participation. |
| October 26–29 | AFRIDEX | Lagos, Nigeria | Africa's first truly pan-continental defence show arrives in its most populous nation: AFRIDEX's inaugural edition will reveal whether Nigeria's ambition to host a credible DSEI-style platform for 54 African markets can match its promotional promise. |
| October 26–29 | Future Investment Initiative (FII) | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | FII is where sovereign capital meets geopolitical ambition: the single forum where PIF-scale investors, sitting heads of state and technology founders converge to move money and set agendas in a format that no Western conference yet replicates. |
| October 26–30 | International PHP Conference Munich 2026 | Munich, Germany | Co-location with iJS doubles the content surface for web developers at a single Munich ticket price, making IPC Munich the most volume-efficient PHP and JavaScript conference pairing in the autumn European calendar. |
| October 27–29 | SOFEX | Aqaba, Jordan | The only major defence exhibition under direct royal and military patronage in the Arab world, SOFEX gives special operations forces procurement a dedicated biennial venue at the crossroads of the Middle East. |
| October 28–29 | AI Expo Africa | Johannesburg, South Africa | Key African AI adoption event outside traditional EMEA markets, signaling growing intelligence platform expansion. |
| October 28 | APi&AIAddictsDay | Madrid, Spain | The only large-scale API conference in the Spanish-speaking market: a niche but well-defined audience of API engineers and architects who find little comparable in Spain's event calendar. |
| October 28–30 | DEAI Summit | St. Julians, Malta | Chatham House rules for select sessions and a direct convening of AI labs alongside regulators marks DEAI Summit as a governance-first event rather than a commercial AI showcase -- Malta's position outside major tech hubs adds a deliberate neutrality. |
| October 28–30 | Mozilla Festival 2026 | Barcelona, Spain | MozFest is one of the few events at 3,000-person scale where the civil society critique of AI carries equal weight to the engineering track: its community-session model makes it genuinely participatory rather than a keynote circuit with breakout rooms attached. |
| October 29–30 | J On The Beach | Malaga, Spain | Co-located with Lambda World and Wey Wey Web, J On The Beach concentrates data engineering, functional programming, and web communities in Torremolinos across a shared attendance pool -- efficient for engineers who want to cover multiple technical domains in a single trip. |
| October 30 | DevFest.cz 2026 | Prague, Czech Republic | GDG community events consistently attract working practitioners rather than aspirational attendees -- DevFest.cz is the most accessible annual developer gathering in Prague for engineers across the Czech developer ecosystem. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 2–6 | Data & AI Conference Europe 2026 | London, United Kingdom | IRM UK's responsible data focus differentiates the Data and AI Conference from the vendor-heavy AI events crowding London's autumn calendar -- the five-day structure with pre- and post-conference workshops suits practitioners who want depth over breadth. |
| November 3–5 | Africa AI Summit | Cape Town, South Africa | Africa-focused AI event positioning the continent within the global AI governance conversation. |
| November 3–6 | Euronaval | Villepinte (Paris), France | The undisputed global reference for naval procurement decision-makers, Euronaval's 30th edition arrives as navies worldwide accelerate spending -- making it a once-per-two-years must-attend for anyone in the maritime defence value chain. |
| November 3–5 | Journées de l'Économie (Jéco) | Lyon, France | The Jéco stands apart in the European economics calendar as a fully free, city-wide festival drawing 40,000 people annually in Lyon, giving it a civic reach and public legitimacy that closed professional conferences cannot match. |
| November 3–6 | SuperReturn Europe | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Principal EMEA private capital conference hosting senior practitioners across buyout, venture, debt, and infrastructure. |
| November 3–4 | The AI Conf | Barcelona, Spain | Single-track, 16 talks, and a strict applied-AI-in-production brief: The AI Conf is one of the few European AI events that has genuinely resisted the temptation to expand scope at the expense of focus. |
| November 4–6 | Oredev 2026 | Malmo, Sweden | Twenty editions of a developer conference in Scandinavia without losing community character is a meaningful signal: Oredev's eight-stage format and consistently practitioner-selected content have made it the reference developer event for the southern Sweden and Copenhagen corridor. |
| November 4–5 | code.talks 2026 | Hamburg, Germany | Germany's flagship developer conference runs on a curator model that blocks vendor noise: the cinema-hall format and all-inclusive ticket make two days in Hamburg one of the more honest practitioner gatherings on the European calendar. |
| November 9–10 | ALFI Private Assets Conference | Luxembourg, Luxembourg | Established annual summit anchoring Luxembourg's position as Western Europe's private capital hub. |
| November 9–11 | InnoComp 2026 | Lisbon, Portugal | A peer-reviewed academic outlet for computational intelligence research, publishing via Springer CCIS proceedings -- useful for researchers seeking indexed publication alongside conference attendance. |
| November 10–11 | GoTech World 2026 | Bucharest, Romania | GoTech World is Romania's primary B2B IT expo-conference, presenting the widest multi-stage format in the CEE digital events circuit each November. |
| November 10–11 | Paris Peace Forum | Paris, France | The Paris Peace Forum occupies a singular position in the EMEA policy calendar: it is the only annual summit that combines the protocol weight of a heads-of-state gathering with an open-application process for governance projects, making it as much an implementation platform as a conference. |
| November 10–12 | SIDEC | Celje, Slovenia | Central Europe's newest defence trade platform, driven directly by Slovenia's Ministry of Defence and the domestic industry cluster, and already growing faster than its biennial schedule originally intended. |
| November 11–12 | European Defence Innovation Forum | The Hague, Netherlands | A Ukrainian-Dutch initiative turning frontline combat experience into a European platform where defence-tech startups, capital and ministries meet on the same stage. |
| November 12 | SVG Europe Sports Audio Summit | London, United Kingdom | A vertical within the vertical: audio is the most specialised corner of sports broadcasting, and this is its only dedicated European meeting. Small but highly qualified. |
| November 15–16 | Enterprise DevSecOps 2026 | Berlin, Germany | Part of the we.CONECT Berlin cluster in November, this summit sits at the intersection of security and engineering leadership -- a focused peer exchange for senior practitioners rather than a general-audience conference. |
| November 16 | 5th GenAI Summit Athens 2026 | Athens, Greece | Organised by a volunteer team of Greek AI practitioners at top-tier institutions, this event earns credibility through speaker quality rather than organisational infrastructure. |
| November 16–18 | Budapest BI & Analytics Forum 2026 | Budapest, Hungary | One of the few Central European conferences dedicated specifically to BI and analytics practice, the Budapest forum draws a concentrated audience of 250-plus professionals for three days of technical and applied content. |
| November 16–17 | NextGen Intelligence Conference: Data, Cloud & AI | London, United Kingdom | An international speaker lineup spanning France, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA gives this London event a cross-border perspective on AI and cloud that distinguishes it from purely domestic conferences. |
| November 16–18 | World Police Summit | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Dubai Police's annual convening of global law enforcement is the largest of its kind worldwide: 53,000 visitors and 85 police chiefs in one venue makes it the definitive procurement and policy platform for the policing technology sector. |
| November 17–19 | AI Summit Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | Key African AI gathering positioned within Cape Town's expanding tech hub ecosystem. |
| November 18–20 | BIAS | Sakhir, Bahrain | The Gulf's most open aviation-and-defence airshow, BIAS punches above Bahrain's weight by combining Farnborough's event management DNA with direct access to GCC military procurement budgets. |
| November 18–19 | SLUSH | Helsinki, Finland | Northern Europe's dominant startup-investor convening for early-stage and growth capital deployment. |
| November 19–21 | MED Mediterranean Dialogues | Naples, Italy | MED Dialogues is Italy's flagship foreign-policy forum for the Mediterranean, uniquely co-owned by a sovereign ministry and a think tank, giving it an official diplomatic weight that most track-2 forums lack while retaining an open academic format. |
| November 20 | Agentic Engineering Days Zurich | Zurich, Switzerland | A practitioner-first format run by a software training organisation gives this Zurich event unusual technical credibility -- talks are selected by engineers for engineers, with hacking labs running alongside the conference programme. |
| November 22 | Dynamics 365 Summit 2026 | Lisbon, Portugal | Free registration and a Microsoft venue make this community-run summit the low-friction option for practitioners working in the Microsoft Dynamics and Power Platform space in Southern Europe. |
| November 23–27 | MLCon Berlin 2026 | Berlin, Germany | Five days at one venue with both in-person and online tracks makes MLCon Berlin one of the longer-format ML conferences in the European calendar -- practical for teams who want sustained learning blocks rather than a single-day sprint. |
| November 24–27 | Big Data Conference Europe | Vilnius, Lithuania | One of Central-Eastern Europe's most technically substantive data engineering conferences, now in its tenth year, with a consistent practitioner-first programme and a hybrid format that extends its geographic reach well beyond Lithuania. |
| November 30 – December 1 | Enterprise DevOps Summit 2026 | Berlin, Germany | The November/December Berlin slot for enterprise software delivery leaders, with a programme built around case studies and interactive sessions rather than vendor keynotes -- we.CONECT's signature format applied to the DevOps space. |
| November 30 – December 1 | Tech.Rocks Summit | Paris, France | In its tenth edition at a theatre venue in Paris, Tech.Rocks Summit has built a consistent identity around tech leadership peer exchange -- a CTO-tier event that deliberately avoids the vendor-heavy format of larger tech conferences. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 1–2 | African Air Forces Forum (AAF) | Abidjan, Ivory Coast | The only forum on the continent where multiple African Chiefs of Air Staff gather in the same room and are formally scheduled to meet defence industry exhibitors one-to-one, making it the de-facto procurement gateway for African air power. |
| December 1–3 | Warsaw Security Expo | Nadarzyn (Warsaw), Poland | Poland's principal annual security trade fair, positioned at the centre of a growing Central and Eastern European procurement market for physical, cyber, and critical-infrastructure protection. |
| December 1–2 | World Football Summit Riyadh | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | The Gulf leg of WFS, dominated by the investment and growth story of Middle Eastern football. One to keep on the radar for investment mapping rather than technology sourcing. |
| December 2–3 | SportsPro Media Summit | Madrid, Spain | Where the rights and distribution economy of sport is debated, with the CTOs of the major platforms linking it to the technology beneath. A strong secondary target connecting streaming and monetisation to the budgets that fund technology. |
| December 2–3 | Women in Private Debt Forum | London, United Kingdom | Specialist private debt track within the Women in Private Markets Summit, bringing institutional LPs, GPs, and credit professionals to London each December under the PEI Group banner. |
| December 2–3 | Women in Private Markets Summit | London, United Kingdom | Principal European gathering for gender diversity and professional advancement in institutional private capital. |
| December 3–4 | Adopt AI Global Summit | Paris, France | Paris-based annual flagship event positioning itself as Europe's leading AI enterprise adoption forum. |
| December 3 | FutureSPORT | London, United Kingdom | The prospective window of the SVG Europe circuit. Useful for spotting innovation directors and startups before the more established events catch up to them. |
| December 4–7 | React Day Berlin | Berlin, Germany | In its seventh edition, React Day Berlin at Kosmos is one of the established anchors of the European JavaScript conference circuit -- the workshop tail makes it a full-week commitment for practitioners who want depth alongside the main programme. |
| December 5–6 | Doha Forum | Doha, Qatar | The Doha Forum is Qatar's flagship state-backed policy summit: two days, invitation-only, drawing foreign ministers and heads of state from over 170 countries, positioning Doha as a neutral convening ground for high-stakes diplomatic dialogue outside the UN calendar. |
| December 9–10 | Digital Pathology & AI Congress Europe | London, United Kingdom | Established specialist congress anchoring the European digital pathology and diagnostic AI sector annually. |
| December 14–15 | SVG Summit | New York, United States | The larger US mirror of the SVG Europe Summit. The place to map North American technical and production decision-makers and read trends before they reach Europe. |
| December 15–16 | World Summit AI Qatar | Doha, Qatar | The only major AI summit targeting the Gulf market specifically, World Summit AI Qatar carries institutional weight through its partnership with Qatar's Ministry of Communications, but the 2026 edition is suspended pending resolution of the regional conflict. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| January 18–22 | WEF Davos | Davos, Switzerland | The WEF Annual Meeting is the single convening point where sitting heads of government and global corporate leaders negotiate shared agendas off the record, making it unlike any sector-specific forum in the EMEA circuit in terms of political reach and bilateral meeting density. |
| January 25–29 | IDEX | Abu Dhabi, UAE | IDEX is the single most consequential deal-making forum in the global defence calendar -- five days in Abu Dhabi where procurement decisions worth tens of billions of dirhams are announced under one roof. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 1–3 | World Governments Summit | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | The World Governments Summit is the most concentrated annual gathering of sitting heads of state and ministers outside the UN General Assembly, making it a singular agenda-setting node for public-sector leaders tracking governance, AI policy, and development finance in the Gulf and beyond. |
| February 10–11 | Africa Tech Summit Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | The established benchmark event for African tech investment and startup deal-making, now entering its ninth year at the Sarit Expo Centre; it draws a genuinely pan-African and international delegation rather than a locally concentrated crowd. |
| February 10–11 | World AI Cannes Festival 2027 | Cannes, France | International AI festival at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, acquired by Informa in 2027 and integrated into The AI Summit Series alongside editions in London, New York and Singapore. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 1–2 | London Defence Conference | London, United Kingdom | The LDC is the anglosphere's tightest high-table defence debate: invitation-only, Chatham-House-adjacent, and increasingly the place where Western rearmament narratives are tested before they reach parliament. |
| April 6–8 | SOFINS | Bordeaux, France | Europe's only biennial exhibition dedicated exclusively to Special Operations Forces: no public, no press fluff -- just equipment tests in real conditions and 57 foreign SF delegations deciding what they want to buy next. |
| April 6–8 | UDT Undersea Defence Technology | Glasgow, United Kingdom | After 37 years, UDT remains the one place where submarine programme managers, sonar engineers, and autonomous-systems innovators sit in the same highly technical conference room. |
| April 13–14 | data:unplugged Festival 2027 | Münster, Germany | Germany's largest data and AI festival, combining practitioner peer-learning with a festival atmosphere and a strong Mittelstand audience profile. |
| April 21 | AiX Conference 2027 | Newcastle, United Kingdom | At the time of verification, this record represents an unconfirmed early listing sourced from an aggregator -- no official website, organiser, or venue details are available, and the record should be treated as provisional. |
| April 27–29 | ASDA – Adriatic Sea Defense and Aerospace | Zagreb, Croatia | ASDA is the Adriatic's gateway to the Balkans and Southeast European defence market -- a biennial tri-service showcase that punches above its regional weight through live demonstrations and genuine military delegation attendance. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3–9 | IDEF | Istanbul, Turkey | IDEF is Turkiye's showcase of its remarkable defence industry transformation and the primary venue for the country's export-driven contracting machine: IDEF 2025 generated nine billion dollars in signed agreements in seven days, making it one of the highest-value per-edition defence fairs in the world. |
| May 4–6 | AOC Europe | Lisbon, Portugal | AOC Europe is the only annual European-facing event where active EW operators, programme managers, and policy makers discuss electromagnetic spectrum dominance outside classified channels, making it indispensable for anyone in the EW or SIGINT supply chain. |
| May 11–13 | ITEC | London, United Kingdom | Europe's undisputed annual gathering for defence training simulation: the only show where military training directors, simulation engineers, and gaming-industry crossover specialists converge in one room at the scale needed to actually change procurement doctrine. |
| May 12–13 | A&DM Central Europe Rzeszow | Rzeszow, Poland | A&DM Central Europe Rzeszow is the most direct route into the Polish aerospace and defence supply chain, leveraging the Aviation Valley cluster and Poland's status as a growing NATO procurement hub. |
| May 18–20 | DEFEA Defence Exhibition Athens | Athens, Greece | DEFEA is Greece's strategic defence shop window at a moment when Athens is running one of NATO's most ambitious rearmament programmes, giving the exhibition an authentic procurement urgency that most peer shows cannot match. |
| May 18–20 | Data Innovation Summit | Stockholm, Sweden | Ten years of continuous annual operation in Stockholm, an expanding regional series (Dubai, Singapore, Sydney), and a practitioner-first format place this among the more stable independent data conference brands in Northern Europe. |
| May 18–20 | FEINDEF | Madrid, Spain | Spain's FEINDEF has grown from a standing start in 2019 to a genuine Tier-1 European defence exhibition in just four editions, with 44,000 attendees and 600+ exhibitors in 2025 making it an indispensable stop on the European procurement calendar. |
| May 26–28 | IDET | Brno, Czech Republic | IDET is the export showcase of choice for the Czech and Central European defence industry, with a reach that punches above its regional weight thanks to 52-country military delegations and NATO-aligned political patronage. |
| May 26–29 | ISET | Brno, Czech Republic | The Czech Republic's civil-security counterpart to IDET: narrower in scope than the defence giant next door but the region's best platform for integrated rescue systems and cyber-physical security solutions. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| June 1–2 | AI Everything MEA | Cairo, Egypt | Regional AI summit anchoring the AI Everything brand in Africa and the Arab world, with a pronounced sovereign AI and government-engagement orientation hosted in Egypt. |
| June 14–20 | Paris Air Show | Le Bourget, France | The undisputed capital of the global aerospace and defence marketplace, where billion-dollar contracts are signed against the backdrop of flying displays, and whose 2027 edition marks the centenary of Lindbergh's Atlantic landing at Le Bourget. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| July 6–7 | IMDEC | Accra, Ghana | IMDEC is the only international maritime defence forum dedicated to Africa, providing the Gulf of Guinea's navies and coast guards with a rare shared platform to meet global naval suppliers and build multilateral maritime security capacity. |
| July 16–18 | The Royal International Air Tattoo | Fairford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom | The world's benchmark military airshow: nowhere else do 170,000 spectators and NATO's air chiefs share the same three days of runway at a working RAF station. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| September 1 | PARTNER | Belgrade, Serbia | PARTNER is the Balkans' strategic hub for arms and military equipment, uniquely positioned at the intersection of NATO, EU, and non-Western supply chains in a country pursuing both Euro-Atlantic integration and independent defence export. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| October 5–7 | Balt Military Expo + Baltexpo | Gdansk, Poland | BALTEXPO is the Baltic Sea's premier defence and maritime industry gathering -- a rare dual-track event where naval procurement and merchant shipping sit on the same floor, shaped by four decades of Polish maritime tradition. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| November 1 | Forum Innovation Defense | Paris, France | France's only state-curated defence-innovation showcase open to the public: 100-plus AID-backed projects under one roof, from quantum to autonomous systems, every two years. |
| November 9–11 | A&DM Torino | Torino, Italy | A&DM Torino is the sole internationally-scoped aerospace and defence matchmaking event held in Italy, and its OVAL Lingotto setting anchors it at the heart of one of Europe's top-four aerospace industrial regions. |
| November 15–19 | Dubai Airshow | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Dubai Airshow is the world's highest-volume aerospace and defence marketplace: the only trade show where a single five-day edition can catalyse USD 200 billion in orders, anchored by the Gulf's sovereign wealth and military procurement cycles. |
| November 16–19 | Milipol Paris | Villepinte (Paris), France | Milipol Paris remains the undisputed global benchmark for homeland security procurement: no other show concentrates this volume of government delegations, defence ministries, and security technology buyers in a single four-day event. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| December 6–9 | EDEX Egypt Defence Expo | Cairo, Egypt | Egypt's state-backed showcase has become the dominant entry point for global defence primes seeking access to Africa's largest military establishment and its continent-wide procurement network. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| January 16–20 | World Defense Show | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Backed by Saudi sovereign ambition to localise 50% of defence spending by 2030, WDS has overtaken legacy shows to become the fastest-growing major defence exhibition on earth -- and the most commercially decisive outside Europe. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| March 7–9 | UMEX & SimTEX Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi, UAE | The only show in the Middle East entirely dedicated to unmanned and autonomous systems, UMEX has become the global benchmark for the drone and robotics defence market. |
| March 27 | DIMDEX | Doha, Qatar | The only dedicated maritime-defence platform in the Gulf, DIMDEX leverages Qatar's strategic position to convene naval commanders and procurement chiefs who shape the region's seapower agenda. |
| Dates | Event | City | About |
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| April 4–6 | ISNR Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | The Gulf's most ambitious security procurement platform: ISNR 2026 broke its own attendance records with a 49% visitor surge and a debut global sustainability summit, signalling Abu Dhabi's intent to compete with Milipol Paris as the world's leading homeland security showcase. |