Every verified event in the index that has not happened yet, in date order: AI and developer conferences, defence, private capital, digital health, space, energy, cyber and the policy forums, across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
As of October 20, 2026 215 events 17 of 18 verticals 98 in the next 30 days Full registry RSS
| Dates | Event | Vertical | City | About |
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| Oct 17–21 | SIAL Paris | Other | ParisFrance | SIAL Paris is Comexposium's global marketplace for the food industry at Paris Nord Villepinte, one of the largest events in this batch by organiser figures, citing 8,000 exhibitors and around 295,000 professionals from 200 countries for its 2026 edition. |
| Oct 19–20 | AI Infrastructure and Data Centers Summit | AI Circuit | RiyadhSaudi Arabia | Second edition of a small Riyadh summit that tests Saudi Arabia's AI compute ambitions against power, cooling and capital, run by a conference producer rather than an industry body. |
| Oct 19–20 | Data Centre Expo at TechEx Europe | Developer AI | AmsterdamNetherlands | The data centre track of TechEx Europe at Amsterdam RAI, 19-20 October 2026: two free conference days on power, finance and AI infrastructure inside an eight-event show whose headline figures cover the whole fair. |
| Oct 19–21 | SPORTEL MONACO | Sport Tech | MonacoMonaco | A three-day sports media rights and technology convention in one Monaco venue, run by Monaco Mediax. Its figures are self-declared and rounded, so read it as a dense meeting place for buyers and sellers, not an audited measure of the market. |
| Oct 20 | Defence Disrupted | Defence | LondonUnited Kingdom | The tightest curated gathering on the UK defence innovation circuit: 150 seats, zero exhibitor stands, all conversation. |
| Oct 20 | HR Indaba | HR Tech | JohannesburgSouth Africa | HR Indaba is a single-day HR conference in Johannesburg positioned by its organiser as the biggest HR conference in Africa, with over 3,000 attendees and 75+ exhibitors reported for recent editions. |
| Oct 20 | Swiss Cyber Storm | Cybersecurity | BernSwitzerland | A single-day, non-profit conference that keeps the Swiss security community in one room, picks one theme a year and refuses the vendor-floor model entirely. |
| Oct 20–21 | AI LIVE London | AI Circuit | LondonUnited Kingdom | A commercially produced C-suite AI event in London from a trade publisher, targeting business decision-makers rather than technical practitioners; 2026 dates are not yet confirmed and organiser transparency is limited by a non-loading website. |
| Oct 20–21 | Forum Teratec | Other | ParisFrance | Forum Teratec is the 21st edition of the annual French meeting point for high-performance computing, digital simulation, AI and quantum computing, now organised by Infora Events at the Palais des Congres de Paris, with organiser figures of around 2,000 decision-makers and 70 exhibitors. |
| Oct 20–21 | Frontiers Health | Digital Health | BerlinGermany | Frontiers Health is the original European digital health innovation conference, now in its eleventh edition; its Berlin programme pulls founders, pharma digital leaders and investors into the same room, with a Tech Tour partnership giving the investor track real depth. |
| Oct 20–22 | Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit | Digital Health | Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates | The Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit is the emirate's rebranded flagship, a government-hosted gathering that treats digital health and AI as one of four pillars and frames its 2026 edition around predictive, sensing-driven care. |
| Oct 20–22 | Berlin Global Dialogue | Economic Forums | BerlinGermany | An invitation-only geoeconomic summit built inside ESMT Berlin by a former Merkel economic adviser, drawing heads of state and chief executives each October behind closed doors, with no ticket, no open speaker slot and organiser-reported attendance carrying no independent audit. |
| Oct 20–22 | Hydrogen Technology Expo Europe | Energy Transition | HamburgGermany | The hydrogen industry's component fair rather than its policy stage, where electrolyser stacks, compressors and valves are specified and bought by engineers. |
| Oct 20–22 | Milipol Qatar | Defence | DohaQatar | Milipol Qatar is the Gulf's most institutionally anchored homeland security procurement event: the Qatari Ministry of Interior organises it directly rather than hosting it, and the deals it announces on site run into the hundreds of millions of riyals, which makes it a procurement forum rather than a showcase. |
| Oct 20–22 | UNLEASH World | HR Tech | ParisFrance | UNLEASH World pairs a senior, separately located opening day with a large-scale HR technology marketplace over the following two days, drawing exhibitors and speakers from major global employers; its 2027 edition leaves the EMEA circuit for Miami, which makes the October 2026 Paris edition the last European one for the foreseeable calendar. |
| Oct 20–22 | swampUP Europe 2026 | Platform Engineering | BarcelonaSpain | swampUP Europe is JFrog's annual DevSecOps and AI security conference in Barcelona: three days at InterContinental on software supply chain security, AI governance and secure software delivery. |
| Oct 21 | Sales Enablement Summit Berlin | Sales Stack | BerlinGermany | A one-day enablement-leader gathering that treats coaching and content programmes as revenue infrastructure rather than a training afterthought. |
| Oct 21–22 | Architect@Work France Paris | Other | ParisFrance | Architect@Work France Paris is the French edition of the international Architect@Work exhibition series, organised by Belgian exhibition company Kortrijk Xpo at La Grande Halle de La Villette, with organiser figures of 500 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees for 2026. |
| Oct 21–22 | Engaged Investments Conference | Private Capital | PragueCzech Republic | The Engaged Investments Conference holds a structurally uncrowded position: a VC-native, founder-inclusive gathering built by Prague-based operators for a regional community that the main EMEA circuit treats as a frontier, not a destination. |
| Oct 21–22 | Les Rendez-vous Carnot | Other | ParisFrance | Les Rendez-vous Carnot is the flagship B2B research-and-development matchmaking event of the French Carnot Institutes network, reporting more than 1,300 participants and 8,000 pre-scheduled meetings for its 2026 edition, themed around technological sovereignty and reindustrialisation. |
| Oct 21–23 | Future Forces Exhibition & Forum | Defence | PragueCzech 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. |
| Oct 22 | Business Agility Bulgaria 2026 | Developer AI | SofiaBulgaria | Business Agility Bulgaria is Sofia's annual Agile conference under the 2026 theme 'Evolve': a one-day gathering on organisational agility in a world reshaped by artificial intelligence. |
| Oct 22–23 | AI Summit Styria 2026 | Developer AI | KapfenbergAustria | AI Summit Styria is FH JOANNEUM's two-day applied AI summit in Graz: four specialist tracks covering GenAI infrastructure, AI software engineering, AI security and AI regulation for students and practitioners. |
| Oct 23–26 | React Advanced 2026 | Developer AI | LondonUnited Kingdom | React Advanced is the specialist React conference in London: 33+ ecosystem authors and senior engineers at The Brewery for deep technical sessions on React architecture, performance and AI-powered React applications. |
| Oct 24 | Birmingham Tech Week 2026: AI Symposium | Developer AI | BirminghamUnited Kingdom | Birmingham Tech Week's AI Symposium is the Midlands' practitioner-led AI event: one day at The ICC on moving from AI experiments to production deployment in UK manufacturing, healthcare and public sector. |
| Oct 24–26 | Encode London 2026 | Developer AI | LondonUnited Kingdom | Encode London is the Shoreditch Web3 and AI hackathon: three days building at the Encode Hub, with a conference day on AI, crypto and decentralised systems for developers and founders. |
| Oct 25–27 | UNCTAD World Investment Forum | Economic Forums | DohaQatar | 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. |
| Oct 26–29 | AFRIDEX | Defence | LagosNigeria | Africa's first pan-continental defence exhibition arrives in the continent's most populous nation, and its inaugural edition will show whether Nigeria's ambition to host a credible platform for 54 African markets matches the promotional promise; the international pavilion structure, which the organiser puts at ten of the world's top twenty-five arms exporters, is the part of the proposition that can be checked on the floor. |
| Oct 26–29 | Future Investment Initiative (FII) | Economic Forums | RiyadhSaudi 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, though nearly every layer of the event, from its chairman to its producer to one of its own media partners, sits inside the Public Investment Fund's perimeter. |
| Oct 26–30 | European Hydrogen Week | Energy Transition | BrusselsBelgium | The week where European hydrogen policy, funding calls and industrial reality are argued out in the same rooms, with the Commission co-hosting rather than visiting. |
| Oct 26–30 | International PHP Conference Munich 2026 | Developer AI | MunichGermany | A five-day PHP and web development conference in a Munich hotel where workshops and bootcamps on Monday, Thursday and Friday sit around three conference days, with every ticket also sold online. |
| Oct 27–28 | Apex Invest Europe | Private Capital | ZurichSwitzerland | A serviceable mid-size LP-GP meeting event whose enforced allocator majority prevents the GP-heavy skew common to open-format conferences, though allocator quality is harder to hold as the series scales globally. |
| Oct 27–28 | Defence in Space | Space Tech | LondonUnited Kingdom | A defence space conference that costs nothing to attend, which is why the room holds practitioners rather than the people who could expense a four-figure pass. |
| Oct 27–29 | SOFEX | Defence | AqabaJordan | SOFEX is a biennial special operations and homeland security exhibition in Aqaba, held under royal patronage and supported by the Jordan Armed Forces, with the MESOC commanders conference the day before. |
| Oct 27–29 | it-sa Expo&Congress | Cybersecurity | NurembergGermany | The European IT security market's annual inventory, where the whole vendor field lines up in five halls and German buyers walk the floor with a shortlist and a budget. |
| Oct 28 | APi&AIAddictsDay | Developer AI | MadridSpain | APIAddictsDays is Spain's annual API community conference: 11th edition at Kinepolis Madrid with four tracks on API governance, design, security, agentic architectures and MCP. |
| Oct 28–29 | AI Expo Africa | AI Circuit | JohannesburgSouth Africa | AI Expo Africa is a two-day enterprise AI and automation trade show and conference in Johannesburg, run by AI Media Group, where buyers, vendors and startups meet over a four-track programme. |
| Oct 28–29 | Cyber Security Nordic | Cybersecurity | HelsinkiFinland | The Nordic region's own security conference, where national resilience is discussed with a directness that comes from sharing a 1,300 kilometre border with Russia. |
| Oct 28–30 | DEAI Summit | Developer AI | St. JuliansMalta | DEAI Summit is the EU's closed-door AI governance forum: three days at Monte Kristo Estate in Malta bringing together frontier AI labs, decentralized networks and EU regulators under 'Beyond Borders: The Inflection Point of AI'. |
| Oct 28–30 | Mozilla Festival 2026 | Developer AI | BarcelonaSpain | Mozilla Festival 2026 is the open internet community's three-day gathering in Barcelona: the Wilding edition at Recinte Fabra i Coats on decentralized digital infrastructure, AI and society, and digital rights. |
| Oct 29–30 | J On The Beach | Developer AI | MalagaSpain | J On The Beach is Malaga's annual Big Data and data engineering conference: two days at Palacio de Congresos de Torremolinos, co-located with Lambda World and Wey Wey Web, from €165. |
| Oct 30 | DevFest.cz 2026 | Developer AI | PragueCzech Republic | DevFest.cz is Prague's annual Google Developer Group conference: one community-organised day at Gabriel Loci on AI/ML, Android, Kotlin, web, cloud and Flutter. |
| Dates | Event | Vertical | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2–5 | ADIPEC | Energy Transition | Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates | The largest energy gathering on earth, where the hydrocarbon industry writes its own transition agenda and the deal volume dwarfs every European equivalent. |
| Nov 2–5 | Global MilSatCom | Space Tech | LondonUnited Kingdom | Global MilSatCom is SAE Media Group's four-day London conference on military satellite communications, with a free pass for serving military and government delegates and a GBP 3,397 industry pass that funds it. |
| Nov 2–6 | Data & AI Conference Europe 2026 | Developer AI | LondonUnited Kingdom | Data & AI Conference Europe is IRM UK's five-day practitioner event in London: 60+ speakers at etc.venues Fenchurch Street on data management, AI strategy, governance and machine learning. |
| Nov 3–4 | 6th Digital Health Conference | Digital Health | BarcelonaSpain | The 6th Digital Health Conference is a two-day, mid-sized UBIQ Events meeting in Barcelona where pharma and MedTech digital health leads give 40-minute talks on AI, digital biomarkers, real-world evidence and connected care. |
| Nov 3–4 | IPEM Future | Private Capital | DubaiUnited Arab Emirates | IPEM's curated Dubai conference positioned as selective alternative to its larger Paris event format. |
| Nov 3–4 | QBC Summit 2026 | Quantum Tech | OrsayFrance | A members' meeting rather than a marketplace: QBC Summit is where European quantum suppliers and their industrial customers work through adoption questions in a closed room, which makes the guest list more informative than the agenda. |
| Nov 3–4 | The AI Conf | Developer AI | BarcelonaSpain | 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. |
| Nov 3–5 | Africa AI Summit | AI Circuit | Cape TownSouth Africa | Africa-focused AI event positioning the continent within the global AI governance conversation. |
| Nov 3–5 | Journées de l'Économie (Jéco) | Economic Forums | LyonFrance | 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. |
| Nov 3–6 | Euronaval | Defence | Villepinte (Paris)France | Euronaval is the reference exhibition for naval procurement decision-makers, and its 30th edition arrives as navies accelerate spending; the biennial rhythm and the delegation-driven format make it a once-in-two-years fixture for the maritime defence supply chain, with a conference programme structured day by day around the capability questions rather than around sponsors. |
| Nov 3–6 | SuperReturn Europe | Private Capital | AmsterdamNetherlands | Informa Connect's flagship European private capital conference, renamed from SuperInvestor and anchored in Amsterdam for the autumn LP and GP season; its defining mechanism is controlled access, with institutional limited partners attending free on qualification while general partners and service providers pay, which is what concentrates 500 investors in one hotel for four days. |
| Nov 4–5 | E-SHOW MADRID | Customer Experience & Retail | MadridSpain | E-SHOW Madrid is CloserStill Media's Spanish e-commerce and digital marketing fair, folded since around 2019 into the larger Tech Show Madrid event, so most of its 2026 scale figures describe the shared seven-fair floor rather than E-SHOW Madrid on its own. |
| Nov 4–5 | HR Technologies Spain | HR Tech | MadridSpain | HR Technologies Spain is the HR and learning technology section of Tech Show Madrid, a two-day free-entry fair at IFEMA with a Spanish-language programme of around 70 short talks across three theatres. |
| Nov 4–5 | Sales Summit | Sales Stack | DusseldorfGermany | A Dusseldorf trade fair floor built specifically around the sales technology stack, from CRM to AI-driven prospecting, for a DACH-region buyer audience. |
| Nov 4–5 | code.talks 2026 | Developer AI | HamburgGermany | A two-day developer conference in a Hamburg cinema where one ticket covers 14 curator-led tracks, meals and the party, with mostly sponsor-independent content by the organiser's account. |
| Nov 4–6 | Øredev 2026 | Developer AI | MalmöSweden | A Nordic developer conference in Malmö built on 40-minute talks, 10 curated tracks and a plant-based menu, with a published line-up of about 120 speakers. |
| Nov 5 | Agentforce World Tour Paris | Sales Stack | ParisFrance | Agentforce World Tour Paris is a free vendor showcase, and the November edition at the Palais des Congrès is the smaller, post-Dreamforce relay of the May hall show at Porte de Versailles; a French sales or RevOps leader goes for the customer demos and the partner floor, since the keynote is on Salesforce+ within days. |
| Nov 6 | UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2026 | Quantum Tech | LondonUnited Kingdom | A free one-day state of the nation for UK quantum, where the funding bodies, the policy department and the companies they back are in the same room and nobody is paying for the privilege. |
| Nov 9–10 | ALFI Private Assets Conference | Private Capital | LuxembourgLuxembourg | The annual meeting of Luxembourg's fund industry on private assets, where fund lawyers, administrators and regulators discuss structuring, with private debt given a day of its own in 2026. |
| Nov 9–10 | Apex Invest Middle East | Private Capital | Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates | A structured LP and GP meeting event whose guaranteed allocator majority is the organiser's own commercial design, so the room is genuine but tied to Apex Group's client relationships. |
| Nov 9–11 | InnoComp 2026 | Developer AI | LisbonPortugal | InnoComp is Lisbon's three-day academic AI and computational intelligence conference: researchers, PhD students and industry professionals at the intersection of machine learning, evolutionary computation and trustworthy AI. Proceedings in Springer CCIS. |
| Nov 9–12 | Web Summit | Sales Stack | LisbonPortugal | Web Summit is the one week when the SaaS vendors, investors and enterprise buyers of a sales stack share two buildings in Lisbon, but its 71,386 attendees are an organiser count and its value to a sales leader depends on meetings booked before arrival, not on the stages. |
| Nov 10–11 | GoTech World 2026 | Developer AI | BucharestRomania | GoTech World is Romania's B2B technology expo-conference and the largest of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe by headcount: two days at Romexpo with more than 15,000 attendees across eleven themed stages, an expo floor of over a hundred exhibitors, and a visitor base the organiser puts at more than six thousand companies, which is what distinguishes it from the region's founder-and-investor events. |
| Nov 10–11 | Paris Peace Forum | Policy Forums | ParisFrance | 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, and the 40 projects selected from 607 applications for the 2026 edition make it as much an implementation platform as a conference. |
| Nov 10–11 | Prestel & Partner Zurich Family Office Forum | Private Capital | ZurichSwitzerland | An intimate luxury format built for principals already saturated by large conferences, though its selectivity risks skewing the network toward the very top of the wealth distribution. |
| Nov 10–12 | Enlit Europe | Energy Transition | ViennaAustria | The European utility sector's own gathering, where grid operators, not oil majors, set the agenda and where the transition is discussed as an engineering programme. |
| Nov 10–12 | SIDEC | Defence | CeljeSlovenia | 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. |
| Nov 10–13 | ELECTRONICA | Edge AI | MunichGermany | The reference electronics trade fair, held biennially in Munich: the biennial pace means electronica 2026 is the only chance this cycle to compare the full component, edge AI silicon and smart energy supply chain in one place, and the co-located SEMICON Europa extends that comparison upstream into wafer fabrication. |
| Nov 10–13 | SEMICON EUROPA | Edge AI | MunichGermany | Europe's annual gathering of the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain: 160 exhibitors and around 8,000 specialists covering chip design, advanced packaging and fab management, held at the same venue and dates as electronica, which in 2026 makes the pair the single largest electronics event in Europe and makes one conference ticket unusually good value. |
| Nov 11 | Real Deals Value Creation Summit | Private Capital | SussexUnited Kingdom | Built explicitly for the operational practitioners inside GP firms rather than the capital-allocation conversation, its Sussex retreat format signalling that the room matters more than the stage. |
| Nov 11–12 | E-commerce, Packaging & Labelling Expo UK | Customer Experience & Retail | LondonUnited Kingdom | E-commerce, Packaging & Labelling Expo UK is a free trade floor for packaging and labelling suppliers bundled under one ExCeL ticket with three other Fortem International shows, useful for a broad supplier scan rather than for audited scale figures, since its headline attendance number repeats unchanged from its first 2024 edition through every 2025 and 2026 listing found. |
| Nov 11–12 | European Defence Innovation Forum | Defence | The HagueNetherlands | A Ukrainian-Dutch initiative turning frontline combat experience into a European platform where defence-tech startups, capital and ministries meet on the same stage. |
| Nov 11–12 | Retail Supply Chain & Logistics Expo UK | Customer Experience & Retail | LondonUnited Kingdom | Retail Supply Chain & Logistics Expo UK is a free trade floor for retail fulfilment and last-mile logistics buyers at ExCeL London, sharing one ticket with three sibling Fortem International shows; its attendance figures vary by source, from about 3,500 to over 6,000, and none is an audited organiser count. |
| Nov 11–12 | Smart Retail Tech UK | Customer Experience & Retail | LondonUnited Kingdom | Smart Retail Tech UK is a free trade floor bundled with three other retail shows under one ExCeL ticket, useful for a broad, low-cost scan of in-store and e-commerce technology suppliers rather than for audited attendance figures, which the organiser does not publish for this show on its own. |
| Nov 12 | SVG Europe Sports Audio Summit | Sport Tech | LondonUnited 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. |
| Nov 16 | 5th GenAI Summit Athens 2026 | AI Circuit | AthensGreece | The 5th GenAI Summit is a one-day enterprise AI agents conference at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, organised by Athens-based 100mentors on 16 November 2026. |
| Nov 16–17 | NextGen Intelligence Conference: Data, Cloud & AI | Developer AI | LondonUnited Kingdom | NextGen Intelligence Conference is a two-day London gathering on data, cloud and AI for enterprise technology leaders: focused sessions on AI strategy, scalable intelligence and AI in industry verticals. |
| Nov 16–18 | Budapest BI & Analytics Forum 2026 | Developer AI | BudapestHungary | A Hungarian BI and analytics conference whose three days are three different products, an in-person workshop day, an in-person conference day and an online-only closing day. |
| Nov 16–18 | World Police Summit | Defence | DubaiUnited Arab Emirates | Dubai Police's annual convening of law enforcement and security suppliers, now moved to November, where the exhibition is free to enter and the conference is paid. |
| Nov 16–19 | MEDICA | Digital Health | DusseldorfGermany | MEDICA is the largest medical trade fair in the world and the November anchor of the EMEA health calendar; its digital health and AI content runs through the MEDICA INNOVATION FORUM and the start-up programme, set against a sourcing floor of nearly five thousand exhibitors that is co-located with COMPAMED and sells almost entirely to trade buyers. |
| Nov 16–20 | Euro Finance Week | Economic Forums | FrankfurtGermany | A branded week of five separately ticketed finance conferences, not one event: the draw is the concentration of German banking leadership and policymakers across five days, capped by the invitation-only Frankfurt European Banking Congress inside the same week. |
| Nov 16–20 | MLCon Berlin 2026 | Developer AI | BerlinGermany | MLCon Berlin is the five-day ML engineering conference at Maritim ProArte: main conference Nov 18-19 with GenAI, MLOps/LLMOps and AI strategy tracks, plus bootcamps and workshops for ML practitioners. |
| Nov 17 | HubSpot GROW Europe | Sales Stack | LondonUnited Kingdom | HubSpot GROW Europe is a vendor show with a conference wrapped around it, and that is exactly its value to a sales leader running on HubSpot; the 2,000-seat figure is a target, not a count. |
| Nov 17–18 | European Business Summit | Economic Forums | BrusselsBelgium | European Business Summit is a Brussels-based summit organiser's flagship event, run on an invitation and membership model rather than open ticket sales: European Commission vice-presidents and commissioners share the stage with roughly 75 member companies who help set the agenda. The 26th edition runs 17 and 18 November 2026 at Egmont Palace, two days rather than the four-day format used for the 25th anniversary edition in 2025. |
| Nov 17–18 | Responsible Investment Forum Europe | Private Capital | LondonUnited Kingdom | Has shifted from a conviction-building event to a compliance clinic as SFDR and CSRD made ESG infrastructure a baseline LP due-diligence requirement rather than a differentiator. |
| Nov 17–18 | World Quantum Cannes Festival 2026 | Quantum Tech | CannesFrance | A first edition with an unusually credentialled front row, but its place on the calendar will be decided by whether the investor day produces deals rather than by the names on the honorary committee. |
| Nov 17–19 | AI Summit Cape Town | AI Circuit | Cape TownSouth Africa | Key African AI gathering positioned within Cape Town's expanding tech hub ecosystem. |
| Nov 17–19 | Space Tech Expo Europe | Space Tech | BremenGermany | Europe's space supply chain in one place, the show where a satellite programme finds its connectors, its composites and its test facility; the free Enterprise Europe Network matchmaking and the national pavilion structure make it unusually workable for a small supplier, which is not true of the agency conferences that dominate the rest of the space calendar. |
| Nov 18–19 | C+UX (Customer + User Experience) | Customer Experience & Retail | LondonUnited Kingdom | C+UX is a free trade floor for customer and user experience buyers at ExCeL London, run as one half of a shared-ticket pair with Contact Centre Expo; its figures come from the combined Contact Centre & CX Expo cluster rather than a C+UX-only count, and the company that legally operates the show was not confirmed by a source this research could open directly. |
| Nov 18–19 | Cloud & Cyber Security Expo Paris | Cybersecurity | ParisFrance | The open French counterweight to Monaco, a free two-day floor where the security conversation sits next to cloud, data centre and DevOps under one badge. |
| Nov 18–19 | Contact Centre Expo | Customer Experience & Retail | LondonUnited Kingdom | Contact Centre Expo is a free trade floor for contact centre and customer experience buyers at ExCeL London, its main draw the C+UX co-location that puts two specialisms on one free ticket; its attendance and exhibitor figures vary by source rather than resting on a single organiser-published count, and the company that legally operates the show was not confirmed by a source this research could open directly. |
| Nov 18–19 | RetailShow | Customer Experience & Retail | WarsawPoland | RetailShow is Poland's longest-running trade fair for retail equipment, technology and services, now in its 15th year at Warsaw's EXPO XXI, and its exhibitor and pricing figures are organiser-published rather than independently audited. |
| Nov 18–19 | SLUSH | Private Capital | HelsinkiFinland | Slush is Northern Europe's dominant founder and investor gathering, a two-day Helsinki event run by students and 1,600 volunteers that concentrates the early and growth-stage venture community into one high-volume matchmaking window before the year-end close; its distinguishing mechanism is prescheduled one-to-one meetings at a scale no European peer matches. |
| Nov 19 | SaaSiest London Executive Edition | Sales Stack | LondonUnited Kingdom | SaaSiest London Executive Edition is a first-time, 300-seat, application-only day whose real product is the room, not the stage, and the price gap between an operator at GBP 349 and a vendor at GBP 899 is the clearest statement of who it is for. |
| Nov 19–20 | KCD Porto 2026 | Platform Engineering | PortoPortugal | The most ambitious Iberian cloud-native event yet: KCD Porto and DevOpsDays Portugal have merged for 2026 into a two-day summit at one of Porto's arena venues, with platform engineering named as a primary theme alongside Kubernetes, a signal that Portuguese tech has reached the density needed for an event of this scale. |
| Nov 19–21 | MED Mediterranean Dialogues | Policy Forums | NaplesItaly | MED Dialogues is a Mediterranean foreign-policy conference promoted by a sovereign ministry and a think tank, which gives it official standing while keeping an open debate format. |
| Nov 20 | Agentic Engineering Days Zurich | Developer AI | ZurichSwitzerland | A one-day Swiss practitioner conference on AI coding agents, with 40 sessions on four tracks, speakers from OpenAI, Hugging Face and NVIDIA, and tickets already sold out. |
| Nov 20 | Frankfurt European Banking Congress | Economic Forums | FrankfurtGermany | The only fixture in this sector where the ECB president has appeared almost every year since the launch of the euro, and where Germany's three largest banks, HSBC and the City of Frankfurt sit as co-hosts rather than paying sponsors, giving a one-day, single-city congress standing closer to a policy event than a commercial conference. |
| Nov 24 | Digital Health Conference Berlin | Digital Health | BerlinGermany | The Digital Health Conference is Bitkom's one-day Berlin gathering, a compact and policy-aware fixture where the AI and Future Health track sits inside the German conversation about scaling digital care and the European Health Data Space. |
| Nov 24–25 | Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference | Energy Transition | AmsterdamNetherlands | The North Sea's working meeting, where offshore wind developers and oil and gas contractors discover they are hiring the same vessels and the same welders. |
| Nov 24–27 | Big Data Conference Europe | AI Circuit | VilniusLithuania | A practitioner-first data engineering conference in a Vilnius cinema, now in its tenth edition, with organiser claims of 700+ attendees from 35+ countries and a ticket that also covers the co-located AI Summit Europe. |
| Nov 25–27 | New Space Economy European Expoforum | Space Tech | RomeItaly | Rome's bet that the space economy needs an Italian address, with a scientific conference, a startup pitch, a youth lab and an exhibition in one fairground over three days. |
| Nov 27 | Dynamics 365 AI ERP Summit 2026 | Developer AI | LisbonPortugal | The Dynamics 365 AI ERP Summit is a community-run, one-day Lisbon conference where practitioners, not product marketers, present Copilot, agent and MCP work on Finance, Supply Chain and Business Central. |
| Nov 30 – Dec 1 | Enterprise DevOps Summit 2026 | Platform Engineering | BerlinGermany | Enterprise DevOps Summit Berlin is we.CONECT's two-day DevOps gathering: co-located with DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery and Software Testing summits at Maritim proArte Berlin for enterprise DevOps practitioners, on one ticket. |
| Nov 30 – Dec 1 | Enterprise DevSecOps 2026 | Developer AI | BerlinGermany | Enterprise DevSecOps Summit Berlin is we.CONECT's two-day DevSecOps gathering: co-located with DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Software Testing summits at Maritim proArte Berlin under a single ticket for 400+ senior practitioners. |
| Nov 30 – Dec 1 | Tech.Rocks Summit | Developer AI | ParisFrance | Tech.Rocks Summit is France's engineering leadership summit: 10th edition at Théâtre de Paris, two days on engineering leadership, Data and AI strategy, cybersecurity and continuous exploration for CTOs and VPs Engineering. |
| Nov 30 – Dec 3 | EQTC 2026 | Quantum Tech | DublinIreland | The closest thing European quantum technology has to an official annual assembly, valuable less for any single announcement than for who is in the room: the funding body, the standards writers and the companies both depend on. |
| Dates | Event | Vertical | City | About |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1 | Chief Revenue Officer Summit London | Sales Stack | LondonUnited Kingdom | A pre-approved room of 75+ revenue leaders on a free pass that vendors can only enter by paying £3,495 or sponsoring: the audience is the product, not the programme. |
| Dec 1–2 | African Air Forces Forum (AAF) | Defence | AbidjanIvory 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. |
| Dec 1–2 | SaaStr AI London | Sales Stack | LondonUnited Kingdom | SaaStr AI London is a founder and investor conference that sales-technology buyers attend for the VC room and the AI go-to-market case studies, not for a vendor floor, and every headline number attached to it is the organiser's own. |
| Dec 1–2 | World Football Summit Riyadh | Sport Tech | RiyadhSaudi 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. |
| Dec 1–3 | Black Hat MEA | Cybersecurity | RiyadhSaudi Arabia | The Riyadh edition of Black Hat is an exhibition-led show with a very large competition floor, grown since 2021 from the @Hack event into a 40,000-plus attendee gathering run by Tahaluf and a Saudi federation. |
| Dec 1–3 | Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference 2026 | Quantum Tech | AmsterdamNetherlands | The rest of the quantum calendar sells a future capability; this one hands enterprise security teams a deadline, which is why the in-person seats went before the programme was final. |
| Dec 1–3 | Warsaw Security Expo | Defence | 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. |
| Dec 2–3 | Revenue Operations Summit London | Sales Stack | LondonUnited Kingdom | A dense two-day RevOps programme where sales enablement, product marketing and customer success run as co-located tracks rather than separate events. |
| Dec 2–3 | SportsPro Media Summit | Sport Tech | MadridSpain | The SportsPro Media Summit is SportsPro's two-day Madrid conference on sports media rights, OTT and direct-to-consumer, with a three-track agenda, an awards evening, and passes that bundle hotel nights. |
| Dec 2–3 | Women in Private Debt Forum | Private Capital | LondonUnited Kingdom | A private credit stream inside a six-forum summit, so the ticket buys access to every forum, not to debt alone, and the audience is cross-asset by design. |
| Dec 2–3 | Women in Private Markets Summit | Private Capital | LondonUnited Kingdom | The Women in Private Markets Summit is PEI Group's London gathering for women across private equity, credit, infrastructure, real estate, wealth and fund operations, run as one summit with six forums and open to ticket buyers, not invite-only. |
| Dec 3 | FutureSPORT | Sport Tech | LondonUnited 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. |
| Dec 3–4 | AI for Health | Digital Health | ParisFrance | AI for Health is one of the few large European events that is AI-first rather than digital-health-first, and its move into the Grand Palais under the Adopt AI banner has turned a specialist summit into a headline fixture of the Paris innovation calendar. |
| Dec 3–4 | Adopt AI Global Summit | AI Circuit | ParisFrance | Dubbed the Davos of AI by the press, Adopt AI positions Paris as the capital of applied AI adoption; organised by the consultancy Artefact at the Grand Palais, it targets executives who have already committed to deploying AI and want implementation evidence rather than a first look, and its sector tracks make it one of the few AI events where the health, finance, defence and industry conversations happen in the same building. |
| Dec 4–7 | React Day Berlin | Developer AI | BerlinGermany | React Day Berlin is GitNation's annual hybrid React conference in Berlin: an in-person day at KOSMOS on 4 December and a remote day on 7 December, with 40+ speakers on AI integration and system design. |
| Dec 5–6 | Doha Forum | Policy Forums | DohaQatar | The Doha Forum is Qatar's flagship state-backed policy summit: two days, invitation only, hosted by the Foreign Ministry and drawing heads of state, foreign ministers and multilateral officials from more than 150 countries, which positions Doha as a convening ground for high-stakes diplomatic dialogue outside the UN calendar. |
| Dec 7–8 | GIANT Health | Digital Health | LondonUnited Kingdom | GIANT Health closes the EMEA digital health year in London as an NHS innovation festival: free for NHS staff, structured as several parallel shows on AI, procurement and the future hospital, and built to put health-tech founders in front of the people who actually buy in the NHS. |
| Dec 7–8 | Milken Institute Middle East and Africa Summit | Economic Forums | Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates | The only Milken Institute summit dedicated to the MEA arc, this Abu Dhabi gathering places sovereign wealth capital, African development finance and Gulf policy in the same room under a US think tank brand that carries consistent convening weight at the global level. |
| Dec 7–10 | Black Hat Europe | Cybersecurity | LondonUnited Kingdom | The European stop of the security research circuit, where new offensive work is disclosed on stage and the training rooms, not the exhibition floor, justify the trip. |
| Dec 9–10 | Digital Pathology & AI Congress Europe | AI Circuit | LondonUnited Kingdom | Digital Pathology and AI Congress Europe is a two-day London conference run by Global Engage on digital pathology and clinical AI, mixing hospital pathologists, pharma teams and solution providers. |
| Dec 14–15 | SVG Summit | Sport Tech | New YorkUnited 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. |
| Dec 15–16 | World Summit AI Qatar | AI Circuit | DohaQatar | World Summit AI Qatar is the Doha edition of the Inspired Minds series, run with Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology; for 2026 the organiser says it is paused until further notice, so its 15 to 16 December dates are unconfirmed. |
| Dec 16–17 | Conference of Paris (IEFA) | Economic Forums | ParisFrance | The Conference of Paris is the IEFA's European anchor: the only recurring high-level forum explicitly built around Europe-Americas economic dialogue, drawing cabinet-level government officials and major corporate CEOs to Paris each December for two days of structured exchange on global governance. |
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| Jan 18–22 | WEF Davos | Economic Forums | DavosSwitzerland | The one week each January when sitting heads of government and global chief executives share a single Alpine town, convened for 2027 by a World Economic Forum still led on an interim basis after its 2026 leadership crisis. |
| Jan 20–21 | HR Technologies France | HR Tech | ParisFrance | France's largest HR technology trade show, co-located with Learning Technologies France under CloserStill Media, moves into a bigger hall for 2027 after a 2026 edition that drew 410 exhibitors and 16,000 attendees, plus an official ministerial delegation. Over 100 exhibiting companies had already confirmed for 2027 more than six months out. |
| Jan 20–21 | Learning Technologies France | HR Tech | ParisFrance | The learning and development track of CloserStill Media's Paris HR technology week, run in the same hall and on the same dates as HR Technologies France. |
| Jan 25–28 | ARAB HEALTH | Digital Health | DubaiUnited Arab Emirates | Arab Health, rebranded WHX Dubai, is the largest healthcare exhibition in the world; for the digital health circuit its relevance is WHX Tech, the co-located conference run with HIMSS that gathers thousands of digital health and AI professionals in Dubai each January. |
| Jan 25–29 | IDEX | Defence | Abu DhabiUAE | 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. |
| Jan 26–27 | European Space Conference | Space Tech | BrusselsBelgium | The two days each January when European space policy is set out in public, with the Commission, the agency and the member states in the same room as industry. |
| Jan 26–28 | ICT&health World Conference | Digital Health | MaastrichtNetherlands | The ICT&health World Conference has grown into one of Europe's larger cross-border gatherings on AI in healthcare and the European Health Data Space, with a delegate base that actually works inside hospitals and health systems rather than around them. |
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| Feb 1–3 | International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (3rd edition) | AI Circuit | DubaiUnited Arab Emirates | ICADS Dubai is a mid-size academic conference with a broad multi-track scope covering the full AI and data science research spectrum; it is primarily relevant for researchers and advanced practitioners seeking peer-reviewed presentation opportunities in the MENA region during the February window. |
| Feb 1–3 | World Governments Summit | Policy Forums | DubaiUnited 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. |
| Feb 10–11 | Africa Tech Summit Nairobi | AI Circuit | NairobiKenya | 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. |
| Feb 10–11 | World AI Cannes Festival 2027 | AI Circuit | CannesFrance | 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. |
| Feb 16–18 | E-world energy & water | Energy Transition | EssenGermany | The German energy sector's February appointment, a working trade fair where utilities, traders and software vendors settle the year's contracts. |
| Feb 16–18 | Small Satellites & Services International Forum | Space Tech | MalagaSpain | The smallsat community's compact winter meeting in Malaga, hosted by a solar panel manufacturer, which tells you how close it stays to the hardware. |
| Feb 24–25 | Space-Comm Expo Europe | Space Tech | LondonUnited Kingdom | The UK space sector's own commercial show, now in London and openly built around defence space, which is where the British budget has actually gone. |
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| Mar 1–4 | MWC | Edge AI | BarcelonaSpain | The world's largest connectivity event and the de facto annual convening of the global telco and mobile technology industry: edge computing, 5G private networks and AI infrastructure are now permanent pillars alongside the operator and handset mainstream. |
| Mar 2–4 | health.tech global summit | Digital Health | BaselSwitzerland | health.tech left Munich for Basel in 2026 and reset itself as a Swiss healthcare innovation summit, with an AI in Healthcare track sitting alongside its startup and investor matchmaking, the same week DMEA moves the other way into Munich. |
| Mar 8–10 | SuperReturn Private Credit Europe | Private Capital | LondonUnited Kingdom | Leading annual private credit conference anchoring the March EMEA fundraising calendar. |
| Mar 9–11 | InCyber Forum Europe | Cybersecurity | LilleFrance | The place where European cyber policy, industry and law enforcement actually sit in the same building, and the only French event that reads as continental rather than national. |
| Mar 15–19 | Munich Space Summit | Space Tech | MunichGermany | Two Munich institutions merged their summits and produced the one European event where navigation engineers and newspace founders share a corridor. |
| Mar 16–17 | Digital Health Rewired | Digital Health | BirminghamUnited Kingdom | Digital Health Rewired is the UK's largest dedicated digital health event, an NHS-anchored conference and exhibition at the NEC where CIOs, CCIOs and clinicians work through electronic patient records, integrated care and clinical AI, free to attend for NHS staff. |
| Mar 16–18 | EMBEDDED WORLD | Edge AI | NurembergGermany | The world's largest trade gathering for embedded engineers: if edge AI hardware ships in a product in 2027, the supply chain decision was made on the NürnbergMesse floor. |
| Mar 23–25 | All4Customer Paris | Sales Stack | ParisFrance | The customer-relationship show that used to be a CRM-only trade fair, now folded into a broader AI, data and customer experience exhibition, France's largest gathering of this kind by visitor count. |
| Mar 31 – Apr 1 | Paris Space Week | Space Tech | ParisFrance | Paris runs two space weeks: one sells access to executives at three thousand euros, this one sells a meeting grid to the supply chain. |
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| Apr 1–2 | London Defence Conference | Defence | LondonUnited 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. |
| Apr 5–8 | HANNOVER MESSE | Edge AI | HanoverGermany | The world's largest industrial trade fair: 4,000 companies, 130,000 visitors and a programme that has made edge AI and industrial automation its primary narrative since 2019. |
| Apr 6–7 | HR Festival Europe | HR Tech | ZurichSwitzerland | Formerly branded Personal Swiss, the event rebranded to HR Festival Europe under the same organiser family, drawing a record 6,500-plus attendees at its 2026 edition. |
| Apr 6–8 | SOFINS | Defence | BordeauxFrance | 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. |
| Apr 6–8 | UDT Undersea Defence Technology | Defence | GlasgowUnited 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. |
| Apr 7–8 | LSX World Congress Europe | Digital Health | LyonFrance | LSX World Congress Europe is the partnering and investment counterpart to Europe's science conferences, a curated room of 500-plus investors where digital health and AI sit inside the pharmatech track rather than on a separate stage. |
| Apr 13–14 | data:unplugged Festival 2027 | AI Circuit | MünsterGermany | Germany's largest data and AI festival, combining practitioner peer-learning with a festival atmosphere and a strong Mittelstand audience profile. |
| Apr 13–15 | DMEA | Digital Health | MunichGermany | DMEA is the largest digital health trade fair in Europe and, from 2027, a Munich event after a public break with Messe Berlin; it covers the full healthcare IT stack from hospital systems to AI and interoperability, and remains the reference gathering for the German and European eHealth sector. |
| Apr 20–22 | WindEurope Annual Event | Energy Transition | CopenhagenDenmark | The European wind industry's own annual meeting, run by its association rather than by an exhibition company, which shows in how much policy gets decided in the corridors. |
| Apr 21 | AiX Conference 2027 | Developer AI | NewcastleUnited Kingdom | AiX Conference is Newcastle's first AI and design conference: one day at The Catalyst in Helix Science Square on AI in practice, design systems and the future of product design. Student tickets from £29. |
| Apr 27–29 | ASDA – Adriatic Sea Defense and Aerospace | Defence | ZagrebCroatia | 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. |
| Apr 28–29 | St. Gallen Symposium | Economic Forums | St. GallenSwitzerland | The St. Gallen Symposium occupies a singular position in the EMEA conference circuit as one of the few major international forums entirely student-organised, structuring its programme around direct dialogue between top-tier senior leaders and pre-selected young talents rather than a standard speaker-audience format. |
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| May 3–4 | Africa CEO Forum | Economic Forums | AbidjanCote d'Ivoire | The Africa CEO Forum is the continent's foremost annual private-sector summit, unique in convening African heads of state alongside global CEOs and development-finance leaders in a bilingual format that drives real investment dialogue at continental scale. |
| May 3–9 | IDEF | Defence | IstanbulTurkey | 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 | Defence | LisbonPortugal | 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 4–6 | Military Space Situational Awareness | Space Tech | LondonUnited Kingdom | Two hundred and fifty people, an undisclosed venue and a vetted guest list: the format tells you exactly how sensitive space surveillance has become. |
| May 5–6 | HR Technologies UK | HR Tech | LondonUnited Kingdom | A free-to-attend HR technology exhibition at ExCeL London, run alongside Learning Technologies UK under the same organiser, with more than 100 technology providers listed for the event including HiBob, Oracle and Zellis. |
| May 5–6 | Learning Technologies UK | HR Tech | LondonUnited Kingdom | The UK's learning and development trade show at ExCeL London, drawing more than 15,000 attendees and over 200 exhibitors, with a large free seminar programme alongside a separate paid conference track. |
| May 11–12 | SaaSiest | Sales Stack | MalmoSweden | SaaSiest is the one European SaaS conference where the go-to-market audience is priced as the guest and the vendor as the paying party, and its own post-event count of around 900 is a more useful number than the "1,000+" on the poster. |
| May 11–13 | ITEC | Defence | LondonUnited 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 | Defence | RzeszowPoland | 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 14 | Chief AI Officer Summit Dubai | AI Circuit | DubaiUnited Arab Emirates | Chief AI Officer Summit Dubai is AIAI's MENA flagship, offering a rare VP-and-above peer density in the GCC AI calendar; its complimentary model and strict vendor separation make the audience composition significantly more senior than comparably sized paid conferences. |
| May 18–20 | DEFEA Defence Exhibition Athens | Defence | AthensGreece | 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 | AI Circuit | StockholmSweden | 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 | Defence | MadridSpain | 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 18–20 | World Hydrogen Summit & Exhibition | Energy Transition | RotterdamNetherlands | The hydrogen sector's deal room, hosted by the port that intends to be Europe's import hub and attended by the governments writing the offtake contracts. |
| May 18–22 | Festival dell'Economia di Trento | Economic Forums | TrentoItaly | A free, city-wide public economics festival in Trento since 2006, drawing over 45,000 people and 800-plus speakers in its 2026 edition, standing at the opposite end of the Italian economics calendar from closed, invitation-only forums such as Ambrosetti at Cernobbio. |
| May 24–25 | German Spring Conference - Equity Forum | Private Capital | FrankfurtGermany | Frankfurt's spring conference where listed companies present to institutional investors and analysts. |
| May 24–26 | SaaStock Dublin | Sales Stack | LondonUnited Kingdom | SaaStock Dublin is over as a Dublin event, and the two things that replaced it, Founderpath's AI Growth Summit in London and Alex Theuma's Shift AI in Barcelona, split a community that had already shrunk from 3,500 to 1,680 attendees in two years. |
| May 24–27 | VITALIS | Digital Health | GothenburgSweden | Vitalis is the reference Nordic eHealth gathering: a Gothenburg conference and exhibition rooted in the Nordic public-health model, where clinical leaders, social-services managers and healthtech innovators work through AI, health data and person-centred care across more than 450 sessions. |
| May 25–27 | SANTEXPO | Digital Health | ParisFrance | Simultaneously the trade floor and the policy forum for French public hospitals, giving its agenda-setting function a reach well beyond its three days at Porte de Versailles. |
| May 26–27 | Cybersec Europe | Cybersecurity | BrusselsBelgium | The Benelux security market's own two-day floor, close enough to the European institutions to attract policy attention without pretending to be a policy forum. |
| May 26–28 | IDET | Defence | BrnoCzech 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 | Defence | BrnoCzech 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. |
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| Jun 1–2 | AI Everything MEA | AI Circuit | CairoEgypt | Cairo-based node in the GITEX-backed AI Everything network serving the MEA region. |
| Jun 1–3 | SmallSat Europe | Space Tech | AmsterdamNetherlands | The smallsat community stopped borrowing floor space at general space fairs and built its own, which is what a market looks like when it reaches scale. |
| Jun 8–10 | Infosecurity Europe | Cybersecurity | LondonUnited Kingdom | The UK security market's annual meeting point, three days where the whole vendor field, the analyst community and the British CISO cohort are in one hall. |
| Jun 8–10 | The smarter E Europe | Energy Transition | MunichGermany | Europe's largest solar and storage floor, four exhibitions stapled together because photovoltaics, batteries, charging and grids stopped being separate markets. |
| Jun 14–16 | European Financial Congress | Economic Forums | SopotPoland | The only recurring Central European congress built specifically around bank supervisors, central bankers and financial regulators rather than broad geopolitics, the European Financial Congress in Sopot is where Poland's financial policy establishment tests ideas against its peers before they become regulation. |
| Jun 14–20 | Paris Air Show | Defence | Le BourgetFrance | 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. |
| Jun 15–16 | Accelerate Tomorrow AI Summit 2026 | Developer AI | BerlinGermany | A first-edition executive AI summit that positions itself around practical business use cases rather than vendor pitching, with a speaker roster drawn from major German and European corporate AI teams; the confirmed 2027 date suggests the organiser is building a recurring annual event. |
| Jun 16 | GTM Festival London | Sales Stack | LondonUnited Kingdom | Six festivals on one £595 pass in a City venue: the value is the cross-functional room, not a programme that on 6 September 2026 was still "coming soon". |
| Jun 21–24 | HLTH Europe | Digital Health | AmsterdamNetherlands | European-focused healthcare innovation conference convening payers, providers, pharma, and healthtech investors for structured networking. |
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| Jul 6–7 | IMDEC | Defence | AccraGhana | 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. |
| Jul 16–18 | The Royal International Air Tattoo | Defence | Fairford, GloucestershireUnited 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. |
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| Sep 1 | PARTNER | Defence | BelgradeSerbia | 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. |
| Sep 2–4 | AIREX Istanbul Airshow | Defence | IstanbulTurkey | 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. |
| Sep 7–9 | Global AI Summit (GAIN) | AI Circuit | RiyadhSaudi Arabia | Government-convened AI policy summit anchoring Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 technology agenda, now postponed a full year to 2027. |
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| Oct 5–7 | Balt Military Expo + Baltexpo | Defence | GdanskPoland | 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. |
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| Nov 1 | Forum Innovation Defense | Defence | ParisFrance | 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. |
| Nov 9–11 | A&DM Torino | Defence | TorinoItaly | 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. |
| Nov 15–19 | Dubai Airshow | Defence | DubaiUnited 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. |
| Nov 16–19 | Milipol Paris | Defence | 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. |
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| Dec 6–9 | EDEX Egypt Defence Expo | Defence | CairoEgypt | 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. |
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| Jan 16–20 | World Defense Show | Defence | RiyadhSaudi 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. |
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| Mar 7–9 | UMEX & SimTEX Abu Dhabi | Defence | Abu DhabiUAE | 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. |
| Mar 27–30 | DIMDEX | Defence | DohaQatar | 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. |
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| Apr 4–6 | ISNR Abu Dhabi | Defence | Abu DhabiUnited 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. |
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| Jul 17–21 | Farnborough International Airshow | Defence | FarnboroughUnited Kingdom | Biennial UK counterpart to the Paris Air Show: record attendance in 2026, but a deal total below 2024. Next edition 17-21 July 2028. |
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| Nov 15–17 | Bahrain International Airshow | Defence | SakhirBahrain | The most open of the Gulf aviation and defence airshows, BIAS combines Farnborough International's event management with direct access to GCC military procurement; its two-year slip from November 2026 to November 2028, announced amid sustained regional hostilities, removes the Gulf's mid-cycle aerospace fixture from the calendar entirely. |
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