Tech and startup conferences, 2026 and 2027.

AUG 24–263 days FEBRABAN TECH Major Distrito Anhembi · São Paulo · Brazil The Brazilian banking federation's technology congress, covering AI, Open Finance, Drex and payments, and the main venue where fintech founders meet the country's large banks. AUG 25–273 days TechBBQ Major Dealroom on stage Bella Center Copenhagen · Copenhagen · Denmark The Nordics' largest startup and innovation summit. Investor Day opens it on the 25th at the Maersk Tower, then two days of founders, investors and policymakers at the Bella Center. AUG 26–283 days Startup Summit Major CentroSul · Florianópolis · Brazil Sebrae and ACATE's startup conference in Florianópolis, expecting around 10,000 attendees from some 30 countries for pitches, corporate matchmaking and investor meetings. AUG 31 – SEP 34 days GITEX Nigeria Major Abuja, then Eko Hotel and Landmark Centre, Lagos · Lagos · Nigeria West Africa's largest technology show, opening with a government and AI summit in Abuja before moving to Lagos for the expo and a startup festival at the Landmark Centre. AUG 31 – SEP 34 days LEAP Mega Riyadh Exhibition & Convention Centre, Malham · Riyadh · Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia's national technology event, drawing over 200,000 attendees and most of the kingdom's annual AI and data-centre investment announcements; the 2026 edition was moved from April to the end of August.

SEP 3–42 days Intersekt Notable Crown Promenade Melbourne · Melbourne · Australia FinTech Australia's annual festival, attended by around 1,000 fintech founders, banks, regulators and investors, and the main fixture in the Australian fintech calendar. SEP 8–114 days Global Fintech Fest Mega Jio World Centre and Trident BKC · Mumbai · India India's largest fintech gathering, run by the country's payments and fintech industry bodies, bringing policymakers, banks, founders and investors together over four days. SEP 101 day YC Summer 2026 Demo Day Major Invite-only; remote access for approved investors · San Francisco · United States Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch presents to an invite-only audience of about 1,500 investors and media. YC takes investor invite requests on its Demo Day page; approved investors preview the companies through YC's startup directory beforehand. SEP 13–153 days All-In Summit Major Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall · Los Angeles · United States The annual conference run by the hosts of the All-In podcast, with on-stage sessions on technology, markets and policy for an audience of founders and investors who apply for a place. SEP 14–163 days Money20/20 Middle East Major Riyadh Exhibition & Convention Center, Malham · Riyadh · Saudi Arabia The Gulf edition of the Money20/20 fintech conference, which absorbed Saudi Arabia's former 24 Fintech event and now serves as the region's main meeting point for banks, payment companies and fintech investors. SEP 161 day France Digitale Day Major Musée des Arts Forains · Paris · France France Digitale's one-day gathering of the French startup ecosystem, drawing about 4,500 founders and investors. SEP 22–243 days Elevate Festival Major Downtown Toronto (Design Exchange and partner venues) · Toronto · Canada Canada's largest tech and innovation festival, running three days of talks plus a matchmaking programme that schedules more than 750 one-on-one meetings for investment-ready startups. SEP 23–242 days FINNOSUMMIT Major Expo Santa Fe · Mexico City · Mexico Finnovista's fintech conference, in its tenth year, bringing fintech founders together with banks, insurers and regional investors. SEP 28–303 days Bits & Pretzels Major ICM – Internationales Congress Center München · Munich · Germany The founders' festival that opens Oktoberfest — three days of founder stories, investor matchmaking and the famous table captains. SEP 28 – OCT 14 days SuperReturn Asia Major Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre · Singapore · Singapore The main private equity and venture fundraising conference in Asia, with roughly 1,200 limited partners and 1,000 general partners meeting over four days. SEP 30 – OCT 12 days Sifted Summit Major Magazine London · London · United Kingdom Sifted's two-day conference for European startup founders and investors, with around 2,000 attendees.

OCT 5–117 days SF Tech Week Major Distributed across the city · San Francisco · United States A week of hundreds of separately hosted events across San Francisco coordinated by a16z, so founders and investors travel for the week rather than for a single venue. OCT 6–83 days How to Web Major Face Convention Center · Bucharest · Romania Eastern Europe's leading startup conference, drawing CEE founders and international investors to Bucharest. OCT 7–93 days Italian Tech Week · Wave by Vento Major Dealroom on stage OGR Torino · Turin · Italy Italy's flagship tech gathering, evolved into Wave by Vento for 2026 — 70+ talks across multiple stages at OGR Torino, anchored by a Dario Amodei × John Elkann fireside. OCT 7–93 days Milken Institute Asia Summit Major Four Seasons Hotel Singapore · Singapore · Singapore An invitation-led Milken Institute summit for institutional investors, sovereign funds, policymakers and corporate leaders across Asia. OCT 7–82 days TOKEN2049 Singapore Mega Marina Bay Sands · Singapore · Singapore A two-day crypto and Web3 conference expecting more than 25,000 attendees, anchoring a week of side events that pulls most of Asia's digital-asset investors to Singapore. OCT 7–82 days World Summit AI Major Taets Art & Event Park · Amsterdam · Netherlands An AI conference of about 10,000 enterprise leaders, researchers, startups and investors, and the anchor of Amsterdam's World AI Week. OCT 13–164 days CEATEC Mega Makuhari Messe · Chiba · Japan Japan's largest electronics and digital technology exhibition, held outside Tokyo, where corporates and startups show AI, hardware and mobility products to buyers and partners. OCT 13–153 days TechCrunch Disrupt Major Moscone West · San Francisco · United States The Valley's signature startup event — Startup Battlefield, the expo floor and three days of dealmaking. OCT 14–152 days Invest Europe Venture Capital Forum Notable Amsterdam · Netherlands Invest Europe's venture conference for limited partners and general partners, built around an allocator agenda with roundtables for family offices and sector investors. OCT 18–214 days Money20/20 USA Major The Venetian Expo · Las Vegas · United States The largest fintech and payments conference in the United States, where banks, payment networks and fintech startups concentrate their annual round of partnership meetings. OCT 19–235 days Oslo Innovation Week Major Oslo · Norway A week of events across Oslo built around Norway's roughly 3,000 startups and scaleups, attended by founders, investors and public innovation agencies. OCT 21–3111 days Tecweek Notable Multiple venues across the city · Buenos Aires · Argentina An eleven-day umbrella week that groups Argentina's crypto, AI and startup gatherings into one window of talks, labs, hackathons and demos. OCT 21–222 days VDS (Valencia Digital Summit) Major City of Arts and Sciences · Valencia · Spain A startup and investor summit at Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences, drawing founders, VCs and corporate innovation teams from Europe and Latin America. OCT 211 day Webrazzi Summit Major Wyndham Grand İstanbul Levent · Istanbul · Turkey Turkey's main technology and entrepreneurship conference, run by the tech publication Webrazzi as a single-day programme for local founders, investors and corporate teams. OCT 26–294 days Future Investment Initiative (FII10) Major King Abdulaziz International Conference Center · Riyadh · Saudi Arabia The Saudi Public Investment Fund's annual investment conference, in its tenth edition; it gathers sovereign wealth funds, global asset managers and large-cap technology executives, and sets the tone for Gulf capital allocation each year. OCT 26 – NOV 17 days Mexico Tech Week Major Multiple venues across the city · Mexico City · Mexico A decentralised week of events run by founders, investors and startups across Mexico City, which drew over 22,000 people to more than 400 sessions in its last edition. OCT 27–293 days SWITCH Major Singapore · Singapore Singapore's government-backed innovation week, built around deep tech startups, corporate innovation teams and investors, with about 25,000 participants. OCT 28–292 days Moonshot by TechCabal Notable National Theatre, Lagos · Lagos · Nigeria TechCabal's annual conference for African tech, now in its fourth edition, with nine tracks including a dedicated investor conference; it is the main gathering point for Nigerian founders and the funds that back them.

NOV 2–65 days Hong Kong FinTech Week Mega Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre · Hong Kong · Hong Kong Hong Kong's flagship finance and fintech event, run alongside StartmeupHK, drawing more than 45,000 participants across a main conference and a week of city-wide side events. NOV 9–124 days Web Summit Mega MEO Arena · Lisbon · Portugal Europe's largest tech conference — 70,000+ attendees across four days in Lisbon. NOV 17–193 days Africa Tech Festival (AfricaCom) Major Cape Town International Convention Centre · Cape Town · South Africa The 29th edition of the Cape Town event formerly known as AfricaCom, covering connectivity, data centres, AI, cybersecurity and startups; it is the largest annual gathering of African telecom and technology operators. NOV 17–193 days Bengaluru Tech Summit Mega Bangalore International Exhibition Centre · Bengaluru · India The Karnataka government's technology summit, now in its 29th edition, with more than 1,600 exhibitors and a dedicated startup programme that makes it India's largest tech trade event. NOV 18–203 days Singapore FinTech Festival Mega Singapore Expo · Singapore · Singapore The Monetary Authority of Singapore's fintech festival, expecting over 70,000 participants, and the largest single gathering of financial services and fintech decision-makers in Asia. NOV 18–192 days Slush Mega Helsinki · Finland The world's most founder-focused startup event — 13,000 attendees in the Helsinki winter dark. NOV 26–272 days CASE — Conferência Anual de Startups e Empreendedorismo Notable FEA-USP · São Paulo · Brazil ABStartups' annual conference and the Brazilian startup association's main event, covering AI, deeptech, open innovation and investment for founders and early-stage investors. NOV 30 – DEC 45 days AWS re:Invent Mega Multiple venues on the Las Vegas Strip · Las Vegas · United States Amazon Web Services' developer conference, five days of product launches and technical sessions for more than 50,000 attendees, and the point at which AWS sets its AI and cloud roadmap for the year.

DEC 21 day YC Fall 2026 Demo Day Major Invite-only; remote access for approved investors · San Francisco · United States Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch presents to an invite-only audience of investors and media. YC takes investor invite requests on its Demo Day page. DEC 7–104 days Abu Dhabi Finance Week Major Al Maryah Island · Abu Dhabi · UAE Abu Dhabi Global Market's fifth finance week, running more than 70 events across Al Maryah Island for over 35,000 participants; it covers capital markets, private capital, digital assets and fintech. DEC 7–115 days GITEX Global · Expand North Star Mega Expo City Dubai (Dubai World Trade Centre on 7 Dec) · Dubai · UAE One of the world's largest tech shows, with Expand North Star hosting the startup and investor programme. DEC 9–113 days COMEUP Major COEX · Seoul · South Korea South Korea's national startup festival, backed by the startup ministry, where Korean founders pitch to domestic and international investors.

JAN 6–94 days CES Mega Las Vegas Convention Center, Venetian Expo and ARIA · Las Vegas · United States The world's biggest consumer-technology show — carmakers, chipmakers and hardware startups launching the year's products. JAN 25–273 days Cybertech Global Tel Aviv Major Tel Aviv Expo, Pavilion 2 · Tel Aviv · Israel Israel's main cybersecurity conference, drawing security vendors, government agencies and the cyber-focused funds that back Israeli startups; it anchors a wider week of Tel Aviv innovation events. JAN 26–283 days sTARTUp Day Notable Tartu · Estonia A winter business festival in Tartu drawing over 3,000 founders, investors and corporate teams, mostly from the Baltics and Nordics. JAN 31 – FEB 34 days Web Summit Qatar Mega Doha Exhibition and Convention Center · Doha · Qatar Web Summit's Middle East edition, expecting more than 30,000 attendees, 1,500 startups and 800 investors; it is the region's largest general-purpose startup conference.

FEB 3–42 days Step Conference Dubai Major Dubai Internet City · Dubai · UAE A two-day technology festival at Dubai Internet City built around MENA startups, with a startup showcase, pitch competitions and scheduled investor meetings. FEB 3–42 days Techarena Major Strawberry Arena · Stockholm · Sweden The Nordic startup and investor stage in Stockholm's winter calendar. FEB 10–112 days Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Major Sarit Expo Centre · Nairobi · Kenya The ninth edition of the Nairobi conference for African tech and venture capital, concentrating East African founders, investors and fintech operators into two days.

MAR 1–44 days MWC Barcelona · 4YFN Mega Fira Gran Via · Barcelona · Spain The global connectivity industry's annual gathering, with 4YFN hosting the startup world. MAR 7–104 days HumanX Major Mandalay Bay · Las Vegas · United States A four-day AI conference aimed at enterprise buyers, AI founders and investors, expecting around 9,000 attendees after moving from San Francisco to Las Vegas. MAR 15–184 days NVIDIA GTC Mega San Jose McEnery Convention Center · San Jose · United States NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing conference, where the company's keynote and several thousand technical sessions set expectations for AI hardware over the following year. MAR 15–217 days SXSW Mega Downtown Austin · Austin · United States A combined conference and festival across technology, film, music and culture; the Innovation Conference track running March 15-20 is the part founders and investors attend. MAR 18–192 days START Summit Notable St. Galler Kantonalbank Halle · St. Gallen · Switzerland A student-run startup conference in eastern Switzerland that pairs early-stage founders with European investors over two days. MAR 18–192 days TechChill Riga Major Hanzas Perons · Riga · Latvia One of the Baltics' main startup conferences, with over 2,000 attendees; side events run on 17 March and the main programme on 18-19 March.

APR 14–163 days South Summit Brazil Major Cais Embarcadero · Porto Alegre · Brazil Three-day startup and investment conference built around a startup competition and investor matchmaking, and the main annual meeting point for Brazilian and Spanish-speaking Latin American VCs. APR 27–293 days Talent Land México Major Expo Santa Fe · Mexico City · Mexico Mexico's largest tech and talent festival, in its tenth edition and now held in Mexico City, with tracks for developers, startups and employers. APR 29–302 days GITEX AI Asia Major Sands Expo & Convention Centre · Singapore · Singapore The Asian edition of Dubai's GITEX, a two-day AI and enterprise technology show with a large startup exhibition attached.

MAY 2–54 days Milken Institute Global Conference Major The Beverly Hilton · Los Angeles · United States The Milken Institute's annual finance conference, attended by asset managers, sovereign funds and institutional allocators, which is why fund managers raising capital treat it as a work trip. MAY 3–53 days OMR Festival Mega Hamburg Messe und Congress · Hamburg · Germany Europe's largest digital marketing and tech festival, extended to three days in 2027 with more than 800 speakers and 1,000 exhibitors. MAY 4–63 days Consensus Miami Major Miami Beach Convention Center · Miami Beach · United States CoinDesk's crypto and digital-assets conference, the largest of its kind in the Americas, drawing exchanges, protocol founders and crypto funds to Miami Beach. MAY 5–73 days Gramado Summit Notable Serra Park · Gramado · Brazil Brazilian innovation and entrepreneurship conference in the Serra Gaúcha, now in its tenth edition, aimed at founders, corporate innovation teams and early-stage investors. MAY 19–213 days Latitude59 Major Kultuurikatel · Tallinn · Estonia Estonia's flagship startup and tech conference, attended by founders and investors from the Baltics, the Nordics and CEE. MAY 20–223 days SusHi Tech Tokyo Mega Tokyo · Japan Tokyo's city-funded startup event, which drew 60,779 participants and 798 exhibiting startups in 2026, making it Japan's largest startup gathering. MAY 25–284 days Web Summit Vancouver Mega Vancouver Convention Centre · Vancouver · Canada Web Summit's North American edition, four days combining a large startup exhibition floor with a structured investor programme, and the successor to Collision as the continent's main Web Summit event. MAY 26–283 days Asia Tech x Singapore Major Singapore · Singapore Singapore's government-organised technology week, pairing a closed-door ministerial summit with an enterprise and telecom show that drew over 22,000 attendees in 2026. MAY 26–272 days Dublin Tech Summit Major RDS Dublin · Dublin · Ireland Ireland's largest technology conference, expecting around 8,000 attendees, 200 speakers and 160 exhibitors. MAY 31 – JUN 12 days VTEX DAY Mega São Paulo Expo · São Paulo · Brazil Digital commerce conference run by Brazilian software company VTEX, expecting more than 50,000 registrations from retail, marketplace and commerce-tech operators across 29 countries.

JUN 7–115 days London Tech Week Mega Olympia London · London · United Kingdom The UK's largest technology festival, with three days of stages and expo at Olympia and a fringe programme running across London for the full week. JUN 7–115 days SuperReturn International Major InterContinental Berlin · Berlin · Germany The largest private capital conference in Europe, where general partners and limited partners spend a week in fundraising meetings. JUN 8–103 days Money20/20 Europe Major RAI Amsterdam · Amsterdam · Netherlands Europe's largest fintech conference, attended by banks, payment companies, fintech founders and the investors who back them. JUN 8–103 days SuperReturn Venture (SuperVenture) Notable Hotel Palace Berlin · Berlin · Germany The venture-capital event alongside SuperReturn, bringing about 350 limited partners together with 500 venture firms for three days of LP-GP meetings. JUN 14–174 days Web Summit Rio Mega Riocentro · Rio de Janeiro · Brazil Web Summit's South American edition, expecting more than 40,000 participants, 1,500 startups and 700 investors, and the single largest gathering of the Latin American tech ecosystem. JUN 16–172 days Arctic15 Notable Helsinki · Finland A Helsinki conference built around scheduled one-to-one meetings between startups and investors, drawing Nordic and Baltic attendees. JUN 16–194 days VivaTech Mega Paris Expo Porte de Versailles · Paris · France Europe's largest technology event, drawing roughly 200,000 visitors and 4,500 exhibitors over four days.

JUL 7–93 days Startupfest Notable Grand Quay, Old Port of Montreal · Montreal · Canada Canada's longest-running startup conference, three days on Montreal's Old Port waterfront focused on early-stage founders and seed investors.