Events calendar

Tech and startup conferences, 2026 and 2027.

Dates, venues and speakers for the events founders and investors travel for. Where Dealroom is on stage, the deck goes up on the event page after the session.

47 upcoming events 26 countries Next up: Mexico Tech Week, OCT 26 – NOV 1, 2026
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47 upcoming events.

October 2026

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.

November 2026

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.

December 2026

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.

January 2027

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.

February 2027

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.

March 2027

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.

April 2027

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 2027

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.

June 2027

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.

July 2027

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.

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