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Croatia's largest general technology conference, organised by Bug, with around 100 talks across six parallel tracks. Draws globally successful speakers and a broad developer and tech-leader audience — a good ecosystem pulse for Zagreb-based founders and engineering hires.
A focused digital-health conference bringing pharma leaders, DTx specialists, regulators, and investors together around AI, real-world data, and patient-centric innovation. For digital-health founders it offers targeted access to pharma partners and regulatory expertise.
The flagship conference of the Association of Business Service Leaders, gathering leaders of global GBS/SSC operations, investors, and public administration. Valuable for B2B and enterprise-SaaS founders targeting large service-sector clients and corporate innovation budgets in CEE.
Europe's #1 AI summit for business, bringing together 3,000 business leaders, AI pioneers, and enterprise innovators. They share real-world cases, proven implementation strategies, and the lessons behind successful AI initiatives that help organizations turn AI ambition into enterprise-wide transformation and competitive advantage.
Conference and expo at ExCeL London covering enterprise AI, data platforms, and applied machine learning, co-located with IoT and Blockchain expos. Attracts thousands of developers and enterprise buyers. Free expo passes available; paid conference passes about GBP 499-1099. Strong for AI and data startups targeting enterprise customers.
AI Connect is a one-day artificial-intelligence conference at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga, structured in three tracks: Build (technical sessions for AI engineers and data specialists), Use (practical AI for business and the workplace) and Explore (demos and workshops for newcomers). Its aim is to make AI understandable, practical and human, connecting developers, businesses, students and the public.
An execution-focused AI deployment and investment forum at Hualing Expo Plaza, covering AI strategy, healthcare AI, fintech, and cybersecurity, with a developer track, a 72-hour hackathon, and a startups and funding track. Strong fit for founders building AI-native products.
A one-day, three-track in-person summit at Sofia Tech Park focused on applied AI for industry — automation, IoT, and manufacturing. Useful for founders building vertical AI and automation products targeting Bulgarian and Southeast European industrial buyers.
A high-altitude AI conference at the Galaaxy venue above Laax, convening decision-makers from business, politics, and science to shape the Swiss digital agenda. Good for AI founders who want concentrated executive and policymaker access in an intimate setting away from the usual circuit.
AI Studio is a joint initiative of RTU Riga Business School and the Latvian Information Technology Cluster, launched in 2024 to accelerate AI education and practical application in Latvian businesses. It combines academic knowledge with industry expertise to deliver training programmes covering AI automation, digital transformation, and advanced digital skills. AI Studio connects businesses, universities, developers, and public institutions to advance responsible AI adoption in Latvia, and is a principal organiser of the AI Connect 2026 conference.
Positioned as one of Europe's biggest AI events, with 10,000+ attendees, 200+ speakers, 50 side events across an AI Week, and a 500-builder hackathon. For AI founders and developers it concentrates investors, talent, and enterprise buyers in one week.
An annual AI summit at the Evoluon in Eindhoven, organised by the Eindhoven AI Systems Institute with Brainport Development. Focused on applied and industrial AI — strong fit for hardware-aligned and deeptech founders in the Brainport ecosystem.
Grassroots networking meetup in Paris for early-stage AI founders, angels, and local builders. Smaller format designed for candid conversations, quick pitches, and co-founder or talent discovery in the pre-seed ecosystem.
The fifth edition of TBM Group's AI Tech Summit at the Sava Center in Belgrade, one of Serbia's largest AI and enterprise-tech conferences. Founder-relevant for AI startups seeking enterprise customers and regional visibility.
Turkey's main AI summit, organised by the Artificial Intelligence Policies Association at JW Marriott Ankara, bringing together AI researchers, policymakers, enterprises, and startups. A notable flagship in the capital rather than Istanbul.
Billed as Europe's largest AI event, at Fiera Milano Rho with 700+ speakers, 250+ AI exhibitors, and 25,000+ attendees. Strong for founders selling AI tooling into enterprise and meeting corporate innovation buyers.
A week of free AI events across Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Niš, organised by Startit. The 2025 debut drew 1,000+ attendees across 23 events with 20+ partner organisations — community-driven and explicitly founder and developer-facing.
A two-day London AI conference for senior decision-makers in AI and robotics innovation at the Kensington Conference and Events Centre. Relevant for an AI founder seeking enterprise customers and a senior-level audience.
A one-day technical AI conference organised by cloud provider Scaleway at Station F in Paris, dedicated to AI breakthroughs, research and product demonstrations for leaders and engineers. The event spotlights frontier models, infrastructure and applied AI for the European ecosystem.
Organizer of Italy's AI*Festival, an annual event hosted at Bocconi University in Milan bringing together AI researchers, startup founders, and industry leaders. The festival features keynotes, panel discussions, and demos exploring applied artificial intelligence, machine learning, and responsible AI development within Italy's growing tech ecosystem.
International AI festival in Italy connecting the Italian tech ecosystem with global markets through keynotes, demos, and pitch sessions. Attracts AI researchers, enterprise buyers, and investors exploring opportunities in Southern Europe. Valuable for AI startups seeking visibility in the growing Italian AI market and European expansion.
Alda is an Icelandic HR-tech startup founded in 2022 that provides a culture intelligence platform for measuring and improving workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The platform combines inclusion surveys, gamified micro-learning, AI-powered action plans, and real-time DEI dashboards. Alda has raised €2.9 million from Frumtak Ventures and Tennin, and counts Aker Solutions, Icelandair, and Avalanche Studios among its clients. It was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2025.
Co-founder and CEO of Wayve, pioneering end-to-end deep learning for self-driving rather than hand-coded rules. A Cambridge PhD, he raised one of Europe's largest AI rounds from SoftBank, Microsoft and Nvidia.
Engineering leader at Zencoder working on AI-assisted software development and developer tooling. He is an announced speaker at the DEV: Challenge Accepted 2026 conference in Sofia.
Co-founder and CEO of Nabla, the clinical-AI assistant for clinicians. A repeat AI founder, he previously built VirtuOz and Wit.ai (acquired by Facebook) and led conversational-AI research at Meta.
Co-founder of Wayve and a machine-learning researcher who completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge alongside co-founder Alex Kendall before starting the autonomous-driving company.
General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, where he leads investments in AI, software infrastructure and fintech. He is well known for data-driven venture research and writing on how machine learning is reshaping early-stage investing in Europe.
Munich program operator for Antler's pre-seed founder residencies and investment cohorts. Antler Munich is an event organiser based in Munich, Germany. Organising events in the Accelerator Programs, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Tech space.
Pre-seed accelerator and VC program for founders in AI, data, and deep tech. The spring 2026 application cut-off passed on February 27, 2026 for a March 9 cohort start; applications continue on a rolling basis for subsequent 2026 cohorts. Typical Antler offer includes early investment and startup-building support from day zero.
Arena Tehnologij is Slovenia's central event dedicated to science, innovation and creativity — a full-day, free public exhibition of the latest Slovenian technologies with interactive demos, talks and workshops on artificial intelligence, security and the digital future. The 2026 (3.0) edition is held at Technology Park Ljubljana and promises more exhibitors than the roughly 50 technology actors who took part in 2025.
Armenia's flagship engineering, science and art forum, organized annually since 2017 by the Enterprise Incubator Foundation and the Engineering Association at Engineering City in Yerevan. The 2026 edition runs under the theme "Physical AI: Engineering Intelligence for the Real World", with talks and discussions spanning robotics, embedded systems, sensors, electronics, semiconductors and manufacturing. It gathers 1,000+ engineers, researchers, students, tech companies and industry leaders.
Dr. Artemis Kontou is a Senior Researcher and Entrepreneur at KIOS Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus, where she applies deep learning methodologies to healthcare diagnostics and monitoring challenges. She is the founder of Tseepor and co-founder of Malloc, a cybersecurity startup, demonstrating her trajectory from academic research to technology entrepreneurship. She is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, representing the intersection of AI research and startup building within the Cyprus innovation ecosystem.
Co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI, the open-weight large-language-model company that became Europe's flagship AI lab. A former DeepMind researcher, he co-founded Mistral in 2023 and raised some of Europe's largest AI rounds.
Aseto is a Cyprus-based artificial intelligence startup specialising in speech recognition, speech-to-text technology, and machine learning model development. The company was a gold partner of the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, with its machine learning engineer among the event's confirmed speakers presenting on STT model research. Aseto develops AI-powered voice and audio processing tools targeting enterprise clients and developer teams.
Async is an AI-powered content creation platform for audio and video, rebranded from Podcastle in January 2026. Founded in Yerevan in 2020 by Artavazd Yeritsyan, the platform grew from a podcast recording tool to a unified suite covering studio editing, enterprise content workflows, and a voice API for developers. The company has raised $23.5 million in total, including a $13.5 million Series A in 2024, and counts over one million creators on the platform.
Bek Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm backing exceptional founders with roots in Europe, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey. Founded in 2013 as the Earlybird Digital East Fund and rebranded to Bek Ventures in late 2024, the firm manages roughly $600 million across its funds, including a $250 million Fund III closed in 2024. Led by managing partner Cem Sertoglu and with offices in Istanbul, London, and New York, the Turkish-founded team has generated billions of dollars in returns over the past decade and is associated with one of the greatest venture investments in European history. Bek Ventures backs technical founders building global category leaders, with around half of its portfolio companies operating from the United States.
Specialist in applied artificial intelligence for commercial environments at Molin AI, focusing on how AI tools can be deployed in practical e-commerce and retail use cases. He is an announced speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest.
Organiser of Big Data LDN, the UK's largest free-to-attend data, analytics and AI conference and exhibition at Olympia London. The event hosts hundreds of seminars and exhibitors spanning data platforms, AI agents, governance and analytics for the data community.
The UK's largest free data, analytics and AI conference and exhibition at Olympia London, with 400+ seminars on data platforms, AI agents, AI governance and data products. Exhibitors range from Snowflake, Databricks and Google Cloud to data startups, making it strong for data and AI founders.
The West Midlands' largest tech festival, a city-wide week of conferences, exhibitions, and community events. For a Midlands founder it is the main annual opportunity to raise visibility, meet regional investors, and connect with the SuperTech innovation cluster.
A future-focused festival in Budapest exploring how technology, science, and society intersect. Draws 5,000+ attendees including founders, researchers, and policymakers. Known for provocative talks on AI, biotech, and the future of work. Tickets start from EUR 100.
The Bulgarian Software Community (BSC Association) is a non-profit technology association based in Sofia, Bulgaria, chaired by Mihail Mateev, a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. The community has been organising AI and IoT technology conferences since 2016, starting as the IoT Bulgaria Summit and evolving into the AI Industrial Summit series. Their events are held annually at Sofia Tech Park and bring together local and international speakers across tracks covering artificial intelligence, industrial automation, and Internet of Things.
Built around the Cambridge deep-tech cluster, with a 2026 theme of how deep tech changes the world. It features an Innovation Alley exhibition for deeptech startups and scaleups, plus sessions on scaling, regulation, and access to capital — high value for science-led founders seeking investors and corporate partners.
The Canary Islands' largest entrepreneurship and innovation event, in its 4th edition with a three-day format, 2,000+ attendees, 50+ startups, and a €10,000 pitch competition. Strong for early-stage founders connecting with the fast-rising Canarian ecosystem and its digital-nomad-adjacent community.
Caroline Chopinaud is the Chief Executive Officer of Hub France IA, the national federation uniting France's artificial intelligence ecosystem with over 300 member organisations and 160+ AI startups. In her role she leads advocacy, working groups, and European partnerships for France's AI community. She is a prominent AI ecosystem figure and serves on the Advisory Board of Big Data & AI Paris 2026.
Customer service and contact center event centered on AI, automation, and CX tech. Price: expo-only often free/low cost; congress passes about EUR 1500+. Good for chatbot and voice automation startups.
A week-long fintech, blockchain, and AI gathering across multiple Bucharest venues, positioned as a Central and Eastern Europe fintech hub event with an awards gala. Useful for fintech founders targeting the CEE market and regional investors.
Co-founder and CTO of Alan and a prominent French tech operator who previously worked on data and ML at Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. He also co-founded the AI startup Mistral AI as an early backer-operator.
Co-founder and CEO of H (formerly H Company), the Paris AI lab building frontier agentic models. He launched it in 2024 with one of Europe's largest seed rounds, backed by Xavier Niel, Accel and others.
Christiana Aristidou is a transnational technology lawyer with over 28 years of experience, specialising in blockchain regulation, AI legal oversight, and cross-border technology law. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Hybrid LawTech Firm, a practice that bridges legal expertise with emerging technology across multiple jurisdictions. She is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, representing the intersection of legal innovation and technology governance.
Christina Ioannou is the CEO and Founder of Arete Strategy AI, a consultancy operating across the EU and MENA regions that specialises in AI policy and strategic advisory services. She is a Policy Advisor recognised by the European Commission for her contributions to AI governance and regulatory frameworks, positioning her as a notable voice in European AI policy. She is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, bringing cross-jurisdictional expertise in AI strategy and public policy.
Co-founder of Nodes & Links, a startup applying AI to project risk and delivery. He is an announced speaker at the INSPIRE 2026 Entrepreneurial Festival in Cyprus.
Co-founder and CTO of Dataiku, leading engineering for the data-science platform. A former VLC media-player core developer and Exalead engineer, he is one of France's well-known technical founders.
The 14th edition, themed on skills in the AI era, bringing together leaders from education, technology, policy, and business. Strong for founders building in edtech, AI, and the future of work within Romania's biggest regional tech hub.
Coding challenge and networking event at Google for Startups Campus in Warsaw, designed for developers and technical founders. Useful for recruiting, team formation, and early-stage product validation in software and AI-focused projects.
Regional Cluj-Napoca edition of the Codecamp conference series, running since 2008, held at the Grand Hotel Italia. A one-day main conference of software-development talks on October 20 is followed by two days of hands-on masterclasses on software architecture and AI, aimed at the local IT community of developers, architects and engineering leads.
Regional Iași edition of the Codecamp conference series, with two days of intensive software-architecture and AI masterclasses on October 27-28 followed by a full conference day of developer-focused talks across multiple stages on October 29. It serves the local tech community of developers, architects and data scientists at the Agora Center in Iași.
One of Italy's largest developer conferences, bringing together 2,000+ software engineers for talks on cloud-native, AI/ML, DevOps, and frontend. Strong venue for developer tool startups and engineering employer branding.
One of Spain's largest community-driven developer conferences, with around 70 talks backed by 40 tech communities spanning web, mobile, cloud, architecture, and AI. Strong fit for technical founders and engineering teams wanting to recruit, learn current practice, and plug into Madrid's developer community.
A festival-style five-in-one tech conference organised by CraftHub, expecting 1,300+ attendees in central Budapest. Combines engineering leadership, AI, product, UX, and data tracks, and runs a dedicated startup programme — useful for founders building product and tech teams.
Budapest's flagship software craftsmanship conference held at the Railway Museum, attracting 1,500+ senior engineers and CTOs. Focuses on software architecture, engineering leadership, and emerging tech with speakers from major global companies. Tickets around EUR 500-800.
General Partner at Indico Capital Partners and co-founder of Talkdesk, the contact-centre software unicorn. A Forbes 30 Under 30 alumna and one of Portugal's best-known tech entrepreneurs, she invests in early-stage software and AI companies across Southern Europe.
Startup Bulgaria's flagship AI and tech conference for Southeast Europe, drawing thousands of founders and 150+ investors. The programme spans a startup expo, an AI hackathon, a pitch competition, and co-founder matchmaking — a primary annual touchpoint for SEE founders seeking capital and visibility.
A summit at the intersection of culture, technology, and business, gathering founders, investors, and cultural institutions in Vienna. Useful for founders building at the culture-tech edge.
One of Europe's leading public-policy-meets-industry cybersecurity forums. For security and infrastructure founders it offers access to EU policymakers, CISOs, and defence and critical-infrastructure buyers — strong for startups navigating regulation and enterprise or government sales.
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Picnic, the Amsterdam-based online grocery delivery company, where he leads engineering, data and the in-house machine-learning platform that powers its app-only model. He is a confirmed speaker at TechEx Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, presenting on applied AI and data at scale.
Hybrid AI and data engineering summit at Legia Warszawa Conference Center bridging advanced research with production use cases. Good lead-generation venue for startups building ML infrastructure, analytics platforms, and enterprise data tooling.
Poland's leading data-science conference, with an online day and an onsite day at PGE Narodowy. For data and AI founders and analytics teams it is a strong recruiting and partnership venue across the Polish data community.
Data Stack Conf 2026 is a one-day in-person conference at Inter Expo Center, Sofia, for engineers building modern data platforms — databases, streaming, analytics, observability and AI data infrastructure — with practitioner talks and networking.
Reinforcement-learning pioneer who led the AlphaGo and AlphaZero projects at DeepMind, and a founder of Ineffable Intelligence. He is one of the most cited researchers in modern AI.
Declarative AI 2026 brings rules, reasoning, decisions and explanations to Vilnius, co-locating RuleML+RR 2026 (the 10th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning), DecisionCAMP 2026 and the 22nd Reasoning Web Summer School. The program spans symbolic and neuro-symbolic AI, decision intelligence, DMN standards and explainable AI, and includes an industry track, a rule challenge and a doctoral consortium.
Organizer of Deep Tech Momentum, a Berlin-based marketplace event pairing deep-tech founders with specialist investors and corporate innovation teams. The curated format focuses on sectors like quantum computing, advanced materials, and AI, offering structured matchmaking sessions to accelerate fundraising for science-driven startups.
Deep-tech marketplace event at Wilhelm Studios Berlin covering AI, Web3, photonics, and advanced manufacturing, culminating in Berlin's Deep Tech Award ceremony. Especially relevant for R&D-heavy startups seeking patient capital and strategic industrial backers.
CEE's flagship deep-tech marketplace, with an Investor Day followed by the main summit. Built specifically for deep-tech founders raising capital: structured investor matchmaking, a startup challenge, and access to deep-tech-focused VCs and corporates.
DeepL is a Cologne-based AI translation company founded in 2017 by CEO Jarosław Kutylowski. Renowned for its neural machine translation quality, DeepL quickly surpassed competitors in accuracy and nuance. The company’s cloud platform serves over 100,000 business and government customers worldwide, including enterprises like Zendesk and Deutsche Bahn. DeepL achieved unicorn status in 2023 with a €1 billion valuation and continued to grow explosively – by early 2025 it had raised $410 million (led by investors like Index Ventures and Atomico) and reached a $2 billion valuation. In late 2025, reports emerged that DeepL is considering an IPO amid surging revenue, which doubled year-on-year to $185 million in 2024. DeepL’s core product is an AI-driven translator supporting 30+ languages, used for real-time document and content translation. The firm also launched DeepL Write to improve monolingual writing and an AI Agent to automate business tasks. As of 2025, DeepL is recognized as one of Europe’s premier AI startups, combining cutting-edge NLP research with a fast-growing SaaS business. The company’s success – valued at $2 billion and poised for a public offering – underscores Europe’s strength in deep-tech innovation.
DefCamp is the largest cybersecurity and hacking conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, with hands-on workshops running November 16-18. The 16th edition features world-class keynotes, live hacking competitions in the Hacking Village, and expert panels on AI threats, supply-chain security, and cloud security. It unites security researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts from across the region for networking and knowledge-sharing.
Co-founder and COO of Nabla, leading operations and partnerships for the clinical-documentation AI company used by thousands of practitioners.
Malta's official digital innovation summit organized by the Malta Digital Innovation Authority and Tech.mt. Brings together 2,500+ attendees covering AI, blockchain, IoT, and digital policy. Features the Malta Innovation Awards and a strong government-startup dialogue. Tickets from EUR 100-250.
DEV: Challenge Accepted is an international, full-day, three-track software development conference held at the John Atanasoff Forum in Sofia Tech Park. Tracks cover frontend, backend, architecture, cloud, AI, DevOps, testing and leadership. It runs back-to-back with QA: Challenge Accepted on 24 October 2026 at the same venue.
A developer-focused spin-off of the Data Science Summit covering AI engineering and applied GenAI tooling, with an online day followed by an onsite day at the Copernicus Science Centre. Aimed at engineers and technical founders building AI into their products.
DevDays (subtitled 'Unstacked Engineering Conference') is a Romanian software-engineering conference held at the Agora event center in Iași. Evolved from the long-running dotnetdays.ro conference, the 2026 edition runs pre-conference workshops on September 21-22 and a main conference day on September 23, with tracks spanning software development, architecture, AI, cloud infrastructure, DevOps and security.
The UK's leading games-industry conference, marking its 20th anniversary in 2026. For games-startup founders and developers it offers business and publishing tracks, an indie showcase, and an expo — strong for funding conversations, partnerships, and hiring across the UK games ecosystem.
DevFest.cz is Prague's community developer conference, organised by the GUG.cz developer community (the local Google Developer Group). The 2026 edition runs as a single in-person day opening at 9:00 AM CET, with sessions spanning AI and machine learning, Android and Kotlin, web technologies, cloud and DevOps, Flutter and Dart, security, and open source.
DevOps & AI Latvia is a Riga-based technology community organised around DevOps and artificial intelligence topics, operating under the tagline 'Upgrade the Culture.' With nearly 2,000 members and over 32 regular meetups hosted as of mid-2026, the community facilitates technical talks, networking dinners, and hands-on workshops for Latvia's tech professionals. Led by Uldis Karlovs-Karlovskis alongside other community organisers, it serves as a co-organiser of the AI Connect 2026 conference at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre.
Stockholm's premier developer conference at Kistamässan, with 70+ international speakers across web development, architecture, AI/ML, and cloud.
The largest IT conference in Romania, at Romexpo, with 160+ speakers across 14 stages. A major recruiting and ecosystem touchpoint for tech founders hiring or selling dev tooling in Romania.
Scotland's biggest tech showcase — 1,500+ delegates, 60+ exhibitors, and 40+ speakers, free to attend, at the EICC Edinburgh. A cost-effective day for a Scottish founder or developer to meet enterprise buyers, exhibit, and tap the national tech community.
Denmark's largest digitalisation and deep-tech conference and expo at Øksnehallen, with 100+ sessions across multiple stages including startup pitches, drawing around 4,700 specialists, leaders, and researchers.
Armenia's largest technology exhibition and conference, organized since 2005 by the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE) with support from the Government of Armenia and the Yerevan Municipality. Held annually in Yerevan, recent editions have drawn 40,000+ visitors, 250+ exhibiting companies and 100+ global tech leaders from across the region. Programming spans AI, venture capital and scaling tech companies, alongside startup competitions, hackathons and panels. Free admission.
DiHubMT is Malta's European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH), spearheaded by the Malta Digital Innovation Authority (MDIA) and inaugurated in November 2024 at the Twenty20 Business Centre in Birkirkara. It provides startups, SMEs, and public organisations with pre-acceleration, acceleration, and incubation programmes, alongside a 'Test before You Invest' technical infrastructure service, access-to-finance support, and training in AI, cybersecurity, and high-performance computing.
Dojo AI is a Lisbon-based agentic marketing platform, founded in 2024 by Duarte Garrido (a marketing leader from Coca-Cola and Sky) and António Alegria (an AI architect from Portuguese unicorns Feedzai and OutSystems). Marketed as an Intelligent Marketing System, it uses multi-agent AI to autonomously monitor, analyse and act across marketing channels, built on a proprietary DOJO Graph that maintains a living digital twin of each customer's marketing operation. Its AI agents track paid and organic campaigns, audit SEO visibility, generate on-brand content and execute workflows in real time, positioning the product as a marketing operating system that consolidates many traditional tools. Serving challenger and enterprise brands primarily in the US and UK, Dojo AI has raised around $7M — a $1M pre-seed (2025) led by Berlin's Heartfelt VC and a $6M / €5.1M seed (2026) led by Lisbon's Armilar Venture Partners at a reported $30M valuation — with capital focused on US expansion.
A single-track, builder-focused AI conference at the Folies Bergère for around 1,500 AI engineers and researchers, with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, and Databricks. Best for technical founders and AI developers who want deep content over expo-floor noise.
Dremio is an open, high-performance data lakehouse platform built to accelerate AI and analytical workloads across enterprise data environments. The platform combines an intelligent query engine, an AI semantic layer, an open catalog powered by Apache Polaris, and a built-in AI agent, running natively on Apache Iceberg format. Dremio is notable for shipping the first Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface in the data lakehouse industry, enabling direct integration with AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
Organiser of the Digital Transformation EXPO (DTX) series in London and Manchester, part of Clarion Events. DTX brings digital, data, cloud, cyber and AI teams together to explore practical enterprise transformation, with exhibitors, keynote stages and networking for technology buyers and innovators.
Digital Transformation EXPO London returns to ExCeL London for two days covering cloud, cybersecurity, data, AI/ML and infrastructure. Co-located with UCX, it draws digital, data and innovation teams from major organisations alongside technology providers and startups. Free to attend.
Conference in Dublin bringing together AI innovators, researchers, and industry leaders to explore trends and applications in artificial intelligence. Covers enterprise AI deployment, responsible AI frameworks, and Ireland's growing role as a European AI hub. Valuable for AI startups seeking enterprise customers and research collaborations in the Irish market.
The tenth edition of Split's largest student-facing IT conference, organised by the DUMP association of young programmers. Free to attend, with lectures, workshops, and company booths covering entrepreneurship, AI, and software — a useful recruiting touchpoint for founders hiring in Dalmatia.
The 17th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime, hosted by the University of Iceland at the Groska Innovation Hub in Reykjavik. The 2026 theme is cyber analytics and forensics in the era of emerging AI threats, with keynotes, research presentations and tutorials drawing academics, law-enforcement practitioners and security vendors. Proceedings are published in Springer's LNICST series.
EDP Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of EDP — Energias de Portugal, one of Europe's largest energy utilities. Established in 2008 and headquartered in Lisbon, with investment teams in Madrid and São Paulo, it manages €150M and makes five to eight investments a year, writing €1–10M cheques from Seed through Series B with follow-on capacity. Its mandate is tightly aligned with EDP's decarbonisation strategy, targeting renewable energy, grid infrastructure, distributed energy resources, green hydrogen, storage and flexibility, electric mobility and energy-use decarbonisation, plus AI and digital. The fund has backed 40+ active companies across Europe and the Americas, including Portuguese AI unicorn Feedzai, battery-recycling firm Green Li-ion and grid-data platform Energyworx (acquired by Gridspertise in 2025); four portfolio companies featured in the 2024 Global Cleantech 100. By end-2023 EDP Ventures had deployed a cumulative €70M and generated over €115M in contract value for EDP group companies.
The annual conference of the EGI Federation, gathering digital and research-infrastructure providers, data scientists, and innovators to advance data-intensive science. Relevant for deeptech and research-spinout founders building on European compute infrastructure.
A two-day summit at EHL's Lausanne campus with 600 participants, themed on human-centric leadership and innovation; the second day is an open-innovation and investor track run by the EHL Innovation Hub. Useful for founders in hospitality, food, and experience tech seeking corporate pilot partners in the Romandie.
Co-founder and CTO of Poolside, leading research on AI for code. He previously founded the code-analysis company source{d} before co-founding Poolside with Jason Warner.
ElevenLabs is a London-headquartered AI audio platform that has built one of the world's most advanced voice-synthesis stacks. Its products span text-to-speech in 70+ languages, instant and professional voice cloning, an automated dubbing studio across 90+ languages, real-time conversational voice agents, AI sound effects and an audio production suite; the ElevenReader app offers a large catalogue of licensed human-narrated audiobooks. Enterprise clients range from Deutsche Telekom and Revolut to the Ukrainian Government, and in 2026 ElevenLabs integrated its voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate. Founded in 2022 by Polish childhood friends Mati Staniszewski (CEO, ex-Palantir) and Piotr Dąbkowski (CTO, ex-Google), the company raised a $2M pre-seed from European funds Credo Ventures and Concept Ventures, then scaled rapidly: a $19M Series A (2023), $80M Series B at $1.1B (2024), $180M Series C at $3.3B (2025), and a $500M Series D at an $11B valuation led by Sequoia Capital (2026), with a later extension adding BlackRock, NVIDIA and others. With cumulative funding over $781M and ARR past $500M, ElevenLabs is among the fastest-growing AI companies in Europe.
Data scientist at E.ON Software Development working on data science and machine-learning applications in the energy sector. She is an announced speaker at Codecamp Iași 2026.
Eray Basar is the CEO of IMG.LY, a Hamburg-based software company specializing in AI-powered creative editing tools and developer SDKs for photo and video manipulation. Under his leadership, IMG.LY has grown into a leading provider of embedded creative technology used by companies globally to integrate design capabilities into their products. He speaks at the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative tooling, and is confirmed as a speaker at Forward Festival Berlin 2026.
Retail tech hotspot integrated into EuroShop 2026. Price: about EUR 70 day ticket or EUR 120 full event. Focus on checkout-free stores, AI analytics, and omnichannel payment systems.
Eve Psalti is Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft, one of the world's largest technology companies, where she leads AI strategy and enterprise initiatives. She is a recognized voice in applied AI leadership and has represented Microsoft at major international industry summits, including the AI Tech Summit 2026 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Fawzi Goussous is the Founder and CEO of Qualia Solutions, an award-winning AI company delivering custom AI agents, voice assistants, and business automation solutions. He leads a team focused on practical AI deployments for enterprise clients across Cyprus and the broader MENA region. He is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, where he presents on applied AI deployment and intelligent automation for business.
A founder-centric event at the NEC expecting 5,000 founders, 200 speakers, and 150 exhibitors. The 2026 agenda targets the decisions founders are making now — raising capital, applying AI in the business, leadership, and preparing to scale.
Fifth Quarter Ventures is an early-stage VC fund founded in 2023 and based in Novi Sad, investing in startups across the Western Balkans and Adriatic region. The fund is led by General Partners Tihomir Bajić and Pedja Predin, both experienced operators who aim to be the first significant institutional investor in portfolio companies, taking board seats. Investment focus spans AI, developer tools, open-source software, Industry 5.0, and crypto/Web3. The fund received co-financing through Serbia's state Innovation Fund Serbia Ventures program and manages a portfolio of 12 companies.
The tenth annual FinTech North Leeds conference, debuting a Pitch360 startup competition and backed by West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Mastercard. A direct, founder-relevant day for a Northern fintech startup to pitch, meet investors, and connect with corporates.
The sixth annual Newcastle conference from FinTech North, the focal point for fintech in the North East. Aimed at fintech founders, banks, and investors, it covers payments, AI, fraud, and regulation — a practical day for a North-East fintech startup to meet partners and corporates.
A national fintech summit at the EICC Edinburgh, with content spanning green wealthtech, payments, and AI. Good for a Scottish or UK fintech founder wanting investor and ecosystem exposure at low cost.
Billed as the UK's largest fintech festival, with nine content stages on open finance, payments, embedded finance, AI transformation, and fraud at The Brewery in London. For a fintech founder it offers broad coverage of regulatory and product trends plus access to banks and incumbents in one place.
Co-founder and CEO of Dataiku, the enterprise AI and data-science platform he co-founded in 2013. He grew it into a global leader valued in the billions, backed by ICONIQ, Tiger and a16z.
Founded in 2021 by Grigor Hovhannisyan and Karen Vardanyan, Formula VC is a Yerevan-based early-stage fund focused on SaaS, IoT, and AI startups with Armenian roots. Fund I ($7M) was fully deployed into 22 companies including CoinStats, EasyDMARC, BlueQubit, Expper Technologies, and Zoomerang. In February 2025 Formula VC launched Fund II with a $30M target, aiming to back 40 Armenian-founded startups globally at pre-seed and seed. The fund invests $500K–$1M per company and is backed by C-QUADRAT AAM Armenia among other LPs.
Frédéric Pascal is the Director of the DataIA Institute at Université Paris-Saclay and Vice-President for AI at Paris-Saclay University, one of France's leading research universities. DataIA is France's premier AI research and training institute, bringing together approximately 800 researchers across 47 laboratories and receiving official Cluster-IA certification from the French government in 2024. Pascal is a key figure in France's academic AI ecosystem and serves on the Advisory Board of Big Data & AI Paris 2026.
Media City Bergen's annual innovation week, anchored by the mcb tech conference for C-level and tech leaders, with workshops and open sessions. Relevant for media-tech and AI founders in western Norway.
One of Oulu's biggest autumn tech events, free and in English, gathering professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs around AI, human-machine collaboration, and dual-use and cybersecurity themes.
Co-founder and CEO of Dust, building AI agents for the enterprise. A repeat founder, he previously co-founded the product studio Alkemics and worked at Stripe before starting Dust.
One of the largest Google Developer Group events in Europe, drawing 1,500+ developers for sessions on Android, Flutter, cloud, and machine learning. Istanbul's massive developer community makes this a key hiring and community-building event for tech companies expanding to Turkey.
Gege Gatt is the Chief Executive Officer of ebo.AI, a Malta-based conversational AI platform company focused on customer engagement automation for enterprises. He is a recognised figure in the Maltese technology and AI ecosystem and a frequent speaker at major industry events. Gatt is a confirmed speaker in the Data & AI track at TechTok 2026.
A two-day NHS innovation festival with six distinct shows under one roof and hundreds of speakers at the Business Design Centre, London. For a healthtech founder it offers concentrated access to NHS leaders, clinicians, and health investors — useful for validation, partnerships, and early traction.
Organizer of GITEX Europe, a global-scale tech conference and exhibition focused on AI, cybersecurity, and digital finance. Launched in Berlin in 2025 as the European expansion of the Dubai-based GITEX Global brand, the event targets 30,000+ attendees and brings together startups, scaleups, and enterprise buyers across multiple tech verticals.
Berlin edition of the global GITEX brand focused on sovereign AI, cybersecurity, and digital finance, connecting European startups with international buyers and investors. The event uses tiered passes (from low-cost expo tickets to premium access) and features Supernova startup competitions, with reported equity-free funding prizes up to EUR 100,000.
A city-wide festival in its third year, with 40+ events and 3,000+ attendees across keynotes, workshops, and community-led sessions. For a Scottish founder it is a low-cost way to plug into the Glasgow innovation ecosystem, meet investors, and showcase a startup across multiple verticals.
IFEMA's flagship sustainable-mobility congress in its 4th edition, with 300+ speakers and 500+ exhibitors covering AI fleet management, seamless travel corridors, decarbonised infrastructure, and mobility regulation. Useful for mobility, traveltech, and climate-tech founders seeking corporate pilots and public-sector partnerships.
GO Ventures is the corporate venture arm of GO plc, Malta's leading telecommunications provider, launched in 2019 with a dedicated €2 million fund to back technology-driven startups globally. The firm invests at Seed and Series A stages, taking an active role in supporting founders with strategic and operational guidance alongside capital. Its focus spans AI, fintech, cybersecurity, big data, and IoT, and its portfolio includes two unicorns — MPL and Airalo — alongside holdings in Raylo, ToumAI, and Fairatmos. With a small, hands-on team led by Head of Investments Paul Grech, GO Ventures operates as one of the few institutional corporate VCs domiciled in Malta.
Software delivery consultant and author of books including Specification by Example and Impact Mapping, known for his work on collaborative requirements and product engineering. He is a confirmed speaker at GOTO Copenhagen 2026, focusing on human-centered software delivery in the age of AI.
GoTech World (formerly Internet & Mobile World) is the leading B2B expo-conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held at Romexpo's B1 Pavilion in Bucharest. The two-day event spreads 100+ exhibitors and top international and local speakers across multiple stages covering AI, cybersecurity, digital marketing, smart cities, and software development, drawing around 15,000 business professionals. A major selling and networking venue for B2B and enterprise-tech startups.
A major software-engineering conference at TAP1 in Copenhagen under the 2026 theme of engineering for reality, covering distributed systems, testing and debugging, legacy modernization, resilience and observability, security, sustainable computing and agentic AI software development. It is one of the longest-running developer conferences in the Nordics.
Founded in 2013 by Manuk Hergnyan, Pierre Hennes, and Yervand Sarkisyan, Granatus Ventures is a Yerevan-headquartered deep-tech VC with ~$40M AUM and offices also in London and Singapore. The firm focuses on university spinouts across AI, biotech, advanced computing, robotics, industrial automation, and climate tech, sourcing deals from Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley. Notable portfolio companies include BlueQubit (quantum software), Gecko Robotics (industrial inspection unicorn), and Zoundream (infant cry analysis). As of 2025 the fund remains actively deploying capital across its global deep-tech mandate.
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Mistral AI, leading model research. He previously led the LLaMA project as a research scientist at Meta AI before co-founding Mistral.
The 9th edition of Vilnius's flagship city hackathon at VILNIUS TECH's LinkMenų fabrikas, a three-day build sprint creating solutions for urban and business challenges. Organised by Sunrise Valley Science & Technology Park with Vilnius universities and Cognizant.
Europe's largest stationary hackathon, returning for its 12th edition at Tauron Arena Kraków on 3-4 October 2026 — a 24-hour build sprint organised by PROIDEA. Teams of 1-6 tackle open challenge categories (Defence, Sport & Healthcare, Smart City, and AI) plus a justCTF capture-the-flag track, with corporate and government challenge partners. A high-signal place to prototype, recruit co-founders, and get in front of challenge-sponsoring organisations.
Billed as Southern Europe's largest digital health congress, drawing 3,000+ attendees and around 450 companies to the Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau. For healthtech founders it is a concentrated dealmaking venue with keynote stages, a startup exhibition, and direct access to hospitals, pharma, and investors active in digital health.
Heapcon 2026 is the eighth edition of one of Southeast Europe's leading software-engineering conferences, held 5-6 November 2026 at the Madlenianum Opera & Theatre in Belgrade and organised by Heapspace. The 2026 theme, 'Intelligence', examines how AI tooling, autonomous systems, and automation reshape software architecture, security, quality, and product thinking. It gathers 700+ engineers, architects, and tech leaders, making it a strong hiring and technical-ecosystem touchpoint for Serbian startups.
Co-founder and General Partner of PSV (PreSeed Ventures) Tech, Denmark's most active pre-seed fund. She invests in early-stage software, AI and digital-infrastructure founders across the Nordics, writing first institutional cheques into pre-product-market-fit companies.
The UK's leading digital-health conference and exhibition, bringing NHS leaders, policymakers, clinicians, and tech companies together at ExCeL London. For a healthtech founder it is the key venue to understand NHS procurement, demo to buyers, and meet partners driving digital transformation in care.
Chief Data Officer at ABN AMRO, the Dutch banking group, where she leads enterprise data strategy and analytics. She is a confirmed speaker at TechEx Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, addressing data and AI leadership in financial services.
Hub France IA is the French national federation dedicated to unifying and developing the country's artificial intelligence ecosystem. Recognised as serving the general interest under French law (association Loi 1901), it brings together over 300 member organisations including more than 160 AI startups, 1,000+ individual adherents, and 50+ European partners across large corporations, SMEs, academic institutions, and investors. The organisation facilitates working groups, European partnerships, and collaborative projects to help members navigate the rapidly evolving AI sector.
The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, held in Zakopane in the High Tatras with proceedings published by Springer. A research-heavy gathering of AI scientists and engineers, relevant for deep-tech and AI founders scouting cutting-edge methods, recruiting research talent and exploring research-to-startup spinouts.
The 20th-anniversary edition of the IEEE International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies, hosted by ADA University in Baku with technical co-sponsorship from IEEE and its Azerbaijan chapters. The program spans 12 tracks and 80+ topics including data science, machine learning, cybersecurity and software engineering, drawing researchers, academics and industry practitioners from across the Caucasus, Central Asia and Europe.
Croatia's largest developer and tech conference organized by unicorn Infobip, held in the coastal city of Zadar. Attracts 2,500+ developers, CTOs, and tech founders for talks on cloud, AI, and communications technology. Tickets around EUR 200-400 with a strong community atmosphere.
Slovenia's biggest cybersecurity conference, running for over 20 years, covering practical security, privacy, and AI-security topics for a professional audience. Relevant to security-focused founders and notable as a flagship event outside the capital.
Large software and startup conference at AmberExpo with 6,000+ attendees, 500+ startups, and 200+ investors. Startup Contest offers EUR 30,000 and the agenda is especially strong for developer tools and data-heavy products.
INMerge is Azerbaijan's largest private-sector innovation summit, organized by PASHA Holding and staged in Baku as a two-day gathering that mixes keynotes from international tech leaders, corporate-innovation case studies, and a startup exhibition area with direct pitch access to regional investors. The program typically spans fintech, AI, sustainability, and the future of work, and uses the summit as a bridge between Azerbaijan's state-led digital agenda and the global startup community, with speakers from the likes of Google, Meta, and top European scaleups. For founders outside the Caucasus, INMerge is one of the most efficient ways to meet the main Azerbaijani corporates, sovereign-fund operators, and regional angels in a single trip. Tickets are typically in the EUR 100-250 range with discounted passes for early-stage founders.
Bitkom's Innovators' Pitch 2026 live finals featuring startup teams in future technologies for logistics and education. Application deadline was February 23, 2026 (now closed); live pitch takes place March 19, 2026 with equity-free prize money and ecosystem visibility.
Ukraine's largest popular-science and deep-tech conference, with 50+ speakers from 15+ countries, held in person in Kyiv despite wartime conditions. Relevant for deep-tech and science-driven founders looking for research collaboration and talent.
Ireland's international sci-tech festival organized by Silicon Republic, known for its strong focus on diversity and inclusion in tech. Attracts 3,000+ attendees with programming across AI, biotech, space, and social innovation. Features a fringe festival with arts and culture alongside the main conference.
Conference track at ExCeL London covering RPA, AI-driven process automation, and the future of work, co-located with major tech expos. Attracts enterprise operations leaders and automation buyers from finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. Relevant for startups building intelligent automation, workflow orchestration, and AI-powered business process tools.
Hosted by Ireland under its 2026 EU Council Presidency at the RDS, Dublin, launching European AI Innovation Month and gathering EU and global leaders, CEOs, investors, and innovators. A high-signal policy-and-investment event for AI founders.
Iron Wolf Capital is Vilnius-founded deep tech and AI fund established in 2018, with additional offices in London and Tallinn. Its second fund, closed at €100 million, is the largest seed-stage deep tech fund in Baltic history, targeting 25 early-stage companies across AI, photonics, robotics, and space innovation built by Baltic founders and diaspora globally. The team combines backgrounds from Deutsche Bank, YPlan, and early Lithuanian VC history; initial tickets run €0.5–2 million and the fund typically leads or co-leads rounds. Iron Wolf has backed over 20 startups covering sectors from agritech and pharma to defence-adjacent AI.
Norwegian medical doctor, PhD, and Associate Professor in artificial intelligence at the University of Agder, and one of Norway's most prominent voices on AI in healthcare and society. Author of a book on AI in medicine, she is a confirmed speaker at the Y Oslo 2026 conference.
Ukraine's largest tech conference held at Lviv's Arena convention center, attracting 3,000+ developers, founders, and investors from across CEE. Features startup pitching competitions, tech talks on AI, product management, and deep tech, plus strong support for Ukrainian tech diaspora networking.
The 14th edition of the long-running Cluj-based IT conference at Cluj Innovation Park, covering software engineering, AI, cloud, and enterprise tech. A durable end-of-year ecosystem event for the Transylvanian tech community.
The spring edition of Slovakia's leading technology conference, focused on digitalisation, govtech, and the digital economy. Relevant for govtech and public-sector-facing founders seeking institutional buyers and policy contacts.
imec's flagship technology forum, bringing the global semiconductor and nano-electronics value chain to Antwerp. Founders in chip design, AI hardware, quantum, and sensing get direct exposure to imec research roadmaps and corporate R&D leads.
General Partner at Notion Capital investing in B2B software and AI across Europe. With a PhD and a background spanning operating and investing roles, she works with founders scaling from product-market fit toward growth.
Co-founder and CEO of PhysicsX, applying AI to engineering simulation for aerospace, automotive and energy. He was previously co-founder and chief scientist of QuantumBlack, acquired by McKinsey.
Co-founder and CEO of Poolside, the AI lab building frontier models for software development. He was previously CTO of GitHub and a managing director at Redpoint Ventures.
Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer of Bioptimus, building foundation models for biology. A leading machine-learning researcher, he was previously a research lead at Google Brain and Owkin and a professor at Mines ParisTech.
Coimbra's flagship developer conference: technical sessions plus a hands-on workshop day across Java, JavaScript and TypeScript, cloud, AI and ML, security, and architecture. For technical founders and engineers who want practical depth and to connect with Portugal's developer community beyond the Lisbon–Porto axis.
Partner at Inovo Venture Partners specialising in data science, AI and deep tech. He built the firm's internal AI-powered sourcing tooling and was promoted to Partner in 2025, leading investments in machine-learning and science-driven startups across CEE.
Data scientist and privacy engineer, author of Practical Data Privacy, specialising in machine learning, data security and responsible AI systems. She is a confirmed speaker at GOTO Copenhagen 2026, where she presents on designing and running AI agents locally and securely.
General Manager of Microsoft Norway, leading the technology company's commercial, cloud, and artificial-intelligence business in the Norwegian market. A seasoned technology executive focused on digital transformation and responsible AI adoption, she is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
Latvia's national Artificial Intelligence Centre (Makslīga Intelekta Centrs) was established by law and officially opened on 2 April 2025 at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga. Founded jointly by the Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development, the Association of Latvian Universities, and the ICT Association LIKTA, it is structured as a state-supported private foundation with €370,000 in initial Ministry of Economics funding. The Centre serves as Latvia's primary collaborative platform for AI research, ethics, governance, Latvian language preservation in AI systems, and technology commercialisation, and is a principal organiser of the AI Connect 2026 conference.
One of two European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) in Latvia, the Latvian Digital Innovation Hub supports companies through digital transformation via digital maturity assessments, personalised training programmes, and expert consultancy. Funded with €3.5 million (50% EU, 50% Latvia), it operates across six regional centres in Riga, Liepaja, Jelgava, Rezekne, Valmiera, and Ventspils, focusing on AI, 5G, and GovTech innovation. The hub is a co-organiser of the AI Connect 2026 conference at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga.
Co-founder and former CTO of H and a deep-learning researcher who previously worked at Google DeepMind on AlphaGo and AlphaZero, bringing frontier-model expertise to the Paris AI startup.
LeadDev's London conference for engineering leaders, with 2,500+ attendees across three stages on leading teams, building systems, and industry shifts. For technical founders and engineering leaders it is the strongest UK venue for engineering-leadership depth and peer networking.
Billed as the UK's largest open tech festival — a decentralised, mostly free two-week programme of hundreds of community-run events. For a Yorkshire founder or developer it is an accessible way to run or attend sessions, build a local network, and recruit without a big ticket cost.
A builder-focused AI conference at the Champalimaud Centre, capped at around 400 engineers and researchers actively shipping models in production. For technical AI founders and ML engineers who want substance over marketing, with direct access to top labs and founding teams.
A one-day enterprise-AI gathering at the Lisbon Congress Centre with 30+ keynotes and workshops across three stages. Aimed at senior tech executives, founders, and policymakers — strong for AI startups seeking enterprise buyers, real implementation case studies, and curated networking.
Managing Director of Digital Norway (Digitalt Norge), a national non-profit initiative that helps Norwegian businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, accelerate digital transformation and adopt data-driven technologies and artificial intelligence. She is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
The largest tech and innovation conference in the Baltics, held annually in Vilnius with 4,000+ attendees. Covers startup pitching, fintech, AI, and cybersecurity with international speakers. Tickets range from EUR 100-300, offering strong value for the quality of content and networking.
Government-backed UK flagship tech week at Olympia with 45,000+ attendees, 5,000+ startups, and 300+ investors across AI, quantum, fintech, and health tech. Main-stage passes typically GBP 600-1,500 with free fringe events. Founder tracks, UK policy programming, and EQL:HER make it a key entry point for founders targeting UK enterprise buyers.
Lucinity is an Icelandic RegTech company founded in 2018 by Gudmundur Kristjansson that builds AI-powered financial crime prevention software for banks and financial institutions. Its platform combines human analyst workflows with machine intelligence to automate investigation, case management, and regulatory reporting for anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Lucinity was named Iceland's Knowledge Company of the Year for 2024 and has offices in Reykjavik and New York.
A large umbrella tech event with 27,000+ visitors, 470+ exhibitors, and 400+ speakers, bundling cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, big data, and e-commerce shows at IFEMA Madrid. For B2B SaaS and infrastructure founders it is an enterprise lead-generation and exhibitor venue targeting IT decision-makers.
Malta Venture Capital (MVC) is a €10 million government-backed equity fund launched in 2024 and managed from offices in Sliema, under the auspices of Malta Government Investments. It co-invests alongside private investors in early-stage, high-growth digital and technology-driven businesses, with each eligible startup able to receive up to €500,000 in equity. Target sectors include video game development, fintech, e-sports, life sciences, agritech, AI, and green energy. Since launch MVC has invested in five companies and assembled a network of 30 accredited co-investors.
Head of Physical AI at the global technology and consulting firm Capgemini, working on the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the physical world. He researches and applies embodied and physical AI to industrial use cases, and is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
Technology specialist at Google working on cloud and AI solutions. He is an announced speaker at the 5th Digital Cyprus Conference 2026 in Nicosia.
Co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the AI voice and audio company. A former Palantir deployment strategist, he started ElevenLabs with childhood friend Piotr Dabkowski to build lifelike text-to-speech and voice cloning.
Co-founder and CEO of Lucis, an AI startup backed by Singular, Kima Ventures and General Catalyst. He co-founded the company to apply generative AI to professional workflows.
Partner at Northzone based in Amsterdam, focused on enterprise software, AI and infrastructure investments across Europe. He previously invested at Accel and brings an operating background to early-stage portfolio companies.
The central government body responsible for Armenia's high-tech policy, covering information technology, telecommunications, information security, and the military-industrial sector. Established in its current form in 2019, it shapes the national tech agenda through startup and R&D support programmes, tax incentives for IT companies, STEM-education initiatives, and the promotion of Armenia's tech sector abroad, and is a standing institutional supporter of DigiTec.
Poland's leading machine-learning conference, run by the non-profit ML in PL Association at the Copernicus Science Centre. For AI and ML founders and technical teams it is the strongest venue in Poland for research talent, applied-ML networking, and staying current on the science behind products.
MoonMoon is a Riga-based IT and artificial intelligence consulting company providing services in AI implementation, cloud consulting, and IT strategy for businesses, with a team of 10 to 49 professionals at hourly rates of $30–70. The company was founded by Uldis Karlovs-Karlovskis, who also leads the DevOps & AI Latvia community and is a prominent organiser in Latvia's technology ecosystem. MoonMoon serves as an organising partner of the AI Connect 2026 conference at the RTU Science and Innovation Centre in Riga.
A Web3 and creative-economy summit bundling eight sub-events — including the Non Fungible Conference, Stablecoin Day, an agents-vs-agents hackathon, and Longevity Day — at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory. Useful for web3, AI, and creative-tech founders wanting exposure to major brand sponsors and the crypto-creative crossover.
Co-founder of Darktrace and its long-time CEO and later Chief Strategy Officer, helping pioneer the 'immune system' approach to enterprise cybersecurity using machine learning.
Co-founder and CEO of Graphcore, the Bristol-based AI chip company building Intelligence Processing Units. A veteran semiconductor entrepreneur, he previously co-founded Picochip and XMOS.
Nomagic was founded in 2017 in Warsaw by Kacper Nowicki, Marek Cygan, and Tristan d'Orgeval. The company builds AI-powered robotic pick-and-place systems for warehouse order fulfilment, training its models on large volumes of real-world operational data. It raised a $22M Series A in 2022 backed by Khosla Ventures and Almaz Capital, with subsequent rounds bringing total funding above $80M, making it one of the most heavily funded Polish robotics companies.
A one-day summit focused on AI acceleration, digital dependency, and geopolitical risk, convening security leaders and tech vendors. A focused stage for security and defence founders selling into the Nordic-Baltic public and enterprise sector.
A major Nordic fintech gathering at TAP1 with around 2,000 participants, 200 fintech startups, and 150 financial institutions across roughly 100 sessions. Strong startup-to-institution matchmaking.
FinTech North's pan-northern flagship, celebrating the fintech ecosystem across the North of England at the Guildhall in York. Useful for a Northern fintech founder wanting cross-regional investor and corporate connections in one summit rather than a single-city conference.
The largest IT conference in Slovenia, in its 31st edition on the Adriatic coast, bringing together technology professionals, business leaders, and educators. A broad ecosystem event useful for Slovenian founders' networking and hiring.
AI-for-social-good hackathon grand finals in Madrid featuring mentoring sessions, live demos, and awards for impact-driven solutions. Brings together AI researchers, social entrepreneurs, and impact investors. Strong for AI startups building solutions in healthcare, education, and sustainability seeking visibility and pilot partnerships.
Open Circle Capital is a Vilnius-based early-stage fund founded in 2017, backed two-thirds by the Lithuanian public institution INVEGA and one-third by private investors, with a mandate to invest up to €20 million in the commercialisation of Baltic technology. The fund targets ICT, robotics, high-tech, AI, and IoT companies primarily in Lithuania and Northern Europe, writing seed-stage cheques. Its 17-company portfolio has recorded three acquisitions — Frontu, Eddy Travels, and Paysolut — and the partners collectively bring experience spanning more than 80 technology-transfer transactions and seven previous funds. The team has prior exit history with global acquirers including Facebook, Saab, and Eli Lilly.
An annual tech conference at the Dais Events center in Marousi, Athens, supported by the Greek software and IT sector including major companies, open communities, startups, hubs and research centers. The 2026 edition centers on AI-Native Engineering, Tech with Impact and Software Craftmanship, drawing 700+ attendees across talks, panels, mentoring and tech challenges.
The 14th edition of OpenSlava, Accenture's free conference on emerging technologies and open source held in Bratislava. The 2026 programme focuses on AI in the era of intelligent agents, with hands-on labs on day one and main-stage sessions on day two. The hybrid English-language event draws business and technology leaders, architects, software developers, students and educators from across Central Europe.
Øredev is one of Europe's premier developer conferences, held annually in Malmö since 2005 and celebrating its 20th edition in 2026. The three-day program spans the whole software development process, including backend, frontend, AI, architecture, security, and team culture, drawing developers, architects, and tech leads from across the Nordics. A strong hiring and learning venue for engineering-heavy startups in the Öresund region.
A large tech-and-culture festival reimagining the ancient Athenian festival, with around 10,000 attendees, 250+ speakers across five stages, and 70+ side events. Includes a startup pitching competition putting founders in front of top investors.
Co-founder and CTO of ElevenLabs, leading the research behind its speech-synthesis models. A former Google machine-learning engineer, he co-founded the company with Mati Staniszewski.
Plat.AI is an Armenian AI technology company founded in 2020, specializing in predictive analytics solutions for the fintech and insurtech industries. Its platform processes up to 10 million predictions daily for credit and insurance organizations, and has deployed products in cooperation with Armenia's banking and social protection sectors in partnership with the Nork Technology Center. Plat.AI is an active contributor to data science education in Armenia and serves as a Gold Sponsor of PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026.
Curated startup and investor conference at Habakuk Congress Centre, capped around 1,200 attendees for deal quality. Known for selected startup participation, Podim Pitching Competition, and structured 1:1 meetings.
A three-day invitation-driven forum at Kongresshaus Zurich with 2,000+ attendees and 80+ regulators and central banks, on digital assets, AI in finance, and policy. For a fintech or web3 founder it offers unusually direct access to regulators and central banks alongside investors.
Co-founder and former CEO of Darktrace, the Cambridge cyber-AI company she led to a 2021 London IPO. One of the UK's most prominent tech executives, she was appointed a UK investment minister in 2024.
Portugal's largest decentralised innovation festival — 250+ mostly-free events across 15+ cities, themed on AI, Web3, sustainability, and the future of work, anchored around Web Summit week. The single best week for a founder to tap the whole Portuguese ecosystem at once, with pitch sessions, tech days, and investor meetups nationwide.
British entrepreneur and founder and CEO of CENTURY Tech, an artificial-intelligence education technology company. A former barrister and a UK Business Ambassador, she is a prominent voice on AI in education and ethics, and is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
A premium B2B cybersecurity conference held at the Hotel Ski & Wellness Residence Družba in the Low Tatras (Nízke Tatry), Slovakia. The two-day programme brings CISOs and security professionals together for keynotes, panel discussions and peer networking on emerging threats, compliance and regulation, AI in security, and turning experience into real-world security decisions.
A large-scale AI leadership summit at the Carrousel du Louvre with 9,000+ attendees, 350+ speakers, and 2,000+ companies, centred on enterprise AI adoption and ROI. Useful for AI and SaaS founders targeting enterprise buyers and seeking visibility with corporate innovation teams and investors.
The largest tech and startup festival in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, attracting 3,000+ attendees to Limassol. Features a startup pitch competition, exhibitions, and deep-dive tracks on AI, sustainability, and Web3. Strong participation from MENA and European ecosystems, reflecting Cyprus's position as a bridge between continents. Tickets from EUR 100-300.
Founded in 1991 as a faculty of Riga Technical University (RTU) in cooperation with the State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of Ottawa, Riga Business School was the first institution in the Baltic States to offer MBA programmes in English. It holds international accreditation and ranks 4th in Eastern Europe for MBA by Eduniversal Rankings, with a 20-month Executive MBA programme priced at €33,000. Riga Business School co-founded AI Studio together with the Latvian IT Cluster and is an organising partner of the AI Connect 2026 conference.
Riga Technical University (RTU) is the largest technical university in Latvia and a hub for engineering, IT and innovation research and education. Through its Science and Innovation Centre it co-organises public technology events such as AI Connect, connecting developers, businesses, students and the public around practical artificial intelligence.
Organizer of the Rise of AI conference, a curated annual summit in Berlin connecting AI founders, researchers, policymakers, and investors. Founded by Fabian Westerheide, the event has run since 2014 and brings together 1,000+ participants to discuss applied AI, ethics, and emerging business models in the European AI ecosystem.
Co-founder of PhysicsX and a physicist who led performance and vehicle science at Formula 1 teams including Mercedes and Renault, where his work contributed to multiple championships.
Co-founder of Bioptimus and a machine-learning scientist who previously worked at Google DeepMind and Amazon on large-scale models, now applied to biological foundation models.
Ronny Fehling serves as Chief AI Transformation Officer at HTEC, a technology company specializing in AI-driven software engineering and digital transformation with offices across Europe and North America. In this C-suite role he is responsible for driving the company's artificial intelligence strategy and transformation programs across client engagements, and is a recognized speaker on enterprise AI adoption.
Co-founder and CEO of GetVocal AI, building autonomous voice agents for businesses, backed by Creandum, Elaia and Speedinvest.
Canadian innovation strategist and author of 'The Bold Ones', recognised as a leading authority on disruption and the application of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence in business. A former Deloitte strategist, he is a confirmed main-stage speaker at the Oslo Business Forum 2026.
The 11th edition of Turku's flagship business festival for C-level decision-makers, business developers, and growth-company tech leaders, with app-based matchmaking and an evening programme.
The annual gathering for Europe's scaleup leaders, run by the FT-backed Sifted. Programming covers fundraising, AI adoption, and sustainability, with a strong investor presence and the Sifted 250 leaderboard — valuable for a growth-stage founder raising or scaling.
The world's largest iGaming and emerging tech expo, held at the Malta Maritime Hub (MFCC). Attracts 25,000+ attendees, 800+ sponsors and exhibitors covering gaming, blockchain, AI, and fintech. Malta's regulatory framework for digital assets makes this a key event for Web3 and gaming startups. Tickets from EUR 300.
Co-founder and CTO of Graphcore and the chief architect of its IPU processor. A serial chip designer, he co-founded Picochip and Element 14 before Graphcore.
Sotirios Makrygiannis is a former senior Nokia executive who founded AIA Lab, an artificial intelligence advisory firm focused on helping organisations adopt and scale AI strategies. With decades of experience driving technology and innovation at a globally recognised telecommunications company, he now advises enterprises and startups on AI growth strategy and organisational transformation. He is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, contributing expertise in large-scale technology transformation and AI adoption.
The 5th edition of Southeast Europe's flagship deep-tech and science-to-business conference, gathering 400+ speakers and around 40 breakthrough spinoff teams. It pairs university and research-spinoff founders with investors, clusters, and policymakers — strongly relevant for science-based founders raising early capital.
Co-founder and CTO of Dust and a former research engineer at OpenAI, where he worked on reasoning and formal mathematics, now building enterprise AI agents.
Student-run summit at Olma Messen with 7,000+ attendees, 1,000+ investors, and 1,500+ startups. Highlights include the START Summiteer pitch competition and high-volume investor-founder matchmaking.
Organizer of founder-focused meetups and AI events including The Munich AI Conference. Startup Network Europe is an event organiser based in Munich, Germany. Organising events in the Events, Startup Ecosystem, Artificial Intelligence space.
A two-day founder–investor conference at the Beato Innovation District with 150+ speakers and around 2,000 attendees from 40+ countries. Built around fundraising, AI, product, growth, and scaling, with speed networking, 1:1s, and investor office hours — high value for founders raising or hunting deal flow.
Co-founder and COO/CFO of Synthesia, the AI video-generation platform. He runs the company's operations and finance alongside CEO Victor Riparbelli as Synthesia became one of Europe's most valuable generative-AI companies.
Belgian author, entrepreneur, and global thought leader on customer experience and the impact of artificial intelligence on customer relationships. He has written several bestselling books including 'The Offer You Can't Refuse', and is a confirmed main-stage speaker at the Oslo Business Forum 2026.
SuperAnnotate is an AI training data platform founded in Yerevan by brothers Tigran and Vahan Petrosyan. It provides tools for annotating, managing, and automating labelled datasets across images, video, text, and audio at scale. Backed by NVIDIA, the platform serves enterprise clients including Databricks and Canva. In 2025 the company raised $50 million to accelerate its AI data-annotation capabilities.
The national robotics gathering, organised by ETH Zurich's RobotX at the StageOne Convention Center, showcasing Swiss robotics research, spin-offs, and live demos. For a robotics or hardware founder it concentrates the Swiss robotics talent pool, lab spin-offs, and industrial partners into one day.
A 48-hour fintech hackathon, backed by the Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance and powered by Tenity, where students and professionals team with industry partners on real financial-sector challenges; in 2026 it anchors the inaugural Swiss FinTech Week. A fast route for developers and early founders to industry mentors, APIs, and pilot opportunities.
Developer-first event aligned with MWC week, featuring coding sessions, architecture deep dives, and hackathon-style programs around AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. Useful for startup engineering recruiting and employer branding with senior technical talent.
Software testing and quality leader, CEO and Head of Test IO, specialising in AI-driven testing, automation and quality engineering. He is an announced speaker at Codecamp Iași 2026.
Team-GPT is a Bulgarian-founded enterprise AI collaboration platform launched in 2023 by five co-founders including Vassil Valchanov. The platform helps companies discover and deploy AI use cases at scale, enabling teams to work with large language models in a shared workspace. Team-GPT raised $4.5 million in November 2024, closing what was reported as the largest Bulgarian seed round of that year. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with its founding team in Sofia.
The South-West of Ireland's leading technology conference, convening technology leaders, policymakers, and SME decision-makers around AI and emerging-tech adoption. A practical regional venue for founders selling into Munster's SME base.
Organizer of Tech Open Air, Berlin's signature interdisciplinary tech festival bridging technology, art, music, and science since 2012. TOA attracts over 20,000 participants across its main stage and satellite events, offering a unique blend of startup content, creative programming, and networking that reflects Berlin's innovative culture.
Large interdisciplinary tech festival at Funkhaus Berlin combining AI, synthetic biology, Web3, and health tech with music, art, and science programming. Includes startup visibility opportunities and a headline startup pitch competition.
An enterprise-tech mega-event at Porte de Versailles bundling five co-located shows covering cloud and AI infrastructure, DevOps, cloud and cyber security, data and AI leadership, and data centres. For infrastructure, devtools, and security startups it is a single badge to reach enterprise IT buyers across the whole stack.
Content-heavy summit at Old Billingsgate focused on European scale-up strategy, AI, fintech, and climate tech. Strong attendance from Series A-C founders, LPs, Tier 1 VCs, and tech media.
Nordic/Baltic scale-up conference at Friends Arena with 7,500+ attendees and 400+ investors. Known for stage-specific pitch competitions and a strong sustainability and ESG focus.
A large enterprise-technology event of eight co-located shows under one roof at RAI Amsterdam, spanning AI and Big Data, Cyber Security and Cloud, IoT, Digital Transformation, Intelligent Automation, Edge Computing and Data Centres. It draws thousands of attendees, 200-plus speakers and exhibitors, targeting CTOs, data and AI leaders and digital transformation executives.
TechForge Media portfolio organiser behind the TechEx series of co-located enterprise technology shows, spanning AI and Big Data, Cyber Security and Cloud, IoT, Digital Transformation, Intelligent Automation and Edge Computing. TechEx Europe convenes thousands of CTOs, data and AI leaders and digital transformation executives at RAI Amsterdam.
A unique festival exploring how technology shapes humanity, blending tech demos with art installations, workshops, and debates. Features 100+ sessions across Copenhagen venues with topics like ethical AI, climate tech, and digital democracy. Free and ticketed events attract 5,000+ attendees.
A UK-leading marketing and AI event at ExCeL London for B2B and B2C marketers, with 200+ solution providers and 200+ hours of CPD-accredited content across ten conference theatres. Co-located with eCommerce Expo and Parcel & Post Expo, it is useful for martech and AI startups.
Organizer of the Techpoint Conference in Kristiansand, positioned as Norway's leading arena for AI transformation. The two-day event gathers business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and tech enthusiasts across venues including Kilden Performing Arts Centre and Kunstsilo, with international and Nordic speakers exploring how AI and exponential technologies reshape business and innovation.
Norway's leading arena for AI transformation, gathering over 1,300 business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and tech enthusiasts at Kilden Performing Arts Centre and Kunstsilo in Kristiansand. The 2026 edition features 80+ Nordic and international speakers exploring how AI and exponential technologies reshape business, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
The 10th-anniversary edition of Northern Greece's flagship two-day tech event at the Port of Thessaloniki, bringing together young scientists, executives, startups, and investment funds. A dedicated startup platform focuses on climate tech, deep tech, and AI.
Romania's premier technology conference in Cluj-Napoca, the country's fastest-growing tech hub. Attracts 1,500+ senior developers, CTOs, and founders for talks on AI, product engineering, and scaling startups. Known for high-quality speakers from companies like Google, Spotify, and Stripe. Tickets EUR 200-400.
The island of Ireland's flagship tech-innovation conference, running in Belfast for the first time. Founders get a full-day programme of keynotes and panels, a startup pitch competition and showcase, and 600+ attendees mixing startups, enterprise, and investors — a good wedge into the Northern Ireland ecosystem.
Malta's full-day developer and technology conference at the Hilton Malta in Portomaso, St. Julian's, featuring 7 tracks and 25+ talks. The 2026 edition runs under the theme 'With great power comes great responsibility', spotlighting quantum computing, artificial intelligence and modern software development for developers and digital professionals.
TEKNOFEST 2026, the world's largest aviation, space and technology festival, is hosted in Şanlıurfa on 30 September – 4 October 2026 at GAP Airport. Organized by the Türkiye Technology Team (T3) Foundation with the Ministry of Industry and Technology under the National Technology Initiative, it runs 50+ technology competitions across aerospace, AI, defence, energy and agriculture, plus air shows, a startup programme, hackathons and exhibitions.
Focused evening conference hosted by Startup Network Europe and held at Codecentric Munich, centered on turning AI strategy into scalable enterprise execution. Designed as a compact, high-quality networking environment for founders, enterprise decision-makers, and technical AI leaders.
Founder and CEO of Meero, the AI photography and image-processing company he started in 2016, raising large rounds from Alven, Eurazeo and Prime Ventures to automate visual content at scale.
Major European technology conference in Amsterdam featuring curated tracks on AI, sustainability, and startup growth. Draws 10,000+ attendees including founders, developers, and investors for talks, expo, and networking at NDSM Wharf.
A leading global travel-tech summit with around 7,000 attendees, 400+ speakers, and 200 exhibitors at FIBES Seville, covering AI applications, intelligent destinations, distribution models, and sustainable operations. For traveltech founders it is the main Iberian stage to reach hospitality buyers, destinations, and travel investors.
Trifork organises the GOTO Conferences series, one of the longest-running software-engineering conference brands in the Nordics. GOTO Copenhagen convenes engineers and technology leaders around distributed systems, testing, resilience, security, sustainable computing and agentic AI software development.
A non-commercial community developer conference at Clarion Hotel Trondheim, with surplus funds reinvested into regional tech initiatives. A strong local IT-community gathering.
TS Ventures is the first corporate venture capital fund established in the Western Balkans, launched in 2021 by Telekom Srbija with a €25 million mandate to invest in high-tech startups across pre-seed through growth stages. Headquartered in Belgrade at Milutina Milankovića 3v, the fund backs companies in AI, biotechnology, and digital platforms, with a particular interest in transformative technologies that can scale regionally and globally. The fund has deployed approximately €2.4 million across 15+ startups, with an average ticket size of €133,000. Notable investments include AI-driven professional networking platform Connect The Dots and biotech firm LampoVet.
Self-described as the UK's flagship founder-investor summit, focused on pre-seed to Series A. It is squarely founder-relevant, with programming on fundraising, growth, and product, plus structured founder-investor matchmaking — one of the strongest non-London picks for an early-stage founder.
The world's leading HR and workforce technology conference and expo, organized by UNLEASH Group at the Paris Convention Center on 20-22 October 2026. Three days across seven conference stages, summits, an exhibition and startup showcases covering AI, skills, workforce strategy, reward, people analytics and the future of work, drawing thousands of senior HR leaders and HR-tech buyers.
Professor Emeritus at Boston University's Questrom School of Business and a leading scholar on digital strategy, business models, and how companies compete in a world of artificial intelligence and platforms. Author of 'The Digital Matrix', he is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
Victor Riparbelli is a Danish entrepreneur based in London and the co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, the AI video generation platform valued at over $2 billion and one of Europe's most prominent AI companies. Alongside scaling Synthesia, he is an active angel investor in European AI and software startups, backing founders applying generative AI to enterprise workflows — including the AI coworker company Viktor.
A two-day tech and careers summit in central Vienna connecting developers, tech companies, and startups, with a job fair, talks, and networking. Useful for founders building engineering teams in the DACH region.
Viktor is an AI coworker platform that lives inside Slack and Microsoft Teams and executes business workflows end-to-end rather than only suggesting text. Connected to thousands of tools, it autonomously generates reports, builds dashboards, writes code, manages ad accounts, and runs data analysis on behalf of teams, positioning itself as an "AI hire" rather than a tool. Founded in 2023 by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, the company is headquartered in Warsaw with a second office in Munich. After a public launch in February 2026 it reached a €12.9 million revenue run rate within 10 weeks and is used by more than 2,000 organisations. In May 2026 Viktor raised a $75 million (€64.7 million) Series A led by Accel — reported as the largest Series A ever raised by a Polish technology company — with participation from Bek Ventures, Kaya VC, Inovo VC, and Tenacity Capital, alongside angels including Slack co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson and Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli.
Vilnius University is Lithuania's oldest and largest university, founded in 1579, with a strong research profile in computer science and artificial intelligence. The university serves as the local organizing institution for Declarative AI 2026, a joint academic conference combining RuleML+RR, DecisionCAMP, and the 22nd Reasoning Web Summer School, held in Vilnius on August 24–30, 2026. The local chair, Linas Petkevičius, coordinates the event logistics and local arrangements on behalf of the university.
Founder and CEO of Quantexa, the decision-intelligence company using contextual data and AI to fight financial crime for banks and governments. He founded it in 2016 and grew it to unicorn status.
Europe's largest startup and technology event at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, marking its 10th anniversary in 2026. Core value for founders is open-innovation deal flow with corporates and investors. Startup Challenge applications typically run on rolling tracks and often close in late March to early April 2026 depending on partner challenge.
An invitation-style investor summit gathering roughly 300 vetted VCs, angels, family offices, and capital allocators during Web Summit week, a short walk from the main venue. For founders raising larger or later rounds, it concentrates curated deal flow and co-investment conversations away from the Web Summit crowd.
The sixth edition of Estonia's emerging-tech festival, held at Vaba Lava in Narva on the EU's eastern edge. Gathers builders, founders, and operators around Web3, AI, and creative industries with a substance-over-hype focus — a rare flagship tech event outside the capital.
Web3 Warsaw 2026 is positioned as Eastern Europe's largest blockchain and Web3 conference, anchoring Warsaw Blockchain Week. The two-day event expects thousands of attendees and hundreds of speakers across themed stages spanning tech, NFT, gaming, and AI, and includes a hackathon, an awards night for startups and founders, and dozens of curated side events.
One of the largest tech and innovation summits in Southeast Europe, bringing 5,000+ attendees to Sofia's National Palace of Culture. Features a Founders Games startup competition, government innovation tracks, and strong representation from SEE ecosystem players. Entry-level tickets from EUR 100.
The 20th-anniversary edition of Webrazzi Summit, Turkey's most influential technology and entrepreneurship conference, organized by tech media outlet Webrazzi at the Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent on 21 October 2026. A single-day program of simultaneous panels, keynotes and workshops spanning e-commerce, fintech, AI and machine learning, digital marketing and sustainability, gathering founders, corporate innovators and investors.
Wirestock is an Armenian AI data marketplace startup that sources and curates multimodal creative datasets — including images, videos, 3D models, and audio — for major AI foundation model developers. Founded in Yerevan, the company raised approximately $26 million total, including a $23 million Series A in 2026 led by Nava Ventures with participation from Formula VC and I2BF Ventures, and counts six of the world's largest AI model developers among its clients. Wirestock is a Platinum Sponsor of PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026.
Large-scale AI conference at the Palais des Festivals with 10,000+ attendees, 320 speakers, and 220+ exhibitors expected for 2026. Program tracks include AI for Business, AI Governance, and Health AI, making it a high-value venue for founders seeking enterprise pilots and investor visibility.
The 10th-anniversary edition of one of the world's largest AI summits, near Amsterdam, centrepiece of World AI Week with 100+ side events. Strong investor and big-tech presence for AI founders, with enterprise-AI and AI-engineering tracks.
YerevaNN is a non-profit machine learning and AI research laboratory established in 2016, operating independently from commercial projects and funded by private donations and research grants. The lab collaborates with institutions including the University of Southern California and the Institute of Molecular Biology in Armenia, with active research into drug discovery via molecule generation, computer vision, and clinical AI. It has produced over 85 scientific publications and is a recognized node of the Armenian AI research community.
A free city-scale festival blending an edutainment fair, an education summit, hackathons, and a startup contest. An ecosystem and talent-pipeline event — relevant for founders recruiting young technical talent or running edtech and STEM products in Cyprus.