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.debug 2026
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.
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AI Summit Barcelona 2026
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.
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AI Week 2026
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.
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BSides Porto 2026
A community-run technical infosec conference at ISEP Porto — workshops on Friday, then main tracks, villages, an electronic badge, and a Capture-The-Flag on Saturday, with roughly 800 attendees. Valuable for security-minded founders and engineers, and for any startup wanting to plug into Portugal's cybersecurity talent pool.
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Code Europe 2026
One of Central Europe's largest polyglot developer festivals, Code Europe 2026 runs as an online live-stream day (14 September) plus an on-site day in Warsaw at Stadion Legii (15 September), with talks across frontend, backend, DevOps, data, and AI. Its festival format and broad developer audience give startups strong employer-branding visibility across the CEE region.
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Commit Conf 2026
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.
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Compass Tech Summit 2026
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.
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DefCamp 2026
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.
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DevAI by Data Science Summit 2026
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.
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DevFest Nantes 2027
One of France's largest community developer conferences, two days of technical talks and workshops at the H Arena. Strong for developers and dev-tooling founders wanting depth and access to a large French developer audience.
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DevFest Toulouse 2026
A one-day community developer conference run by the Google Developer Group at the Diagora congress centre in Labège. For developers and technical founders in the Occitanie ecosystem it offers practical talks across cloud, AI, web, and mobile, plus regional networking.
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Devoxx Poland 2026
One of Europe's top developer conferences, Devoxx Poland draws 2,700+ attendees to Krakow for three days of deep-dive talks on cloud-native architecture, AI/ML tooling, and Java/Kotlin. The hallway track and job fair make it a prime venue for startups recruiting senior backend and platform engineers from Central Europe's talent pool.
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DevSum 2026
Stockholm's premier developer conference at Kistamässan, with 70+ international speakers across web development, architecture, AI/ML, and cloud.
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DevTalks Cluj-Napoca 2026
The 9th Cluj edition at Cluj Innovation Park, expecting 2,500+ developers and 50+ speakers across three stages. A developer-heavy ecosystem and hiring venue in Transylvania's tech capital.
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dotAI 2026
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.
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DUMP Days 2026
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.
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Game Industry Conference 2026
The main edition of Europe's biggest game-dev conference — 300+ lectures and the CEEGA Awards, co-located with the Poznań Game Arena expo. For gaming founders and studios it is the prime CEE venue for publisher deals, investor meetings, and B2B partnerships.
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GeeCon 2026
Long-running JVM and backend conference in Krakow with 50+ expert talks on Java, Scala, Kotlin, microservices, and cloud architecture. Draws ~1,000 senior developers over two days. Strong recruiting ground for startups hiring experienced backend engineers, with a tight-knit community that values deep technical content.
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Hack4Vilnius 2026
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.
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HackYeah 2026
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.
