Ghent, Belgium · Startup Aikido Security is a unified developer-first application security platform covering code scanning, cloud posture, runtime monitoring and AI-driven penetration testing — all from one console. Founded in 2022 in Ghent by serial entrepreneurs Willem Delbare, Roeland Delrue, Felix Garriau and Madeline Lawrence, it became Europe's fastest cybersecurity unicorn after closing a $60 M Series B led by DST Global and PSG Equity in 2025 at a $1 B+ valuation. Annual recurring revenue hit $20 M in 2025 with a target of $60 M. Aikido serves developers and security teams at mid-market and enterprise companies from offices in Ghent, San Francisco, London and Chicago.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Event Largest AWS-focused conference in the Adriatic region, hosted at Four Points by Sheraton Ljubljana Mons. Full day of community-led sessions on cloud architecture, modern AWS services, and cloud-native development for developers, architects and founders.
Sofia, Bulgaria · Event User-run AWS technical conference at Sofia Tech Park's John Atanasoff Forum, planned and delivered by AWS user group community leaders. Sessions and workshops on cloud architecture, mostly in Bulgarian with one English track.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Central and Eastern Europe's AWS community gathering at Kristály Színtér in Budapest. One-day event with keynotes from AWS specialists, hands-on workshops, and cloud networking.
Milan, Italy · Event Amazon Web Services' free one-day cloud conference at Fiera Milano Rho. Keynotes, technical breakouts, hands-on labs and a partner expo covering generative AI, data, security and serverless for builders, architects and startup founders.
Prague, Czech Republic · Startup Better Stack is a Prague-founded observability platform built by engineers for engineers, led by Juraj Masar (CEO) and Veronika Kolejak (COO). The company is known for combining speed, lower cost, and strong product design in a unified stack that covers uptime monitoring, log management, incident response, and status pages. Its technical positioning emphasizes standard SQL over proprietary query languages and high-performance analytics on ClickHouse-based infrastructure. Better Stack's January 2024 Series A and extension brought total funding to about $28.6M, with Creandum, KAYA Ventures, and Susa Ventures among key investors plus notable angels from Box, Flexport, Neo4j, Yelp, Codecademy, and UiPath. Publicly shared company metrics reported more than 200,000 developers and 4,000+ customers, and by 2026 Better Stack is widely viewed as one of the strongest Czech global DevTools contenders.
Vilnius, Lithuania · Event 10th edition with 60+ talks and hands-on workshops on Big Data, ML, Generative AI, Quantum Computing, Ethical AI, and DataOps. Workshops kick off Nov 24, main conference Nov 25-27 at Multikino, ~700 attendees from 35+ countries.
Vilnius, Lithuania · Event Community-driven cybersecurity conference at Kablys with a workshop day (DEF CON CTF, AI Red Teaming, Bash for hackers) plus a main conference day of talks and CTF competitions covering offensive and defensive security.
Tbilisi, Georgia · Event Seventh edition of Georgia's flagship technology conference at Factory Tbilisi, gathering 1,000+ IT professionals and 50+ speakers across AI & digital transformation, big data, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure tracks.
Paris, France · Event Community-led cloud conference at CENTQUATRE-PARIS focused on practical engineering sessions over vendor marketing. Strong match for infrastructure startups and DevOps-first teams working on Kubernetes, platform tooling, and secure cloud operations.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Two-day 5-in-1 conference at Eiffel Art Studios covering AI/ML, engineering leadership, product management, UX, and data engineering. Theme: 'From idea to impact: building successful products in the AI era.' Expected 1,300+ attendees.
Sibenik, Croatia · Event International SEO and digital growth conference on the Adriatic coast featuring 18 speakers, 5 masterminds and hands-on workshops covering technical SEO, content strategy and AI search.
Antwerp, Belgium · Event Europe's largest community-driven developer conference at Kinepolis Antwerp, themed 'From Developer to Builder'. Five days covering Java, architecture, GenAI agents, Model Context Protocol, security and modern development practices for thousands of developers worldwide.
Bucharest, Romania · Event The largest tech conference in Central & Eastern Europe at Romexpo Pavilion B1, with 14 stages on AI, machine learning, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, quantum, and dev leadership; 100,000+ developers, tech leaders, and IT decision-makers.
Tartu, Estonia · Event Two of Estonia's biggest software events join forces at Kammivabrik in Tartu under the theme 'Driving the Change'. Hands-on sessions on LLM integration, agent workflows, and developer tooling, plus city-wide meet-ups and an afterparty.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event IDA's flagship annual IT conference at Kalvebod Brygge with approximately 38 presentations across multiple tracks including AI, security, privacy, UX, and green IT. Traditionally sells out and draws Denmark's leading software, project, and IT strategy practitioners.
Lisbon, Portugal · Event ETHGlobal's flagship Ethereum hackathon returns to Lisbon. 36 hours of building with hundreds of Web3 developers, sponsor bounties, workshops & mentorship from leading protocols, closing with judged demos and prizes for the best on-chain projects.
Brno, Czech Republic · Event European Ruby Conference hosted at Hotel Passage in Brno: two days of Ruby talks, community sessions, and international developer networking, preceded by an early-registration meetup on September 16.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Event A three-day AI-focused conference at Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenhagen, blending curated talks with hands-on masterclasses. Targets product designers, engineers, and data professionals building real-world AI products, emphasising practical insights over hype.
Kaunas, Lithuania · Event ICIST 2026 is the 32nd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, hosted by Kaunas University of Technology. The two-day program brings together researchers, engineers, developers and industry practitioners across information systems, business intelligence, software engineering, AI, IoT, cybersecurity and IT applications, with peer-reviewed proceedings published by Springer. Remote participation is also available.
Oslo, Norway · Event JavaZone 2026 is Norway's biggest community-driven Java conference, organised entirely by volunteers from javaBin (the Norwegian Java User Group) at Nova Spektrum in Lillestrom near Oslo on 2-3 September 2026. Around 3,600 attendees and roughly 200 speakers cover the JVM ecosystem, developer tooling and software craftsmanship. By design no speaker is paid and no talk can be bought onto the program, which is selected by an independent committee.
Portorož, Slovenia · Event Community-driven Java and open-source conference held alongside MakeIT 2026 at Convention Centre Portus. 90+ sessions covering JVM, Spring, cloud-native Java, microservices, software architecture, and AI-assisted development tooling.
Sofia, Bulgaria · Event Two-day Java & JVM conference organized by the Bulgarian Java User Group at Sofia Tech Park. 2026 theme is 'The AI agents are among us', with 33+ sessions on Java, JVM languages, mobile, web, cloud, and AI agents.
Sofia, Bulgaria · Event 12th edition of Bulgaria's largest JavaScript community conference at Sofia Tech Park's John Atanasoff Forum. Day one is paid workshops with international speakers; day two is a free community conference on web development and AI.
Sofia, Bulgaria · Venture Capital Founded in 2012 by Lyuben Belov and partners, LAUNCHub Ventures is Sofia's largest dedicated early-stage VC, currently deploying its third fund which closed oversubscribed at €74M in late 2021 (first close €44M). The fund invests at pre-seed and seed stages with ticket sizes of €300K–€3M, backing founders across South-Eastern and Central-Eastern Europe. Sector focus spans fintech, proptech, future of work, devtools, health tech, and enterprise software; portfolio includes Quantive (strategy platform), OfficeRnD (flex-space SaaS), FintechOS, and Giraffe360. Seventy-five percent of portfolio companies have raised follow-on rounds, with aggregate follow-on capital exceeding €400M.
Stockholm, Sweden · Startup Founded in 2023, Lovable builds an AI-powered full-stack software development platform that converts natural-language prompts into deployable applications. The product generates real frontend and backend code, integrates directly with GitHub, and is used by both non-technical founders for MVP creation and enterprise teams for rapid prototyping.
Oslo, Norway · Event NDC Oslo is one of Europe's largest independent software developer conferences, organised by NDC Conferences at Oslo Spektrum from 14–18 September 2026. The 2026 edition features around 154 speakers across 165 sessions plus 16 hands-on workshops, covering .NET, cloud, AI, security, and software craftsmanship.
Yerevan, Armenia · Event Second edition of the joint PyData and PyCon conference at the American University of Armenia, organized with NumFOCUS and PyData Global as partners. Two-day program brings together engineers, researchers, and founders across data science, machine learning, AI, and the broader Python ecosystem.
Sophia Antipolis, France · Event Developer conference on the French Riviera at SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis: one Deep Dive day plus two conference days, 50 talks and 30 workshops for around 700 attendees across web, cloud, DevOps and AI tracks.
Belgrade, Serbia · Startup Saga is an AI-powered collaborative workspace for notes, docs, and tasks, designed to help teams organise knowledge in one connected interface. Founded in 2021 by Filip Stanev with Serbian roots, Saga automatically interlinks knowledge across workspaces, integrates with tools such as Google Drive and Linear, and includes a built-in AI assistant powered by the latest large language models. The platform offers real-time collaboration, Kanban task views, and public sharing. With over 40,000 users in its beta phase and hundreds of teams relying on it weekly, Saga raised $850,000 in a pre-seed round in early 2023 and competes with Notion and Obsidian in the knowledge-management space.
Budapest, Hungary · Event One-day community conference on Microsoft tech (Power Platform, Azure, Fabric, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Copilot) plus AI and career skills. Multi-track sessions in English at Mixát, Budapest.
Barcelona, Spain · Event 14th edition of Sónar festival's creative-tech congress at Llotja de Mar in central Barcelona, with talks, workshops and installations across three tracks: AI & Music, Beyond the Screen, and Digital Gardens. New affordable standalone passes (€15/day) debut in 2026.
Stockholm, Sweden · Event Nordic region's leading digital-transformation expo at Kistamässan, with six co-located shows on AI & Big Data, Cloud, Cyber Security, DevOps, Data Centre, and Mobile. Free entry, 5,000+ visitors, 250+ exhibitors.
Bern, Switzerland · Event Long-established Swiss IT security conference at Kursaal Bern bringing international speakers to a national audience of students, technical practitioners, security officers and CISOs. The 2026 theme is 'Shadow IT'.
Tbilisi, Georgia · Event Testers Day 2026 is Georgia's annual software-testing conference organised by GeoSTQB, the Georgian Software Testing Qualifications Board and official ISTQB member board, marking International Testers' Day in Tbilisi. The program gathers QA engineers and test leaders around real-world technical challenges, AI in quality assurance, test automation, career development and team leadership.
Belgrade, Serbia · Startup Trickest is an offensive security automation platform built for bug bounty hunters, penetration testers, and enterprise SecOps teams. Founded in 2020 by Nenad Zaric — a former top-ranked HackerOne researcher with credits at Uber, PayPal, and Snapchat — and Mihailo Tomic, the platform provides a visual workflow builder and a large library of tool nodes for attack surface mapping, vulnerability scanning, and automated recon. Teams can compose, share, and run complex security workflows without custom scripting. Trickest raised a €1.4M seed round backed by Credo Ventures and Earlybird Digital East, with angel investors including UiPath's Daniel Dines.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Whereby is an Oslo-based video communication platform founded in 2013 (originally as appear.in inside Telenor). It offers browser-based video meetings requiring no downloads or guest logins, and a developer-facing Whereby Embedded API for adding video calling to third-party products. GDPR-compliant and ISO 27001 certified, the platform supports healthcare, telehealth and education use cases. The company raised $12 million in Series A funding from Point Nine and SaaStr in 2021 and saw a 450% user surge during the pandemic, with adoption across 150 countries.