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ENISE (Encuentro Internacional de Seguridad de la Información) is Spain's benchmark cybersecurity event, organised by INCIBE, the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute. The 20th edition gathers the international cybersecurity ecosystem — companies, startups, public sector and researchers — for keynotes, B2B meetings, an innovation track and live demos over three days at the León convention centre.
4YFN 2027 runs alongside MWC Barcelona at Fira Gran Via, connecting founders, investors, and corporates focused on turning early-stage innovation into real business outcomes. The event draws thousands of startups and investors from across Europe and beyond, with structured matchmaking, a pitch competition, and the 4YFN Awards. It operates as an independent but deeply integrated event within the broader MWC 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.
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.
Startit's week of 25+ free AI events spanning Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Niš, drawing 1000+ attendees across 20+ partner organizations for talks, workshops, and meetups on applied AI and startups.
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.
Annual meeting point of the Austrian startup ecosystem at Ottakringer Brauerei in Vienna. Brings founders, investors and industry leaders together for talks, panels and high-value networking under the 2026 motto 'No risk, no fun(ds)'.
The Baltic VCA Summit is the largest regional LP-GP gathering of the Baltic private equity and venture capital industry, hosted by Estonia in 2026 and held in the seaside town of Haapsalu. Themed 'No Man is an Island', the two-day program explores how capital is becoming geopolitical and strategic and how the Baltics can evolve into a coordinated capital region, alongside dining, networking and wellness activities.
Southeastern Europe's leading tech and innovation exhibition at Metropolitan Expo Athens, themed 'AI: Digital to Physical' for 2026, with focus on AI, cybersecurity, smart cities, ESG applications, digital governance and startups; targeting ~30,000 attendees.
Builders Circle Porto is a small, application-only, operator-led one-day session organised by Product Circle for product managers and product leaders. Held at MC Digital in Porto, it covers product strategy, AI-era decision-making, discovery and growth for startup and scaleup operators in an intimate format.
Carlos Espinal is Managing Partner at Seedcamp, Europe's pre-seed fund, which he joined in 2009 after earlier stints at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and roles at NYSE's SIAC group and cybersecurity firm GTE Cybertrust. He holds a BS in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon and an MBA from Babson College, and has helped build a portfolio of over 400 companies including European unicorns UiPath and Revolut. Named Investor of the Year 2021 by GP Bullhound, he is also the author of The Fundraising Fieldguide and was awarded an MBE.
Two-day festival at the intersection of business, technology and innovation near Rzeszów, bringing together 1,500 participants, 50+ investors and 150 speakers for keynotes, panels and a startup competition with a PLN 150,000 prize pool.
ChangeNOW 2027 returns to the iconic Grand Palais in Paris for three days dedicated to accelerating solutions for the planet. The summit convenes impact-driven startups, investors, policymakers, and corporations around climate, biodiversity, social innovation, and the energy transition. The 2027 edition dates are officially announced on the event website with pre-registration open.
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.
Regional stop of the Conversion Conf affiliate-marketing circuit, bringing CPA networks, advertisers, media-buyers, and ad-tech vendors to Kyiv for one day of talks, expo, and deal-making. Sister events run in Warsaw and Limassol.
Czech Startup Week is a unified, English-language platform initiated by CzechInvest that brings together startup founders, investors, corporates, and researchers for a week of keynotes, panels, workshops, pitch sessions, and networking. The programme includes the Technology Incubation and ESA BIC CZ Demo Day, Tech Happy Hours, and an investment conference across Prague.
Investment and Business Development Agency of the Czech Republic, supporting startups, foreign investment, and innovation programmes. CzechInvest initiates Czech Startup Week, a unified English-language platform bringing founders, investors, corporates, and researchers together for keynotes, workshops, pitch sessions, and demo days.
Tehnopol-run opener of Estonian Defence Week at Kultuurikatel Creative Hub. Brings dual-use startups, NATO defence companies, end-users, and investors together with pitches and a dozen-plus booths. Free with mandatory registration.
Leading international B2B event on AI and exponential technologies at FYCMA Málaga, bringing 400+ companies presenting 700+ innovations across AI, data, cybersecurity, cloud, IoT, retail tech, and startups to 15,000 C-level professionals.
B2B game industry conference co-hosted by DevGAMM and the Serbian Games Association at Hilton Belgrade, with two days of talks, expo, and MeetToMatch networking for developers, publishers, and investors across the Balkans.
One-day GreenTech & digital conference at CYBER CITY Vilnius, co-funded by EDIH Vilnius and Digital Europe, bringing together innovators, startups, investors, and policy leaders around sustainable tech, data, and resilient industry.
DigithON is Italy's largest digital and startup pitch marathon, held annually in the coastal town of Bisceglie in Puglia. The 2026 edition brings around one hundred selected startups for 48 hours of pitches, mentoring and networking in front of investors, venture funds, business angels and institutions, with a total prize pool of roughly €50,000.
DLD Munich 2027 brings together 1,500+ pioneers from tech, business, science, and culture for three days of ideas and connections in Munich. The annual flagship conference runs immediately before the World Economic Forum in Davos, making it a key gathering point for global leaders. The 2027 edition dates are publicly announced on the official site with attendee notifications opening shortly.
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.
26th EBAN Congress brings hundreds of European business angels, VCs, and ecosystem leaders to Vilnius for keynotes, an awards gala, and a Lithuanian startup study visit, with focus on Space & Defence Tech, BioTech, and CleanTech.
Dublin Tech Week pitch finals at Wood Quay Venue where Masters students partner with businesses to compete for the ENFUSE trophy. Connects education with enterprise development through applied research and live pitching.
EVO VC & Startups is a global founder-and-investor networking community spanning dozens of cities across more than a dozen countries with tens of thousands of members. It runs recurring informal evening socials, including editions in Riga, that connect tech founders, angel investors and venture capitalists to find co-founders, funding and scaling partners.
Wrocław festival at the intersection of AI, business and art, organised by Startup Wrocław (ARAW) together with OVHcloud. A 26 May 'Day Zero' (kayaking on the Odra and networking) precedes two main days: 27 May brings workshops on marketing, AI, go-to-market and scaling plus Fintech Trends Poland, and 28 May a conference on AI, creativity and European cloud sovereignty with VC pitching, featuring experts from Capgemini, ZAiKS, Zowie, Bielik AI, Niebezpiecznik.pl and OVHcloud.
The 21st edition of the Trento Festival of Economics, drawing ministers, Nobel laureates, and 700+ speakers. A high-signal venue for founders tracking macro and policy shifts and meeting institutional players.
Fikir is a 24/7 coworking space operating two branches in Baku (Elmler and Ağ Şəhər districts), with a third location announced. It offers hot desks, dedicated desks, private offices, meeting rooms for up to 12 people, and an event hall for up to 70 people. The space targets freelancers, remote workers, and early-stage startup teams in Baku's growing tech community.
European debut of the meetings-first fintech event: 2,500+ senior attendees, 650+ hosted buyers from banks & PSPs, and 25,000+ pre-scheduled double opt-in meetings across payments, banking, lending and embedded finance. 70% C-suite.
Fondazione DigithON organises DigithON, Italy's largest digital and startup pitch marathon, held annually in the coastal town of Bisceglie in Puglia. It selects around one hundred startups each year for intensive pitching, mentoring and matchmaking with investors, venture funds and business angels.
Europe's largest food innovation congress at Bilbao Exhibition Centre, with 250+ exhibitors and 320+ speakers covering automation, robotics, AI, packaging, and sustainability across the food and beverage value chain. Italy is 2026 guest partner country.
Forbes Ukraine's flagship annual gathering for business owners, CEOs, top managers and entrepreneurs focused on growth, transformation and scaling. The 2026 edition brings together 1,000+ entrepreneurs, 60+ speakers and around 20 workshops across two days of practical case studies and networking in wartime Kyiv.
Two-day festival at Gartenbaukino gathering 1,500+ creatives at the intersection of design, technology and entrepreneurship. Features 20+ international speakers, hands-on workshops and 25+ talks on creative processes, breakthroughs and craft.
A week-long founder retreat in Madeira combining business education, partnership-building, and wellness, aimed at established founders running profitable businesses rather than first-timers. Its value is high-trust networking and strategic-partnership formation in a small-group island setting, plus a tie-in to Madeira's digital-nomad ecosystem.
CEE's largest B2B games industry conference at Poznań Congress Centre with 320+ speakers across 13 tracks, 80+ exhibitors and 3200+ attendees from 50+ countries. Co-located with Poznań Game Arena consumer fair.
Garage48 is an Estonian non-profit foundation that has run hackathons and startup-acceleration events across Europe and Africa since 2010, helping launch ventures such as Single.Earth and Lingvist. Its weekend hackathons gather developers, designers and founders to build working prototypes in 48 hours, including themed editions like Future of Wood focused on sustainable timber technologies.
Inaugural Türkiye edition of the global GITEX brand at Istanbul Expo Center, convening AI, cybersecurity, fintech, cloud, e-commerce, and data-center leaders, backed by Türkiye's Ministry of Industry & Technology and Dubai World Trade Centre.
Three-day decentralized tech & innovation festival at Factory Tbilisi with 200+ speakers across five stages and 80+ side events. Brings founders, investors, and creatives together around Web3, AI, FinTech, iGaming, and AgriTech.
Enterprise Ireland's flagship agritech showcase at the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore. Features Start-Up Innovator of the Year (€10,000 prize) and Green Impact awards in front of 240,000+ visitors.
Innovation Days is Il Sole 24 Ore's national roadshow, run with Confindustria, touring Italian regions to spotlight entrepreneurship and digital transformation. The Puglia stage on 27 October 2026 convenes southern-Italy businesses, startups and institutions around competitiveness and digital innovation, with talks, an award and B2B networking.
Innovation Days is Il Sole 24 Ore's national roadshow, run with Confindustria, touring Italian regions to spotlight local entrepreneurship, digital transformation, SMEs, startups and territorial innovation. The Toscana stage on 22 September 2026 combines talks, an innovation award and networking for the regional business community.
Eleventh edition of southern Italy's flagship innovation fair at Villa Doria d'Angri. Connects startups, universities, research centres and corporates via B2B and R2B speed-dating, with the Innovation Village Award honouring projects aligned to the UN SDGs.
The largest Czech innovation conference, in its 11th edition at ČSOB Campus, with 4 stages, 400+ speakers, and ~15,000 attendees covering AI, new technologies, and sustainability, plus a startup-investor matchmaking program.
A two-day open-air entrepreneurship festival on Makariou Avenue in central Nicosia with multiple themed stages covering startup funding, global expansion, innovation, the future of work, AI and ESG. It mixes keynotes, panels and fireside chats with networking zones, podcast studios and a tech showcase, with free admission on registration.
Leading Austrian funding-lifecycle event at Apothekertrakt Schönbrunn, Vienna, connecting angel investors, venture capital and private equity with innovative entrepreneurs. Full-day panels, keynotes, expo area, matchmaking via B2Match, and evening program.
Irakli Davarashvili is the CEO and Founder of Promofy, an AI-driven gamification and player retention platform for the iGaming industry, which won gold at Pitch ICE 2026 in Barcelona. With 12 years of experience in iGaming, he has worked with major casino brands to develop player engagement and retention strategies using AI-powered personalisation and free-to-play mechanics. Promofy is based in Tbilisi and has expanded its operations into Latin America and other emerging markets.
A long-running in-person forum by Lemberg Tech Business School, with tracks on outsourcing business and sales and marketing, 25+ lectures, and around 300 participants. Relevant for service-business and agency founders focused on sales, delivery, and international client growth.
Kyiv Miltech Conference is a Ukrainian defense-technology gathering that brings together military end-users, defense-tech startups, manufacturers, investors and policymakers to align frontline needs with industry capabilities and available funding. The 2026 edition features five themed tracks covering business, product development, AI applications, sales strategies and startup showcases.
Latitude59 is Estonia's flagship startup and tech conference, gathering founders, investors, and innovators from across the Nordics and Baltics. The 2027 edition returns to Kultuurikatel in Tallinn on May 19–21, with tickets already on sale via Fienta. The event features pitch competitions, investor meetings, and a main-stage program spanning two full days.
Lotfi Zadeh Technology Center (LTC) is a coworking space and shared-office provider with three branches across Baku, named after Azerbaijani-American mathematician Lotfi Zadeh. It offers hot desks, dedicated desks, private offices, meeting rooms (6–60 person capacity), and virtual office services. Weekly networking events are held for the resident startup and professional community.
European curated dealflow event at Luxexpo The Box, hosting ~3,400 attendees, 330+ investors and the Fit 4 Start and Fit 4 Scale closing pitches. Connects high-potential startups and scaleups with VCs, family offices and angels across digital, healthtech and space.
14th edition of Europe's largest open-innovation faire, held at the Gazometro Ostiense. Schools, university labs, early-stage startups and independent makers exhibit side by side across robotics, AI, IoT, digital fabrication, agritech, sustainability and space.
Curated conference at Harpa for bootstrapped and indie-funded SaaS founders, with around 200 attendees from 30+ countries. Focus on practical growth, profitability and long-term ownership rather than fundraising.
The Nordics' largest deep-tech business summit, in Espoo's Otaniemi hub, connecting deep-tech startups with funding, experts, talent, and clients. Built around commercialising research-based innovation.
Europe's premier games-industry gathering at Slagthuset in Malmö, with conference talks, expo floor, the Nordic Game Awards, and a closing Masterclass Friday. Draws studios, publishers, and investors from across the Nordics.
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.
Three-day tech, business and arts festival across Athens with 10,000+ attendees, 250+ speakers, a startup competition, Founders' Day and Investors' Day, plus 70+ side events spanning AI, defense, fintech and deep tech.
Operator-focused summit built around long-form workshops on sales scaling, labor law, and applied AI in operations. Includes a mentor corner with executives from leading Polish scale-ups.
Product Circle organises small, application-only, operator-led sessions for product managers and product leaders across European cities. Each intimate gathering focuses on product strategy, discovery, AI-era decision-making and growth for startup and scaleup operators.
A two-day product conference — a workshops day plus a talks day — at the Museum of the Orient on Lisbon's riverfront, for product managers, designers, founders, and leaders. Practical, craft-focused content on building better products, teams, and strategy, strong for early-stage founders refining product discovery and delivery.
Riga EVO VC & Startups is an evening networking social run by the global EVO VC & Startups community, hosted at PILS Bar in the Grand Palace Hotel in Riga's old town. It connects investors and tech founders — including micro-cap and deep-tech founders — for informal conversations around finding co-founders, team, funding or scaling partners.
Long-running local startup meetup in Lodz focused on practical feedback, mentorship, and early-stage networking. The #402 edition continues a grassroots format that is especially accessible for first-time founders and local ecosystem participants.
Founded 2008. Spain's pioneering ICT accelerator providing training, seed funding, and mentorship by experienced entrepreneurs. Runs intensive campus programs; funded ~70 startups with 15 exits (e.g., Divisoft, Ulabox). Support: 3-month acceleration, angel network investment, free office space. Scope: National.
A one-day startup festival in Aarhus bringing together 700+ founders, investors, and operators in small, curated, participatory sessions. Hosted by Startup Aarhus, designed for real connections and practical progress beyond traditional panel formats.
Startup BBQ is a long-running informal summer gathering of the Riga startup community — founders, friends, food and open conversations with no main stage or strict agenda. The 2026 edition, billed '10 Years Later', marks a decade of the tradition and runs the evening of 20 August at Startup House Riga, serving as a community networking event rather than a conference.
Full-day national startup conference at The Egg Brussels with four stages (Founders, Investors, Service Providers, Corporates), culminating in the Belgium Startup Awards ceremony and a pitch competition with a €100,000 convertible loan prize.
The biggest startup event in Switzerland, returning to Eulachhallen Winterthur and joining the Swiss Startup Association umbrella in 2026. Targets ~9,500 changemakers across health tech, sustainability and deep tech with pitches, exhibitions and ecosystem networking.
Startup OLÉ is one of Spain's largest open-innovation and entrepreneurship events, turning Salamanca into an international hub for three days. The 2026 edition combines a startup fair and pitch competitions with specialised forums in AI, cybersecurity and quantum computing, backed by the University of Salamanca and Spain's INCIBE cybersecurity institute.
13th edition of the Techstars-format Startup Weekend at the University of Žilina Rectorate: a 54-hour hackathon turning ideas into pitchable startups with 14+ mentors, workshops, meals & final pitches to a judges panel.
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.
Techarena's tech-and-policy track inside Almedalsveckan on Gotland, with three stages, 150+ speakers, 60+ panels, a Nordic startup showcase, and 3,000 invited VIPs alongside Sweden's political class.
Flagship women-led event of Dublin Tech Week at the Mansion House Round Room. Brings together 300+ women founders, investors and ecosystem leaders for keynotes, panels, founder showcases and networking focused on capital access and global growth.
90th edition of Greece's largest general trade and innovation fair at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center, with Japan as Honored Country; combines tech pavilions, startup showcases, and government innovation programming over nine days.
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish entrepreneur, designer, and digital activist who co-founded Denmark's first internet company, Mondo, in 1995 and later created Podio, a widely-used workplace collaboration platform. He is co-founder and CEO of TwentyThree, a video marketing and communication platform, and the initiator of Techfestival Copenhagen, a major annual Nordic festival exploring technology's societal impact. He also serves as chairman of the Copenhagen startup community initiative #CPHFTW and co-founded Nordic Makers, an early-stage startup support network.
9th edition of Startup Valencia's flagship summit at the City of Arts and Sciences, themed 'Origin of What's Next', expecting 12,000+ attendees from 120 countries, 3,000 startups, 1,500 corporates and 800 investors managing €300B+ in assets.
Venture Café Warsaw's free weekly meetup connecting entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and innovators. Each session features themed talks, networking and programming designed to grow Warsaw's startup and innovation ecosystem.
Venturelab is Switzerland's leading startup support organization, co-founded in 2004 by Jordi Montserrat and Beat Schillig as the National Entrepreneurial Training initiative. It designs and operates programs including Venture Leaders, Venture Kick, and the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award to bring Switzerland's best startup talents to the next level. As the organizer of the annual Top100 Swiss Investor Summit, Venturelab connects Switzerland's top 100 handpicked startups with Swiss and international investors collectively representing billions in venture capital.
Webrazzi's anniversary edition fintech conference at Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent, bringing together Turkish industry leaders to discuss digital banking, open banking, blockchain integration, AI-driven financial applications, and digital payments.
Largest regional communications festival now in its 19th edition, with five content tracks including Media, AI, HR, Investment and Finance Weekend gathering media, marketing and PR professionals.
Organiser of Wolves Summit, one of Central and Eastern Europe's largest startup-investor matchmaking conferences. It runs spring and autumn editions built around pre-scheduled one-on-one investor-founder meetings, pitch contests, and corporate dealflow, connecting hundreds of founders and active investors across Europe.
The autumn 2026 edition of Wolves Summit is a corporate-dealflow and CVC-focused matchmaking conference connecting startup founders with investors across Europe. It convenes more than 100 active investors and 250 founders for one-on-one meetings, a Great Pitch Contest judged by an investor panel, and the European CVC Awards, running across two stages over two days.
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.