Ιανουάριος
CES , Las Vegas, Nevada, January 7-10
Hyberlin , Berlin, Germany, January 18 Demo (public), January 19 founders (invite only)
WEF / Davos, Switzerland, January 22-25 – Invite Only (often featuring big tech giants and startups)
Φεβρουάριος
MIDEM , Cannes, France, February 1-4 – Midem Lab is a track for music startups
Seedcamp Week London (+ Sometimes SeedSummit at the same time), London, UK, February 3, Invite only
LIFT , Geneva, Switzerland, February 5-7
The Crunchies – San Francisco, California, February 10, The Annual TechCrunch Awards
Finovate – London, UK, February 11-12 – Good for Financial / banking tech startups
TechChill Baltics – February 13. Good event for Baltic startups.
Netexplo.org , Paris, France, TBA
Decoded Fashion Tech , NY Fashion Week, New York, New York, TBA
Startup Turkey , Antalya, Turkey, TBA
London Fashion Week , London, UK, February 14-18 (big for Fashion tech startups)
Social Media Week (Multiple global cities), February 17-21
Mobile World Congress , Barcelona, Spain, February 24-27
4 Years From Now February 24-27, Barcelona, Spain
Μάρτιος
London Web Summit , London, UK, TBA
MENA ICT Forum – Dead Sea, Jordan, TBA
CeBit , Hannover, Germany, March 10-14 – Trying hard to include startups more, though not a major focus and too B2B.
SXSW Interactive , Austin, Texas, March 7-16
F.ounders NYC , New York, New York, TBA – Invite Only
Go Youth Conference – 16-17 March, “an event aiming to promote entrepreneurship and creativity” among young people, tech oriented
The Guardian Changing Media Summit , London, UK, March 18-19
FutureEverything Festival , Manchester, UK, March 27-April 1 – Digital culture, innovation
ArabNet , Beirut, Lebanon, TBA
GDC SF , San Francisco, California, March 17-21,
EU Digital Agenda Assembly , Athens, Greece, March 18-20
Scaling Startups – 26 & 27 March 2014 – London, UK
API Strategy & Practice Conference – March 26-28, Amsterdam – First ever in Europe, useful for any startup with an API.
Economist Technology Frontiers 2014 (London, UK) 27 Mar
NACUE Startup Career Launchpad – London, March 28
Απρίλιος
DEMO U.S. , San Francisco, California, April 3
FailCon Europe , London, UK, April 8
MiPCube , Cannes, France, April 7-10 (part of MipTV, good for tech startups around TV/entertainment/video)
LOGIN.LT , Vilnius, Lithuania, April 10-11 – Big Baltic states Conference, in English
Webexpo.net , Prague, Czech Republic, April 11-12
Startup Day , Stockholm, Sweden – April 26 – general startup pitches but majority tech and growing bigger each year
Railsberry , Krakow, Poland, TBA – Recommended for European Rails developers
The Next Web , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-25
World Economic Forum on Europe, MENA and Eurasia (Istanbul, Turkey) – 27-29 Apr
Latitude 59 , Tallinn, Estonia, April 28-29 – Baltics startups pitching & speakers
Disrupt NYC , New York, TBA
Μάιος
DigiTalk , Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2014
NEXT Berlin , Berlin, Germany, May 5-6 – Some startups, mostly corporates and digital marketing
Heureka , Berlin, Germany, May 6 – Startups & focused on Berlin’s ecosystem
London Big Data Week events , (crowd-sourced), London – May 5-11
Berlin Web Week , Berlin, Germany, May 6-7 – Range of events
Engage Invest Exploit 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 8
CapitalOnStage , Berlin, Germany, TBA
Decoded Fashion Tech , London, UK, May 10-14
Bacon , London, UK, May 16-17 – developer conference liked by starters.
Google Zeitgeist UK (London, UK) – 18-20 May (TBC)
Cannes Film Festival , Cannes, France, May 14-25 – Good for media startups
Shift Split – Split, Croatia, TBA
Net Prophet , Cape Town, South Africa – TBA
Thinking Digital , Newcastle, UK, May 20-22 – Interesting
Forum SPB , St. Petersburg, Russia, May 22-24
The Code Conference – From The former AllThingsD team – California, May 27-29, 2014
Digital Shoreditch – London, UK A SXSW style event, last week of May
Ιούνιος
Startup Village – Created by Skolkovo, in Moscow, 2-3 Jun 2014
innotechsummit – 4-5 June, London – Tech Policy and big company focused.
Web2day – 4-6 June, Nantes, France (Largely in French)
Kinnernet Europe , Avallon, France – June 5-8 – Israelis hanging out with Euros & others.
DEMO Europe – June 4-5, Moscow, Russia,
Red Innova , Madrid, Spain, TBA – Spanish / LATAM event
Startup 2.0 , Bilbao, Spain, IS THIS STILL GOING?
PivotEast , Nairobi, Kenya, TBA, East Africa’s main mobile apps / startup pitch competition for investors
Spain Startup and Investor Summit – Madrid, Spain, TBA – In English
Le Web London , London, UK, June 9-10
>Midnight Pitch Fest , Oulu, Finland, June 12-13
FoundersForum.eu , TBA – Invite Only
Startup Island , Hvar, Croatia, TBA
EU Commission Digital Agenda Assembly – TBA
Cannes Lions 15-21 June 2014, Cannes, France – Relevant for tech companies driven by advertising, big players attend
SparkMe – June 19-20 2014. Budva, Montenegro
Startup Summit, Prague – TBA (21 June in 2013)
Bitspiration , Krakow, Poland, TBA
WPP Stream , Cannes, France, June 17 – Invite only
Cannes Lions , Cannes, June 15-21 – Good for media/advertising startups
ICT Spring Europe , Luxembourg, TBA
MLove Berlin , Berlin, Germany (closer to Halle, Germany), June 25-27 – Interesting
Founders Forum Menorca Tech Talk, Menorca, Spain, TBA
D-Conf , Milan, Italy, TBA
NOAH , San Francisco, California, TBA – Interesting for late-stage startups
Αύγουστος
Young Rewired State , UK, August 4-10
GDC Europe , Cologne, Germany, August 11 – 13 – Useful for social games developers/startups
Rock, Paper, Startups – Rijeka, Croatia – TBA (18-19 July in 2013)
MediaEvolution.se , Malmo, Sweden, TBA – Media/Tech overlap conf.
Turing Tech Festival , Edinburgh, Scotland, TBA – Interesting
Burning Man , Black Rock, Nevada, August 25 – Sep 1 – Lots of tech entrepreneurs now attend
Σεπτέμβριος
Hack Cyprus/ – Cyprus, TBA
DConstruct , Brighton, UK, TBA – “technology and culture”
IFA , Berlin, Germany, September 5 – 10 – Europe’s main consumer tech/gadget show
CTIA , Las Vegas, Nevada, September 9-11
Digital Derry , Northern Ireland, TBA
TechCrunch Disrupt SF , San Francisco, California, TBA – Very Recommended (September 7-11, 2013)
Pirate Summit , Cologne, Germany, TBA (1st or 2nd week of September most likely) – Fun, startup event, junkyard atmosphere, good vibe
Campus Party London , London, UK, TBA – Big huge Hackathon and speakers
Startup Lisboa Demo day , Lisboa, Portugal, TBA
Fast FWD Conference – tech and startup festival in Belgium – TBA
Kinnernet, Israel – Invite only, mainly Israeli in focus, with some outside guests
DM Ex Co , Cologne, Germany, September 10-11 – Advertising startups / Germany
TechCrunch Italy , Rome, Italy, TBA
“Investor Harvest” – Sep 18-19 Odessa, Ukraine (by by Europe Venture Summit, invitation for European angels and LPs)
Investors AllStars , London, UK, TBA. Not a conference but an interesting gathering of European VCs and founders.
Overtheair.org , London, UK, TBA – Interesting for mobile startups
MindTheProduct , London, UK, TBA
TechBBQ.dk , Copenhagen, Denmark, TBA
Webrazzi Summit , Istanbul, Turkey, TBA. September 25th – Recommended to download Turkey
Οκτώβριος
The Next Web New York , New York, New York, TBA
TED Global , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5-10
White Bull Summit , Barcelona, Spain, TBA – Oct. 6th-8th (2014) – Recommended, esp. for growth or mid-stage firms
Decoded Fashion Tech – Milan Oct 22 2014
MindTrek , Tampere, Finland, TBA
Spain Startup And Investor Summit – Madrid, Spain, TBA
Tech4Africa – Johannesburg, South Africa, TBA
Ennovation , Poznan, Poland, TBA
WHU’s Idea-lab.org , Vallendar, Germany, campus of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany,TBA
IDCEE (Investor Day CEE) , Kiev, Ukraine, October 16-17
Wired UK 14 , London, UK, October 16-17
GigaOM Structure:Europe , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, TBA
DLD Tel Aviv , Tel Aviv, Israel, TBA – Recommended
Venturecamp.mindthebridge.org , Milan, Italy, TBA
TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT EUROPE AND HACKATHON TBA DATE
Pioneers Festival , Vienna, Austria, 29 & 30 October – Recommended as a broad conference on science, tech and innovation
Dublin Web Summit and F.ounders , Dublin, Ireland, TBA
Stream Global 2014 (Marathon, Greece) 23-26 Oct
Νοέμβριος
HowToWeb , Bucharest, Romania, TBA – Recommended to download Eastern Europe
Explorers Conference , Lisbon, Portugal, TBA
Webit , Istanbul, Turkey, TBA – Recommend, Large trade show and exhibition featuring broadly on digital marketing, commerce and startups, in Turkey and Southern and Central Europe
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK – Nov 6-8 featuring veterans from the Valley touring London and Cambridge
Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford – Featuring veterans from the Valley at the Said Business School – (24-25 November in 2013)
Codebits – Portugal, TBA, Large hackathon style conference, not startup oriented but a pool for talent
Noah Conference , London, UK, – Recommended for later stage startups, broadly European but heavily German and Israeli
Apps World , London, UK November 12-13
Global Entrepreneurship Week in Belarus – (Nov 18-21 in 2013) – Minsk, Belarus – Features startups
Slovakia Startup Awards
Rise Up Summit – Cairo, Egypt – Recommended a as a major event for tech in the Middle East (Was 24-25 Nov 2013)
Global Entrepreneurship Week (various global events like Internet Week Europe)
SIME , Stockholm, Sweden, TBA
Monaco Media Forum , Monaco, TBA
SVC2UK , London, UK, TBA
Slush , Helsinki, Finland, TBA – Recommended as the main Nordics/Scandinavia event
Startup Conference Next – Sofia, Bulgaria
Δεκέμβριος
Startup AddVenture – Kiev, Ukraine, Dec 3-4 (by Europe Venture Summit)
SIME Miami – 3-4 December
Stretch , Budapest – December 5-6 – leadership and management conference for tech comps
TechCrunch Moscow 2014 , Moscow, Russia, TBA
LeWeb , Paris, France, TBA – Recommended, big tech event in Europe for some time
API Days , Paris, France, TBA