Η λίστα με τα καλύτερα events για startups στην Ευρώπη για το 2014 – σύμφωνα με το techcrunch
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