EVENT CALENDAR 2014

JANUARY

• CES, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 7-10
• DLD, Munich, Germany, January 19-21 – Invited / Ticketed
• WEF / Davos, Switzerland, January 22-25 – Invite Only

FEBRUARY

• MIDEM Cannes, France, February 1-4 – Midem Lab is a track for music startups
• LIFT Geneva, Switzerland, February 5-7
• BERLINALE Berlin, February 6 – 16
• 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, February 24-27
• 4 Years From Now Barcelona, February 24-27

MARCH

• London Web Summit, London, UK
• The START Summit Switzerland – Campus of the University of St. Gallen, March 14-15
• SXSW Interactive, Austin, Texas, March 7-16
• F.ounders NYC, New York, New York, TBA – Invite Only
• IMPACT Media Summit, March 12 – 14, Turin, Italy
• The Guardian Changing Media Summit, London, UK, March 18-19
• FutureEverything Festival, Manchester, UK, March 27-April 1 – Digital culture, innovation
• GDC SF, San Francisco, California, March 17-21
• rethink, Oslo, March 19
• eur§reg, Zurich, March 27
• Scaling Startups  London, UK, 26 & 27 March 2014
• Economist Technology Frontiers 2014 London, UK – 27 March

APRIL

• MIPTV, Cannes, France, April 7-10 | MIPFormats + MIPdoc – April 5/6
• Conde Nast Digital Day 2014, April 10 – Moscow
• The Next Web, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-25
• World Economic Forum on Europe, MENA and Eurasia (Istanbul, Turkey) – 27-29 Apr

MAY

• Disrupt NYC May 5-7, New York
• NEXT Berlin, Berlin, Germany, May 5-6
• Heureka, Berlin, Germany, May 6
• Berlin Web Week, Berlin, Germany, May 6-7
• CapitalOnStage, Berlin, Germany, TBA
• Decoded Fashion Tech, London, UK, May 10-14
• Google Zeitgeist UK (London, UK) – 18-20 May (TBC)
• Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, May 14-25
• Thinking Digital, Newcastle, UK, May 20-22 – Interesting
• 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

JUNE

• COLOGNE MASTER CLASS | Developig Formats – June 14 – 18

• DEMO Europe – June 4-5, Moscow, Russia,
• Le Web London, London, UK, June 9-10
• FoundersForum.eu, TBA – Invite Only
• EU Commission Digital Agenda Assembly – TBA
• Cannes Lions 15-21 June 2014, Cannes, France – Relevant for tech companies driven by advertising, big players attend
• WPP Stream, Cannes, France, June 17 – Invite only

JULY

• Tech Open Air Berlin – Berlin, Germany, July 4-5

• BERLIN MASTER CLASS | Pitching Ideas – July 5 – 8 
• DLD Women, Munich, Germany, TBA
• Globes Conference Marketing – Tel Aviv

AUGUST

• Young Rewired State, UK, August 4-10
• MediaEvolution.se, Malmo, Sweden, August 19-20 – Media/Tech overlap conf.
• Copenhagen TV Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

SEPTEMBER

• IFA, Berlin, Germany, September 5 – 10 – Europe’s main consumer tech/gadget show
• CTIA, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 9-11

• 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

• NEW YORK MASTER CLASS | Running Shows – September 20 – 23
  

• Campus Party London, London, UK, TBA
• Startup Lisboa Demo day, Lisboa, Portugal, TBA
• Glazed Summit (Wearables) – Tuesday, September 30, 2014, San Francisco

• Fast FWD Conference – tech and startup festival in Belgium – TBA
• Kinnernet, Israel – Invite only, mainly Israeli in focus, with some outside guests
• 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, May 20, 2014
• Webrazzi Summit, Istanbul, Turkey, TBA. September 25th

OCTOBER

• The Next Web New York, New York, New York, TBA
• TED Global, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5-10
• 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
• TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT EUROPE AND HACKATHON TBA
• 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

NOVEMBER

• CAMBRIDGE MASTER CLASS | Negotiating Deals – November 15 – 18 
• Silicon Valley Comes to the UK – Nov 19-21 featuring veterans from the Valley touring London and Cambridge
• Noah Conference, London, UK, November 12-13 – Recommended for later stage startups, broadly European but also heavily German and Israeli in delegates
• Apps World, London, UK November 12-13
• Global Entrepreneurship Week (various global events like Internet Week Europe)
• SIME, Stockholm, Sweden, TBA
• Monaco Media Forum, Monaco, TBA
• Slush, Helsinki, Finland, TBA – Recommended as the main Nordics/Scandinavia event

DECEMBER

• SIME Miami – 2-3 December
• TechCrunch Moscow 2014, Moscow, Russia, TBA
• LeWeb, Paris, France, TBA