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