Ilia Orlov

September 2026

HumanX is the networking play of the month: organizers claim 2,500+ attendees, 60% VP+, 200+ speakers, plus VentureConnect and founder/investor side events. Sifted is 3,000 people, 200+ speakers, founders/scaleup operators/investors, a meeting app, roundtables and an afterparty. European Blockchain Convention is 16–17 Sep on the official site – not October.

October 2026

Re:Location is 8–10 October, not 21–23 – checked against the official site. Organizers promise 500 founders/digital specialists, pitch evening on the 8th, conference plus a large party on the 9th, and activities on the 10th. TOKEN2049 Singapore is 7–8 October: 25k+ attendees, 7k+ companies, 300+ speakers, 60%+ C-level, with TOKEN2049 Week running 5–11 October. Tel Aviv stacks hard at month-end: TECH1 (1,700+ founders/CEOs/investors), Fintech Week (1,200 people, TASE + Herzog Tower) and Israel Mobile Summit all sit on 28–29 October.

November 2026

Slush is the standout: 12k+ attendees, 25k+ meetings, 600+ side events; 76% of the room is startups or investors. Investor Day is 17 November, then the afterparty. Web Summit, 9–12 November, already lists AI, Venture, MoneyConf, Marketing and other tracks plus Night Summit. Portugal Tech Week Palace, the curated core, runs 9–13 November in Lisbon alongside Web Summit. Same week in Tel Aviv: AI Week and Cyber Week share Tel Aviv University (plenaries 9–10 Nov, BSides 11th). RoadShow+ on the 17th is invite-only 1:1s for pre-seed–A startups with Israeli VCs.

December 2026

Expand North Star sits inside GITEX week at Expo City and is the actual founder/investor connector – GITEX itself is the mega-expo. Blockchain Life at Festival Arena is the loudest Web3 room of the year: 15k people, 200+ speakers, and a new AI Future stage.

January 2027

Cybertech Global TLV is the big Israel week of the winter: 25–27 January at Expo Tel Aviv, 14th edition, Startup Pavilion, thousands of B2B meetings. TLV Sparks usually rides the same week – 2026 ran 26–30 January – but 2027 festival dates are not posted yet.

February 2027

March 2027

MWC is 100k+ people and 2,900 exhibitors; 4YFN next door is the actual startup room – 1,000 startups and 900+ investors. If you only do one Barcelona week, do both.

April 2027

TOKEN2049 Dubai is 15,000 people from 4,000+ companies.

May 2027

SaaStr AI Annual is 10,000+ founders, CROs and VCs with 3,000+ scheduled 1:1s. Web Summit Vancouver is the Collision successor – same organizer family as Lisbon, 20k+ expected. Consensus Miami remains the institutional crypto room: 15k, finance-heavy.

June 2027

London that week is stacked: London Tech Week, Founders Forum (invite-shaped) and usually a cloud of side events. SuperReturn Venture in Berlin is the LP/VC meeting, not the startup expo. VivaTech remains the big continental show – 90k+ in recent editions.

July 2027

RAISE is the serious AI room in Paris: 9,000 leaders, C-suite, startups, investors and policymakers. Signal Week, the Paris Blockchain Week successor, lands the same week at Palais des Congrès. Bitcoin Conference returns to Nashville, 15–17 July.

August 2027

August is the trough. TechBBQ usually lands in late August in Copenhagen and is the Nordic season opener before Bits & Pretzels. 2027 dates are not up yet; 2026 ran 26–27 August.