With the aim of bringing our readers an extensive tech events diary, Information Age will be continually updating this as new events come onto our radar. If you notice any events we have missed or would like your event on our list, please get in touch with Aaron Hurst on aaron.hurst@stubbenedge.com
Event month:
2023 – February
February 2023
Event: Cisco Live 2023 Amsterdam
Start Date: 6 February 2023
End Date: 8 February 2023
Location: Amsterdam
Venue: RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre
Website: www.ciscolive.com
Brief: Keynote and Q&A with Cisco executive leadership team. Dedicated sessions on cybersecurity, the experience economy, innovation and sustainability.
Event: London PropTech Show
Start Date: 15 February 2023
End Date: 16 February 2023
Location: London
Venue: Business Design Centre
Website: https://proptechshow.com/
Brief: A key event bringing together the entire value chain including experts, business leaders, startups, investors, and policymakers in the PropTech space.
Event: DeveloperWeek
Start Date: 15 February 2023
End Date: 23 February 2023
Location: SF Bay Area and Virtual
Venue: Virtual
Website: https://www.developerweek.com
Brief: Online only version of this ever-popular event for developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, managers and executives. Discover the latest in developer technologies, languages, platforms, and tools with over 15+ Conferences & Tracks plus the usual hackathons and keynote talks.
Event: Women in IT Awards UK
Start Date: 23 February 2023
End Date: 23 February 2023
Location: London
Venue: JW Marriott, Grosvenor House, Park Lane
Website: https://www.bonhillevents.com/EN/WITUKAwards2023
Brief: Now in their ninth year, the prestigious Women in IT Awards UK have recognised and celebrated over 1,000 women, allies, and organisations across the UK for their outstanding contribution to the tech industry. Hosted by LJ Rich, this event will commemorate the successes of organisations, leaders and upcoming talent.
Event: MWC Barcelona
Start Date: 27 February 2023
End Date: 3 March 2023
Location: Barcelona
Venue: Fira Gran Via
Website: www.mwcbarcelona.com
Brief: The show will be largely centred around five themes for 2023 – 5G Acceleration, Reality+, OpenNet, FinTech and Digital Everything – and how they’re shaping the tech industry. Keynote speakers include Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and executive chairman of S4 Capital.
March 2023
Event: Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2023
Start Date: 6 March 2023
End Date: 7 March 2023
Location: London
Venue: InterContinental London – The O2
Website: https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/emea/identity-access-management-uk
Brief: This conference aims to help identity & access management (IAM) and security leaders make the right decisions about which identity-first security initiatives to prioritise; how to modernise existing staffing models; and whether to invest in new tools to take their organisation’s security posture into the identity-first era.
Event: Velocity Data and Analytics Summit
Start Date: 7 March 2023
End Date: 8 March 2023
Location: Johannesburg
Venue: Hilton Sandton
Website: https://za.velocityda.com/
Brief: Datatechvibe presents a conference dedicated to discussing the latest trends and challenges in data analytics, and enhancing organisations’ decision-making. Attendees can learn from tech leadership delivered by data leaders from across the world, and get engaged in masterclasses designed to help you drive more value from your company’s data.
Event: Tech Show London
Start Date: 8 March 2023
End Date: 9 March 2023
Location: London
Venue: ExCel London
Website: www.techshowlondon.co.uk
Brief: Three hundred exhibitors and 12,000 attendees will converge on ExCel London for this year’s Tech Show London, which offers 200 hours of tech talks including star names such as Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, former director-general of MI5; Radia Perlman, inventor of STP Protocol; and Sky group CTO Prasana Gopalakrishnan.
Event: AIBC Eurasia
Start Date: 13 March 2023
End Date: 16 March 2023
Location: Dubai
Venue: Festival Arena
Website: https://aibc.world/eurasia/
Brief: A conference exploring the cutting edge technologies set to transform business and society, including AI and blockchain. Uniting policy-makers, developers, C-suite executives and legal experts, the event will feature educational panels, keynote speeches, workshops and networking events.
Event: INDUSTRY: The Product Conference
Start Date: 20 March 2023
End Date: 22 March 2023
Location: Dublin
Venue: RDS Arena
Website: https://www.industryconference.com/europe
Brief: Join over 600 other product leaders for three days of keynotes and new connections at this conference for software product managers.
Event: SGTech Week
Start Date: 20 March 2023
End Date: 24 March 2023
Location: Amsterdam
Venue: Park Plaza Amsterdam Airport
Website: https://www.smartgrid-forums.com/sgtech-week
Brief: The 4th annual SGTech Week 2023 brings together over 150 utility substation, SCADA system, telecoms and cybersecurity professionals, for a review of the latest smart grid implementation projects and innovation roadmaps. The week-long programme will feature C-level plenary sessions, techno-commercial case-study presentations, tech innovation panel debates, and intimate end-user roundtable discussions, to drive awareness of recent successes and setbacks as well as stimulate new ideas.
Event: The DEVOPS Conference
Start Date: 22 March 2023
End Date: 23 March 2023
Location: Virtual
Venue: Virtual
Website: https://www.thedevopsconference.com/global
Brief: This fully virtual event will bring together an array of tech leaders to discuss how to get the best out of DevOps capabilities. The summit will include fireside chats, keynote presentations and hands-on workshops.
Event: Open Source Day
Start Date: 24 March 2023
End Date: 24 March 2023
Location: Florence and virtually
Venue: Nana Bianca and virtually
Website: https://2023.osday.dev/
Brief: The second edition of the Open Source Day conference invites open source developers and leaders to network and explore the biggest trends disrupting the open source software space. The event is organised by the open source community Schrödinger Hat.
Event: CIO’s FutureIT Dallas
Start Date: 29 March 2023
End Date: 29 March 2023
Location: Dallas
Venue: Tower Club of Dallas
Website: https://events.ciofutureit.com/event/dallas
Brief: CIO’s FutureIT gathers an exclusive group of only the most influential IT professionals for an all-day interactive experience with workshops, hands-on tech and more. You won’t want to miss joining Dallas’s tech accelerator and leave with the tools and partners you need to reach the next level in your IT strategy.
April 2023
Event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
Start Date: 18 April 2023
End Date: 21 April 2023
Location: Amsterdam
Venue: RAI Convention Centre
Website: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/
Brief: The Cloud Native Computing Federation’s flagship conference brings together adopters, developers, and practitioners to collaborate and share learnings face-to-face and is an opportunity to engage with the leaders of Kubernetes, Prometheus, and other CNCF-hosted projects as they set the direction for the cloud native ecosystem.
Event: PyCon US
Start Date: 19 April 2023
End Date: 27 April 2023
Location: Salt Lake City and virtually
Venue: Salt Palace Convention Center and virtually
Website: https://us.pycon.org/
Brief: Celebrating its 20th anniversary, PyCon US is dedicated to bringing together the global Python coding community for tutorials, keynote talks, presentations and networking. The event will also include a tech jobs fair and coding sprints.
Event: RSA Conference
Start Date: 24 April 2023
End Date: 27 April 2023
Location: San Francisco
Venue: Moscone Center
Website: https://www.rsaconference.com/usa
Brief: A conference dedicated to learning and discussing how best to keep the organisation protected from cyber threats. Attendees can share ideas about current and future cybersecurity concerns, and how to overcome them.
May 2023
Event: Appian World
Start Date: 1 May 2023
End Date: 3 May 2023
Location: San Diego
Venue: Hilton Bayfront Hotel
Website: https://appianworld.com/
Brief: Appian’s flagship global customer and partner event will feature a number of keynotes and discussions involving leading financial service companies from insurance and banking, as well as healthcare, telecommunications and civil service, sharing how to get the best out of end-to-end process automation.
Event: Informatica World
Start Date: 8 May 2023
End Date: 11 May 2023
Location: Las Vegas
Venue: The Venetian Resort
Website: https://www.informaticaworld.com/
Brief: A conference dedicated to all things cloud data management, Informatica World invites tech professionals to learn about and discusss the latest strategies and best practices.
Event: Women in IT Summit UK
Start Date: 18 May 2023
End Date: 18 May 2023
Location: London
Venue: etc Venues, 133 Houndsditch
Website: https://events.diversityq.com/EN/WITSummitUK2023/
Brief: This one-day event, presented by DiversityQ and Information Age, will explore how organisations within the tech industry, and beyond, can prioritise and put DEI strategies at the core of their growth ambitions.
Event: Forbes CIO Summit: The Transformational CIO
Start Date: 23 May 2023
End Date: 24 May 2023
Location: Half Moon Bay and virtually
Venue: The Ritz-Carlton and virtually
Website: https://www.forbes.com/connect/event/2022-cio-summit/
Brief: Join Forbes and other tech leaders to learn how top CIOs are building powerful software development organisations that give their companies a competitive edge.
Event: Red Hat Summit
Start Date: 23 May 2023
End Date: 25 May 2023
Location: Boston
Venue: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Website: https://www.redhat.com/en/summit
Brief: Red Hat’s annual conference delves into the biggest challenges and innovations around open source and hybrid cloud.
June 2023
Event: PegaWorld
Start Date: 11 June 2023
End Date: 13 June 2023
Location: Las Vegas
Venue: MGM Grand
Website: https://www.pega.com/events/pegaworld
Brief: This year’s PegaWorld conference promises to help businesses to drive more value from low-code capabilities for AI-powered decision-making and workflow management.
Event: Banking Transformation Summit
Start Date: 22 June 2023
End Date: 22 June 2023
Location: London
Venue: ICC Capital Suite, ExCeL London
Website: https://bankingtransformationsummit.com/
Brief: A banking sector conference bringing together financial services decision-makers from over 80 banks to discuss how true innovation can be achieved, as well as the external factors shifting the market, and changing customer expectations.
Event: World Conference on Data Science & Statistics
Start Date: 26 June 2023
End Date: 28 June 2023
Location: Frankfurt
Venue: TBC
Website: https://datascience.thepeopleevents.com/
Brief: This global conference aims to bring together data scientists, analysts, visualisers, statisticians, mathematicians and researchers who are building fundamentals for data science and its applications across science, engineering, technology, and society. This year’s theme for the event is “Understanding the Data Science: Can help now and in the Future”.
Event: Women in IT Summit and Awards Asia
Start Date: 28 June 2023
End Date: 28 June 2023
Location: Singapore
Venue: Shangri La Hotel
Website: https://events.diversityq.com/EN/WITSummit_AwardsAsia2023/
Brief: This dual summit and awards ceremony, presented by DiversityQ and Information Age, will explore how organisations within the Asia region tech industry, and beyond, can prioritise and put DEI strategies at the core of their growth ambitions. At the end of the summit, the WIT Awards Asia will recognise and celebrate the impacts made by female tech talent and allies across the sector.
July 2023
Event: Future of SaaS Festival
Start Date: 6 July 2023
End Date: 7 July 2023
Location: London
Venue: TBC
Website: https://events.futureofsaas.io/location/london
Brief: This event will bring together founders and C-Suite professionals to explore the latest trends, challenges and opportunities in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry. Topics to be covered will include scaling SaaS in line with demands; customisation and integration; and unlocking the power of AI.
Event: QCon New York
Start Date: 13 July 2023
End Date: 15 July 2023
Location: New York and virtual
Venue: Marriott Brooklyn Bridge and virtual
Website: https://qconnewyork.com/
Brief: QCon New York will operate in a hybrid format this year, bringing together senior software engineers, software architects, and team leads from across the software development space. The event looks to help attendees learn about emerging trends, explore valuable use cases, and implement software development best practices.
August 2023
Event: Black Hat USA
Start Date: 5 August 2023
End Date: 10 August 2023
Location: Las Vegas and virtual
Venue: Mandalay Bay Convention Center and virtual
Website: https://www.blackhat.com/
Brief: Black Hat USA offers the cybersecurity community with the latest cutting-edge research, developments, and trends, as well as the opportunity to network with professionals across the industry.
Event: VMWare Explore
Start Date: 21 August 2023
End Date: 24 August 2023
Location: Las Vegas
Venue: The Venetian Convention and Expo Center
Website: https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html
Brief: VMWare Explore promises to bring tech and business decision-makers to learn about innovations happening across the multi-cloud space.
September 2023
Event: Commercial UAV Expo
Start Date: 5 September 2023
End Date: 7 September 2023
Location: Las Vegas
Venue: Caesars Forum
Website: https://www.expouav.com/
Brief: This live event defines and showcases the global commercial drone industry, with a tie-in into the world of advanced air mobility. The conference looks to draw in the power buyers and global influencers, as well as set the pace for the industry.
Event: Global CISO Executive Summit
Start Date: 11 September 2023
End Date: 13 September 2023
Location: Nashville
Venue: Four Seasons
Website: https://www.evanta.com/ciso/global/global-ciso-executive-summit-6075
Brief: Evanta, a Gartner subsidiary, presents a conference for global security leaders to network and share ideas around security strategy.
Event: Info-Tech LIVE
Start Date: 19 September 2023
End Date: 21 September 2023
Location: Las Vegas
Venue: The Cosmopolitan
Website: https://www.infotech.com/events
Brief: A conference exploring the future of IT with a focus on real, everyday challenges, and how to turn those into advantages.
October 2023
Event: Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo
Start Date: 16 October 2023
End Date: 19 October 2023
Location: Orlando
Venue: WDW Dolphin Hotel
Website: https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/symposium-us
Brief: Gartner’s IT Symposium and Xpo brings together CIOs, CISOs and other tech leaders from around the world to address the most pressing challenges faced by IT executives.
November 2023
Event: Oman Future Tech Event
Start Date: 1 November 2023
End Date: 1 November 2023
Location: Muscat
Venue: Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre
Website: https://futuretechevent.com/
Brief: The premier B2B and B2G bespoke technology event in Oman, the third annual Future Tech Event invites C-Level executives, leading industry experts, decision makers, policy makers and government officials to network with peers across the value chain. The conference will cover how the tech industry can overcome current challenges, create future business opportunities and develop market strategies around emerging technologies.
Event: Microsoft Ignite
Start Date: 15 November 2023
End Date: 16 November 2023
Location: TBC
Venue: TBC
Website: https://ignite.microsoft.com/
Brief: Microsoft Ignite will allow developers and IT professionals to catch up on the latest hybrid and remote work and collaboration technology innovations.
Event: AWS re:Invent
Start Date: 27 November 2023
End Date: 1 December 2023
Location: Las Vegas
Venue: Various venues
Website: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Brief: Amazon Web Services (AWS) presents a learning conference catered for the global cloud computing community.
Event: Slush
Start Date: 30 November 2023
End Date: 1 December 2023
Location: Helsinki
Venue: Messukeskus Helsinki
Website: https://www.slush.org/events/helsinki/
Brief: Slush presents the opportunity for tech startup founders from across the world to expand their networks and showcase their offerings to press and potential investors. Speakers are set to include Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin, Stripe co-founder John Collison, and Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg.
Any tech events missing? Want to list your event? Email aaron.hurst@stubbenedge.com to be added to the list
