MunichTech EXPO 2026 connects startups, investors, corporates, universities, research institutions, and innovation ecosystems from Europe and the Gulf region, with a focus on AI, DeepTech, innovation, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship.
Autonomous Intelligence Forum #2 Wer heute KI einsetzt, gibt Daten preis, Kontrolle ab und Entscheidungen weiter – oft, ohne es genau zu wissen. Datensouveränität ist damit keine juristische Fußnote mehr, sondern eine strategische Grundfrage. Und AI-Harnesses – die Infrastruktur, in der autonome Systeme laufen, überwacht und kontrolliert werden – entscheiden darüber, ob Unternehmen ihre KI wirklic
IdeaLab! is the student-run founders' conference of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, held at the Stadt- und Kongresshalle in Vallendar on 25–26 September 2026 under the theme 'Ignite. Create. Shape what's next.' The two days mix keynote talks, hands-on workshops and startup pitch formats, with separate paths for founders, investors, students and professionals — founders pitch and meet investors, investors get curated meetings with pre-selected startups. Past speakers include Oliver Samwer, Verena Pausder and Raisin co-founder Tamaz Georgadze. Entry is by application rather than straight purchase, with ticket tiers running from student through investor.
Free virtual data & AI conference on October 14, 2026. Practitioners share what they've shipped in GenAI, Data Engineering, Data Strategy & Agentic AI. Open globally across all time zones. barc.com/events/data-festival-online/
DevFest Hamburg 2026 is a two day local tech conference hosted by Google Developer Groups (GDG) and Social Developers Club among many other DevFests happening around the globe. Get together with many local developers, enjoy talks given by local experts, and network with different local communities.
Speaker & Agenda Infos at https://hamburg.devfest.de/
From November 23–27, 2026, EKON brings together the most renowned experts from the Delphi community in Düsseldorf for a practical, hands-on conference program featuring keynotes, sessions, and workshops across six tracks.
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Signals Berlin 2026 — Reliability in the Age of AI. A curated single-track, 250-seat conference for SRE, platform, DevOps and MLOps engineers, with practitioner talks on what actually breaks in production. Speakers from Honeycomb, Anthropic, Bloomberg, Zalando and Booking.com. 10–11 September at Kulturbrauerei Berlin.
A one-day mini-conference for the Zig programming language, held at the Hoftheater in Munich. The 2026 programme opens with a keynote by Loris Cro of the Zig Software Foundation and runs six talks: building PKCS#11 modules in Zig, approaching Zig with a garbage-collection mindset, a pure-Zig transformer engine that generates Commodore 64 SID music, a Zig-powered sourdough fermentation rig, replacing a 250 MB Chromium kiosk with 441 KB of Zig on a Pi Zero, and branchless zero-allocation CSV parsing. Doors open at 09:30 and the day closes with an open-end get-together. Tickets are sold through the organiser's own pretix shop.
Hatch is the premier event for European in-house design teams. With talks and workshops from the top voices in Design in Europe and the world, that help senior design professionals stay market-ready. Apply for an invitation at https://www.hatchconference.com/invite
Driven by passion - where laid-back attitude meets technical substance. Daten-WG is more like a shared-flat festival than a classic conference: approachable, short distances – and above all, with time for real conversations. The idea: bringing data people from differnt bubbles (Microsoft Tech, Marketing, Finance, SME,..) together without the usual tight scheduled conference feeling.
After a long break, the Joomla! World Conference is back, bringing the international Joomla community together at the Kongresshotel Potsdam on Lake Templin, ten minutes from Potsdam's centre and about half an hour from Berlin. Over two and a half days the programme runs four parallel tracks — two in English (Rooms 1 and 2) and two in German (Rooms 3 and 4) — with talks from international speakers. Published sessions range from model-driven Joomla development and cleaning up code on the way from Joomla 3 to Joomla 6, to SEO in an AI world, no-code automation and turning Joomla skills into a business, with keynotes from Joomla co-founder Brian Teeman and Elisa Foltyn. The event also carries dedicated exhibition space for sponsors, and the J!Awards 2026, Joomla's new Community Choice Awards across eight categories, will be presented in Potsdam. It opens with registration on Friday morning and closes with a reception on Sunday afternoon.
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The EMBO Workshop Chemical Biology 2026 runs at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg and in parallel online, and bills itself as the largest and longest-standing conference in its field. Five session tracks cover big data, AI and design; chemical technologies to probe biology; chemical technologies to manipulate biology; chemical synthetic biology; and the RNA world — spanning tool development through to new drug modalities and computational protein design. Keynotes come from Michelle Arkin and William DeGrado (UC San Francisco) and Paola Picotti (ETH Zurich), with speakers drawn from academia and industry across Europe, the US and Asia. On-site registration has closed; virtual registration is open until 1 September 2026.
Oxidize is the conference for companies and developers using Rust professionally, held at Tagungswerk in Berlin across three days: one workshop day followed by two days of talks. The workshop day covers safety-critical development with Ferrocene, making Rust and C++ get along, integrating Rust into existing embedded C applications, and embedded Rust with batteries included. The talk programme is drawn from teams shipping Rust in production — Volvo Cars on its next-generation EV battery, Quantum Systems on unmanned systems, plus Vector, JetBrains and Woven by Toyota — alongside sessions on bare-metal ESP32, Embassy, shipping native libraries, vendor drivers and high-assurance projects. Panels cover the Rust job market and the practicalities of executing safety-critical work in Rust.
MCTTP – Munich Cyber Tactics, Techniques and Procedures – takes place 16-18 September 2026 at DIE MACHEREI in Munich. The first day is dedicated to full-day, deep-dive security trainings held in small groups, followed by a two-day conference on 17-18 September. The program runs two tracks: an Offensive Track with technically advanced, practice-related talks on current attack methods and efficient defense ideas, and a Corporate Defense Track covering crisis prevention strategies, negotiations with perpetrators, criminal prosecution, and data protection in the event of a crisis. It is aimed at CISOs, cybersecurity architects and technicians, and creators of future-proof cybersecurity strategies, with international speakers and an evening event on the first conference day.
The Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous, technical discussion at the frontier of AI. We convene researchers from the frontier labs, Stanford, Berkeley, and the teams building in production to examine concrete work — papers, methods, and results — with a bias toward assumptions, evaluation methodology, failure modes, and what would count as convincing evidence. Each session featu
Das Java Forum Nord ist die eintägige Community-Konferenz der Java User Groups aus dem Norden Deutschlands und findet 2026 zum ersten Mal in der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover (MHH) statt – nach sechs Ausgaben im Hannover Congress Centrum wechselt die Veranstaltung damit zum dritten Mal ihren Ort. Organisiert wird sie von Freiwilligen aus den Java User Groups Bremen, Ostfalen, Darmstadt, Deutschland und Paderborn sowie der SUG Deutschland; die Ticketpreise werden bewusst niedrig gehalten, damit die Teilnahme jedem möglich ist. Der Tag beginnt um 8:00 Uhr mit dem Einlass, um 9:00 Uhr folgt die Eröffnungskeynote, von 10:00 bis 16:00 Uhr laufen stündlich mehrere Vorträge parallel, um 17:00 Uhr schließt die Abschlusskeynote die Konferenz, und ab 18:00 Uhr ist voraussichtlich ein Social Event geplant. Die Keynotes halten Nora Schöner (Cloud-Architektin und AWS Hero) sowie Oliver Zeigermann. Das veröffentlichte Vortragsprogramm umfasst über 30 Beiträge und reicht von Java 26/27, Maven 4 und JVM-Troubleshooting über Architektur-Reviews, Testing und CI/CD bis zu Kafka, Graphdatenbanken und dem Umgang mit KI im Entwickleralltag. Das Detailprogramm mit der Aufteilung der Vorträge auf die Räume wird laut FAQ erst Mitte September festgelegt.
Die Automotive Transformation Conference 2026 bringt führende Expert*innen, Entscheidungstragende, Entwickler*innen und Forschende aus ganz Europa zusammen, um aktuelle Herausforderungen zu diskutieren, Best Practices auszutauschen und neue Kooperationen zu initiieren.
Im September 2026 trifft sich die Mechatronik-Community in Bayern zum internationalen Austausch über Innovationen, Forschung und Praxis. Weitere Informationen folgen in Kürze – bleiben Sie gespannt!
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Cloud Native Münster is a free, volunteer-run community meetup that brings developers, platform engineers, SREs and cloud-native newcomers from the Münsterland region together around the CNCF ecosystem: Kubernetes and orchestration, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Pulumi or Crossplane, platform engineering and internal developer platforms, CNCF projects such as Prometheus, Envoy, ArgoCD and Cilium, and observability, security and reliability in distributed systems. The September 2026 edition is the group's fourth meeting; it launched in March 2026 and has since met roughly every two months, each time hosted by codecentric AG in Münster. The organisers ran a call for speakers through Sessionize from 20 July to 15 August 2026, so at the time of writing the two talks of the evening had not yet been announced. Their provisional agenda is 18:00 doors and networking, 18:30 first talk, 19:10 break, 19:20 second talk and 20:00 open networking; food and drinks are provided for all attendees and talks are held in German and/or English. Binding registration is requested in advance so the organisers can plan catering. The group is part of the CNCF Open Community Groups programme, follows the CNCF Code of Conduct, and is sponsored by codecentric and Rosenxt.
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SAP Inside Track Weinheim (#sitWHM) is a free, one-day community conference that brings together SAP developers, consultants, architects and anyone curious about the SAP ecosystem for technical deep-dives, live demos and honest lessons learned from the field, run by volunteers with no sales pitches. The 2026 edition runs 09:00-18:00 on Saturday 19 September in the Syntax Auditorium in Weinheim an der Bergstraße, with a single track covering local-first development with CAP Node.js, platform engineering on SAP BTP, CAP best practices and AI, bringing SAP AI and Microsoft AI together, a CAP app vs. Integration Suite comparison, GitHub and Cloud Integration, AI-assisted SAP development with MCP, and a closing talk on the long arc of enterprise engineering. Speakers include DJ Adams, Christian Lechner, Daniel Hutzel, Sebastian van Syckel and Morten Wittrock of SAP, Holger Bruchelt of Microsoft, Cedric Heisel of CIT Focus, independent consultant Marian Zeis, and Matthias Steiner of Syntax. Attendance is free and capped at 150 people, with lunch, coffee breaks and drinks covered by sponsors; the venue is wheelchair accessible and offers free on-site parking, five minutes' walk from Weinheim train station. A Friday programme precedes the conference: a hands-on SAP CodeJam on CAP CDS led by DJ Adams (18 September, 9:00-16:00, 25 seats, separate signup) and a casual pre-evening get-together from 19:00 at Woinheimer Brauerei. The event is onsite only - no recordings and no livestream.