Startup/Tech Events in Europe, January-March 2011
A few days ago I sent out a tweet asking people to suggest technology or startup events in Europe in the next few months... the answers have been quite depressing. There are actually a few lists of events online, but they cover just a tiny fraction of what's actually available.
So I decided to put together the list. I had to leave out all user group meetings... they are way too much!
I'm sure I forgot many events. Please add any other interesting event you are aware of in the comments
Garage 48 Helsinki
January 14th-16th, Helsinki, Finland
http://www.garage48.org/events/helsinki-2011
Garage48 is a boot-camp style community event to build new services just in 48 hours
Seedcamp London
January 25th, London, UK
http://seedcamp.com/pages/london11jan
Seedcamp London is a one day event aiming to connect the 20 best web-tech, mobile and software talent with some of the leading entrepreneurs, developers, and experts from the tech ecosystem. The event will be held at Nesta's London premises. The deadline for applications in January 12th.
Startup Weekend Brussels
January 28th-30th, Brussels, Belgium
http://brussels.startupweekend.org/
The organisers told me the official language of this event will be English, so anybody can attend it.
Startup Weekend Oslo
January 28th-30th, Oslo, Norway
http://oslo.startupweekend.org/tickets/
Fosdem
February 5th-6th, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.fosdem.org/2011/
FOSDEM is the biggest free and non-commercial event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. No registration necessary.
Startup Camp Modena 2011
February 12th, Modena, Italy
http://http://barcampmodena.blogspot.com/
Jfokus
February 14th-16th, Stockholm, Sweden
http://www.jfokus.com
Jfokus is the largest annual conference for everyone who works with Java in Sweden. The conference is in English.
Mobile World Congress
February 14th-17th, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/index.htm
Startup Weekend Nantes
February 18th-20th, Nantes, France
http://nantes.startupweekend.org/
Startup Weekend Eindhoven
February 18th-20th, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
http://eindhoven.startupweekend.org/
The website states the official language of the event is English!
BASTA! 2011
February 21st-25th, Darmstadt, Germany
http://basta.net/2011spring/
.NET conference; it is mainly in German, with a few sessions in English.
SES London 2011
February 21st-25th, London, United Kingdom
hhttp://www.searchenginestrategies.com/london/
SES London is the leading search marketing conference in Europe.
Codemotion
March 5th, Rome, Italy
http://codemotion.it
Codemotion is the Italian technology event with the highest number of participants. It used to be a Java-related conference, but it is open now to all languages and technologies. Mainly (if not entirely) in Italian.
QCon 2011
March 7th-11th, London, UK
http://qconlondon.com/london-2011/conference/
The fifth annual London enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects and project management is back!
Simple design and testing conference
March 12th-13th, London, UK
http://skillsmatter.com/event/design-architecture/simple-design-and-testing-conference
Future of Web Design
March 16th-18th, London, UK
http://futureofwebdesign.com/london-2011/
Functional Programming Exchange
March 18th, London, United Kingdom
http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/functionalpx-2011
Startup Weekend Nice
March 18th-20th, Nice, France
http://nice.startupweekend.org/
MongoUK 2011
March 21th, London, United Kingdom
http://www.10gen.com/conferences/mongouk2011
MongoUK is a one-day conference dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB.
Barcamp Ruhr 4
March 26th-27th, Essen, Germany
http://www.barcampruhr3.de/
MobileTech Conference
March 28th-30th, Munich, Germany
http://mobiletechcon.de/
The conference is mainly in German, with a few sessions in English.
Social Media World Forum
March 29th-30th, London, United Kingdom
http://www.socialmedia-forum.com/europe/