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Microsoft Ignite runs November 17 to 20 in San Francisco. It's Microsoft's biggest enterprise event of the year, aimed at IT pros, developers, partners and the business leaders who sign the contracts. Expect agents everywhere. Copilot, Azure AI and the tools to build, govern and secure AI agents across a company will take most of the keynote time. Security and identity are … [Read more...] about Microsoft Ignite 2026, November 17–20, San Francisco

Gartner's EMEA flagship, IT Symposium/Xpo, takes place at the CCIB in Barcelona from November 9 to 12. More than 6,500 CIOs and senior IT executives are expected. The 2026 theme is Ignite Intelligence. The opening keynote, Reaching Escape Velocity, is about shaping an effective enterprise AI economy. Put simply: most companies have run AI pilots, few have made them pay, and … [Read more...] about Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026, November 9–12, CCIB, Barcelona

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America heads to Salt Lake City from November 9 to 12. Co-located events fill the first day and the main conference runs November 10 to 12. It's in-person only, and it's the main gathering of the open-source cloud infrastructure world. Kubernetes is grown up now, and the program shows it. The big topics are AI infrastructure on cloud-native … [Read more...] about KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026, November 9–12, Salt Lake City

Web Summit returns to Lisbon from November 9 to 12. Opening night is at the MEO Arena, and the following three days fill the FIL pavilions across Parque das Nações. More than 70,000 people are expected, which keeps it in the running for the biggest tech conference in Europe. The crowd is deliberately mixed. Startups exhibit next to big tech, investors sit in on panels with … [Read more...] about Web Summit 2026, November 9–12, MEO Arena and FIL, Lisbon

Gartner's North American IT Symposium/Xpo runs October 19 to 22 in Orlando. It draws more CIOs than any other event in Gartner's calendar, and for many IT leaders it's where next year's budget conversation really starts. The 2026 agenda is built around the AI-ready enterprise. That means less about whether to use AI and more about what has to change underneath it: data, … [Read more...] about Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026, October 19–22, Orlando

TechCrunch Disrupt comes back to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13 to 15, and it's still the place where a seed-stage company can go from unknown to funded in a week. About 10,000 founders, investors and operators are expected. Most of them aren't there for the keynotes. They're there for the hallway. The center of gravity is Startup Battlefield, the pitch … [Read more...] about TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, October 13–15, Moscone West, San Francisco

Event: Cloudflare Connect 2026 Dates: October 19–21, 2026 Location: Moscone West, San Francisco Host: Cloudflare I've decided to take my five newest projects to Cloudflare Connect and present them there: AltSql, VPN Works, Precomputing, Preconfiguration and BareProxy. They're small infrastructure tools, all of them put online over the past few weeks. Each one says Alpha … [Read more...] about Cloudflare Connect 2026, October 19–21, Moscone West, San Francisco

This is the 17th Jamf Nation User Conference. It's the biggest yearly gathering of Apple admins anywhere, and it fills Bartle Exhibit Hall. Sessions cover Mac and mobile workflows, compliance, risk reporting, integrations and APIs, and the end-user side of managing iPhones, iPads, Macs and Vision Pro at scale. Jamf is using the stage to push Apple device management toward … [Read more...] about JNUC 2026, September 23–25, Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City

Pegasus Tech Ventures brings 200 regional champions to San Francisco to compete for a $1 million investment prize. More than 5,000 founders, investors and corporate people are expected. The program runs three days. Semi-finals are on November 4, a corporate innovation seminar is on November 5, and the finale pitch and awards are on November 6, with a networking party after. … [Read more...] about Startup World Cup Grand Finale 2026, November 4–6, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco

Event: FYUZ 2026 Date: November 3–5, 2026 Location: The Westin Seattle, Seattle, Washington Host: Telecom Infra Project (TIP) About the Event FYUZ is the Telecom Infra Project's annual gathering for the global telecom community. Senior executives, technical leaders and ecosystem builders come to talk about open, disaggregated network technology. The 2026 edition has a new … [Read more...] about FYUZ 2026, November 3–5, The Westin Seattle, Seattle