43 must-attend startup & VC events in Europe in 2024

The Flyer One Ventures team has compiled a comprehensive list of events and conferences that will take place in various European cities in 2024 and will be relevant to founders, entrepreneurs, startups, and VCs.

Startups World is for entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders who “try to change the world.” Its website says it will provide attendees with the "opportunity to hear [and learn from] the most remarkable leaders."

Confirmed speakers: Runway Innovation Hub, E-spaces, MyHealthMirror, Exponential Design Lab.

Tickets: €745–2,460. Online participation: €159.

Website: startupsworld.net

sTARTUp Day positions itself as “the most startup-minded business festival.” The website says 3,900 people attended this event last year. Its agenda includes a stage program with 152 speakers, a demo area, workshops, a pitching competition, and a party.

Сonfirmed speakers: Wise, Veriff, Icebreaker VC, Startup Estonia, Swedbank, the president of Estonia.

Tickets: €199–249. For startups: €149

Website: startupday.ee

The Future of Ukraine Summit expects 200 delegates: representatives from international corporations and tech companies, investors, policymakers, and Ukrainian startup founders. The summit aims to provide insights into "the challenges and opportunities for building a successful Ukraine.”

Сonfirmed speakers: Kyiv City Council, CyberDiia, Honda Xcelerator Ventures, Swedish politicians.

Tickets: €599–1199.

Website: whysummits.com/the-future-of-ukraine-summit-nordics-2024

4YFN is an event for connectivity startups, VCs, corporations, and institutions. It promises to boost startups in this field “with contacts, exposure and investments." The program also features the startup competition 4YFN Awards 2024.

Confirmed speakers: S4 Capital, Global Innovation Catalyst, INBRAIN Neuroelectronics.

Tickets: €879–4,899.

Website: 4yfn.com

Startup Moldova Summit enhances connections within Moldova’s community and links it with global resources like investors, partners, and mentors. Participants from 19 countries attended the event last year, the website says.

Confirmed speakers: Horizon Capital, Inovo.vc, Google, NodeShigt, Graphy.

Tickets: €25–100 (MDL 500 – 2000).

Website: startupmoldova.digital/startup-moldova-summit-2024

Launched in 2011 for the first time, this conference is making content for deep tech companies trying to improve human and planetary health. It promises science/tech discussions, advice for founders from industry experts and peers, and networking opportunities.

Previous speakers: Stanford, Google, Harvard, Stripe, L'Oreal.

Tickets: €490–1,290. For startups: €370. For students: €80.

Website: hello-tomorrow.org/global-summit/

The Investors' Forum is the annual flagship event of Invest Europe. It’s designed for LPs and GPs. Attendance is open to pre-qualified institutional investors and Invest Europe member GPs and LP fund-of-funds only.

Previous speakers: HarbourVest, Atomico, Pantheon Ventures, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Allianz Capital Partners.

Tickets: €1,900 (for LPs) and €3,260 (for GPs).

Website: if.investeurope.eu

TechChill is one of the most important tech events in the Baltics. About 2,300 guests attend the conference each year. The program includes investor day, media tour, demo day, workshops, founders mixer, stage content, parties, and speakers dinner.

Previous speakers: Atomico, Revolut, Wise, Speedinvest, Startup Wise Guys, Deel.

Tickets: €129–259. For investors: €199–259. For startups: €79 and €700 (expo).

Website: techchill.co

The goal of this event is to “showcase Europe’s hottest startups” and share their stories. Last time it gathered over 2,000 founders, startup enthusiasts, corporates, investors, and journalists. There will also be a pitch competition with startups selected from over 1,000 applicants.

Previous speakers: BlaBlaCar, Glovo, TechCrunch, Eventbrite.

Tickets: €169–600.

Website: eu-startups.com/eu-startups-summit-2024

Podim is a nonprofit founded in 1980 to change attitudes towards innovation that evolved into a pretty influential tech event in CEE. It isn’t as big as some other conferences, and Podim says it works much better for networking.

Previous speakers: Miro, Credo Ventures, Techstars, Amazon Web Services.

Tickets: €490–590. For startups: €145.

Website: podim.org/podim

This event is for the VC industry players operating in CEE. The attendee mix is about "two general partners for every limited partner," the website reads.

Сonfirmed speakers: ARX Equity Partners, INVL Asset Management, Schroders, Impulse Ventures, 500 Emerging Europe, Innova Capital, CEE Equity Partners.

Early bird tickets: €600–1,000.

Website: 0100conferences.com/conferences/0100-conference-cee-2024

Impact’24 is a tech conference that covers a lot of topics: from AI and fintech to cybersecurity and e-commerce. The website says last year 6,000 people attended the event.

Previous speakers: Obama Foundation, Mastercard, Google, The Economist, Yale, UNICEF, IBM, CD Project Red.

Tickets: $970 (will get more expensive after Feb. 8).

Website: impactcee.com

Mashup is a community-led event for startups from Pre-seed to Series A, VCs, LPs, Angels, Family Offices, and Partners across Europe. No stage performances - only networking, dinners, boule-pétanque, roundtables, and even karaoke.

Previous partners: Atomico, Earlybird, Inventure VC, Cherry Ventures.

Tickets: €250–400.

Website: mashup.day

Forty-four percent of Tech.eu Summit London’s attendees are CEOs, founders and senior managers, 18% are investors. Overall, about 1,000 people attend this tech event to talk about the industry and network.

Previous speakers: Index Ventures, Atomico, Wise, European Investment Fund, Target Global.

Super early bird: £300. VIP pass: £1.750.

Website: tech.eu/event/2024/summit-london

Infoshare is one of the biggest tech events in CEE for IT professionals and entrepreneurs. It is made to inspire people to embrace innovations. Nearly 50,000 people attended Infoshare (4,000 startups and 1,400 speakers).

Previous speakers: IBM, MongoDB, Microsoft, GitHub, Forbes, Ukrainian Startup Fund.

Tickets: $110–370.

Website: infoshare.pl

Latitude59 is an event for startups and VCs, featuring about 30 side events and the L59 Pitch Competition (€1M prize fund in 2023). “It is small by design. We like the cozy festival vibe,” reads the website. About 3,000 people attended it last year.

Previous speakers: Bolt, Creandum, NATO, Goldman Sachs, Karma VC, Google, Respeecher, CERN.

Super early bird tickets: €139–249.

Website: latitude59.ee

SHIFT brings change-oriented people and businesses together for two days to network, learn, and get inspired with a relaxed, fun festival atmosphere in the background.

Previous speakers: Microsoft, Amazon, Nokia, Fujitsu, Turku Chamber of Commerce.

Tickets: €129-550.

Website: theshift.fi

Also spelled VivaTech, it’s a four-day annual tech conference that’s attended by super-star speakers. Last year it hosted 10 conference tracks — including on AI, energy, foodtech, and the future of sport — and three themed stages.

Previous speakers: Elon Musk, Marc Benioff, Emmanuel Macron, Yann LeCun (a Turing Award winning computer scientist).

Tickets: €280-1,490.

Website: vivatechnology.com

It’s a “tech festival” attended by roughly 8,000 people. It features four stages, workshops, and live podcasts. Topics: Future Machines, Future Enterprise, Future US, and Future Planet.

Confirmed speakers: IKEA, Microsoft, European Space Agency, Oxford University, Pinterest.

Tickets: €335. Early bird: €235.

Website: dublintechsummit.tech

SaaStr Europa is tailored for SaaS founders (obviously) and VCs investing in them. Its website reads, “No commercials, no paid content, and no boring panels. Every session is hand-screened and vetted to help you learn.”

Previous speakers: Salesforce Ventures, Loom, Point Nine Ventures, Rippling, Accel, Mailchimp, Amplitude.

Tickets: $620–775.

Website: saastreuropa2024.com

South Summit positions itself as a meeting point for entrepreneurs and investors. In 2023, 6,500 entrepreneurs and 2,000 investors attended the event, according to its website. It also features a startup competition, whose finalists eventually raised a total of $14 billion, the blurb reads.

Early bird tickets: €150–1,360.

Website: southsummit.io/madrid

Arctic15 is a two-day startup event in Northern Europe, focusing on matchmaking and networking, featuring also a pitch competition and workshops for founders.

Previous speakers: Isomer Capital, VC Lab, Atomico, Pale Blue Dot, SOSV, Rockstart, Peak.

Tickets: €150–450.

Website: arctic15.com

London Tech Week is a week-long festival on tech. In 2023 the event was attended by about 30,000 people, some 300 of them were speakers. There were four main stages covering “growth,” “transformation,” and general tech trends. The next event will be at a bigger venue, the Olympia Exhibition Centre.

Previous speakers: Meta, Channel 4, Snap Inc., Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce.

Tickets: TBA.

Website: londontechweek.com

Bucharest Tech Week is a one-week urban tech festival in Romania, featuring gatherings across its capital city. Its main two events are Business Summits (i.e. innovation, HR, retail, Java, and software architecture summits) and TechExpo.

Previous speakers: BMW, Microsoft, Google, Bosch, Nokia, PayPal, EY, SAP, Oracle.

Tickets: €240–330.

Website: techweek.ro

Techsylvania positions itself as an event to inspire innovators and share tech trends in AI, sustainability, code, and product building. It features networking and expo areas, a startup alley and business roundtables.

Previous speakers: Indiegogo, MongoDB, Google, Meta, UniCredit Bank.

Tickets: €49-219. Executive tickets TBA.

Website: techsylvania.com

The Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit is an event in Europe and Asia for women in STEM, tech and IT. It’s attended by 11,000 participants each year. It’s a two-day conference, featuring lectures, upskilling workshops, mentoring sessions, and career fairs.

Previous speakers: EMEA, Cisco, KPMG, Dropbox, Intel, Ericsson, Meta.

Very early bird ticket: $100. Online: $25.

Website: womenintechsummit.pl

The Next Web Conference is designed for investors, startups, and policymakers. About 10,000 people attend it every year. In 2024, the event’s themes include “The AI Powered Rebirth,” “People, Planet, Product,” “Shaking The Foundations Of Finance,” and four more.

Previous speakers: Wikipedia, Basecamp, VICE, Reddit, Vimeo, Electronic Arts, Booking.com, Avast.

Tickets: €210–1,200.

Website: thenextweb.com/conference

It’s going to be the 7th edition of European Women in Technology. Dubbed “The Central Meeting Place For Women In Tech,” it invites women and underrepresented technologists and promises “uplifting stories” and networking events.

Previous speakers: Shell, IBM, Booking.com, IKEA, GitLab, AWS, McKinsey.

Tickets: €225.

Website: europeanwomenintech.co

Turing Fest 2024 is a multi-disciplinary event “at the intersection of product, growth, capital, and people.” It is designed for those launching and scaling tech companies. In 2023, it had 1,200 visitors.

Previous speakers: Skyscanner, Amplitude, Intercom, Copyhackers, LinkedIn, Meta, Financial Times.

Tickets: TBA (£600-700 in 2023).

Website: turingfest.com/turingfest-2024

TechBBQ is a place where stage content and networking “meet hygge.” About 7,000 people attend it, most of them are startup founders and investors. It started as a small BBQ gathering for tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs back in 2013, in a park in Copenhagen — hence the name.

Previous speakers: Lightspeed, Techleap.nl, Pandora A/S, Intercom, European Women in VC, TechCrunch.

Tickets: TBA.

Website: techbbq.dk

Throughout its history, Startup OLE 2024 has been attended by 40,000 people from 120 countries; this includes startups, scale-ups and spin-offs, corporates, and investors. According to organizers, this year’s 11th edition will be the biggest so far.

Confirmed speakers: BME Growth, SpainCap, BME, Iberdrola.

Tickets: It’s free.

Website: startupole.eu

Oslo Innovation Week is an umbrella event that includes over 60 events hosted by both Norwegian and international incubators, investors, and startup ecosystem builders in Oslo. Nearly 15,000 people attend the event, its site reads.

Previous partners hosting the events: Proptech Norway, Fori Inc., Xynteo, Startuplab.

Tickets: Most events have free entry (registration required).

Website: oiw.no

IT Arena is a tech conference that annually brings together more than 5,000 attendees from 30 countries, about 100 speakers and an equal number of journalists. In 2023, IT Arena featured 50 meetups in Lviv, a city in the western part of Ukraine.

Previous speakers: Intellias, Uklon, Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry, Genesis, Green Flag Ventures, Payoneer, Respeecher, MacPaw.

Tickets: TBA ($250-500 in 2023).

Website: itarena.ua

Bits & Pretzels hosts 5,000 founders, investors, and tech industry leaders for three days during Munich Oktoberfest. After two days of lectures, attendees can join Table Captain at the world-famous Oktoberfest celebration to network and participate in discussions over a cold beer.

Previous speakers: Michelle Obama, Airbnb, UiPath, Atomico, Index Ventures, Accel.

Tickets: TBA (€149 in 2023).

Website: bitsandpretzels.com/festival/waitlist

Sifted Summit is a “bridge between investors and founders,” that draws a European audience of startups and scale-ups who seek their next business partner. About 50% of the Sifted Summit’s audience (3,000 people) are startups and scale-ups.

Previous speakers: Monzo, Stripe, Opna, Sweep, Plural.

Tickets: TBA.

Website: summit.sifted.eu

How to Web is Eastern Europe’s technology conference that brings builders and visionaries together. Last year it gathered 2500 participants to discover industry best practices, connect with experts and investors, and participate in the region’s largest startup competition for the €880,000 investment prize.

Previous speakers: Warner Bros. Discovery, Google DeepMind, Atomico, Paddle, Seedcamp.

Tickets: €89-489.

Website: howtoweb.co

SaaStock aims to help SaaS founders and their teams scale faster. The event promises to provide actionable content and networking to help you hear the growth stories, learn the proven strategies, and meet the right people to scale a SaaS business.

Previous speakers: Paddle, Replyco, SaaStock, Peak, Synthesia.

Tickets: €550-850.

Website: saastock.com/saastock-2024

ScaleupFest focuses on the CEE investment landscape, bringing together tech industry players from this region. The event promises to share best practices of growing a startup beyond CEE, workshops and wide networking.

Previous speakers: 3TS Capital Partners, 500 Emerging Europe, Genesis Capital, AWS.

Tickets: TBA.

Website: thescaleupfest.com

The Disraptors Summit (formerly SWCSummit) is renowned for hosting the final battle for the Startup Champion title, bringing together regional champions and business titans. The winner continues to the Startup World Cup global finals in Silicon Valley.

Previous speakers: Y Combinator, Washington Post, Virgin, NASA, Apple.

Tickets: TBA.

Website: disraptors.com

A group of motivated people from the Italian ecosystem and TechChill Riga is bringing a startup-centered event to Milan. The event agenda covers startup building blocks, Italian tech landscape, consumer tech, AI, Big Data, and other topics.

Previous speakers: Wise, Reface, Cavalry Ventures, Bolt.

Tickets: €219-700 for startups. For investors: €479.

Website: techchillmilano.co

Startup Fair is an annual startup event in Lithuania. It’s a platform for startups, investors, and entrepreneurs to “renew and forge new contacts,” pitch innovative ideas, and gain insights from fellow founders.

Previous speakers: TransferGO, Dealroom.co, Wolt, Startup Wise Guys, Katalista Ventures.

Tickets: TBA.

Website: startupfair.lt

Who doesn’t know about Web Summit? It brings over 70,000 IT professionals, entrepreneurs, investors and digital nomads together to talk about tech trends and to network. It features Q&As, roundtable discussions, panel lectures, and a wide range of side events.

Previous speakers: Alibaba, Microsoft, Signal, Wikipedia, Byju’s.

Tickets: €950. For executives: TBA (€4,850 in 2023).

Website: websummit.com

Slush positions itself as “the world’s leading startup event.” And it’s close to the truth. Last year it brought together 5,000 startup founders and operators and 3,000 investors to talk about company building and tech trends.

Previous speakers: Duolingo, Accel, Zalando, Slack, Sequoia Capital.

Tickets: TBA (€395–1,095 in 2023).

Website: slush.org

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