Tech Summer 2021: Your #1 Tech Event Guide
Tech summer 2021 is here. We did our best to compile a list of the best tech events to make your summer season more interesting and insightful.
As we can see, many of the big tech events and tradeshows are likely to take place online or in a hybrid (online & offline) format this year.
Either way, these are the events and platforms where wheelers and dealers in the world of technology come together to discuss or present their digital innovations and breakthrough ideas.
JUNE
E3 2021
Date: June 12 – 15 | Online
E3 2021 is the world’s biggest online gaming conference for computer and video games and related products, which will engage everyone everywhere. You’ll be able to tune into several live video conferences and a four-day-long livestreaming that will all be accessible to everyone for free.
Blockchain Z – Days
Date: June 14 – 18 | Online
Blockchain Z-Days 2021 is a global community-driven online conference, where you can discover cutting-edge technologies from more than 20 worldwide speakers sharing their industry knowledge and real-life experiences.
Tableau Virtual IT Conference
Date: June 15 | Online
Virtual IT Summit is going to be a place, where industry experts and customers are coming together to help IT to drive adoption with enterprise-ready analytics. They believe that today data delivers value and, also, increases organizational agility and business resilience.
During the summit, you’ll hear how JPMorgan Chase, T-Mobile, World Food Programme, and the US Air Force empower their organizations to be agile with trusted data.
Dublin Tech Summit
Date: June 17 | Online
Do you want to scale your startup or to future-proof your business, or maybe learn more about diversity in tech? So, you should join Dublin Tech Summit Virtual, where experts from over 70 countries will come together to share knowledge, debate the latest trends, and network for one day.
Viva Technology
Date: June 16 – 19 | Offline&Online | Place: Paris
VivaTech is the world’s rendezvous for startups and leaders to celebrate innovation. It’s a gathering of the world’s brightest minds, talents, and products. Robots, drones, VR, mobility, AI, autonomous vehicles, connected factories, shopping experiences, virtual showrooms, hundreds of astonishing innovations in one place.
No matter where you are, VivaTech is giving you the chance to meet attendees from 125 countries, hear world top speakers talk live, discover AfricaTech and EuropaTech challenges.
APP Design & Development Conference (ADDC)
Date: June 23 – 24 | Offline | Place: Barcelona, Spain
ADDC is a single-track international conference for iOS & Android developers and UX/UI designers to meet, find new ways to work together and get inspired in an open, inclusive and collaborative space.
Mobile World Congress
Date: June 28 – July 2 | Offline: Barcelona, Spain
MWC Barcelona (formerly Mobile World Congress) is the largest mobile event in the world, where the most inspiring leaders of the mobile and related industries are coming together to participate in debates about the hottest topics in technology. From inspiring change to insights about how 5G will transform our world.
WeAreDevelopers World Congress
Date: June 28 – July 1 | Online
The WeAreDevelopers World Congress – one of the world’s largest annual conferences gathering the global developer community. The event connects with peers and helps you get recent insights on software development, best practices, and future tech trends – delivered by none other than the world’s greatest minds in tech.
JULY
Infosecurity Europe
Date: July 13 – 15 | Place: London
Infosecurity Europe is designed to help you to keep abreast of all the latest developments in cybersecurity. It’s the largest and most well-regarded cybersecurity conference on the calendar.
Microsoft Inspire
Date: July 14 – 15 | Online
Microsoft Inspire is the largest partner event of the year. It offers many opportunities to advance your business by interacting with global partners, industry leaders, and Microsoft experts.
The event will focus on three key areas: creating connections, advancing expertise, and sharing accomplishments.
Game Developers Conference
Date: July 19 – 23 | Online
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) brings the game development community together to exchange ideas, solve problems, and shape the future of the industry across five days of education, inspiration, and networking.
GDC 2021 will be all-digital and split into three separate events. This will guarantee a better and more organized networking, games showcases, and instructional workshops.
Sevan Startup Summit 2021
Date: July 25 – 31 | Offline | Place: Armenia, Sevan
If you’re interested in exploring the startup ecosystem in Armenia, then this event is definitely a good chance to book a ticket and travel to Armenia. Sevan Startup Summit 2021 is open for visitors now. During the 7 days, you will get the opportunity to meet the right startup minds and get access to 100+ talks and seminars.
The initiative attracts leading angels, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. It’s a chance to join co-thinkers in a cool setting to think and transform your environment via digital entrepreneurship.
Black Hat USA 2021
Date: July 31 – August 3 | Offline & Online | Place: Las Vegas
Black Hat USA 2021 will open with four days of Virtual Trainings conducted in real-time online, with all instructors accessible throughout each class. The two-day main conference featuring Briefings, Arsenal, Business Hall, and more will be a hybrid event – offering both a Virtual Event and a Live, In-Person Event in Las Vegas.
Black Hat is the most technical and relevant global information security event series in the world. For more than 19 years, Black Hat has provided attendees with the very latest in information security research, development, and trends.
AUGUST
AV/IT Summit
Date: August 5 | Virtual
As the AV industry continues to evolve, the AV/IT Summit provides a place for all parts of the ecosystem to come together in an intimate setting to discuss how best to work together and enable each other to succeed while enhancing efficiencies across the board.
Virtual AV/IT Summit will be full of killer discussions on the future of technology, manufacturer demos, AVIXA RUs.
Futurist Conference
Date: August 11 – 12 | Offline | Place: Canada
Canada’s largest and high-profile blockchain & emerging tech conference is coming on. The event brings together a global audience of attendees with startups, investors, developers, enterprise leaders, financial institutions, researchers, academics and emerging tech pioneers to build the future.
New this year, sessions will be focused on Blockchain, Cannabis, AI, and eSports.
Data Center World
Date: August 16 – 19 | Place: Orlando, Florida
Data Center World is the global conference for data centers, facilities, and IT professionals. Now in its 41st year, Data Center World is the longest-running data center conference. The event draws upon the knowledge and experience of 1,600+ members of AFCOM, the association for advancing data center and IT infrastructure professionals, to create an attendee driven agenda.
AWS re:Inforce
Date: August 24 – 25 | Offline & Online | Place: Houston, Texas
AWS re:Inforce is a cloud security two-day conference designed to help you improve your security awareness and best practices. Join for the event to learn more about cloud security, identity, and compliance. Also, have an opportunity for direct access to experts who can help expand your knowledge of cloud security and compliance.
As a virtual component, the keynote will be live-streamed, and recorded sessions will be available following the event.
We hope this will be helpful to fix your tech calendar for Summer 2021. The autumn list will be available soon, so make sure to check back Darpass Insights in the coming months.