Global Tech Events 2026: Remaining Calendar, October to December

Tech Events & Talent Watch · October 18, 2026

Global Tech Events 2026 is The CODEW's calendar of the major technology conferences, summits, and exhibitions still to come this year, organized by month, sector, and region, with a confirmation status and official link for every entry.

How to Read This Calendar

Confirmed (organizer) means the dates appear on the organizer's own page or announcement. Confirmed (multiple sources) means several independent sources agree, but the organizer page has not yet been cited here. Carried from CODEW list means the entry comes from our weekly events coverage and is awaiting a fresh organizer check. Always confirm dates, venues, and registration with the organizer before booking travel.

October 2026

Dates	Event	Location	Sector	Status
Oct 19-22	Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo	Orlando, USA	Enterprise, CIO strategy	Carried from CODEW list; official check pending
Oct 20-22	NVIDIA GTC Berlin Keynote Oct 21	Berlin, Germany	AI, semiconductors	Confirmed (organizer)
Oct 25-28	Oracle AI World	Las Vegas, USA	Cloud, AI, enterprise	Confirmed (organizer)
Oct 28-29	GitHub Universe Fort Mason Center	San Francisco, USA	Developer, AI coding	Confirmed (organizer)

November 2026

Dates	Event	Location	Sector	Status
Nov 9-12	Web Summit Lisbon	Lisbon, Portugal	Startups, venture capital	Confirmed (multiple sources)
Nov 9-12	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America	Salt Lake City, USA	Cloud native, open source	Carried from CODEW list; official check pending
Nov 15-20	SC26 (Supercomputing)	Chicago, USA	HPC, AI infrastructure	Carried from CODEW list; official check pending
Nov 17-20	Microsoft Ignite	San Francisco, USA	Cloud, security, AI	Carried from CODEW list; official check pending
Nov 18-19	Slush Messukeskus Helsinki	Helsinki, Finland	Startups, venture capital	Confirmed (multiple sources)
Nov 30-Dec 4	AWS re:Invent Security content now runs inside re:Invent	Las Vegas, USA	Cloud, AI	Confirmed (multiple sources)

December 2026

Dates	Event	Location	Sector	Status
Dec 7-11	GITEX Global Summit Dec 7, exhibition Dec 8-11. Moved from October.	Dubai, UAE	Cross-sector, AI	Confirmed (organizer)
Dec 7-10	Black Hat Europe Trainings Dec 7-8, Briefings Dec 9-10	London, UK (ExCeL)	Cybersecurity	Confirmed (multiple sources)
Dec 9-11	SEMICON Japan	Tokyo, Japan	Semiconductors	Carried from CODEW list; official check pending

Clusters to Plan Around

Window	Events	Why the overlap matters
Oct 19-29	Gartner IT Symposium, NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Oracle AI World, GitHub Universe	Enterprise buyers, AI infrastructure vendors and developer-tool makers all speak within ten days, so product and partnership announcements land close together.
Nov 9-20	Web Summit, KubeCon NA, SC26, Microsoft Ignite, Slush	Startup funding events and enterprise cloud events run side by side, so company news splits across Lisbon, Helsinki and the US.
Nov 30-Dec 11	AWS re:Invent, GITEX Global, Black Hat Europe, SEMICON Japan	Cloud, cybersecurity and semiconductor announcements cluster in the last two weeks of the event year.

By Sector

Sector	Events
AI and generative AI	NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Oracle AI World, GitHub Universe, Microsoft Ignite, AWS re:Invent, GITEX Global
Cloud and enterprise	Gartner IT Symposium, Oracle AI World, KubeCon NA, Microsoft Ignite, AWS re:Invent
Semiconductors and computing	NVIDIA GTC Berlin, SC26, SEMICON Japan
Cybersecurity	Black Hat Europe, plus security tracks at Ignite and re:Invent
Developer	GitHub Universe, KubeCon NA
Startups and venture capital	Web Summit Lisbon, Slush
Cross-sector	GITEX Global

By Region

North America: Gartner IT Symposium (Orlando), Oracle AI World and AWS re:Invent (Las Vegas), GitHub Universe and Microsoft Ignite (San Francisco), KubeCon NA (Salt Lake City), SC26 (Chicago).
Europe: NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Web Summit (Lisbon), Slush (Helsinki), Black Hat Europe (London).
Middle East and Asia: GITEX Global (Dubai), SEMICON Japan (Tokyo).

Just After 2026

CES 2027 runs January 6-9, 2027 in Las Vegas (official site). Other 2027 events join the calendar once organizers publish confirmed dates.

The CODEW Lens

A conference date is a signal of when companies choose to speak, not of what they will announce. The calendar is most useful for planning coverage and travel, and for knowing which weeks to expect product, partnership, and leadership news. What was actually announced belongs in post-event coverage, written only from official statements.

Related: Global Events & Talent Watch · Global Tech Events This Week · Upcoming Tech Events · Tech Leadership Moves · Company Profiles Hub.

Global Tech Events 2026 is part of Global Events Watch within Tech Events & Talent Watch at The CODEW Intelligence. Dates are checked against organizer sources and updated when schedules change. Last verified: October 18, 2026.

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