The Twingly team enjoys attending tech events and conferences across Europe. Meeting hundreds of great people working with or being interested in the fields of social media, startups and digital culture is the best way to get inspiration, to learn, to collect feedback and to simply have lots of fun.
For our own purpose as well as for you we compiled a list of major startup, tech and social media conferences/events that we either usually travel to, feel that we should attend (but haven’t) or where we know other’s who are enthusiastic about it.
That means this list is probably far from complete (and there might be a slight emphasis on the Nordics). In case you want to recommend an annual major event with focus on the topics mentioned that takes place anywhere in Europe feel free to let us know in the comments.
Please note that some of the events on this list have already taken place for 2011 or won’t happen this year at all. But we figured that this overview could come handy even next year, and those events pausing 2011 might have a huge comeback in 2012.
January
DLD Conference
January, Munich, Germany
Website
February
Lift
Geneva, Switzerland
Website
March
GeeknRolla
London, UK
Website
Plugg
Brussels, Belgium
Website
Social Media World Forum Europe
London, UK
Website
April
re:publica
Berlin, Germany
Website
SHiFT
Lisbon, Portugal
Website
SIME
Vienna, Austria
Website
The Next Web
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Website
May
GeekGirlMeetup
Stockholm, Sweden
Website (only in Swedish)
Next Conference
Berlin, Germany
Website
SIME
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Website
June
reboot
Copenhagen, Denmark
Website
SIME
Barcelona, Spain
Website
July
TEDGlobal
Edinburgh, Scotland
Website
August
Media Evolution – The Conference
Malmö, Sweden
Website
Sweden Social Web Camp
Tjärö, Sweden
Website (only in Swedish)
September
Arctic15
Helsinki, Finland
Website
PICNIC
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Website
The European Pirate Summit
Cologne, Germany
Website
October
Future of Web Apps Conference
London, UK
Website
SIME
Helsinki, Finland
Website
November
NOAH
London, UK
Website
SIME
Stockholm, Sweden
Website
The TechCrunch Europas
London, UK
(no official event website, coverage on http://eu.techcrunch.com)
December
LeWeb
Paris, France
Website
You can find additional information about most of those events on Lanyrd.
I would like to add the “We are Likeminds” conferences http://wearelikeminds.com/events – definitely worth checking out!
You really did a tremendous job in organizing the events pertaining to digital culture and for sure, this is the guide that will help a lot of people.