In-depth guides to tech weeks, conferences, hackathons, demo days, and startup events around the world. Dates, venues, and how to attend.
San Francisco’s edition of Tech Week, a decentralized startup and technology festival presented by a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), is SF Tech Week. Instead of one venue and one agenda, SF Tech Week 2026 spreads hundreds of independently hosted events across the city from October 5 to 11, covering everything from sunrise founder runs to late-night hackathons. […]
During the same seven days each June, hundreds of independent hosts, not one central organizer, run their own events across Manhattan and Brooklyn in what has become NYC Tech Week, a citywide decentralized startup festival backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The 2026 edition ran June 1 through June 7 and became the fourth and largest […]
Every few months, the startup world’s attention snaps to a single room where founders get a few minutes each to pitch the investors who will fund the next wave. Those rooms are startup demo days, the graduation showcases where accelerator cohorts present to a curated, invite only audience. In 2026, Y Combinator’s Winter batch put […]
Every fall, thousands of researchers, founders and investors plan their travel around the same question: which AI conferences 2026 are actually worth the trip? The answer is a short list. A handful of gatherings in San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, Lisbon and Sydney now set the agenda for the artificial intelligence industry, from research breakthroughs […]
From the giant show floors of CES in January to the startup packed halls of Web Summit in November, the tech conferences 2026 has delivered so far make this one of the densest tech calendars in recent memory. Some editions are already in the books, and a strong lineup is still ahead before the year […]
Every year, thousands of students trade a weekend of sleep for the chance to build working software from nothing at tech hackathons, the 24 to 48 hour build sprints that have become a rite of passage in the tech world. Teams form on Friday, demos happen on Sunday, and somewhere in between, powered by free […]
Startup calendars are full of overlapping labels, and picking the wrong one can waste a whole day. That is the problem this tech events glossary solves. Below you will find plain English definitions for every major event format, from hackathon to unconference, followed by a roundup of smaller summits worth bookmarking. You will also meet […]
Type the phrase into a search box and you will get two completely different answers, which is why the real cyber week meaning depends entirely on who is saying it. In retail, it names the stretch of online deals around Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In cybersecurity, it names a major international conference hosted at […]
Every summer, a citywide series of tech and startup events takes over the city for Chicago Tech Week. It is anchored by TechChicago Week, a program led by the civic nonprofit P33, alongside dozens of partner events run by local startups, universities, and community groups. If you are new to chicago tech week, the number […]
Tech Week is a citywide series of startup and tech events presented by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, known as a16z. Instead of gathering everyone inside one convention center, Tech Week spreads hundreds of independently hosted events across an entire city for about a week, turning offices, rooftops, university halls, and bars into conference […]