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Selected Events for October

HealthTech Innovation Days 2021

October 4-5  – France
The HTID® demonstrates that access to innovative care for all depends on the right funding and partnership in-between actors in health and finance. This event will accelerate patient access to healthcare solutions and contribute to building a stronger ecosystem.

South Summit 2021

October 5-7 – Spain
South Summit is an invitation to the global innovation ecosystem to be part of transforming economies based on 4 main pillars: Sustainability, Connection, Innovation and Business. This year’s event is focused on “Shaping the Future” by bringing together the most innovative companies and investors who seek to improve international competitiveness through innovation.

F for Femme 2021

October 6 – France
One of the leading European conferences promoting female entrepreneurship and gender diversity. Brilliant women have been invited to share their experience and expertise on four key challenges: health, climate change, space and money.

IT Arena 2021: Beyond Virtual

October 7-9 – Ukraine
IT Arena aims to maximize opportunities for IRL networking & communication while staying connected to a global audience via its flagship online platform. Productive networking, business matchmaking, and festival spirit remain IT Arena trademarks, but this year, adapt to the socially distanced reality we’re living in.

EXPO REAL 2021

October 11-13 – Germany
Hosting the global property & investment industry, this three-day trade fair takes place in Munich every October—and has been doing so since 1998. Being the biggest B2B trade fair in Europe, EXPO REAL offers you the ideal setting for efficient networking.

Tech in Asia 2021

October 12-14 – Virtual
Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem stands at the dawn of a Golden Age of economic growth and innovation. This year, the Tech in Asia Conference will explore the tech opportunities presented by the new Golden Age. To adjust to our new reality, we will also be going virtual as we aim to bring you the most relevant insights.

Venture Capital Forum 2021

October 12-13 – France
Invest Europe is one of the world’s largest associations of private capital providers. We represent Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure investment firms, as well as their investors, including some of Europe’s largest pension funds and insurers.

Intelligent Health 2021

October 12  – The Netherlands
Intelligent Health is one among the large-scale, global summit series focused purely on AI in healthcare! Our CPD accredited summits bring the global AI and health community together to advance discussions on how to apply AI and drive technological collaboration in healthcare.

Inbound 2021

October 12 – Virtual
INBOUND’s purpose is to provide the inspiration, education, and connections that our attendees need to grow their businesses. Attendees with an all-access PowerPass, have the ability to learn from industry experts like YOU.

SaaStock EMEA 2021

October 12-14 – Virtual
One of Europe’s most-actionable conferences for B2B SaaS founders, executives, and investors is back in an all-new, fully-online format. We can’t get together in-person right now, but we believe it’s so important that we come together, keep learning, inspire one another and continue building our companies.

World Summit AI 2021

October 13-14 – The Netherlands
One of the world’s leading and largest AI summit gathers the global AI ecosystem of Enterprise, BigTech, Startups, Investors and Science, the brightest brains in AI as speakers every October in Amsterdam to tackle head-on the most burning AI issues and set the global AI agenda.

Venture Capital Forum 2021

October 12-13 – Paris
Invest Europe is one of the world’s largest associations of private capital providers. We represent Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure investment firms, as well as their investors, including some of Europe’s largest pension funds and insurers.

MaMA Festival 2021

October 13-15 – Paris
MaMA will give the chance to agencies, label, publishing or management companies to have their artists – wherever they come from – to play in front of an international audience of music professionals, media and Parisian festival-goers. MaMA Festival takes place in 10 emblematic venues and unusual places of Pigalle and Montmartre.

Infoshare 2021

October 14-15 – Poland
Infoshare is one of the biggest tech & startup events in the CEE region. For startups Infoshare offers startup expo, matchmaking, startup contest with 20k euro for the winner, and business focused stages.  

GITEX Technology Week 2021

October 17-21 – UAE
The undisputed tech event for the last 40 years. AI, 5G, Cloud, BigData, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Quantum Computing, immersive Marketing, Fintech and thought-provoking conferences and more at GITEX Technology Week 2021. Experience a bolder digital future together with biggest tech companies, leaders and experts.

DEEP Startup Ecosystem Conference

October 18 – Germany
Conference for ecosystem leaders and innovation managers. Catch up with peers from global startup ecosystems to jointly explore tech trends, share best practices, scout for startups and join forces to launch new projects.

Infrastructure Investor Global Summit 2021

October 18-21 – Virtual
The Infrastructure Investor Global Summit will be back on 18-21 October, both in Berlin and virtually. Bringing together infrastructure’s most influential decision-makers for four days of networking and industry-leading content. Benefit from more keynotes and speakers, the world’s largest investor attendance and enhanced networking you simply can’t get anywhere else. Expand your network, gain new insights, and drive your investment strategies forward.

TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo

October 18-20 – USA
The 2021 TechConnect World Innovation event includes the annual SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference, AI TechConnect, and the TechConnect Technical Program – more than 35 world-class technical symposiums, and the Nanotech Conference Series – the world’s largest and longest running nanotechnology event.

Electric-Road 2021

October 18-20 – France
The ELECTRIC-ROAD congress has gained success over the years from the mobility and energy sectors, as well as from local authorities and contractors, testifying to the desire of these players to go further in their approach. It is to meet this emerging demand and bring a proactive dynamic to the sector that the founders of the congress decided, at the end of 2016, to launch the ELECTRIC-ROAD club.

Empire Fintech Conference

October 19 – USA
Join over 600 attendees for the highlight of New York fintech week, the Empire Fintech Conference. A packed day of demos, keynotes, live podcasts, and networking, showcasing the latest developments in fintech.

Wolves Summit 2021

October 19-21 – Poland
This year’s hybrid edition offers startups, scaleups, corporations, executives, investors, partners and sponsors alike the unique opportunity to reach the global tech community and meet in person for the first time in Wrocław, Poland.

SOSV Climate Tech Summit

October 20-21 – Virtual
The SOSV Climate Tech Summit aims to convene the climate tech startup ecosystem of founders, investors, technologists, corporates, policymakers and media to discuss the extreme challenges ahead.

Money20/20 USA

October 24-27 – USA
Money20/20 is where the Payments, FinTech and Financial Services ecosystem unites to create and explore the disruptive ways in which consumers and businesses manage, spend and borrow money. It’s the premier global event on the industry calendar where C-Level Executives, renowned speakers, innovators and disruptors from across the world unite to drive change in the future of money.

Paris 2021 Q3 Venture Capital World Summit

October 25 – France
Paris Venture Capital World Summit, world series season of investment conferences. The event is here to help businesses get more capital and expertise as they need to scale up, and grow internationally with the support if required from our trusted network of investors.

GrowthHackers Conference 2021

October 26 –  Virtual
For it’s 5th edition, GrowthHackers Conference is bringing together the people behind the experimentation process in SaaS, Mobile Apps, Fintech, E-Commerce and Services. Experts from these verticals will be sharing experiments they have tested across each lever in the AARRR funnel, bringing actionable insights on how to structure and execute experiments across the entire customer journey.

HEALTHIO 2021

October 26-28 – Spain
HEALTHIO is a unique platform covering the entire healthcare ecosystem where stakeholders can learn about, try out, and experience the innovations at the cutting-edge of health. The event covers all the topics presented on HEALTHIO Day, the meeting point for health services, innovators, members and the public.

EU Next Generation Innovators Summit Slovenia & Investment Conference

Oct 26-27  – Slovenia
The strategic and deal making summit of investors, innovation leaders, European Union, scaleups, startups and innovators from the whole of Europe. Next Round Investment Conference is a premier investors event, attracting an aggregated investor potential of 2+ billion euros.

CC Forum London 2021

October 27-29 – UK
CC Forum will feature institutional and private wealth aimed at impact investment, philanthropy and sustainable development. Be part of one of the world’s largest investors’ gatherings boasting a stellar line-up and a host of networking opportunities.

TechCrunch Sessions: SaaS 2021

October 27 – Virtual
At this online event, you’ll hear from the people who have built the software companies you respect, or wrote them their first checks. Find out how to spot product-market fit early at your own startup, make your fundraising stretch, and dodge the potholes and pitfalls ahead.

Hacking de l’Hôtel de Ville

October 28 – France
The Mayor of Paris is handing the keys to City Hall to 3,500 participants : startups, experts, investors, major French and foreign corporations.

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