As an early-stage startup, we've had a good fortune to attend a number of tech, business, and dev events over the last few years. Today, I'll share my picks for the top 9 business & tech events to attend.

Slush 🇫🇮

Slush is bringing the global startup ecosystem under one roof. In cold, dark November, a curated group of speakers from across the globe, showcases, and unique networking opportunities will all be in Helsinki. With hundreds of Side Events happening across the city throughout the Slush Week, the fun flows out of Messukeskus and into the streets.

• 4,200 startup founders and operators.
• 2,200 investors.
• 400 media representatives.
• A gathering of 12,000 curious minds at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Center.

WebSummit 🇵🇹🇨🇦🇧🇷🇭🇰

Web Summit brings together 70,000+ people, and the companies redefining the tech industry.

A company from Dublin, Ireland, holds events across the world: Web Summit in Lisbon, Web Summit Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Collision in Toronto, and RISE in Hong Kong.

Why attend? Three reasons: incredible speakers, unparalleled networking opportunities, and event app that will maximize your experience.

London Tech Week 🇬🇧

London Tech Week, the UK’s tech flagship event, brings 20,000+ global government and corporate leaders, inspirational start-up founders, senior investors and tech rising stars together to discuss the power of technology for societies.

Held in one of the world's most vibrant tech hub, the week-long festival focuses on the following core topics:

• exploring the next gen of tech innovation
• impactful innovation at scale
• building a thriving tech industry

GrowthHackers Conference 🇺🇸

GrowthHackers Conference is a single-day event happening in September. You will get actionable insights from world-class experimentation practitioners to implement for the year's final quarter.

TheNextWeb Conference 🇳🇱

TNW Conference is where industry leaders and tech enthusiasts alike come together, to explore how tech will shape the world of tomorrow. You'll get insights from industry pioneers, and meet international tech executives, policymakers, startups, and scale-ups.

Disraptors Summit 🇨🇿

Disraptors Summit (formerly SWCSummit) is the major event in the tech & startup territory. It takes place in the beating heart of Europe, in Prague, Czech Republic. Apart from the clash of the regional startup champs, the summit hosts titans of the business world.

Reflect Festival 🇨🇾

Reflect Fest is the biggest tech & entrepreneurial festival in Cyprus will reopen its gate to the doers. Celebrating the innovation that shapes our lives at Reflect.

SXSW Conference 🇺🇸

The SXSW Conference provides an opportunity for the global community of digital creatives to encounter cutting-edge ideas, discover new interests, and network with other professionals who share a similar appetite for forward-focused experiences.

Featuring a variety of tracks that focus on the most important breakthroughs in technology, film, culture, and music, SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together.

Viva Technology 🇫🇷

Viva Technology acts as a powerful global catalyst for digital transformation and startup growth. Every year VivaTech brings together, in Paris and online, business leaders, startups, investors, researchers and innovators to ignite positive change in business and for society.

Get to know our team better! Let’s connect at WebSummit, Reflect Festival, Slush, and Disraptors Summit this year! 💜