Staying up to date with the latest developments is vital in any technology field, but especially when it comes to software development and programming. One of the fastest—also the most enjoyable—ways to do this is to attend a conference, but with thousands available, where do you start?

Like every year, we put together this directory of the top programming and software development conferences that are most beneficial to you, the programmers and developers. Although some conferences will still be held virtually this year, many have moved back to a hybrid model, with options for professionals to attend in-person or online.

This directory will be updated as more conferences announce details, so check back regularly. To add a programming or software development conference to this directory, contact us at blogs@bmc.com with details of the event, including the conference name, dates, location, and a link to the event’s website.

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Top Programming & Software Development Conferences for 2022

Oracle Developer Live

Dates: March 22, Americas; March 24, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Japan, Asia-Pacific
Location: Various

Oracle Developer Live is a series of free virtual events that feature keynotes, technical sessions, hands-on labs, demos, and panels and participation in a live Q&A with experts. Subject matter experts from the Java Platform Group at Oracle will deliver technical content that helps developers create the next generation of rich, scalable, and secure enterprise applications for a wide variety of environments.

Attendees will learn more about:

• Modern Java programming tips and techniques
• Syntax improvements to the Java language
• High-throughput, lightweight concurrency, and new programming models on the Java platform
• Broad support of Java developer frameworks

Microsoft Ignite

Date: TBA
Location: Online
Cost: $2,395

The Microsoft Ignite conference is Microsoft’s annual meeting specifically for enterprise professionals, services, and products Ignite offers its 25,000+ attendees priority access to technical training, new and innovative tools, and opportunities to network with peers and experts in the tech community.

Of course, the past few years moved online, and this year’s edition will stay digital, too. MyIgnite, as they’ve dubbed it, doesn’t have much detail out yet, but take a look at all the 2021 content that’s on demand to get a sense of what you can expect this year, including sessions such as:

• Innovate Anywhere From Multicloud to Edge
• Protect Everything with End-to-End Security
• Microsoft Ignite Into Focus: Data & AI
• Accelerate Cross-Organization Collaboration with Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365

DEVintersection

Date: April 5-7
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Cost: $1,649-$1,799

DEVintersection is an annual conference led by top Microsoft experts as they dive deep into new software developments and its intersection with technology. Featuring 100+ in-depth sessions presented by Microsoft engineers and other industry leaders, the 2022 conference will cover topics such as Azure, SQL Server, AI, Big Data, Machine Learning, and more.

Speakers of the 2022 event will include:

• Scott Hanselman, Principal Community Architect for Web Platform and Tools | Microsoft
• George Howell, General Manager of the Solliance Media Practice | Solliance
• Kathleen Dollard, Principal Program Manager | Microsoft
• Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President, Business Applications & Platform | Microsoft

ACCU 2022

Date: April 6-9
Location: Bristol, UK & Online

The ACCU Conference is the annual conference of the ACCU membership club, but open to any and all who wish to attend. This year’s event is taking place both in-person and online, with a mix of sessions and topics.

The ACCU Conference has always had C++ at its core, but has, from the outset, always been about programming languages, programming tools and techniques, and programming processes. ACCU Conference is a conference by programmers and developers about programming and developing.

This year’s keynotes are Guy Davidson, Hannah Dee, Patricia Aas, and Titus Winters.

DrupalCon

Date: April 25-28
Location: Portland, Oregon
Cost: $895-$1,395

DrupalCon is the international educational event that unites the people who use, develop, design and support the Drupal platform. It is the premiere conference to hone your Drupal skills, connect with the community, and learn about the future of web technologies happening with Drupal.

The 2022 DrupalCon will be hosted in-person from Portland, Oregon and will offer keynotes from industry leaders, breakout sessions, informal discussion groups, industry summits and trainings, workshops, social events, and more.

PowerShell & DevOps Global Summit

Date: April 25-28
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Cost: $1,875

The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit is an annual event featuring expert presenters and an opportunity for the entire PowerShell community to network and share ideas. With a focus on Microsoft’s PowerShell automation and configuration tool, the conference offers attendees the opportunity to engage with experts, product team members, and like-minded peers.

The 2022 conference is back to live and in-person, which is an excellent opportunity for networking if you’re working with PowerShell, Desired State Configuration, and related technologies—especially if you’re moving towards a DevOps environment.

DevOpsCon Hybrid Edition

Date: April 26- 29
Location: London, UK & Online
Cost: £669-£1529

DevOpsCon is a leading conference for everything related to Continuous Delivery, microservices, cloud, and Lean business. The 2022 edition is again going hybrid, with fully online or in-person options available.

Attendees of the hybrid conference can expect all the normal top-notch events, from speaker sessions to keynotes to hands-on workshops on the latest developments in DevOps, including:

• Microservices
• Agile threat monitoring
• Continuous delivery with machine learning (CD4ML)
• Cloud privacy
• And much more!

DockerCon

Date: May 10
Location: Online
Cost: Free

DockerCon focuses on Docker and its support of next generation distributed apps that are built with containers. Like last year, DockerCon 2022 will be an entirely free, entirely online event, so the value it provides is open to all.

According to their placeholder webpage, virtual attendees can expect:

• Product and innovation demos, from both Docker and Docker partners
• Deep technical sessions led by Docker experts, Docker Captains, and other industry leaders
• Community connection with global Docker enthusiasts

(Check out our Docker Guide.)

Facebook F8

Date: Events throughout the year
Location: Online

Facebook F8 is intended for developers and entrepreneurs who build products and services around the social media platform. In typical years, the event features over 50 different sessions and focuses on all concepts related to the social media giant, with deep-dive sessions and product demos that showcased the latest in AI, open source, AR/VR, developer programs as well as new tools across Facebook’s family of apps.

While the highlight of the conference is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote, attendees can usually expect at least one big announcement, as well, regarding the products or new innovations surrounding the site.

There are no major details released at this point but be sure to check back for more updates as they are announced.

Apple WWDC22

Date: TBA
Location: Online
Cost: Free

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWCD) is Apple’s largest event for developers— it dominates the tech scene and garners the attention of press, industry experts, customers, and developers.

WWDC22 will offer unique insight into the future of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Building on the record-breaking participation and learnings from last year’s online conference, WWDC22 is the time for developers to learn about new technologies, tools, and frameworks to help build innovative and platform-differentiating apps and games.

DeepSource Next ’22

Date: TBA
Location: Online
Cost: Free

DeepSource Next is an annual virtual conference by DeepSource focused around the future of code reviews and the practice of writing good code. Listen to exciting product updates, keynotes, panels featuring some of the most prominent people in the developer tools ecosystem, along with fireside chats and expert insights.

Speakers of Next ‘22 will include:

• Dan Stowell, VP of Engineering, Replit
• Gregory Koberger, Founder, ReadMe
• Jai Pradeesh, Co-founder, DeepSource
• John Kinsella, Chief Architect, Accurics

UXDX 2022 (Multiple dates)

UXDX USA
Date: May 24-26
Location: New York City & Online

UXDX APAC
Date: June 22-24
Location: Online

UXDX EMEA
Date: October 12-14
Location: Dublin, Ireland & Online

UXDX, the fastest-growing product development conference in Europe, is hosting its inaugural UXDX USA conference in May 2022 along with events in APAC in June and EMEA in October. The mission of UXDX USA is to deliver real change in teams, helping you take a full-systems view of software development.

The conference this year will feature a variety of sessions, including:

• How To Build A Consistent, Efficient & Scalable Design System
• Security and Privacy when Building Great Products
• Building A Unified Product Team In The Midst Of Accelerated Growth
• How To Experiment In A Zero Failure Environment
• Aligning on a Way of Working Vision

UXDX helps teams shift from working in projects to autonomous product teams delivering real business and customer value. It bridges the barriers between Product, UX, Design, and Dev to help organizations create successful product teams.

Product Camp

Date: 2-3 June 2022
Location: Gdynia, Poland
Cost: Tickets on sale by April

ProductCamp is an immersive 2-day event for Product Managers, Designers, Researchers, Growth Hackers, and all professionals who discover, design, manage, and grow digital products. Each day opens and ends with the keynote. Everything in between is a barcamp = 50+ presentations run simultaneously across six rooms. A transformative peer-to-peer learning and networking experience, you can expect to hear participants share their own stories, lessons, and project insights.

Open Source Summit (Multiple dates)

North America
Date: June 21-24
Location: Austin, Texas & Online
Cost: $800- $1,200

Europe
Date: September 13- 16
Location: Dublin, Ireland & Online

Open Source Summit is North America and Europe’s premier vendor-neutral conference for open source developers and technologists to collaborate, share information, and learn about the latest technologies and innovations across open source.

The Open Source Summit is a combination of three sub-conferences—LinuxCon, ContainerCon, and CloudOpen—which annually brings together more than 2,000 developers, operators, and industry leaders to learn about the latest trends in open source and dive into the newest technologies.

It covers cornerstone open source technologies; helps ecosystem leaders to navigate open source transformation with the Diversity Empowerment Summit and tracks on business and compliance; and delves into the newest technologies and latest trends touching open source, including networking, cloud-native, edge computing, AI and much more.

DevOpsCon 

Date: September 27-30
Location: New York City & Online

DevOps Con is noted as “The Conference” for Continuous Delivery, Microservices, Docker, Clouds, and Lean Business. DevOps Con is held in both German and English. This year’s event is again hybrid, so it’s your choice whether to attend online or in person in New York.

The in-person conference typically includes an expo floor as well as more than 60 unique sessions and keynotes and provides information about the latest tools, technologies, and methodologies for building and maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient software systems.

Tracks of the past conferences include topics such as:

• Kubernetes Ecosystem
• Microservices & Software Architecture
• Continuous Delivery & Automation
• Cloud Platforms & Serverless
• Security
• Business & Company Culture
• Monitoring, Traceability & Diagnostics

QCon 

Date: October 24-26
Location: San Francisco, California
Cost: $2,050-$3,190

QCon is an international software development conference that helps software teams adopt new trends and technologies. The event will be back live in San Francisco, with attendees sure to see some major announcements and speakers.

Some benefits of attending QCon are:

• Learn from practitioners driving innovation and change in software
• Identify best practices from those working on in-production projects
• Uncover emerging trends and tools
• Focus on patterns & practices, not products or pitches
• Acquire implementable ideas for your projects
• Meet software leaders from innovator and early adopter companies
• Validate your software development roadmap

DeveloperWeek Virtual

Date: February 15-23, 2023
Location: San Francisco Bay, California & Online

DeveloperWeek is one of the largest expo conferences for developers in the world, with regular attendance of more than 8,000 professionals every year. This year, DevWeek moves to a hybrid format, with options of the regular in-person event as well as online at a significantly lower price point.

The conference is broken into a variety of topical tracks:

• APIs & Microservices
• AI & Machine Learning
• JavaScript
• Containers & Kubernetes
• DevExec World
• DevLeads
• DevOps Summit
• IoT & Hardware
• Product World
• BlockDev
• New Developer Technologies (Python/Data & Databases)

Top Programming Conferences of 2022

No matter which of these programming conferences you choose, you will surely gain access to some of the latest technologies and methods in the industry while understanding insights from the top experts in the world.

Each year, hundreds of tech and IT conferences deliver access to top professionals, sneak peeks of the latest technologies, and unique networking opportunities that can help you advance your career. With so many available, however, how can you choose?

We have researched and curated a list of the top IT and tech conferences of 2022 and are excited to share it with you. This list is ordered by date and will be updated regularly, so check back often.

Feel free to reach out if you would like to add a tech/IT conference to the directory. To be considered, please email all details including the conference name, dates of the event, location, and a link to the event’s website to blogs@bmc.com.

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Top IT Conferences of 2022

Digital Workplace Experience: Virtual Conference Series

Date: February 2-3, May 4-5, October 5-6
Location: Online
Cost: Free

Digital Workplace Experience (DWX) is turning their usual three-day event into a series of free virtual events throughout the year. The focus of these events is on successful digital workplaces and how your company can become one. This event offers unparalleled access to the latest independent research and the professionals who are leading industry advancements.

Each of the events has its own theme:

• February 2-3: Welcome to the New Now of Employee Experience
• May 4-5: Embracing and Optimizing the Hybrid Workplace
• October 5-6: The Top Conference for Digital Workplace Leaders

Some speakers of the 2022 events will include Carla Harris, Vice Chairman and Managing Director at Morgan Stanley; Loran Nordgren, Professor at the Kellogg School of Management and Author of The Human Element; Alexandra Samuel, Tech Writer and Data Journalist, Author of Remote, Inc.; and Tom Wujec, Expert on Innovation and Author of The Future of Making. 

Adobe Summit

Date: March 15-17
Location: Online
Cost: Free

The Summit is focused on all things customer experience, offering actionable insights on how to best serve your customers, drive business growth, and increase customer loyalty. Attendees at the Adobe Summit will gain valuable ideas, tools, and techniques for making the most of Adobe Marketing Cloud. Thanks to this summit, you can learn how to bring all your content and data together in one place.

Some of the content tracks of the 2022 event will cover:

• Analytics for Customer Journeys
• B2B Marketing
• Collaborative Work Management
• Content Management for Personalized Experiences
• Customer Data Management
• Omnichannel Marketing and Optimization
• Personalization at Scale
• Trends and Inspiration

MIT Technology Review Presents: EmTech Digital 2022

Date: March 29-30
Location: In-person and online
Cost: Virtual- $850, In-person- $2,895

MIT Technology Review is back in person for the latest in its EmTech Events Series: EmTech Digital 2022, the esteemed media outlet’s annual event on everything AI.

Join industry leaders, executives, and experts as they examine last year’s amazing advances in AI and discuss the most pressing issues in AI adoption, ethics, and trust. Featured topics of discussion include:

• Better Data, Better AI
• Innovation to Reality
• Harness What’s Possible at the Edge
• Generative AI Solutions
• What’s Next for Deep Learning
• Making AI Work for All

IBM Think

Date: May 10-11
Location: Online and In-person
Cost: TBD

IBM Think is IBM’s global flagship conference and is the premier conference for AI, cloud, security, and IT infrastructure. The event is for anyone interested in transforming industries and creating better solutions, whether you are a developer, designer, architect, security executive, or analyst.

The conference includes top keynotes, over 200 sessions, and plenty of opportunities for networking with topics that span the Cloud, Dev, Internet of Things, Mobile, Security, Watson, and IBM Research.

SHARE Dallas 2022

Date: March 27-30
Location: Dallas, Texas
Cost: $2,199- $2,899

SHARE is an event handcrafted by volunteers to help professionals expand knowledge, enhance skills, and increase organizational efficiency by focusing on SHARE’s three main tenets: Educate, Network, Influence. SHARE provides an opportunity for attendees to enjoy a longstanding tradition of advancing the enterprise technology industry through interactive meetups, networking events, keynotes, and sessions.

Some tracks of the 2022 event include:

• Container technology
• Mainframe hardware 
• Software architecture
• Women in IT
• New and innovative technologies
• Data center management

BMC will be participating as a Silver sponsor with booth #107.

• Mon. 3/28, 8:00AM in Cumberland AM: MVS Program Opening and Keynote panel featuring April Hickel, BMC VP of Strategy
• Mon. 3/28, 3:30PM in Cumberland L: Tailor Fit- Consumed Too Much, Time for a Diet? by Donald Zeunert, Principal Software Consultant
• Tues. 3/29, 7:00AM in Reunion Ballroom A: (PSP) Ransomware, The Dark Web & Cyber Resiliency by Mark Wilson, Sr. Director Consulting Services
• Tues. 3/29, 8:00AM in Reunion Ballroom B: Data Leakage Protection (DLP) & IBM Z – What’s the Story? by Mark Wilson, Sr. Director Consulting Services
• Wed. 3/30, 8:00AM in Cumberland IJ: Integrity and Mainframes, What Does it Really Mean by Mark Wilson, Sr. Director Consulting Services (*live stream)
• Wed. 3/30, 10:30AM in Cumberland EF: Mainframe Testing Perspectives by Devanand Karunakaran, Sr. SW Consultant (*live stream)
• Wed. 3/30, 11:45AM in Ballroom B: (Lunch & Learn Sponsored Session) ISPW Together With Git Can Take Your DevOps to the Next Level by Tony Anter, DevOps Evangelist and Technologist
• Wed. 3/30, 1:00PM in Reunion Ballroom B: (PSP) The Evolution to Intelligent Monitoring: Adding AI, Machine Learning in Embedded Expertise, and Automated Diagnostics by Glenn Everitt, Principal Product Manager
• Wed. 3/30, 3:30pm in Reunion Ballroom A: Mainframe Inclusive DevOps- Automated Environment Build and Testing by Devanand Karunakaran, Sr. SW Consultant & Neil Gilford, Sr. SW Consultant

Augmented World Expo 2022

Date: June 1-3
Location: Santa Clara, California
Cost: $395-$1,295

The Augmented World Expo (AWE) is the largest conference and expo on augmented reality in the world. Held each year in Santa Clara, California, this three-day event brings together a huge mix of industry leaders and enthusiasts, including CEOs, CTOs, designers, developers, creative agencies, futurists, analysts, investors, and the top media outlets. AWE brings together more than 5,000 attendees from all over the world, with a large percentage of them representing Fortune 1000 companies.

The 2022 conference is back live and in-person so you can expect the speakers and sessions to be bigger than ever. Learn how startups are creating solutions and organizations are using AR & VR to drive economic growth, encourage empathy and collaboration, democratize healthcare and education, and change the world.

EmTech Next 2022

Date: June 7-8
Location: Online
Cost: $800-$1,200 per person

Tailored to decision-makers across all industries, EmTech Next is a three-day online event that will examine the impact and lessons learned over this past year as we continue to navigate through a forever-changed workforce. Hear from the experts on how advancements in technologies and leadership strategies will advance organizations through a newly revolutionized business world.

Past topics have included:

• AI’s impact on workplace productivity, worker privacy, and customer personalization
• Critical workforce development as emerging technologies outpace skills
• Resiliency leadership lessons to prepare for the next crisis
• Normalizing remote work through the optimization of in-person, hybrid, and distributed offices
• Business action plans for a world and workforce that demands diversity and seeks social responsibility

MarketplaceLIVE

Date: June 14-15
Location: Online & in-person in New York, New York
Cost: Virtual is free, in-person is $499

Whether you are attending virtually or in-person in NYC, MarketplaceLIVE is the place where the complete community of cloud and digital stakeholders can come together to learn, cross-pollinate ideas, and get inspired in an immersive environment. The event will feature a variety of options, including:

• Keynotes & speakers
• Customer stories
• Networking with like-minded peers
• Interactive exhibit spaces
• Happy hours
• Fireside chats

The theme of MarketplaceLIVE 2022 is “Living on the Edge”, with all sessions and keynotes to relate to this future-focused mindset and how organizations can push the limits to usher in the next era of innovation. Some of the topics covered will cover ideas of how different industries can embrace the edge, such as art, enterprises, humanity, finance, and entertainment.

Digital Enterprise Show

Date: June 14-16
Location: Malaga, Spain
Cost: €60-€1,500

The Digital Enterprise Show (DES) by the Digital World Congress is the world’s leading event on Digital Transformation. The event showcases some of the most cutting-edge technology and aims to connect innovative companies in AI, IoT, Blockchain, Cloud, Cybersecurity, AR/VR, Big Data, and Marketing Automation.

There are sessions for everyone whether you are focused on e-commerce, CRM, digital trust, social media, marketing automation, email marketing, digital marketing, or UX.

Dublin Tech Summit 2022

Date: June 15-16
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Cost: €389

The Dublin Tech Summit is a two-day event that brings together the top global leaders in technology, innovation, and business to help shape the future of trends and technologies. The tech summit saw over 8,000 virtual attendees from 60+ countries last year, quickly solidifying its place as one of the biggest newcomers in the tech conference space.

Sessions follow the eight core themes of the conference: The Internet of Things, Big Data, FinTech, Innovation, MusicXTech, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security.

TNW (The Next Web)

Date: June 16-17
Location: Amsterdam
Cost: Starts at €650

TNW Conference is a highly anticipated technology festival that brings together international technology executives, top-tier investors, and promising startups for two days of business and knowledge sharing. Over the past 12 editions, TNW Conference has grown from a 200-person event to one of the leading technology events, bringing together 15,000 attendees a day and 3,500 companies from all over the world.

Some speakers from past events include:

• David Cancel, CEO & Founder, Drift
• Ben Hammersley, Futurist, Wired
• Mary Gray, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Mark Adams, Head of Innovation, Vice
• JPupurna Virji, Senior Manager of Global Engagement, Microsoft

PINK22

Date: June 19-22
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Cost: $2,495- $2,995

Now in its 25th hugely successful year, the annual Pink Elephant 2022 Conference is back with something for everyone. Globally recognized as the world’s premier IT Service Management Conference, Pink25 will cover a vast array of subjects ranging from strategic, tactical, and operational.

Pink has the undisputed reputation for bringing in some of the top experts to speak and present, cultivating what is widely acknowledged as the most content rich program in the industry, including:

• Michael Abrashoff, Former Navy Commander, USS Benfold
• Ben Nemtin, Bestselling Author
• Gene Kim, CTO, Researcher, Founder of IT Revolution, and Co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and The Unicorn Project

Meet BMC at Pink! If you’re seeking to understand why and how to implement best practices according to ITIL, Lean IT, Agile, Scrum or DevOps through strategic, tactical, and operational disciplines, please join us. BMC will be showcasing our BMC Helix SaaS based solutions.

Join us during our Thought Leadership and Lunch and Learn sessions, and continue the ITSM discussion at BMC booth #410 to chat with our experts and find out how we can help your business become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise.

Gartner Digital Workplace Summit

Date: June 21-22
Location: Online
Cost: $975-$1,450

Presented by the world’s leading research and advisory company, the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit will give attendees the chance to be the first to hear about emerging trends and the latest predictions surrounding the future of work. It also provides an action plan to build the digital workplace of tomorrow and offers real-world solutions for leaders to leverage these technologies in their organization.

Previous topics that have been covered at this conference include Gartner Frameworks for Managing Your Digital Workplace, Getting the Most Out of Digital Adoption Solutions, and How to Effectively Manage Hybrid Workers in a Distributed Workplace.

IDUG Virtual North America 2022 Db2 Tech Conference

Date: July 9-14
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Cost: $299

The International Db2 Users Group (IDUG®) is the foremost independent, user-driven community that provides a direct channel to thousands of professional Db2 users across the globe. IDUG’s annual North American event brings Db2 professionals together online this year.

Attendees can expect to experience the latest in Db2 technologies, networking opportunities, and the technical content needed to be successful. Some of the tracks and topics covered at past events include:

• New Db2 releases: migrating and effective usage
• Analytics & Business Intelligence
• New Technologies: Mobile Applications, Cloud, XaaS
• Performance, Availability & Security
• Application Development and Data Modeling

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit

Date: August 22-24
Location: Orlando, FL
Cost: $975-$1,045

Another industry-leading event from Gartner, this Data & Analytics Summit focuses exactly on that: how your organization can develop a resilient data and analytics strategy that leverages both data-driven decision making and AI. This event is for everyone in your data analytics function, from technical- to senior-level strategy.

The 2022 conference will offer a variety of tracks:

• Track A: Leadership and Skills: Be the Change Maker
• Track B: Business Strategy and Value: Optimize Impact
• Track C: Trust, Governance, and Privacy: An Urgent Imperative
• Track D: Analytics Everywhere: Better Decisions Realize Value
• Track E: Data Science and Machine Learning: Unleash Innovation
• Track F: Artificial Intelligence: Delivering Value at Scale
• Track G: Data and Analytics Architecture: Your Digital Acceleration Ecosystem
• Track H: Emerging Technologies and Trends: Reach Beyond

IFA (Consumer Electronics Unlimited)

Date: September 2-6
Location: Berlin, Germany

IFA is held in Berlin, Germany, and is the leading trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances. Known for offering an extensive overview of the international market, this six-day event typically attracts close to 240,000 visitors from more than 100 different countries.

IFA serves as the main meeting place for key retailers, buyers, and experts from the industry, showcasing the latest products and innovations. Although it has been virtual or hybrid for the past few years, it will return back to in-person this year, with keynotes and sessions from industry leaders.

Digital Transformation World Series 2022

Date: September 20-22
Location: Copenhagen

Hosted by TM Forum, the Digital Transformation World Series combines inspiring content and how-to knowledge in a highly interactive, festival-like setting that will leave attendees energized and inspired. While it took place online in 2020 and 2021, the event will be live and in-person this year in Copenhagen.

The World Series looks at the growing partnerships between cloud and network providers and how shifting to a hybrid model can help organizations meet changing demands while becoming an agile, efficient, partner-ready business.

IT Arena 2022

Date: September 30-October 2
Location: Lviv, Ukraine

IT Arena is the largest tech event in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, providing productive networking, business matchmaking, and festival spirit. The three-day conference, conducted exclusively in English, brings together more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, business analysts, and designers every year.

The theme of this year’s IT Arena in Lviv is “Beyond Virtual”, with tracks ranging from Startup and Business, to Product and Technology. Some speakers of the 2021 event included: Maye Musk, role model, trend maker, and rule changer; Errol Koolmeister, Former Head of AI Foundation at H&M; and Shameer Khader, Senior Director of AI/ML, Data Science, Digital Health, and Bioinformatics at AstraZeneca.

Big Data and AI Toronto

Date: October 6-7
Location: Toronto, Canada
Cost: The expo is free; $299 to attend the conference

Since 2016, Big Data and AI Toronto has been providing a unique platform for IT decision-makers and data innovators to explore and discuss insights, showcase the latest innovative projects, and connect with other data and analytics professionals. This year’s conference and expo will provide attendees with a 360° view of the industry through a unique 4-in-1 experience: AI, big data, cloud, and cybersecurity.

• Network with thousands of attendees and connect with like-minded professionals
• Livestream 70+ hours of content via 3 public tracks and 3 conference tracks
• 150+ speakers from the likes of Facebook, Netflix, Google, Cineplex, GM, Scotiabank
• Meet over 20 of the industry’s leading solution providers at the Expo
• Discover the current state of technologies and solutions via demo sessions

BMC Exchange 2022

Date: TBD
Location: Online
Cost: Free

Of course, we can’t forget our own flagship event BMC Exchange. The last few years the event took place online, with three days full of live speakers, classes, and brainstorming sessions.

BMC Exchange 2021 offered a customizable format so you could curate content for your career, choosing tracks and sessions relevant to what you need. The event included inspiring keynotes and use case-focused sessions to help you meet today’s technology challenges while preparing for tomorrow’s opportunities. BMC Exchange features:

• Exciting keynotes to help you drive organizational change
• Interactive, informational, and entertaining sessions focused on your role
• Product and strategy insights to see where BMC innovation can take you on your growth path
• Exhibition Hall featuring BMC partners, cutting-edge technology vendors, and BMC Innovation Labs

Google Cloud Next ’22

Date: October 11-13
Location: TBD

Google Cloud Next 2022 is the conference to attend if you are interested in hearing more from Google executives about new and updated cloud services. Offering more than 200 sessions, as well as many keynote speakers, Google Next explores broad themes such as service scale and maturity, usable machine learning, and enterprise-friendliness. It also covers topics like embracing the cloud, open source, cloud native architectures, and deep dives on Kubernetes and TensorFlow.

Google Cloud Next ‘21 featured top speakers like:

• Sundar Pichai, CEO Google & Alphabet
• Thomas Kurian, CEO Google Cloud
• Urs Holzle, SVP Technical Infrastructure Google Cloud
• Aparna Sinha, Director Product Management Google Cloud

AWS re:Invent 2022

Date: TBD
Location: Las Vegas, NV

AWS re:Invent 2022 is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) annual conference and is the largest gathering of the global cloud community on the globe. This event is dedicated to cloud strategies, operations, security, IT architecture and infrastructure, and developer productivity, all with a focus on AWS features and products.

Back in-person in Las Vegas, the 2022 conference will include keynote announcements, training, and certification programs, over 750 technical sessions, after-hours events, and more opportunities to educate, entertain, and engage with the best and brightest business and IT decision makers, hottest startups, and visionary technology leaders.

ESPC22

Date: November 28- December 1
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Cost: €1795

European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conferences, aka ESPC22, offers affordable, world-class Microsoft 365 learning at your fingertips, from wherever you are in the world. Tune in live or catch up on-demand across 100+ sessions from SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure experts including Microsoft team members, independent community leaders, RDs, MVPs & MCMs.

The event is live and in-person again this year, with the first keynote speaker announced as Jeff Teper, CVP, Microsoft 365 Collaboration with Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive- known as the “Founder of SharePoint”.

Consumer Electronics Shows

Date: January 5-8, 2023
Location: Las Vegas, NV & Online

For over 50 years, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the starting point for the newest technologies and innovations in the world. Held in Las Vegas, CES has been the global gathering place for all those involved in consumer technologies and the next generation of innovations, showcasing products in the areas of 3D Printing, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Computer Hardware/Software/Services, and more.

CES 2022 was able to return home to Las Vegas this year, welcoming over 40,000 attendees in-person from more than 119 different countries. The key speakers of the event were the top caliber you would expect from CES, including:

• Jong-Hee (JH) Han, Vice Chairman & CEO, Samsung Electronics, Inc.
• Mary Barra, General Motors Chair and CEO
• Robert B. Ford, President and Chief Executive Officer, Abbott
• Cara Sylvester, Chief Marketing and Digital Officer, Target
• Sarah Franklin, President and Chief Marketing Officer, Salesforce

Top IT & Tech Conferences of 2022

Whether you are a CEO, developer, IT professional, customer, or simply an employee in the technology field, attending one of the above conferences can help you to stay current on the latest trends and up-to-date on the newest innovations and technologies. No matter which one of these you choose, you are guaranteed to walk away with increased personal and professional growth.

Every year, numerous DevOps conferences share the latest frameworks, platforms, software developments, and IT technologies. From small, intimate meetings to large, global summits, there is sure to be an event that fits your needs and your budget.

As in previous years, we’ve put together a complete guide to 2021 DevOps conferences that will help you choose which events to attend. Whether you are looking to stay on top of emerging DevOps trends, hear from top experts in the field, or network with other industry professionals, there’s a DevOps conference for you.

Of course, this year’s list looks a bit different, with many popular events moving online. Though a virtual event might feel underwhelming, consider all the benefits:

• No travel
• Lower costs (some events are free!)
• On-demand content
• Global reach

Feel free to reach out if you would like to add a DevOps conference to the directory. To be considered, please email the conference name, dates of the event, location, and a link to the event’s website to blogs@bmc.com.

Check out our other conference round-ups, including Top IT/Tech Conferences, Programming & Software Dev Conferences, and CyberSecurity Conferences.

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Top DevOps Conferences of 2021

Microsoft Ignite

Date: March 2-4, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: $2,395

The Microsoft Ignite conference is Microsoft’s annual meeting specifically for enterprise professionals, services, and products Ignite offers its 25,000+ attendees priority access to technical training, new and innovative tools, and opportunities to network with peers and experts in the tech community.

Of course, the 2020 version moved online, and this year’s edition will stay digital, too. MyIgnite, as they’ve dubbed it, doesn’t have much detail out yet. But, take a look at all of last year’s on-demand content will give you a sense of what to expect.

DevOps Days

Dates & Locations:

• March 2-3: Texas
• April 6-7: Boise, ID
• April 8: Raleigh, NC
• April 15-16: Tokyo
• April 21-22: Zurich
• April 22-24: Kyiv, Ukraine
• May 4: Seattle, WA
• May 18: Paris
• May 24-25: Portugal
• May 24-25: Poznan, Poland
• June 2-3: Prague
• July 20-21: Minneapolis, MN
• July 30-31: Medellin, Colombia
• August 25-26: Dallas, TX
• September 9: Cairo, Egypt
• September 21-22: Houston, TX
• September 22-23: Bogota, Colombia
• September 27: Boston
• October 28-29, Nashville

Cost: Varies

DevOps Days bills itself as a worldwide community conference series for anyone interested in IT improvement. This global series of technical conferences focuses on software development and IT infrastructure operations. The topics range from automation and testing to security and organizational culture.

Each conference is decentralized and organized by local teams of individuals and companies, but you can expect outstanding keynote speakers and best-in-class hands-on development.

DevSecOps Days

Date: March 5, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: Free

DevSecOps Days is geared toward the latest DevOps development: adding Security to DevOps. Attendees of DevSecOps Days will come away with insights about:

• Automating security
• Overcoming challenges in implementing DevSecOps
• Scaling your practices

The DEVOPS Conference

Date: March 23-24, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: Free

The DEVOPS2021 is a free, two-day conference aimed at inspiring, teaching, and connecting a broad range of people working in software development. The DEVOPS Conference returns for the 7th time, bigger and better than ever, the result of a merger in the Nordic’s two biggest DevOps conferences, the former CoDe-Conf and DEVOPS 2020.

The 2021 DEVOPS Conference users real cases to show how both better decision-making and betters tools improve the customer experience. This event is open to anyone in the DevOps ecosystem, from executives and managers to engineers, programmers, and designers. Expect to learn about these topics in particular:

• Agile transformation
• Compliance & security
• Management & culture
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
• DataOps & analytics
• DesignOps

Visual Studio Live!

Online training dates & topics:

• March 23-24, Data Seminar, Online
• April 13-14, DevOps Training, Online
• May 4-5, .NET 5 Training, Online
• June 22-23, .NET Training, Online

Cost: Varies

At 25+ years old, Visual Studio Live! is one of the most respected, longest-running, independent developer conferences in the country. With keynotes, workshops, hands-on labs, fast focus sessions, and more than 50 breakout sessions, this conference covers a wide variety of development technologies for everyone.

Last year, VSLive! pivoted to a series of online events and trainings. They’ve continued this trend into 2021, offering attendees both online, best-in-class trainings and in-person events.

Visual Studio Live! presents on all the topics you need to grow your teams and software solutions, including:

• DevOps trends & developments
• Microservices &containers
• Databases, both traditional and cloud-based
• Security & compliance

DevOps Talks Conferences

Dates & Locations:

• March 25-26: Melbourne, AU
• March 30-31: Auckland, NZ
• Singapore (Dates TBA)

Cost: Varies

DevOps Talks Conferences (DOTC) attract leaders and engineers who are practicing DevOps in startups and leading-edge enterprise companies. World-class speakers from cutting-edge IT startups and enterprises such as CHEF, Google Cloud, New Relic, Scalur, JFrog, Rancher Labs, Microsoft Azure, present about:

• DevOps
• Cyber Security
• Containers
• Cloud
• Serverless
• SRE
• Blockchain
• ChatOps
• Advanced and new technologies

PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit

Date: April 27, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: $300

The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit is the annual gathering of PowerShell + DevOps professionals and enthusiasts, featuring expert presenters and an opportunity for the entire PowerShell community to network and share ideas.

If you’re working with PowerShell, Desired State Configuration, and related technologies, and especially if you’re moving your organization toward a DevOps footing, then this is the 400+ level event you will want to attend. Previous speakers include engineers and technical leaders from companies like DevOps Collective, Rackspace, Puppet, FM Global, and more many.

This year’s event is being held online. We love that the significantly lower price makes this possible for people who can’t budget in-person prices. Plus, that $300 gives you access to on-demand content, too, so you can use it exactly when you need it.

KubeCON + CloudNativeCon Virtual 2021

Date: May 4-7, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: TBA (Registration opens February 2)

This event about all things cloud native is brought to us by none other than the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This year’s four day event will take place entirely online which, along with its European time slot, makes it accessible to much of the globe.

Expect to hear from and interact with technologists and adopters from all cloud native corners, including:

• Kubernetes
• containerd
• Helm
• Fluentd
• Thanos
• And many more

Continuous Lifecycle Online 2021

Date: May 10-12, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: TBA

Continuous Lifecycle London is a three-day conference that brings together top leaders in DevOps, Containerization, Continuous Delivery and Agile. Attendees can:

• Learn the best ways to reorganize software development and operations teams
• Gain insights about ChatOps in organizations
• Pick up strategies for taking containerization to the next level

Like many conferences, the 2021 edition is moving online. Still, the organization says you can expect the best lineup of Containerization and CD practicioners, so you’ll still come away with practical tips and processes.

DevOps Enterprise Summit 2021

Dates: May 18-20 (Europe); October 5-7 (U.S.)
Location: Online
Cost: $650

DevOps Enterprise Summit, or DOES as those in the know call it, bills itself as “the conference for leaders of large, complex organizations.” Hosted by Gene Kim and IT Revolution, DOES continues to offer the best of the best in keynote speakers, hands-on learning, and ongoing networking in its Slack channels.

Weary of adding another virtual event to your calendar? This might be the one to prioritize. DOES went virtual last year, and its website is chock full of quotes from multi-year attendees attesting to how great the virtual option is. Arguably, with these online events, you can do even more; no missing one event because it’s scheduled at the same time as another one you have to attend.

DockerCon

Date: May 27, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: Free

DockerCon focuses on Docker and its support of next generation distributed apps that are built with containers. Like last year, DockerCon 2021 will be an entirely free, entirely online event, so the value it provides is open to all. According to their placeholder webpage, virtual attendees can expect

• Product and innovation demos, from both Docker and Docker partners
• Deep technical sessions led by Docker experts, Docker Captains, and other industry leaders
• Community connection with global Docker enthusiasts

Sign up on the website to get information as it’s announced.

LISA21 (Large Installation System Administration Conference)

Date: June 1-3, 2021
Location: TBA

LISA is the premier conference for operations professionals, where sysadmins, systems engineers, IT operations professionals, SRE practitioners, developers, IT managers, and academic researchers share real-world knowledge about designing, building, securing, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

Organized by Usenix, LISA is aimed at educating and training on the design, building, and maintenance of critical systems by and for systems engineers and operations professionals. In its 34^th edition, the 2021 conference will cover areas like technical issues, technical excellence and innovation, technical issues, most advanced information on the developments of all aspects of computing systems and other topics.

Agile + DevOps West

Date: June 6-11, 2021
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Agile + DevOps West brings together practitioners seeking to accelerate the delivery of reliable, secure software applications. With industry experts providing insights on how to leverage agile and DevOps concepts into your organization, this event can help you learn how:

• Improve deployment frequency and time to market
• Reduce lead time
• More successfully deliver stable new features

According to their website, it looks like the 2021 edition will be taking place in June in Last Vegas. They’re currently looking for papers and submissions, but few other details are released yet.

The National DevOps Conference 2021

Date: June 2021
Location: London, UK
Cost: £635 for a single-day pass; £735 for both days

The National DevOps Conference is a UK-based event that provides the software community at home and abroad with practical presentations and executive workshops, facilitated and led by top industry figures. This premier industry event also features a market leading exhibition, so delegates can view the latest products and services available.

This year’s event takes place at the British Museum. (A touch more inspiring compared to your standard convention center.)

DevOps India Summit DOIS 2021

Date: August 27-28, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: Free

DOIS21 is the 4th iteration of the biggest DevOps conference in India. The 2021 edition will take place online, drawing on its experience from last year. The best part? It’s completely free! Get more than 33 hours of content about everything DevOps.

This year’s theme is all about adapting to Industry 4.0 (aka the Fourth Industrial Revolution), with a focus on:

• DevSecOps
• SRE
• AI, ML & IoT
• Data Science

ChefConf Online

Date: September 7-9, 2021
Location: Online

For nearly a decade, ChefConf has been the gathering for the DevOps community to learn, share, and network. ChefConf allows attendees to have access to the top Chef experts and IT innovators from around the world while being able to take part in technical workshops, training, and two days’ worth of keynotes and sessions presented by Chef, its partners, Chef practitioners, IT executives, and DevOps leaders.

ChefConf did move online last year and they’re keeping it online for 2021 as well. The good news? We have no doubt that ChefConf will still be incredible!

Live! 360 Conference

Date: November 15-19, 2021
Location: Orlando, FL
Cost: Various paid packages and discounts available

Back in person, Live! 360 offers five in-depth technical conferences in one for the IT, Developer, and Data communities. With unlimited access to Live! 360’s five co-located events (Visual Studio Live!, SQL Server Live!, TechMentor, Artificial Intelligence Live!, and Cloud & Containers Live!), you and your team will get the training you need to keep you and your business competitive and future-ready. Live! 360 = the Ultimate Education Destination.

2021 DevOps conferences

No matter which DevOps conferences you choose, you will hear from global experts and thought leaders, inspirational innovators, software developers, and like-minded peers. Attending a conference means you’ll learn about the latest research, practices, and strategies concerning DevOps and software that the industry has to offer.

Conferences are an important part of any industry, especially in the crucial, quickly evolving landscape of cybersecurity. No matter what role you have in IT security, there are hundreds of IT security conferences to choose from each year, giving you plenty of options—which can get overwhelming!

That’s why we have compiled this guide: to help you find the top IT Security, Information Security, and CyberSecurity conferences of 2021.

Of course, conferences look a lot different this year, with many moving online entirely. But virtual conferences have plenty of advantages over in-person conferences, perhaps even giving more people to chance to access these professional development opportunities:

• Lower cost (many are free!)
• No travel
• More customizable content
• Flexible schedules
• Diversity of speakers (since location doesn’t matter)
• Content on-demand for months after the program

Our list provides both national and international options, so you can find exactly what suits your needs. Feel free to reach out if you would like to add a security-related conference to the directory. To be considered, please email all details including the conference name, dates of the event, location, and a link to the event’s website to blogs @ bmc.com.

Be sure to check out our other conference round-ups, including Top Virtual IT/Tech Conferences, Top IT/Tech Conferences, DevOps Conferences, Voice Tech Conferences, and Programming & Software Dev Conferences.

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Top Security Conferences of 2021

Ai4 2021

Date: February 3-4, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: Professionals can apply for a free spot; General registration $395

The Ai4 2021 conference is all about artificial intelligence in the domain of cybersecurity. Over two days, attendees can hear from business leaders and data practitioners to learn about successfully adopting AI and machine learning to support your security practice. Ai4 2021 uses a unique use-case oriented approach that:

• Delivers actionable insights
• Offers a common framework for AI in cybersecurity
• Offers content at all stages of the AI journey

Ai4 will help you no matter where you are in your AI journey.

SANS Virtual Edition 2021

Date: February 22-27, 2021
Location: Online (live from Scottsdale, AZ)
Cost: Options starting from $799

SANS Virtual Edition 2021 is organized by the SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training. The conference features hands-on cyber security courses taught by the industry’s top professionals and instructors in the field. These courses range in levels from introductory all the way to the most advanced training. The event also offers insightful presentations by keynote speakers and plenty of unique networking opportunities.

With this year’s edition moving online, you’ll still get best-in-class training. Here’s what you can expect:

• Interactive, live-stream courses
• Hands-on labs in a virtual environment
• Cyber Defense NetWars Tournament (included w/ticket cost)
• Real-time support from virtual TAs
• Dedicated chat channels for networking

Cyber Security Digital Summit for Threat Intelligence 2021

Date: Americas, March 16-17; APAC, March 30-31
Location: Online
Cost: Free

This year’s online events will take place over two half-days, making it easier for SecOps pros to fit into their non-stop schedules. This year’s Cyber Security Digital Summit focuses on how to turn your raw security data into actual threat intelligence. After all, as the website states, “the discipline is not called Threat Raw Data”.

Security professionals as well as CIOs, CSOs, and CTOs alike can all take advantage of this Cyber Security Digital Summit. Expect to learn about:

• The limits of SIEM systems
• The potential, and shortfalls, of SOAR platforms today
• Data quality
• Using remediation, automation, and orchestration to turn your data into actual intelligence and insights

Best of all? The events are free! So even if you can only make some of the sessions, you’re still getting fantastic value.

LORCA Live 2021

Date: March 29-31, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: Free

LORCA (the London Office for Rapid Cyber Advancement) is the DCMS-backed cyber accelerator run by Plexal, Deloitte, and the CSIT (Queen’s University Belfast). The 2021 edition of this annual event is taking place online, and it’s free! The virtual event will feature daily live broadcast program with some of the biggest names in cybersecurity, as well as workshops, and networking opportunities—all available on the LORCA Live event platform, which will be active the entire week.

The lineup of speakers, including government leaders, academics, investors, and some of the most prominent names in UK and global cyber, discussing the role of security to enable societal trust in the technologies that will define our future.

ThotCon

Date: May 14-15, 2021
Location: Top secret (For attendees only!)
Cost: Sold out, but ThotCon & Lyte offer a second-hand ticketing option

The preeminent top secret hacking conference is back for 2021! ThotCon is an annual conference in Chicago started and held specifically for hackers and the local hacking culture. ThotCon is a small, non-profit, non-commercial event, with an attendance last year of about 1,000 people. In honor of its secretive nature, the specific location of the event is kept confidential until the week of the conference, when it is then released to attendees and speakers alike.

Some previous topics covered at ThotCon:

• Using, or securing against, the latest hacking methods such as side channels, physics, and low-cost tools
• Hacking Python
• Intercepting, modifying, and generating wireless signals with SD

RSA Conference 2021: Virtual Experience

Date: May 17-20, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: TBA

The RSA Conference is one of the largest security conferences in the entire world, with more than 42,000 attendees in 2019 alone. Add to that more than 700 speakers from across the globe, and it’s no wonder this event is one of the largest and most popular in the area of cybersecurity.

The 2021 RSA Conference is moving 100% online, making it an option to more Security pros around the globe. And we think this year’s conference theme—resilience—is right on time! Here’s what you can expect:

• Rich educational content across 20 conference tracks
• 300+ sessions with keynotes, partners, and sponsors
• Interactive, traditional sessions
• Regular RSAC activities like the Innovation Sandbox Content, Capture the Flag games, Birds of a Feature, and more
• Expansive Sponsor Resource Center
• And more

Full conference not your style? RSA recently launched RSA 365, an online, year-round learning initiative.

42nd IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy

Date: May 23-27, 2021
Location: Online

Organized by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy for over 40 years.

Few details on the topical areas are available yet, but it does look like some focus will be on:

• Internet of Smart Things
• Tech & Consumer Protection
• Deep Learning & Security

HITBSECCONF 2021: Hack in the Box Security Conference

Date: May 27-28, 2021
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cost: Free speakers sessions; various prices for trainings & labs

Held annually in Amsterdam, The Hack in the Box Security Conference is globally recognized for its networking opportunities and its forward-thinking views on computer security issues. Attendees can expect to develop new professional relationships and alliances while learning from some of the top security experts in the industry.

The 2021 HITB has moved online to a two-day event. We like the flexibility this event offers:

• All conference and keynote speakers are free to attend! Keynote speakers will be Jon Callas, Senior Technology Fellow, ACLU, and Zuk Avraham, Founder & CEO, ZecOps
• Labs and trainings come with a cost, so pick which ones are most useful to you

InfoSecurity Europe 2021

Date: June 8-10, 2021
Location: London, UK

InfoSecurity Europe is the region’s largest and most well attended information security event. The event features Europe’s most comprehensive conference program, with over 360 exhibitors showcasing the newest information security solutions and products to close to 18,000 attendees.

The 2021 edition has the theme of resilience, which is perfectly apt for the year and the industry. Attendees will have access to:

• Keynote Stage
• Information Security Exchange
• Tech Talks
• Technology Showcase
• Strategy Talks
• Cyber Innovation Showcase
• Security Workshops
• Talking Tactics
• And more!

BlackHat USA

Date: July 31-August 5, 2021
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $495-$2,795

Black Hat USA is one of the world’s biggest tech conferences, providing attendees with the latest research and trends in security. The 2019 event attracted more than 20,000 people, and has become the premier conference for researchers, security experts, vendors, and hackers.

Black Hat USA 2021 has been confirmed, but few details have been released yet. For some idea, look to previous events that have covered tracks like:

• Applied security
• Cryptography
• Incident response
• IoT
• Malware
• Mobile
• Network defense
• Platform security
• Reverse engineering

BlackHat is also offering other events:

• BlackHat Spring Trainings, March 15-18
• BlackHat Asia, May 4-7
• BlackHat Europe, November 8-11

DEF CON 29

Date: August 5-8, 2021
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $260, cash only at the door

Another extremely popular event in Las Vegas is DEF CON, one of the oldest and largest security conferences in the world. The conference begins each year when the sister event, Black Hat USA, ends, so you can expect many similar topics and themes. Previous DEF CONs offer:

• Several tracks of speakers about computer- and hacking-related subjects
• Cyber-security challenges and competitions, including their flagship Capture the Flag game

The event features speakers, contests, vendors, workshops, demo labs, and entertainment, not to mention plenty of opportunities to network with the world’s top hackers and potentially get headhunted by government officials: federal law enforcement agents from the FBI, DoD, United States Postal Inspection Service, and other agencies regularly attend DEF CON.

Can’t wait to the actual event? DEF CON runs frequent events on their Discord.

30^th Usenix Security Symposium

Date: August 11-13, 2021
Location: Vancouver, BC
Cost: $790- $1,065

The Usenix Security Symposium is a three-day conference that includes dozens of refereed paper presentations and invited talks and various sessions about the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

Though few details are released yet, previous editions covered tracks like:

• Wireless security
• Protecting users everywhere
• Hardware security
• Machine learning applications
• Mobile security
• Side channels
• Intelligence and vulnerabilities

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit

Date: September 20-22, 2021
Location: Orlando, FL
Cost: Starts at $3,250

The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit is one of the largest gatherings for security, risk management, and business continuity management leaders. Attendees can look forward to several tracks this year, including:

• CISO Circle
• Management & Leadership
• Digital Risk Management
• Security Technology & Architecture
• Spotlights on topics like Business Enablement, DEI, and more

BMC Software is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of this event.

GSX 2021

Date: September 27-29, 2021
Location: Orlando, FL
Cost: TBA

The ASIS Global Security Exchange has been one of the leading conferences for security professionals worldwide for more than six decades. Organized by ASIS International, this event covers the full spectrum of security topics, with presentations and sessions in areas like data and infrastructure security, cybersecurity, counterterrorism, loss prevention, and facilities security.

Currently, few details are posted for the 2021 edition beyond a save the date.

InfoSec World 2021

Date: September 27-29, 2021
Location: You choose: online or in-person in Lake Buena Vista, FL
Cost: Options start at $1,705

InfoSec World has been a world-leading conference for “business of security” for more than 25 years. Bringing together expert speakers, security practitioners, and industry leaders, InfoSec World addresses ways to manage today’s threats to cultivate business while preventing, detecting, and responding to security challenges that arise.

Few details for the 2021 conference are announced yet, just know that even if you choose not to attend in-person, you can still gain all the valuable insights with their virtual opportunities.

CyberSecure

Date: November 16-17, 2021
Location: Online
Cost: $650

CyberSecure, from MIT Technology Review, unpacks the evolving threat landscape, outlines the technologies and innovations involved in attack and defense, and provides the trusted insights and actionable strategies needed to protect your organization from cyberattack. Hear from expert speakers, participate in live programming and Q&A, and grow your professional network in an immersive, virtual format focused on the attendee experience.

DeepSec 2021

Date: November 16-19, 2021
Location: Vienna, Austria
Cost: Various packages and early-bird discounts, starting at €700, excluding VAT

DeepSec is a well known IT Security conference bringing together the world’s most renowned security professionals from academics, government, industry, and the underground hacking community. It was established in 2007 and takes place every autumn in Vienna, Austria. This year’s theme is “Doors & Corners”.

DeepSec 2021 is broken into two major components:

• In-depth, hands-on trainings, will take place November 16-17.
• The full conference experience will occur on November 18-19.

DeepINTEL 2021

Date: November 17, 2021
Location: Vienna, Austria
Cost: Starting at €995, excluding VAT

The DeepINTEL conference is DeepSec’s sister event focusing on Security Intelligence. Security Intelligence is one of the newest disciplines in the IT security world, covering potential attacks and attackers, and their capabilities. Security intelligence uses several different approaches:

• Algorithmic and statistical analysis
• Infiltration of adversaries
• Data correlation
• Meta analysis
• Related techniques.

Due to the sensitive topics, the event has a vetting process for participants, so that we all can talk freely and openly during the event. If you have questions on this, please contact the organizers directly.

KNOW Identity Events

Date: Ongoing events
Location: Online
Cost: Varies

The KNOW Identity Conference is a leading industry event focused on identity, trust, and the data economy. It’s a uniquely differentiated,  powerful, and immersive event where the leading edge of identity gets sharper.

In the last year, KNOW Identity has pivoted from a single event to frequent, ongoing virtual events throughout 2021. Take part in KNOW Identity Digital Forums, Digital Roundtables, and Investor Digital Forums. You can still expect industry experts such as:

• David Birch, Consult Hyperion
• Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence
• Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
• Brittany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower
• Roger Dingledine, TOR Project

International Cryptographic Module Conference 2021

The International Cryptographic Module Conference brings together global experts in commercial cryptography. ICMC20 moved online last year, as will ICMC21. According to the website, attendees should expect a 2021 conference, but few details have been released yet.

Who should attend ICMC? Pros involved with data security based in commercial encryption, especially those who develop, manufacture, test, specify or use certified commercial off the shelf cryptographic modules. Frequent attendees include:

• Cryptographic module developers
• Testing labs
• Government standards organizations
• Private schemes
• Embedded systems OEMs
• Academics
• Side channel research community

AWS re:Inforce 2021

Date: TBA
Location: TBA
Cost: TBA

Join AWS re:Inforce, the leading security event for everything AWS. Attendees can expect hours of content on cloud security, compliance, and cutting edge developments.

AWS re:Inforce 2021 is confirmed, but few details have been released. Sign up for updates on the website.

Acronis Global Cyber Summit

As the world’s largest community of cyber protection professionals, the Acronis Global Cyber Summit provides the insights, strategies, solutions, and industry connections needed to improve the protection of critical data assets and systems. For CIOs, IT infrastructure managers, managed service providers, resellers and ISVs, the Acronis Global Cyber Summit is an annual, must-attend event.

Even though no details have been released for a 2021 Acronis Global Cyber Summit, we kept them on this list to highlight their frequent live events, perfect for a dose of learning every few weeks.

Top Security Conferences of 2021

Whether you are looking for something small and familiar, or large and exciting, these conferences are guaranteed to:

• Bring you closer to some of the biggest experts in the world
• Provide opportunities to learn about the latest research
• Offer networking with other security and IT professionals

It doesn’t matter which of these top IT security, information security, and cybersecurity conferences you choose—you will not be disappointed.

AWS re:Invent 2020
November 30-December 18, 2020
Virtual & Free

Although things have been anything but normal this year, Amazon Web Services has pivoted and decided the show must go on, continuing with their annual and highly anticipated conference AWS re:Invent.

Given the changes the event has undergone, we have put together a complete guide to AWS re:Invent 2020 that includes all of the necessary information you will need to navigate the event this year, such as live keynote speakers, session topics, tracks, certifications, and more.

Keep checking back as this guide will be updated as the event gets closer!

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The Guide

To help you find what you

Re looking for, we have separated the information in the guide into three distinct categories:

• General information
• Learn
• Play

Each of these categories are broken down further, providing everything you will need in order to map out your schedule.

GENERAL INFORMATION

AWS re:Invent 2020 is the Amazon Web Services annual user conference that focuses on:

• Cloud strategies
• Cloud operations
• Security and developer productivity
• IT architecture and infrastructure

Typically, the conference spans seven different properties in Las Vegas and welcomes over 60,000 attendees over the course of a few days. This year, the event will be 100% virtual, taking place over the course of three weeks.

This year’s re:Invent will ‘follow the sun’, with broadcasts repeating to serve multiple time zones.

• Americas (PST)
• Asia-Pacific (SGT)
• Europe (GMT)

These sessions, including keynote sessions, will happen live in the Americas and then will be rebroadcast at the designated times in the two other time zones.

Registration

Registration for this year’s event opens in late October. Sign up here to be notified once registration opens.

LEARN

Although it will look much different this year, re:Invent promises to provide all the same information and expertise. With more access to AWS leaders than ever, the 2020 event ensures to give you numerous ways to advance your AWS skills, hone your current knowledge, and learn new methods of working with AWS—all from the comfort of your computer screen.

Sessions

Spread out across three weeks of learning and collaborating, the 2020 conference will feature hundreds of live sessions from top AWS experts and customers from around the globe. Offered at various skill levels, these sessions will provide opportunities to:

• Interact with technical content geared towards your market
• Access community members that will be able to answer any technical, product, or service questions

Training & Certification

As in past years, re:Invent also offers access to relevant trainings and certifications that can enhance and transform your understandings of the cloud. Designed by expert cloud practitioners and partners, these trainings support learners from all skills levels. The AWS certifications validate expertise of necessary knowledge and key competencies.

Keynote Speakers

The keynote speakers are always some of the most highly anticipated events, with major launch announcements about new services and products. They also feature some of the top AWS experts in the world, sharing their unique experiences and knowledge. Even on the virtual platform, for the estimated 250,000 attendees, these keynotes won’t disappoint.

AWS Keynote: CEO Andy Jassy

Andy Jassy takes the virtual stage to share his insights and the latest news about AWS customers, products, and services.

AWS Partner Keynote: Doug Yeum, Sandy Carter & Dave McCann

Don’t miss the AWS Partner Keynote with Doug Yeum, head of Worldwide Channels and Alliances; Sandy Carter, vice president, Global Public Sector Partners and Programs; and Dave McCann, vice president, AWS Migration, Marketplace, and Control Services, to learn how AWS is helping partners modernize their businesses to help their customers transform.

Machine Learning Keynote: Swami Sivasubramanian

Join Swami Sivasubramanian for the first-ever Machine Learning Keynote at re:Invent. Hear how AWS is freeing builders to innovate on machine learning with the latest developments in AWS machine learning, demos of new technology, and insights from customers.

Infrastructure Keynote: Peter DeSantis

Join Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President, Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, to learn how AWS has optimized its cloud infrastructure to run the world’s most demanding workloads and give your business a competitive edge.

VP, CTO Amazon.com Keynote: Dr. Werner Vogels

Join Dr. Werner Vogels as he goes behind the scenes to show how Amazon is solving today’s hardest technology problems. Based on his experience working with some of the largest and most successful applications in the world, Dr. Vogels shares his insights on building truly resilient architectures and what that means for the future of software development.

2020 re:Invent Leadership Sessions

Every year re:Invent offers sessions on a wide variety of topics that are led by some of the top experts in the industry. AWS Leadership Sessions feature top AWS leaders as they share the latest advances in AWS technologies and discuss successes and the future of products.

Analytics: Rahul Pathak, Vice President, Analytics

Rahul is the Vice President for Analytics at AWS. During his nine years at AWS, Rahul has focused on managed databases, data warehousing, big data, and data makes.

Architecture: Rudy Valdez, Vice President, Solutions Architecture and Training & Certification

Rudy leads the AWS Solutions Architecture and Training & Certification teams and is responsible for helping customers build Well-Architected applications and services on the AWS platform and develop cloud skills across the AWS ecosystem. Rudy has been at AWS over 15 years, and helped pioneer the AWS business.

AWS Public Sector: Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector

Teresa Carlson is the founder and leader of AWS Worldwide Public Sector, and one of the most accomplished and forwarding-thinking technology leaders in the world today. Teresa’s charter expanded in 2020 to include AWS’s worldwide financial services, energy services, and telecommunications industry business units.

AWS Public Sector Partners: Sandy Carter, Vice President, Global Public Sector Partners and Programs

Sandy Carter is AWS, Vice President of Global Public Sector Partners and Programs, driving growth in the public sector Internationally, as well as in the U.S. She previously built an enterprise workload team as the Vice President of Enterprise Workloads at AWS focused on migration and modernization through containers and serverless.

Business Applications: Larry Augustin, Vice President, AWS Business Application Services

Larry is responsible for a number of Business Applications, including Amazon Connect, Amazon Workspaces, Amazon Honeycode, Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon SES, Amazon Chime, and many others.

Compute: David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2

David Brown is the Vice President of Amazon EC2, a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. He joined AWS in 2007 as a software developer based in Cape Town, working on the early development of Amazon EC2.

Containers: Deepak Singh, Vice President, Containers, Linux, HPC & Open Source, AWS

Deepak Singh leads the Containers, Linux, and High Performance Businesses at AWS. He also leads the Amazon Open Source Program Office. Prior to joining AWS in 2008, Deepak spent many years in the scientific software and bioinformatics industry.

Databases: Shawn Bice, Vice President, AWS Databases

Shawn leads AWS efforts to help organizations lower costs, reduce complexity, and accelerate innovation by optimizing their database investments to support their long-term data strategies and is responsible for over 15 fully managed, purpose-built database services including Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB.

Edge: Bill Vass, Vice President of Engineering, AWS

Bill oversees more than 42 cloud and edge technologies. Under Bill’s leadership, AWS teams develop and operate the largest software defined storage, streaming, IoT, management and governance, and monitoring and observability systems in the world, used by web-based companies, consumer companies, enterprises, and governments.

Enterprise: Dave McCann, Vice President, AWS Migration, Marketplace & Control Services

Dave leads a portfolio of services that include AWS Migration Services, AWS Marketplace, AWS Data Exchange, and Control Services to help customers modernize and govern their applications.

IoT: Dirk Didascalou, Vice President, AWS IoT

Dirk has worldwide business, product and engineering responsibility for the Internet of Things (IoT) at Amazon Web Services. AWS IoT provides capabilities for industrial, commercial, and consumer customers to deliver connected products and applications that are driving change across industries globally.

Management Tools & Governance: Bill Vass, Vice President of Engineering, AWS

Bill oversees more than 42 cloud and edge technologies. Under Bill’s leadership, AWS teams develop and operate the largest software defined storage, streaming, IoT, management and governance, and monitoring and observability systems in the world, used by web-based companies, consumer companies, enterprises, and governments.

Networking & Content Delivery: Mayumi Hiramatsu, Vice President, EC2 Networking

Mayumi is accountable for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) platforms and Networking Services including NAT Gateway, Transit Gateway, Application/Network/Classic Load Balancer, Site to Site VPN, Client VPN, PrivateLink, Traffic Mirroring, and IP Management.

Security, Identity & Compliance: Stephen E. Schmidt, Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

Stephen’s duties at AWS include leading product design, management, and engineering development efforts focused on bringing the competitive, economic and security benefits of cloud computing to business and government customers.

Serverless: David Richardson, Vice President, Serverless

David leads the serverless portfolio – a group of AWS services that enable customers to build applications that are agile, scalable, secure, and low cost, all without managing servers. His services include Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, and Amazon MQ.

Storage: Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, AWS Block & Object Storage

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec is the global Vice President for AWS Block and Object Storage services, which include Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Glacier. Mai-Lan has been an engineering and product leader of AWS storage and compute services since 2010.

Training and Certification: Maureen Lonergan, Director of AWS Training & Certification

Maureen is the global leader of AWS Training & Certification. With flexible training offerings alongside an industry-leading certification program, her team helps the builders of today and tomorrow leverage the power of the AWS Cloud.

We Power Tech: Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, AWS Block & Object Storage

Check out the main Leadership Sessions page for detailed information about when the sessions will be available for each time zone.

PLAY

While re:Invent is known for its quality content and beneficial AWS sessions, it’s definitely not all work. Even though the activities this year will have to be virtual, there are still multiple opportunities for attendees to collaborate, network, and have fun.

AWS DeepRacer

For those interested in gaining knowledge and experience of Machine Learning, AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get started. With hands-on learning offered to developers of all skill levels, this session teaches you how to train reinforcement learning models in a cloud-based 3D racing simulator. Later, compete for prizes in an autonomous car racing experience with other developers across the world.

Jams and GameDays

Jams and GameDays are gamified sessions that allow participants to gain hands-on experience working through real-world scenarios that encourage the use of a variety of AWS and Partner services.

Participants of all skill levels are encouraged to join to learn new skills and to validate and enhance current ones. There are time-based options as well as on-demand content.

Watch parties

Just like with other major 2020 tech conferences, you can expect that there will be a variety of virtual watch parties to choose from, allowing attendees to connect with individuals from around the globe.

You can also create channels to chat about the sessions and various announcements with friends and coworkers, offering a virtual replacement for the in-person mingling at the usual event.

Sponsors

There is word that there will still be plenty of sponsors with awesome swag, they are just going to be getting a little more creative this year in terms of how to present it and give it away. Most sponsors will likely have an online prize giveaway to get attendees involved, as well as virtual meeting room and attendee chats.

AWS re:Invent 2020

Every year, AWS re:Invent is one of the most highly anticipated cloud conferences, and for good reason. Whether it be the unparalleled access to top AWS experts, leadership sessions from major players in the industry, or the exclusive networking and collaboration opportunities, re:Invent provides a unique experience you can’t get anywhere else.

Keep checking back as this complete guide to AWS re:Invent continues to be updated and make sure to register so you don’t miss out on this ultimate event! In the meantime, get excited with a recap of the top moments of re:Invent 2019.

Additional resources

For related reading, explore these resources:

• IT Conference & Events Guide
• AWS Guide, a series of explainers and tutorials
• BMC Multi-Cloud Blog
• BMC Machine Learning & Big Data Blog

2020 has been a year of the unexpected, requiring us all to make big changes, adjustments, and compromises in order to keep ourselves and each other safe. Service providers are seeking new ways to reach clients in this time of social distancing, and for many that means holding their highly anticipated events in the virtual space. Who better to pioneer this move than tech leaders?

Conferences and live events are essential avenues for businesses looking to sell their products, for professionals looking to learn about new trends, and for everyone in the industry to do valuable networking. At the end of the day, attendees leave these events feeling inspired and ready to do some serious work. While nothing can replace the value of face-to-face connections, a virtual conference is accessible to a greater number of people around the globe.

In an industry that already requires leaders to be at the forefront of innovation, it’s only natural that those leaders would be quick to respond to global change. Many events have been postponed or canceled, but just as many are being offered virtually.

Reach out if you would like to add a virtual tech/IT conference to the directory. To be considered, please email the conference name, dates of the event, location, and a link to the event’s website to blogs@bmc.com.

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Online Tech/IT Conferences

Below is a list of the top virtual tech conferences coming up this year—all taking place online, so watch out for those time zones. Don’t forget to sign up for email updates from any event you are thinking of attending, as details are subject to change.

Microsoft Ignite

Dates: September 22-24, 2020
Location: Online
Cost: Free

Microsoft Ignite will be launched as a complimentary digital event experience this September. Join us to learn innovative ways to build solutions, migrate and manage your infrastructure, and connect with Microsoft experts and other technology professionals from around the globe.

VMWorld

Dates: Week of September 28, 2020
Location: Online
Cost: Registration opens June 23
Twitter: @vmworld

This year, VMWorld is a virtual event for the tech professional looking to gain knowledge and momentum in the realm of cloud-based applications, security issues, and innovations.

BII SUMMIT

Date: October 7, 2020
Location: Online
Cost: Various packages available

BII SUMMIT is an event that specializes in helping technology companies and investors meet under one (virtual) roof to create long-term business relationships.

Google Assistant Developer Day

Date: October 8, 2020
Location: Online
Cost: Free
Twitter: #GoogleAssistantDevDay

Join us live on October 8th for the virtual Google Assistant Developer Day, where we’ll announce new features and tools and showcase highlights and use cases from our partners. We will also host interactive sessions for you to connect with the Google Assistant team, including a fireside chat to answer top questions we hear from developers.

BMC Exchange

Date: October 20-22, 2020
Location: Online
Cost: Free

Join industry leaders and innovators to learn, engage, and take away new ideas to move your business forward. As businesses continue to manage ongoing global disruption, BMC Exchange can help you prepare your organization with the strategies to anticipate and adapt to changes and succeed as an Autonomous Digital Enterprise.

BMC are thrilled to bring BMC Exchange to you this October in an exciting, virtual, customizable format featuring insightful keynotes, powerful educational sessions, unique networking opportunities, and tried-and-true best practices for ensuring the automation, security, service, and operational excellence your business relies on.

ACCELERATE Global

Date: October 28, 2020
Location: Online
Cost: Free

To help you stay ahead of the competition in the new world where speed and agility are critical, Creatio compiled insights of 12+ offline events in Americas, Europe, Australia, Middle East and Asia, and prepared one virtual 24-hour conference – ACCELERATE Global. Connect with business transformation experts from all over the world, ready to share knowledge on how to build a low-code enterprise, strengthen tech strategy, ensure higher agility for your business, and drive the industry forward.

You can expect 200+ content-packed sessions available in your time zone and language, filled with insights, trends, real-world cases and practical workshops on business transformation and shaping the future of enterprise with low-code.

More online tech conferences in 2020

Many popular events that might be out of reach for you cost or travel wise are now online! Look for big events you’ve always wanted to attend and try out niche conferences that offer something new.

If a popular event is firming up virtual details, like the Salesforce Dreamforce, sign up to get updates on virtual events.  There’s no better time to follow tech leaders into uncharted territory.

Every year, hundreds of tech conferences offer unique networking opportunities and inspiring speaking engagements for IT professionals, businesses, and tech enthusiasts to connect and learn about new innovations. Choosing the right conferences can be difficult, especially for niche technology applications such as voice. So, we’re helping you out with this round-up of the top voice tech conferences to follow in 2020.

Feel free to get in touch to add a voice tech conference to the directory. To be considered, please email all details including the conference name, dates of the event, location, and a link to the event’s website to blogs@bmc.com.

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Note: Some event information may be out of date due to COVID-19. Please confirm details with event organizers.

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What is voice tech?

Voice technology includes all the devices we talk to daily, from iPhone’s Siri and Android’s Google Assistant to standalone smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon Echo. But voice technology has the potential to be much bigger than at-home devices. A recent study estimates that the global voice technology industry could be worth $32 billion within just five years—that’s up from under $10 billion in 2017.

Powered by AI and natural language processing and relying heavily on cloud computing, voice tech experts say that the technology can change how we work and live, helping us be more productive. These tech conferences talk about everything from AI-driven chatbots and virtual agents to the future of work and living.

Top Voice Tech Conferences of 2020

SuperBot

Date: March 31, 2020
Location: San Francisco, CA
Cost: $399

The popular annual tech conference focused on AI-enabled voice tech and chatbots offers a vibrant speaker lineup comprising of entrepreneurs and industry experts from Facebook, Google and Amazon. Hundreds of attendees from Fortune 500 enterprises join the to connect with leading experts, IT professionals, and enthusiasts each year.

Topics include customer service, investors perspective, industry trends, and the future of AI-based voice technologies.

VoiceFirst: Voice of the Car Summit

Date: April 7-8, 2020
Location: San Jose, CA
Cost: Starting at $499.99

Voice brings an extra dimension to the autonomous vehicle driving experience and the Voice of the Car Summit aims to present how voice-first technologies are integrated into the modern car. Engineers, researchers, and leaders from Mercedes-Benz, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant divisions will discuss where the industry is heading at the intersection of AI, voice tech, and autonomous driving. The event is expected to gain large audience, particularly for the speaker sessions.

SpeechTEK2020

Date: April 27-29, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Cost: $1,895 early bird through March 27

The premier voice tech conference with CxOs from leading voice tech companies and enterprise organizations including Google Cloud, IBM Watson, and Verizon, as well as university professors speaking at the event. The event attracts large audience of executives, developers, and adopters of speech technologies networking with each other and witnessing insightful presentations from industry experts guiding the future of voice tech.

Chatbot Summit

Date: May 13-15, 2020
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $625 early bird

Chatbot Summit takes place in Las Vegas, Tokyo, and Berlin this year and is a popular global event on technologies accelerating conversational AI around the world. The Vegas edition will host talks from some of the most popular AI teams in the tech, finance and government sector, including:

• Ed Doran, Director PM and Cofounder of Microsoft Cortana
• Dexter Zavalza, VP and Lead Content & Design Strategist for Mobile JP Morgan Chase
• Research scientists form Uber AI, Adobe, and Facebook

Hundreds of attendees are expected to join from across the nation to connect with professionals working with niche chatbot technology solutions.

Connected Consumer Summit

Date: May 18, 2020
Location: London, UK
Cost: €1,745 + VAT

This conference is all about the consumer-focus in voice technologies. Experts from Microsoft, Uber, Viber, and BT will discuss how the commercial world is transforming with the emergence of AI powered natural language solutions. Professionals pioneering modern voice technologies will provide practical advice and stories on voice and chatbot technologies they developed in recent years and what to expect in the near and long-term future.

CogX

Date: June 8-10, 2020
Location: London, UK
Cost: £695 for full access

As one of the most exciting tech conferences in the world, CogX has a wide lens on topics like AI, Blockchain, and breakthrough technologies within the voice solutions industry. This is the chance to engage with experts from the industry, government and academia on a variety of topics closely or indirectly associated with voice tech. Speakers include the head of AI at the World Economic Forum, the CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and experts from Berkeley and UCL.

Amazon RE:MARS

Date: June 16-19, 2020
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $1,999 for full access

Amazon is set to present new ideas from its innovative and fast advancing tech divisions of Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Spece (MARS). The conference will feature talks by:

• Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO
• USC roboticist Dr. Maja Matarić
• Dr. Sara Seager, MIT planetary scientist and astrophysicist

Attendees can expect insightful discussions on the technologies powering the modern voice solutions such as Alexa, search, automation, and autonomous vehicles.

VoiceFirst: Voice of Healthcare Summit

Date: August 5-6, 2020
Location: Boston, MA
Cost: TBA

Healthcare is a promising application use case of voice technology and one facing significant challenges. The Voice of Healthcare Summit brings together technology experts, healthcare professionals, academics and entrepreneurs to discuss the opportunities and implications presented by AI-based voice technologies. Speakers include:

• Shwen Gwee, Novartis co-founder
• Peter Durlach, Nuance Healthcare SVP
• Professors, healthcare experts, and researchers from University of Washington and Mayo Hospital

Voice 2020

Date: October 5-8, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Cost: The expo is free; main stage access starts at $100

Voice 2020 is a global stage for voice tech and marketing. Arguably one of the most popular events in the voice tech industry, attracting more than 5,000 attendees from around the world. It’s the most popular meeting place for voice tech enthusiasts with over 400 speakers representing 36 countries across more than 200 sessions will join. Engaging presentations will cover topics such as the technology, design, and marketing of intelligent voice solutions.

All About Voice

Date: November 20, 2020
Location: Munich, Germany
Cost: €250 super-early bird

All About Voice is all about smart natural voice solutions and networking opportunities with professionals developing promising new technologies at startups and enterprise organizations. Experts will speak about industry trends and identifying new business opportunities in the voice tech industry. The program expects more experts from diverse industrial sectors to present at the conference.

AWS re:Invent

Date: November 30-December 4, 2020
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Cost: TBA

Amazon pioneered the cloud revolution with its AWS infrastructure, which powers Alexa AI systems and many other popular voice solutions with its cloud and machine learning platform. The five-day event is joined by thousands of visitors engaging in deep technical discussions, workshops, hackathons and networking related to AWS infrastructure and technology solutions. The conference covers diverse topics ranging from business and industry trends, to security and machine learning solutions widely applicable to voice tech in use today.

Google Cloud Next 2020 is a global conference that brings together thousands of the brightest and most innovative thinkers in the world. Whether you are a CEO, a developer, or just someone passionate about learning solutions and ideas for the next generation of the cloud, Next 2020 provides thousands of demonstrations, boot camps, keynotes, conversations, and breakouts to choose from.

Date: April 6-8, 2020
Location: San Francisco, CA
Cost: $1,699 for full conference access

With over 10,000 in attendance last year, and major announcements ranging from AI to partnerships, it’s no doubt that Google Next 2020 will be even bigger. An event this big can easily become overwhelming, especially if you don’t know what to expect.

That’s why we’ve put together this complete guide to Google Cloud Next 2020. You’ll find all the information you will need to register, get around, choose sessions related to your interests, and more.

What is Next 2020? General information

Who attends Google Cloud Next?
Registration & Tickets
Location & Hotels
Getting Around
Onsite Services
Special Accommodations
Childcare Reimbursement

Learning & Training

Keynotes
2020 Speakers
Breakout Sessions
Bootcamps
Office hours
Spotlight Labs
Engage, network & connect

Tracks at Google Cloud Next 2020

AI & ML
API Management
App Modernization & Containers
Application development
Architecture & Migration
Compute
Cost management
Data analytics
Databases
End User Computing
Networking
Operations & SRE
Productivity & Collaboration
Security
Serverless
Storage

Daily Agenda

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What is Next 2020? General information

Google Cloud Next 2020 is a three-day conference that dives deep into Google cloud technology through keynotes by top industry leaders, hands-on trainings, 500+ breakout sessions, and plenty of opportunities for networking. Next 2020 provides a chance to connect with the entire Google Cloud team, including developer advocates, product leadership, and engineers.

Who attends Google Cloud Next?

Google Cloud Next is known for bringing together a diverse audience, including customers, partners, influencers, developers, and anyone who is passionate about the cloud. Whether you’re an industry expert or someone who wants to learn more about Google, this conference is for you.

Registration & Tickets

The ticket price includes three full days of sessions, keynotes, product demos, admission to after-hours events and receptions, as well as breakfast, lunch, and snacks each day. Tickets must be used by the original registrant and cannot be sold, bartered, or transferred in any way.

Although registration for such a large conference may seem self-explanatory, there are a few different notes to be made about tickets to Google Next 2020:

• If you purchase your ticket before April 7, you can take advantage of the pricing of $1,699 for general admission.
• Group discounts, government rates, and academic passes are available.
• Everyone can only purchase one ticket.

To avoid long lines during the check-in process, pick up your ID badge on Monday, April 6 at Moscone Center West and South in the lobby. A government-issued form of ID must be presented in order to pick up your Next 2020 conference badge, and if you received a student discount, proof of academic enrollment must also be presented.

ID badges will include your photo, your name, and your company in order to avoid misuse and ensure that only registered attendees are participating in all events. You must always carry your badge with you. Badges are swiped before each session, so be sure to be in your seat and badged in at least five minutes before each session begins.

Location & Hotels

To accommodate one of the largest cloud conferences, Next 2020 is taking over the largest conference center in San Francisco: The Moscone Center West and South will be transformed into both a digital and physical playground for your innovative imagination. To help you get around, simply pull up the app to navigate effortlessly to breakout sessions or cafe spaces.

Discounted hotel rooms are available that are located close to the Moscone Center for convenience. Rooms are extremely limited and sell out quickly, so book as soon as possible.

Getting Around

Navigating the conference is easy with the Cloud Next smartphone app. Download ahead of time: The app will have locations for all your sessions and conference events and searchable maps.

If you need additional assistance, hundreds of brand ambassadors will be on site.

Onsite Services

In order to make your conference experience as enjoyable as possible, event coordinators have ensured that there are plenty of extra onsite services.

• Free, high speed Wi-Fi will be available for all attendees and it will be easily accessible through the Cloud Next app.
• Charging stations are located throughout the conference center
• Free portable battery packs to charge your laptop or smartphone are available to borrow.

Each day, attendees will be offered complimentary breakfast, lunch, and snacks on all three days of the conference with food. Lunch includes a wide variety of vegan, vegetarian, dairy-free, and gluten-free options. (If you need a kosher or halal meal, please reach out to next20@google.com.)

Special Accommodations

Google strives to meet the needs of all audience members. Participants with disabilities and/or special needs may provide details in the registration form and/or by emailing next19@google.com. All information provided is kept confidential.

All areas of the venue are wheelchair accessible, with the option of renting a limited number of wheelchairs each day. There are also service dog relief areas. Caption text will be displayed on a large screen at the front of the room for all keynotes and sessions along with live real-time transcription accessible to all attendees.

Childcare Reimbursement

New this year, Google is offering parents childcare reimbursement. Please reach out to next20@google.com to request this accommodation.

Learning & Training

Google Cloud Next 2020 is expected to bring the latest innovations, deeper technical content, and more access to cloud experts than ever before. The event provides a huge variety of learning and training opportunities, including keynotes, breakout sessions, hands-on labs, bootcamps, fireside chats, and more.

Keynotes

The leading minds in cloud, including Google executives, partners, and customers, will take the stage to inspire, educate, and power the cloud forward in real time. All keynotes will be live streamed via the Next ’20 app with additional viewing rooms available throughout Moscone.

2020 Speakers

As always, the list of innovative tech-giants and industry leaders continues to be impressive. Featured speakers for the 2020 event include:

• Thomas Kurian, CEO Google Cloud
• Alison Wagonfeld, CMO Google Cloud
• Kelsey Hightower, Developer and Open Source Advocate Google Cloud
• Jennifer Lin, VP of Product Management Google Cloud
• Annie Jean-Baptiste, Lead- Product Inclusion Google Cloud
• Sudhir Hasbe, Director of Product Management, Data Analytics Google Cloud
• Suzanne Frey, VP of Engineering, Cloud Trust Google Cloud
• John Jester, VP of Customer Experience Google Cloud

Breakout Sessions

Aside from the featured speakers, the other learning opportunities that draw in the masses are the specialized breakout sessions, covering in-depth themes related to topics most relevant to you and your business. Content this year spans from the highly technical to the revolutionary, with introductory, intermediate, and advanced level options.

Bootcamps

Half-day and full-day bootcamps provide training courses that cover intermediate to advanced technical topics. To fully participate, bring your laptop, power cord, and dongles to ensure you have connectivity for the duration of the course.

Some of the topics covered in bootcamp training courses include:

• Serverless Machine Learning With AI Platform
• Architecting Hybrid Infra with Anthos
• Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
• Data Analytics with Big Query
• Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in GCP
• Business Transformation with Google Cloud

Office hours

Office hours are available that give you one-on-one time with a Google Cloud expert. Schedule a 30-minute slot to go deep on solutions that allow you to build the future of your business. Each person can schedule up to three appointments.

Spotlight Labs

Get guided instruction from a Google Cloud expert using GCP in a sandbox environment. Choose from an assortment of topics like machine learning, security, infrastructure, application development, and more.

Engage, Network & Connect

Meet in the DevZone

Stop by the DevZone — an experience made for developers, by developers. Participate in engaging sessions, try hands-on technical demos and labs, learn about Google’s programs for cloud developers, and meet up with members of like-minded communities.

Spotlights

Learn about products and solutions directly from Google Cloud leaders and ecosystem partners. See how customers are driving new value from the cloud across Data Analytics, Collaboration, Hybrid Cloud, Migration, ML and AI, Serverless, Security, and more.

Google Cloud Certified Lounge

Being Google Cloud Certified has its benefits, especially at Next ’20. Stop by the VIP lounge to network with peers, recharge, and pick up exclusive Google Cloud Certified swag.

Inclusion Lounge

The Inclusion Lounge is a dynamic, open, and inclusive space for underrepresented groups and allies to connect, reflect, and cultivate their professional and personal development. Join for curated sessions, confidence coaching, workshops, and more.

Hands-on Labs

With Google’s hands-on labs, learn new skills, earn badges, and explore the latest and greatest capabilities of the cloud. Whether you are looking to spin up your first virtual machine or already are a Kubernetes master, gain practical experience at your own pace.

Go Transform

Join 100 other participants for an immersive experience taking you through an interactive transformation journey. Discover how cloud technology impacts organizations, collaborate to solve business challenges, and identify the key components of a successful transformation roadmap.

Tracks at Google Cloud Next 2020

With hundreds of individual breakout sessions to choose from, the conference has organized them into distinct tracks to help your decision making process be a little easier.

AI & ML

How can you move from AI experimentation to AI deployment? Gain insight into how organizations use artificial intelligence to make smarter decisions, deliver superior customer experiences, and build intelligent applications. Whether you’re a data scientist, developer, or business leader, explore end-to-end AI solutions that integrate with your workflow, identify seamless ways to inject AI into your applications, or rapidly develop your own custom models using Cloud AI.

API Management

APIs power digital transformation. Whether you’re modernizing legacy applications, building an ecosystem of partners, creating connected customer experiences, or launching new business channels, APIs are integral to your efforts. This session gives you insight into how top enterprises leverage API management across serverless, hybrid, and multi-cloud deployment models in order to adapt to changing conditions, open new revenue models, take advantage of data and other core assets, improve operations, and accelerate their businesses.

App Modernization & Containers

Explore how to build and run modern applications on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid configuration using both. This session covers Anthos, which is built to support tried and tested modern application architectures. Core technologies like GKE (Kubernetes), service mesh (Istio), Cloud Run on Anthos (Knative), and migrating to microservices are all discussed, plus topics focusing on hybrid, containerized applications, and infrastructure.

Application development

How can you develop, test, deploy, and run applications faster? What tools help you build compelling web and mobile experiences? Dive into sessions focused on all aspects of application development—from full stack web apps to mobile backends and everything in between. This track is focused on combining several Google products to make building and running applications in the cloud simple and efficient.

Architecture & Migration

Hone your skills in designing, developing, and managing secure, scalable, and highly available cloud services for your organization. See how to successfully migrate from on-premises or other clouds to Google Cloud. From serverless through Anthos, get insight into Google’s reference architectures and hear from customers on their real-world journeys to cloud.

Compute

Gain exposure to different virtual machine families and choose the right VM for your workloads. Explore best practices for deploying, scaling, and managing fleets of general purpose and workload optimized VMs. See how Compute Engine enables workload migrations for AAA gaming, EDA, HPC, SAP HANA, and more. Find out how to save more money while getting the most out of your computer investment and driving the optimal computing power for your business needs.

Cost management

Understanding and managing your cloud costs can be complex—especially as you scale your business in the cloud. This track will focus on gaining visibility into your costs, creating a culture of accountability, putting proactive and reactive controls in place, and optimizing your spending.

Data analytics

How do companies successfully leverage Google Cloud to fuel data-driven transformation? Designed for analytics leaders, data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists as well as technology, marketing, and business professionals, in these sessions you’ll hear transformational stories from customers and gain technical insights from Googlers on everything from serverless data warehousing and real-time analytics to big data processing.

Databases

Knowing how different database solutions map to your unique applications and workloads is key to company growth. Whether you’re focused on managed MySQL/PostgreSQL, enterprise databases such as Oracle and SQL Server or globally scalable relational and NoSQL databases, you’ll explore what you need to be successful.

End User Computing

Google offers a variety of devices and platforms that offer secure and productive cloud endpoints. Targeted to technology leaders, business leaders, and IT practitioners, these dedicated sessions on Chrome Enterprise (OS and browser) and Android Enterprise will showcase how to enable optimal end user experiences and drive business outcomes, all while ensuring your organization’s devices, data, and users are secure.

Networking

Explore how Google’s global network connects your applications to customers around the world securely and reliably. You’ll gain insight into how it enables business transformation through innovations like microservices architecture and hear how product managers, customers, and engineers experience maximum value from value-added networking products such as CDN, Network Intelligence Center, and Traffic Director.

Operations & SRE

The Google DevOps toolset enables you to balance speed with quality and security. In this track you’ll determine what it takes to build the right DevOps culture. Because Google Cloud offers open and extensible end-to-end DevOps tooling, developers can go from storing their source code, creating a build, running tests to deploying the app, and monitoring for performance degradations—all in an automated manner.

Productivity & Collaboration

G Suite helps businesses reimagine how they work by powering teams to be faster, smarter, and more collaborative. Ideal for technology business leaders, system administrators, G Suite champions, and workplace innovators, this track focuses on the latest innovations in the collaboration and productivity space, featuring customer stories and best practices that illustrate how G Suite elevates human accomplishment. Topics include security and data protection, the role of ML/AI in boosting team productivity, and how the ecosystem of partners building integrations for G Suite adds tangible value.

Security

Security is core to everything we do at Google Cloud. Geared toward security professionals, infrastructure and ops teams, cloud administrators, and developers, this particular track covers the security features built into our secure-by-design infrastructure, the measures customers can use to protect their users, workloads, and data as part of their responsibility, and the security capabilities that make the best of Google available for customers to use on or off our platforms. Attendees will also explore the tools they can use to achieve and maintain compliance as well as how our approach to regulations.

Serverless

Get insight into how to build business-critical applications entirely with serverless products from Google Cloud. Hear from customers as well as Googlers on a wide range of topics, including use cases, design patterns, and best practices. These sessions are geared toward application developers, architects, and technology leaders who are building cloud-native web and mobile applications.

Storage

Explore best practices for getting your data to the cloud securely and efficiently so you can get up and running faster with your data stored in the right place. In this session you’ll discover how different storage solutions map to your unique needs and how to architect for specific requirements such as high availability or regulatory compliance. Plus you’ll identify new ways to use storage for different needs, including block storage for your VMs, file storage for applications that need a shared file system, and object storage for content serving, analytics, or machine learning.

Daily Agenda

Sunday, April 5

• 8 AM–6PM: Registration, Moscone West
• 9 AM–6 PM: Bootcamps, InterContinental Hotel
• 1–6 PM: Certification Testing, Bespoke, Westfield San Francisco Centre

Monday, April 6

• 7 AM–7:30 PM: Registration, Moscone West, Moscone North
• 8:30 AM–6 PM: Breakout & Spotlight sessions, Moscone West, Moscone South
• 8:30 AM–6 PM: Expo & Showcase, Moscone South
• 8 AM–6 PM: Town Square, DevZone & Hands-On Labs, Moscone West
• 9 AM–5 PM: Certification Testing, Bespoke, Westfield San Francisco Centre
• 10:30 AM–12 PM: Google Cloud Next Keynote, Moscone North
• 7–10 PM: Next Concert, Chase Center

Tuesday, April 7

• 7 AM–6 PM: Registration, Moscone West, Moscone North
• 8 AM–6 PM: Town Square, DevZone & Hands-On Labs, Moscone West
• 8:30 AM–6 PM: Breakout & Spotlight sessions, Moscone West, Moscone South
• 9 AM–5 PM: Certification Testing, Bespoke, Westfield San Francisco Centre
• 9 AM–6 PM: Expo & Showcase, Moscone South
• 10–11 AM: Google Cloud Next Developer Keynote, Moscone North

Wednesday, April 8

• 7 AM-3 PM: Registration, Moscone West, Moscone North
• 8 AM–3 PM: Expo & Showcase, Moscone South
• 8 AM–3 PM: Breakout & Spotlight sessions, Moscone West, Moscone South
• 8 AM–3 PM: Town Square, DevZone & Hands-On Labs, Moscone West
• 9 AM–3 PM: Certification Testing, Bespoke, Westfield San Francisco Centre

Join Google Cloud Next 2020!

Each year Google Cloud Next provides deep technical content from top industry experts. Whether you are looking to further your skillset, gain valuable certifications, network with like-minded peers and leaders, or take in the newest innovations from the tech giant, you are sure to leave the three-day conference dazzled.

Gartner is the world’s leading IT research and advisory company that partners with more than 9,000 enterprises globally. Through resources such as Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting, and Gartner Events, the company provides valuable insights, advice, and tools to help organizations make the best decisions for mission-critical priorities and visions for the future.

As technology rapidly evolves, staying on top of trends and innovations is crucial. Targeted to specific roles and priorities, Gartner events aim to advance critical skill sets while providing the opportunity to network with top experts. Gartner events are offered around the globe for a wide audience, from CIOs and CFOs to enterprise architects, IT professionals, and security specialists.

We’ve put together a list of the 2020 Gartner conferences in North America. Each listing includes the location, cost, topics, and a general description. For a complete list of international Gartner events, look at their website. For conferences outside the Gartner brand, check out our other conference round-ups, including Top DevOps Conferences, Programming & Software Dev Conferences, and CyberSecurity Conferences.

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2019 Gartner Events

Gartner CIO Leadership Forum

Date: February 23-25, 2020
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Cost: $3,800 standard price

The Gartner CIO Leadership Forum is an exclusive, application-only event that provides CIOs inspiration, strategic solutions and ideas, and unique networking opportunities to bring organizations to the next level. Providing insights into technology trends and strategies for how the role of CIO will change in the future, the conference covers topics this year like Cost Optimization and Investment Strategies for Growth; Digital Business; Digital Business Transformation; Emerging & Disruptive Technologies; Future of Work; Innovation Management; Leadership, People and Culture; Security, Risk & Compliance; and Strategic Planning and Execution.

Keynote speakers include experienced practitioners and Gartner experts who are considered thought leaders in their particular area of focus. Some of the 2020 keynotes include:

• Graham Waller, Research Vice President in the Digital Business Leadership research team
• Tina Nunno, Vice President and Gartner Fellow in Gartner’s CIO Research group based in Stamford, Connecticut
• Bruce Robertson, Research Vice President and Distinguished Advisor in Gartner’s CIO Research group
• Deonn Griffin, Research Director with Gartner’s CIO Research group that creates actionable and applicable research focused on leadership and learning development

Gartner Digital Workplace Summit

Date: March 16-17, 2020
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Cost: $3,275

As technology evolves, the workplace must, too—that’s why it’s vital that organizations acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to make this a reality. The Gartner Digital Workplace Summit offers techniques for accelerating workplace productivity, increasing employee engagement, and improving overall business optimization. Discover where you are in your digital workplace journey and how to keep the momentum going for your organization.

The 2020 summit features a keynote speech by Former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix, Patty McCord as well as four tracks:

• Plan, Deploy and Manage Your Digital Workplace Program
• Drive Innovation With Effective Technologies and Applications
• Build Employee Experiences That Are Engaging and Inclusive
• Shape the Future of Work

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit

Date: March 23-26, 2020
Location: Grapevine, TX
Cost: $3,825

Driven by the dramatic changes in digital technologies, the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit provides new strategies, best practices, and extensive research to guide and empower businesses for optimal revenue. Tracks covered at the conference this year include:

• Leadership and Culture: Build the Resilient Organization
• Business Outcomes and Strategy: Realize the Value
• Trust and Governance: The Evolving Challenge
• Analytics Everywhere: Drive Pervasive Outcomes
• Technical Insights: The Art of the Pragmatic
• Data Architecture: Effective Data Design
• AI, Data Science and Machine Learning: The Future Starts Now
• Emerging Technologies: Disruption is a Given

The 2020 conference includes keynotes from industry leaders including: Safi Bahcall: Technologist, Business Executive & Author; Sue Finley: employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Dr Hannah Fry: Associate Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL; Dr. Steve Robbins: Inclusion Expert; Axelle Vanquaillie: Artist; and Diane Wilkinson: Senior Partner at The Wow Factor.

Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2020

Date: May 11-14, 2020
Location: Orlando, FL
Cost: $4,725

Offering innovative solutions for how to blend lessons of the past with future priorities, the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference provides insights into new and emerging digital strategies and covers how traditional markets are evolving as well as how to approach these changes. The 2020 conference topic highlights include:

• Supply chain strategy
• Supply chain planning
• Sales and operations planning
• Supply chain advanced technology
• Supply chain digitization
• Sourcing and procurement
• Logistics
• Customer fulfillment and collaboration

A few speakers that will be presenting at the event this year include: Mike Griswold, Research VP in Gartner’s Consumer Value Chain team, focusing on the retail supply chain; Mike Burkett, VP and Distinguished Analyst for the Gartner Supply Chain team, drawing on more than 18 years of manufacturing industry experience; Ken Chadwick, Research Vice President covering global supply chain organization design, governance, talent development, change management, and organization behavior; and Marko Pukkila, Research Director in the Gartner Supply Chain Research group.

Gartner Enterprise Architecture & Technology Innovation Summit

Date: May 18-19, 2020
Location: Orlando, FL
Cost: $3,275

The Gartner Enterprise Architecture & Technology Innovation Summit brings together leading Gartner experts to present the latest research on technology trends and business transformation predictions. Covering topics like where AI, IoT, cloud computing—and even digital twins—will take your organization next, skills and competencies to develop a high-impact EA team, and how to craft an innovation strategy built to transform disruption into opportunity, the 2020 event is sure to provide cutting-edge insights from industry experts.

2020 topic highlights include:

• Digital Transformation
• Technology Innovation
• Agile Architecture
• Cloud Computing
• Containers and Microservices
• World-class Enterprise Architecture

Gartner IT Symposium

Date: May 11-14, 2020
Location: Toronto, Canada
Cost: $5,150 CAD + tax

The Gartner CIO & IT Executive Summit is designed to teach CIOs and IT leaders how to harness digital business concepts and apply them to real-world scenarios while covering how to create an agile work environment and best manage top digital talent. The conference also showcases the newest technological innovations, applications, strategies, and approaches.

The 2020 event will cover topics like:

• Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics
• Customer and User Experience
• Digital Business Transformation
• Emerging and Disruptive Technologies
• Leadership, People, and Culture
• Security, Risk, and Compliance

At the center of technology, business, strategy and inspiration, you will be able to engage business leaders and influence enterprise success and lead digital business success by using digital design practices.

Gartner Tech Growth & Innovation Conference

Date: May 11-13, 2020
Location: San Diego, CA
Cost: $3,275

The Gartner Tech Growth & Innovation conference provides vendor-exclusive Gartner research, networking opportunities, and problem-solving strategies for today’s markets. Gain insights into the most pressing challenges facing technology providers today, and the technology trends that are impacting your business.

The 2020 conference offers four tracks (Capturing Market Share Rapidly; Redefining Products and Portfolios; Growing Your Customer Base; and Emerging Technologies and Market Trends) and will cover topics such as:

• Accelerating time-to-market
• Market shifts and customer needs
• Account-based marketing programs
• High-growth opportunities
• Product differentiation
• Ecosystem development and management
• Getting the right talent in place
• Demand generation
• Adapting the product portfolio

Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo

Date: June 1-2, 2020
Location: San Diego, California
Cost: $4,075

The Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo offers CMOs and other senior marketing leaders the latest research and shared learning across both B2B and B2C environments. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative research and surveys across all key marketing capabilities, the conference focuses on providing practical guidance from successful marketing experts around the country, helping you hone your leadership skills, refine your marketing strategies and find innovative solutions to help power your marketing team.

Featured speakers of the 2020 Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo include:

• Christi Eubanks, Managing Vice President
• Andrew Frank, Distinguished VP Analyst
• Maureen Murphy, L2-Co-Founder, CSO
• Christopher Ross, VP Analyst
• Jennifer Polk, VP Analyst
• Jay Wilson, VP Analyst

Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit

Date: June 1-4, 2020
Location: National Harbor, MD
Cost: $3,825

The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit is one of the largest gatherings for security, risk management, and business continuity management leaders in the world. The event provides proven practices and strategies for cost-effective security while reducing risks and compromises through a mixture of keynotes from global experts, panels, roundtables, workshops, and even one-on-one meetings.

The 2020 presentations will cover topics such as: Emerging trends, Risk management, Leadership, Skills and talent, Privacy, and Cloud security. Some speakers this year include:

• Jeffrey Wheatman, Research VP in Gartner Research
• Tom Scholtz, Research Vice President and Gartner Fellow as well as the Chief of Research for Security and Risk Management
• Roberta Witty, Vice President in Gartner Research, where she is part of the Risk and Security Management Programs group
• Sam Olyaei, Principal Research Analyst in Gartner Research, where he is a part of the Risk and Security Management group

Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference

Date: June 2-3, 2020
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Cost: $3,400

Recognized as one of the biggest gatherings of CFOs and senior finance executives in the country, the Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference offers strategic guidance on the newest trends affecting the financial landscape. With practical insights based on Gartner research methodologies, this conference outlines what the future of finance will be and will help CFOs and finance executives chart a course through all the changes to the organizational structure, talent, technology and process needed to reach the 2025 future finance vision.

The topics for the 2020 conference include:

• Outsourcing
• Finance Organization Structure
• Blockchain
• Finance Analytics
• Personal Effectiveness
• Finance Talent
• Cost Structure
• Financial Data Management
• Target Setting

Gartner Program & Portfolio Management Summit

Date: June 23-25, 2020
Location: Orlando, FL
Cost: $3,275

A premier gathering of PMO leaders, Project and Program Managers, and Portfolio Management leaders, the Gartner Program & Portfolio Management Summit features top industry experts and provides the insights needed to successfully navigate the current world of roles and technologies that are needed to be a successful PPM leader.

This year’s topic highlights:

• Demand management
• EPMO
• Resource management
• Portfolio management
• Program management
• Project prioritization
• PPM tools
• Reporting, metrics, dashboards
• Strategy realization
• Change management
• IT governance
• Enterprise agile

Gartner Catalyst Conference

Date: August 24-27, 2020
Location: San Diego, CA
Cost: $3,825 standard price

The Gartner Catalyst Conference is the only multi-role event for technical professionals that provides hands-on advice and practical solutions for organizations’ key technology initiatives. Constructed around a foundation of Gartner research, the conference covers a broad range of topics like:

• Cloud
• Big Data
• IoT
• DevOps
• Analytics
• Enterprise Applications
• AI

The 2019 event offered a keynote by Mindy Cancila, Research Vice President in Gartner for Technical Professionals, and presented current areas of research, including cloud adoption strategies, comparing and selecting public cloud service providers for IaaS, and cloud management.

2020 Gartner Conferences

No matter which Gartner conference you attend, you are guaranteed to gain access the latest technologies and methods in the industry, all while understanding insights from the top experts in the world.

Now in its 24^th year, the annual Pink Elephant 2020 Conference is back with something for everyone. Globally recognized as the premier IT service management conference, Pink20 will cover a vast array of subjects ranging from strategic, tactical, and operational.

Date: February 16-19, 2020
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $2,295 for full conference access

Managed and put on by Pink Elephant, this ITSM Conference & Exhibition has a well-earned reputation for bringing in top experts to speak and present, cultivating the most content-rich program in the industry. In this article, we’ve put together the complete guide to Pink Elephant 2020, including details on registration and attendees, location and accommodations, keynote speakers, and learning and training.

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BMC at Pink20

Don’t miss these valuable sessions from BMC subject matter experts.

Monday, February 17
Early Riser Session 7:15-8:15 AM, RM TBD
How ITSM Needs to Evolve for DevOps Aligned Organizations
Presented by Peter Adams, BMC Sr. Director Product Management

Lunch-and-Learn Session 1:00-2:00 PM, RM TBD
Predictive IT Service Management for Your Modern Enterprise
Presented by David Schmidt, BMC Principal Solution Marketing Manager

Tuesday, February 18
Breakout Session 10:30 – 11:3 AM, RM TBD
Reimagine Your IT Service Management and Operations Experience with BMC Helix
Presented by Peter Peter Adams, BMC Sr. Director Product Management

Overview: What is Pink20?

Pink20 is a comprehensive ITSM conference and exhibition, a one-stop shop for cutting-edge ITSM. This year, Pink offers nine tracks and more than 120 sessions covering a wide variety of topics including:

• IT service management (ITSM)
• ITIL^®
• Lean IT
• Agile
• Scrum
• DevOps
• COBIT^®
• Organizational change management (OCM)
• Business relationship management
• Much, much more!

The theme for Pink20 is IT & Batman: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things. The reasoning? Unlike other superheroes, Batman doesn’t possess any “super” powers. He is successful because of his ingenuity, his ability to create very clever inventions, his use of cutting-edge tools and technology, and his courage. The conference draws on this theme to help illustrate how ordinary people like us can do extraordinary things in IT and beyond.

Who should attend Pink20?

There’s something for everyone in the power-packed program. Pink20 is open to all attendees and is particularly suited for:

• C-Level executives, including CIOs, CTOs, and CSOs
• IT Directors and VPs
• Project/program directors and managers
• IT service and support managers
• Service desk managers
• IT infrastructure managers
• Process owners
• Support analysts
• Quality managers
• Service level managers
• IT suppliers and vendors
• IT auditors and consultants
• Anyone seeking to understand why and how to implement best practices according to ITSM, ITIL, Lean IT, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and/or COBIT^®

Pink20 registration and pass options

There are a few ticket options for Pink20, depending on your budget and the perks you wish to receive. Tickets must be used by the original registrant and cannot be sold, bartered, or transferred in any way.

Standard Pass: $1,995 per person

The Pink20 Standard Pass includes the following:

• Attendance at all Pink20 keynote and break-out sessions (except those for Platinum Pass holders only)
• Food and refreshments at breakfasts, lunches, and mid-morning and afternoon breaks on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
• Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres at the Networking Receptions on Sunday and Monday evenings
• Refreshments and food at a special Networking Reception on Tuesday evening
• Onsite registration, badge printing, and customer service support from the Pink Elephant Customer Service Desk
• Access to the smartphone event app to create and manage your own personal Pink20 agenda

Platinum Pass: $2,295 person

The Pink20 Platinum Pass includes all the benefits of the Standard Pass PLUS a number of “exclusive” benefits, including:

• Priority Platinum Pass Registration at the Pink Elephant Customer Service Desk.
• Exclusive Platinum Pass Premium Seating—round-tables at the front of the room for Keynote Sessions
• Exclusive Platinum Pass Lounge—a quiet, comfortable environment for working, making calls, and networking.
• Exclusive Platinum Pass Dining Room—for a quieter, no-lines free lunch experience or to simply grab a beverage, relax and network with other Platinum Pass holders.
• Exclusive Front of the Line Meet & Greet—for a Selfie & Book Signing with Keynote Speakers.
• Exclusive 30-Minute Consulting Session with a Pink Expert for Platinum Pass Teams of 4 or More (New this year)—Gather your whole Platinum Pass Team together and meet with a Pink Elephant Expert for 30 minutes of free consulting advice. Ask about solutions to the challenges you’re experiencing with current projects, or seek out approaches for your planned projects. You decide; it’s your 30 minutes!
• Exclusive Platinum Pass Exhibit Hall Optimizer Session—Sunday evening, hosted by George Spalding. Your expert guide, George, will take you on a walking tour of some of the more interesting and newer features you’ll find in this year’s Exhibit Hall. Find out who has the newest and most innovative products, who has the best promotions, and who has the best swag!
• Exclusive Platinum Pass Conference Optimizer Breakfast Session—Monday, hosted by Gary Case. Start the Conference with this Optimizer Breakfast Session and hear what Gary recommends you should check out in this week’s Pink20 program: the most interesting new topics; speakers with the most relatable and inspiring stories; and any other personal recommendations your host feels are must-attend sessions.
• Exclusive Platinum Pass Ask-the-Expert Lunch Sessions—grab your lunch each day and head straight into an Ask-the-Expert Lunch Session where you can pick the brain of one of Pink’s top consultants. Ask whatever you like and don’t take “it depends” for an answer! Who said “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”? Well we have free consulting over lunch – not a bad combination!
  • Monday’s Lunch Session hosted by Jack Probst.
  • Tuesday’s Lunch Session hosted by Troy DuMoulin.

Team Pass: $1,721 per person

Register a team of 4 or more for special savings of 25% on each conference pass (regular $2,295 per person).

See the event website for all terms & conditions. Pricing is subject to change. Offer cannot be combined with other discounts.

Location & Hotel

In order to accommodate one of the largest ITSM conferences in the industry, Pink20 will be hosted at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Bellagio offers exceptional meeting facilities and comfortable lodgings for guests. The conference has negotiated preferential rates for Pink20 customers; these rates are lower than prevailing rates available to the general public. Rooms are extremely limited and sell out quickly, so book as soon as possible.

If you have any questions about reservations or accommodations, contact the Customer Service Team at 1-888-273-PINK, info@pinkelephant.com, or click on ‘Chat’ on this website.

Pink20: Learning & Training

Pink20 is expected to bring the latest methods, innovations, deeper technical content, and more access to ITSM experts than ever before. The event provides a variety of learning and training opportunities, as well as networking events throughout the day and night.

Here is information on the Pink20 host and keynote speakers:

Pink20 Host: Wayne Cotter

A hilarious former IT geek and a highly-experienced emcee, Wayne Cotter is back with his warm and very friendly nature, and witty comedic views of IT and the world. Wayne is a talk-show favorite (and Pink), having appeared dozens of times with both David Letterman and Jay Leno. According to Variety, Wayne’s comedy “draws on the everyday, but in a manner which is anything but mundane.”

From observations about daily life to personal stories of his varied experiences as an engineer, entertainer and parent, Wayne is known for his clever, original humor and his warm and engaging persona. David Letterman calls him “one of our favorites” and has remarked on-air about his “personable” style.

Keynote speaker: Allan Pease, author & communication expert

Best-selling author of Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps, Allan Pease is an expert on winning communication techniques for business, and in our personal lives, too. Known internationally as “Mr. Body Language”, Allan appears regularly in media around the world, and is sought to give advice on personal image by everyone from business executives and Prime Ministers, to TV personalities, royalty, and rock stars.

His keynote presentation includes a provocative look at:

• How to get the best in business by understanding what people are really thinking
• What people really need to do to get on in business
• How to avoid arguments, disagreements and conflicts
• How to get co-operation and gain credibility
• Communication styles: understanding the differences between the sexes

Allan will show you how to become a great communicator and to win more business—and he’ll make you cry with laughter at the same time!

Keynote speaker: Chester Elton, author, leadership & motivational expert

Chester Elton, co-author of The New York Times bestseller The Carrot Principle, will reveal how his simple steps can make you a high-performance leader and take your team to a new level of achievement. Revealing the groundbreaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken, The Carrot Principle shows definitively that the central characteristic of the most successful managers is that they provide their employees with frequent and effective recognition.

The Carrot Principle offers proven strategies to help recognize and motivate your valued employees, and it has helped a host of managers to energize their teams, and companies to dramatically boost their business results.

Keynote speaker: Josh Linkner, musician, author & tech entrepreneur

Josh Linkner, a jazz guitarist since age 14, credits a musical background for giving him a different way of looking at business. In an interactive presentation, a live jazz performance by Josh and his band is woven with stimulating dialogue. You’ll hear, through their music, fresh ways to unleash your organization’s creative mojo.

You will learn powerful lessons inspired by jazz musicians (aka “real-time innovators”) to help you:

• Develop your own ability to improvise, no matter what job title you hold
• Establish team dynamics that foster creative thinking and risk taking
• Uncover fresh approaches to previously unchallenged assumptions
• Break free from traditional thinking and uncover vast new possibilities
• Learn secret techniques that jazz musicians use to foster creativity, which can easily be adapted to your own organization
• Expand your ability to deal with ambiguity and recover from setbacks

Breakout sessions and conference tracks

Keynote speakers are just one aspect of Pink20. Other learning opportunities that draw in the masses are the specialized breakout sessions, covering in-depth themes related to topics most relevant to you and your business. Content this year spans from the highly technical to the revolutionary, with three levels:

• General sessions are of interest to everyone regardless of their level of knowledge, experience, or industry certification.
• Beginner sessions are aimed at those who are new to the subjects presented and do not possess industry certification or have just started project implementation.
• Beyond Beginner sessions are for those with practical implementation experience and have attained knowledge of the subject beyond the foundation level.

The nine conference tracks expand on the Pink20 Batman theme. The 2020 Pink Elephant Conference tracks include:

Track 1: IT Leadership (Batman)

• Communicate With Impact: Elevate Yourself As A Leader
• Keep Choppin’: Hack Your Culture to Create Highly Performing, Deeply Engaged Teams
• Leadership Lessons Learned From Batman
• Leadership In The Workplace From A Woman IT Leader’s Point of View

Track 2: Strategic IT Management (Gotham City)

• Delivering Business Value (five parts)
• A Day In The Life! A Relation Driven Approach to Continual Improvement
• Enabling Digital Strategy by Leveling Up to a Holistic Service Provider
• Holistic Relationship Management: It’s A Team Effort!

Track 3: Lean IT & Agile (The Joker)

• How Lean & Service Management Changed IT Healthcare
• Ka-Pow! Bam! The Superpowers Of A Lean IT Leader
• Lean IT & OCM: How They Can Partner to Facilitate Successful Transformation from Diet to Lifestyle
• An Oxford Approach to Co-Creating Value

Track 4: DevOps (Catwoman)

• A Superhero Approach to DevOps: 15 Essential Practices For DevOps Success (two parts)
• DevOps: The Good, The Good & The Good (There Doesn’t Have To Be A Bad or Ugly!)
• The Marriage of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, & ITIL Transition: Decoding the Gordian Knot
• Re-Imagine Your IT Service Management and Operations Experience

Track 5: ITIL v3 & ITIL 4 (Alfred)

• Four Dimensions Of Service Management
• The ITIL Service Value System & Service Value Chain
• ITIL 4 vs. ITIL v3: What Are The Main Differences You Need To Know About?
• Practices vs. Processes: A Rose by Another Name?

Track 6: Organizational Change Management (Mr. Freeze)

• Leading Change: Best Practices
• Meanwhile, Back In The Library…
• Motivation By Chocolate
• Understanding Lewin’s Model: Unfreeze. Change. Freeze.

Track 7: Integrated Service Management (The Riddler)

• Integrated Service Management: The Model & Key Concepts
• Is IT Service Management a Journey that Never Ends?
• Using ITSM, VSM, Agile, and DevOps to Build Guard Rails for Speed and Certainty
• What a Large IT Shop Can Re-Learn from the Small

Track 8: Tool & Technology (The Penguin)

• You Can’t Ignore Cyber Incidents! Just Be Prepared!
• Internet of Things & Service Management
• How New Technologies Can Transform IT Services
• Why is Now the Time for Your Self-Service Chatbot Initiative?

Track 9: Half-Day Workshops (Robin, The Boy Wonder)

• A Holistic View of ITIL 4’s Service Value System & Its 4 Dimensions
• How to Implement Problem, Change, & Release Management
• Delivering Business Value: The Key Concepts
• ITIL 4 Managing Professional (MP) Designation

Conference certification courses

There are multiple opportunities to take popular ITSM certification courses both before and after the conference, as well as a new, mid-conference option. For more details, see the official Pink20 conference website.

Pre-conference certification courses

• ITIL 4 Foundation
• Lean IT Foundation: Understanding Lean IT Principles & Objectives

Post-conference certification courses

• IT Business Relationship Manager
• ITIL 4 Strategist—Direct, Plan & Improve
• ITIL 4 Specialist—Create, Deliver & Support
• ITIL 4 Foundation
• Integrated Service Management Essentials
• Lean IT Kaizen: Implementing Lean IT Practices
• Organizational Change Management Foundation

New this year: mid-conference course

Pink20 also features an additional IT certification option with mid-event certification packages throughout the week: the ITIL 4 Managing Professional (MP) Transition.

Join Pink Elephant 2020!

Each year, Pink Elephant provides listening and networking opportunities with the top speakers and experts in ITSM. Whether you are looking to further your own skill set, enhance your team’s performance, gain valuable certifications, or network with like-minded peers and leaders, you are sure to leave Pink 2020 satisfied.