2020 tech conferences: Dates, locations, and which events are changing due to COVID-19 – TechRepublic

2020 is here, and with it are all the usual tech conferences and events. If you’re a tech professional who travels for business, check out this list of events–you’re sure to find something that suits your speciality. We will update this list as new events and conferences are announced and dates are finalized. 

Note: The coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has forced many conferences to cancel, postpone, relocate, or change to an online-only model. Look for a bracketed note next to a conference to determine if it has been affected. We will update this article if more changes to scheduled conferences are announced.

  • March 1: IoT in Action in Mexico City [canceled]

  • March 2-4: Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Dubai [canceled]

  • March 2-4: Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in Amsterdam

  • March 3-6: Cisco Live! in Melbourne [canceled]

  • March 4: Salesforce World Tour Sydney in Sydney [online only]

  • March 4: DocuSign Momentum in San Francisco [online only]

  • March 4-5: Power Platform World Tour in Washington, D.C.

  • March 4-5: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Zurich [canceled]

  • March 5: IoT in Action in Melbourne [canceled]

  • March 5: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Chicago

  • March 8-12: OFC 2020 in San Diego, CA

  • March 9: IoT in Action in Orlando [canceled]

  • March 9-11: Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London [postponed until September 9-11]

  • March 9-12: Facebook Global Marketing Summit in San Francisco [canceled]

  • March 10: ESRI Developer Summit [online only]

  • March 10-11: Microsoft WSLConf in Redmond [online only]

  • March 10-12: SaaStr Annual 2020 in San Jose, CA [postponed until September 2020 in undetermined San Francisco Bay area location]

  • March 10-13: Qualtrics X4 Summit in Salt Lake City, UT [postponed until early fall]

  • March 11: IoT in Action in Osaka [canceled]

  • March 11-12: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Amsterdam [canceled]

  • March 12: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Championsgate, FL

  • March 12: Pwn2Own in Vancouver [online only]

  • March 13-22: SXSW in Austin, TX [canceled]

  • March 15-17: MSPWorld in New Orleans [postponed until September 30-October 2]

  • March 15-18: O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference in San Jose, CA [merged with event in New York City on September 14-17; online only]

  • March 15-20: Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Bellevue and Redmond, WA [online only]

  • March 16-18: Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London [canceled]

  • March 16-19: F5 Agility 2020 in Orlando, FL [online only]

  • March 16-20: Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco [postponed until August 4-6]

  • March 18-19: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Shanghai [canceled]

  • March 18-19: Domopalooza in Salt Lake City, UT [online only]

  • March 18-20: CanSecWest in Vancouver

  • March 19: CISO Executive Leadership Summit in Menlo Park, CA

  • March 22-26: NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA [online only]

  • March 22-27: Aruba Networks Atmosphere 2020 in Las Vegas [online only]

  • March 23-25: IDG AGENDA20 in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

  • March 23-26: Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Grapevine, TX [postponed until September 21-24]

  • March 23-26: Oracle Modern Business Experience in Chicago [postponed to coincide with OpenWorld event in Las Vegas on September 21-24]

  • March 24: IoT in Action in Beijing [canceled]

  • March 24-26: EmTech Asia in Singapore [postponed until August 4-5]

  • March 25-26: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Madrid [canceled]

  • March 25-26: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Hong Kong [canceled]

  • March 26: CIO Summit of America in New York City [postponed until August 20]

  • March 29-April 1: SAS Global Forum in Washington, DC [online only]

  • March 29-April 2: Adobe Summit in Las Vegas [online only]

  • March 30-31: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Mexico City [canceled]

  • March 30-April 1: Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in Hollywood, FL [canceled]

  • March 30-April 2: Enterprise Connect 2020 in Orlando [postponed until August 3-6, moved to San Francisco]

  • March 30-April 2: Okta Oktane Live [online only]

  • March 31-April 1: Paris Blockchain Week Summit [postponed until December 9-10]

  • March 31-April 2: Atlassian Summit 2020 in Las Vegas [online only]

  • March 31-April 3: Black Hat Asia in Singapore [postponed until September 29-October 2]

  • April 1: IoT in Action in Washington, D.C. [canceled]

  • April 2: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Dallas, TX [postponed until July 7]

  • April 2-3: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Mumbai [canceled]

  • April 5-7: MIDMRKT CIO Forum in Scottsdale, AZ [postponed until August 30-September 1]

  • April 6-8: Google Cloud Next in San Francisco [online only]

  • April 6-9: IoT World in San Jose, CA [postponed until August 10-13]

  • April 6-9: Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit in Barcelona [postponed until November 18-21]

  • April 7: IoT in Action in Dubai [canceled]

  • April 8-9: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Bangalore [canceled]

  • April 9: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in New Brunswick, NJ [postponed until July 16]

  • April 13-17: ODSC East 2020 – Open Data Science Conference in Boston [online only]

  • April 15-16: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Chicago [canceled]

  • April 15-16: SaaS Connect in San Francisco [postponed until October 5-6]

  • April 16: HardwareCon in Mountain View, CA [postponed until September 24]

  • April 17-19: DEF CON China in Beijing [postponed, TBD]

  • April 18-22: NAB Show – National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas [postponed until May 13-14, online only; possible in-person reschedule for fall 2020]

  • April 21-24: Brooklyn 5G Summit in Brooklyn, NY [canceled]

  • April 22: IoT in Action in Busan [canceled]

  • April 22: IDC CIO Summit in Prague [postponed, TBD]

  • April 22-23: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Tel Aviv [canceled]

  • April 23: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in San Francisco [postponed until July 23]

  • April 27-29: Red Hat Summit 2020 in San Francisco [online only]

  • April 29-30: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Berlin [canceled]

  • April 30: Forrester CX Sydney [online only]

  • April (late in month, no dates given): Google News Initiative Summit in Sunnyvale, CA [canceled]

  • May 3-6: Forrester SiriusDecisions Summit in Austin, TX [online only May 4]

  • May 4-7: IBM Think in San Francisco [online only]

  • May 4-7 Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas [online only]

  • May 5-6: Microsoft Ignite Tour in Stockholm [canceled]

  • May 6: Future Vision: DTG Summit 2020 in London [postponed until October 5]

  • May 6-7: Microsoft Business Applications Summit in Dallas, TX [online only]

  • May 6-8: Shopify Unite 2020 developers conference in Toronto [online only]

  • May 6-8: Facebook F8 in San Jose, CA [canceled]

  • May 7: CISO Executive Leadership Summit in New York City [postponed until July 30]

  • May 7: Landmark CIO Summit in New York City [online only for May 7; in-person session postponed until July 23]

  • March 9-12: SAP Concur Fusion in Orlando [online only]

  • May 12-14: SAP SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando [online only]

  • May 12-14: Google I/O in Mountain View, CA [canceled]

  • May 12-14: Ingram Micro Cloud Cloud Summit 2020 in Miami Beach, FL [postponed until early 2021]

  • May 13-14: NAB Show – National Association of Broadcasters [postponed from April 18-22, online only]

  • May 14: IoT in Action in Shanghai [canceled]

  • March 16-18: SAP Ariba LIVE in Las Vegas [canceled]

  • May 17-19: Alltech Ideas Conference in Lexington, KY [online only]

  • May 18-22: DrupalCon in Minneapolis, MN [postponed, TBD]

  • May 19: MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Boston [online only]

  • May 19-20: Percona Live Open Source Database Conference in Austin, TX [online only]

  • May 19-21: Microsoft Build in Seattle [online only]

  • May 19-21: Digital Business World Congress in Madrid [being held as scheduled]

  • May 21: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in London [being held as scheduled]

  • May 26-28: Recode Code Conference 2020 in Beverly Hills, CA [postponed until September 8-10]

  • May 27: IoT in Action in Bangalore [canceled]

  • May 31-June 4: Cisco Live! in Las Vegas [online only]

  • September (no formal dates announced): SaaStr Annual 2020 in San Francisco Bay area [postponed from March 10-12 in San Jose]

  • September 3: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Denver, CO [being held as scheduled]

  • September 8-10: Recode Code Conference 2020 in Beverly Hills, CA [postponed from May 26-28]

  • September 9-11: IDC CIO Summit in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan [being held as scheduled]

  • September 9-11: Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London [postponed from March 9-11]

  • September 10: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Boston [being held as scheduled]

  • September 14-16: Infor Inforum 2020 in Las Vegas [being held as scheduled]

  • September 14-17: O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference in New York [event from March in San Jose merged with this one; online only]

  • September 15: CISO Executive Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. [being held as scheduled]

  • September 16: IDC CIO Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia [postponed to October 26-27]

  • September 16: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Philadelphia [being held as scheduled]

  • September 16: IDC CIO Summit in Doha, Qatar [being held as scheduled]

  • September 17-18: Re.Work Deep Learning Summit in London [being held as scheduled]

  • September 21-22: Industry of Things World in Berlin [being held as scheduled]

  • September 21-24: Oracle OpenWorld in Las Vegas [Oracle Modern Business Experience event from March in Chicago merged with this one; being held as scheduled]

  • September 21-24: Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Grapevine, TX [postponed from March 23-26]

  • September 21-24: Oracle Code One in Las Vegas [being held as scheduled]

  • September 21-25: Microsoft Ignite in New Orleans [online only]

  • September 22: CIO Executive Leadership Summit in Minneapolis, MN [being held as scheduled]

  • September 23: IDC CIO Summit in Bratislava, Slovakia [being held as scheduled]

  • September 23-25: Evanta Global CIO Executive Summit in Marana, AZ [being held as scheduled]

  • September 24: IDC CIO Summit in Cairo, Egypt [postponed from June 2]

  • September 24: HardwareCon in Mountain View, CA [postponed from April 16]

  • September 28 (week of): VMworld in San Francisco [postponed from August 31-September 3, online only]

  • September 29-October 2: Black Hat Asia in Singapore [postponed from March 31-April 3]

  • September 30-October 2: MSPWorld in New Orleans [postponed from March 15-17]

  • Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/2020-tech-conferences-and-events-to-start-preparing-for/