Network World's guide to data center, I&O, and network conferences around the world.
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Ready to travel to gain hands-on experience with new networking and infrastructure tools? Tech conferences – in person and virtual – give attendees a chance to access product demos, network with peers, earn continuing education credits, and catch a celebrity keynote or live entertainment (Elton John performed at this year’s Cisco Live event).
Check out our calendar of upcoming network, I&O and data center conferences, and let us know if we’re missing any of your favorites.
June 2024
- Cisco Live, Las Vegas: June 2-6 [related: Cisco Live: AI takes center stage]
- HPE Discover, Las Vegas: June 18-19 [related: HPE announces a cloud service for large language models]
- The Rise of AI, London, England: June 18
- Palo Alto Networks’ Ignite on Tour, Columbus, Ohio: June 19
- Arista Campus Networking Day, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: June 12
- Arista Campus Networking Day, Indianapolis, Indiana: June 20
July 2024
- XChange Security, Dallas, Texas: July 15-17
- SIGGRAPH 2024, Denver: July 28-August 1
- CompTIA ChannelCon 2024, Atlanta, Georgia: July 30-August 1
August 2024
- Black Hat USA, Las Vegas: August 3-8
- SHARE, Kansas City, Missouri: August 4-8
- Defcon 32, Las Vegas, August: 8-11
- IDC Hybrid Cloud 2024, Sandton, South Africa: August 15
- VMware Explore, Las Vegas: August 26-29
September 2024
- Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, Gold Coast, Australia: September 9-11
- Forrester Technology and Innovation Summit, Austin, Texas: September 9-12
- Oracle CloudWorld, Las Vegas: September 9-12
- Cloud & Datacenter Convention 2024, Sydney, Australia: September 12
- Datacloud USA 2024, Austin, Texas: September 17-18
- DCD Connect, London, England: September 17-18
- Palo Alto Networks’ CISO Retail Roundtable, London, England: September 19
- GrrCON, Grand Rapids, Michigan: September 26-27
October 2024
- IDC Hybrid Cloud Forum, Munich, Germany: October 8
- Data Centre World, Singapore: October 9-10
- Data Centre World, Madrid, Spain: October 16-17
- Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, Orlando, Florida: October 21-24
- IDC Security & Cloud, Porto, Portugal: October 30
November 2024
- Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, Barcelona, Spain: November 4-7
- DCD Connect, Leesburg, Virginia: November 6-7
- Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, Kochi, India: November 11-13
- IDC Next-Gen Infrastructure: Cloud, AI, Sustainability, Paris, France: November 14
- Cisco Live, Melbourne, Australia: November 11-14
- Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, London, U.K.: November 19-20
- Data Center Nation, Zurich, Switzerland: November 20
- Data Centre World, Paris, France: November 27-28
December 2024
- AWS re:Invent, Las Vegas: December 2-6
- Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit, Grapevine, Texas: December 9-11
- Forrester Security & Risk Summit, Baltimore, Maryland: December 9-11
- Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada: December 10-12
- IDC Hybrid Cloud 2024, Turkey: December 12
- IDC Enterprise Infrastructure Forum 2024, Japan: July 2
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