Top network and data center events 2024

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

Related reading:
Cisco Live: AI takes center stage