12,400 seats claimed for the 2026 edition
Conferencia brings founders, researchers, designers and policy makers into one room — four stages, sixty sessions and the kind of hallway conversations that turn into companies.
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Head of Climate Systems, Nordvolt
Principal Researcher, Applied AI Lab
Creative Director, Studio Meridian
Judged by the EEA industry panel
We keep the room deliberately small, the stages deliberately varied, and the schedule deliberately open — so the value lands in the conversations, not only the slides.
To put practitioners on stage instead of pitch decks — every talk comes from someone who shipped the thing they are describing.
A conference circuit where access is not a function of budget: half of our seats are reserved for students, researchers and non-profits.
No session runs longer than forty minutes, no stage is more than a two-minute walk away, and every recording is online within 48 hours.
12 November
A ninety-minute framing session on where public research and private engineering are finally converging.
Hall A · Main Stage
12 November
Four investors and two grant officers argue about what actually deserves capital in the next cycle.
Hall B · Forum
12 November
Bring a laptop. Leave with a working build. Limited to thirty seats, first come first served.
Workshop Lab · Level 2
13 November
A teardown of twelve real onboarding flows, with the analytics that killed or saved each one.
Hall A · Main Stage
13 November
Pick a table, join eight peers and one facilitator. No slides allowed at any of them.
Atrium · Ground Floor
13 November
Twenty speakers, five minutes each, then dinner seating that mixes every track deliberately.
Hall B · Forum
14 November
Last year's predictions are read back on stage, scored, and defended by the people who made them.
Hall A · Main Stage
14 November
Forty mentors across engineering, research, design and policy. Slots open to every pass holder.
Atrium · Ground Floor
14 November
Where we go next, who is joining the board, and the first fifty tickets released in the room.
Hall A · Main Stage
Every speaker has shipped, published or governed the thing they are talking about. We check.
Opt in once and get five curated introductions — never a delegate list sold to sponsors.
Captioned, chaptered and free for every attendee — so you can skip a session without losing it.
Tracks are staggered so no two sessions you want ever start at the same minute.
Our team reads every profile and hand-matches you with five people worth meeting.
Speakers publish their sources. You leave with the references, not just the takeaways.
Accessibility is budgeted first, not retrofitted once the sponsors are confirmed.
Nine hundred proposals reviewed blind by a rotating committee of forty practitioners.
Four simultaneous feeds, live captions and a remote Q&A queue that moderators actually read.
Negotiated hotel rates, a step-free route map and shuttles running every fifteen minutes.
Attendance, diversity and satisfaction numbers go public every year — including the bad ones.
For first-time attendees
Everything you need to follow the main programme.
Most delegates choose this
The full programme plus the hands-on rooms.
For teams and partners
Front-row access, and a funded seat for someone else.
15,000+ delegates from 62 countries since 2008
“I came for one keynote and left with two collaborators and a research partner. The roundtables are worth the ticket on their own.”
“The only conference where I never felt sold to. Sessions start on time, end on time, and the recordings arrive before I'm home.”
“Our whole team attends on the group rate. It is the one line in the budget nobody argues about any more.”
“As a wheelchair user I usually plan around a venue. Here the venue was planned around me. That is rarer than it should be.”
Book a pass, pick your track preferences, and your badge QR arrives by email. Nothing is printed until you arrive, and name changes stay free until 1 November.
The Congress Quarter, twelve minutes by tram from the central station. Shuttles run every fifteen minutes and every route into the building is step-free.
Yes for every stage session. Labs and roundtables are capped, so those need a booking in the app — but cancellations are released back to the queue automatically.
All four stages stream live with captions in English, Arabic and German, and remote delegates get their own moderated Q&A queue rather than a read-only chat.
Full refund up to thirty days before the opening keynote, and a transferable credit after that. Scholarship tickets are never charged a cancellation fee.
The blind-review process we borrowed from academic conferences, and the three things we had to change to make it work.
Why we cut two sessions a day and spent the money on wider corridors, more seating and better coffee.
Five editions of speaker and delegate data, what we changed after each one, and what still is not working.