Startup events in March 2027 – Calendar

4YFN 2027 runs alongside MWC Barcelona at Fira Gran Via, connecting founders, investors, and corporates focused on turning early-stage innovation into real business outcomes. The event draws thousands of startups and investors from across Europe and beyond, with structured matchmaking, a pitch competition, and the 4YFN Awards. It operates as an independent but deeply integrated event within the broader MWC ecosystem.

MWC27 Barcelona is the world's largest connectivity and mobile technology event, bringing together over 100,000 decision-makers, 2,900+ exhibitors, and representatives from 207 countries at Fira Gran Via. The 2027 edition continues the event's focus on 5G, AI, satellite connectivity, and adjacent industries, with a full ministerial programme running March 1-3. GSMA announced the 2027 dates immediately after closing MWC26.

World Sustainable Energy Days 2027 runs 2-5 March in Wels, bringing together businesses, public bodies, researchers and decision-makers for the latest on policies, technologies and practical solutions for an affordable, secure and sustainable energy future. The programme bundles conferences including the European Pellet Conference, European Energy Efficiency Conference and Smart E-Mobility Conference.

Insurtech Insights Europe returns 3-4 March 2027 to the InterContinental London – The O2, billed as Europe's largest insurtech conference. The 2026 edition gathered more than 6,000 executives, entrepreneurs and investors from around the world. The 2027 agenda is now open for speaker submissions.

The UK's space-industry expo and conference at ExCeL London, connecting space companies, defence, and the broader supply chain. For spacetech and deeptech founders it is the main UK venue to meet agencies, primes, and investors active in the space economy.

ProWein 2027 runs 7-9 March in Dusseldorf, bringing together the international wine and spirits industry alongside the co-located ProSpirits event. The fair covers premium wines, Champagne and spirits as well as no- and low-alcohol wines, hospitality accessories and industry services. It is organised by Messe Dusseldorf.

World ADC London returns 8-11 March 2027 as Europe's longest-standing forum dedicated to antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and bioconjugates. Previous editions united 700+ senior European decision-makers across biopharma, clinicians, service providers, investors and regulators. It is organised by Hanson Wade Conferences.

The Advanced Therapies Congress runs 9-10 March 2027 at ExCeL London, billed as Europe's largest commercial cell and gene therapy conference and exhibition. It brings together around 3,300 global executives, 300 speakers and 75 startups spanning ATMP companies, pharma, biotech, researchers, clinicians and regulators.

Transfiere 2027, the European Forum for Science, Technology and Innovation, runs 10-12 March in Malaga. Now in its 16th edition, the forum is a leading platform of Spain's R&D&I system, connecting scientific, technological, business and institutional stakeholders across five specialised forums, including the IV Premio Empresa Innovadora awards.

UN:BLOCK is a two-day blockchain, fintech and AI conference held in Riga, drawing around 3,000 attendees from 50+ countries and 700+ companies. Day one focuses on blockchain, digital assets and AI agents, while day two covers fintech, payments, banking regulation and financial infrastructure. The event is backed by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA).

One of France's largest community developer conferences, two days of technical talks and workshops at the H Arena. Strong for developers and dev-tooling founders wanting depth and access to a large French developer audience.

Vue.js Amsterdam marks its 10-year anniversary as its final edition, running 11-12 March 2027 at Theater Amsterdam. The conference gathers roughly 1,000 Vue enthusiasts from over 50 countries and 437 companies, with Vue creator Evan You and Nuxt's Sebastien Chopin among the speakers. It has sold out every year since starting in 2018.

Internorga 2027 runs 12-16 March in Hamburg, the international leading trade fair for hospitality and foodservice. The annual event pairs national and international exhibitors with congresses such as the International Foodservice Forum, plus industry competitions including the INTERNORGA Zukunftspreis and the Deutsche Gastro-Gruenderpreis.

CloudFest 2027 runs 15-18 March in Rust, billed as the world's number-one internet infrastructure festival. The 2026 edition drew 10,900 attendees for four days of talks on AI, security and infrastructure, alongside a hackathon, masterclasses and networking events for the hosting and cloud community.

Global Industrie's 2027 edition moves to Eurexpo Lyon, running 15-18 March 2027; the series alternates annually between Paris and Lyon. France's massive industrial gathering includes a startup village and Industry 4.0 showcases, strong for industrial IoT and smart manufacturing startups.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe moves to Barcelona for 2027, running 15-18 March, after being held in Amsterdam in 2026. Organised by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, it brings together adopters and technologists from open source and cloud native communities across CNCF Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox projects. The 2028 edition is already confirmed for Berlin.

ITB Berlin 2027 runs 16-18 March at the Berlin exhibition grounds. Billed as the world's leading travel trade show since 1966, the event covers destinations by region alongside market segments such as adventure tourism, business travel, LGBTQ+ travel, luxury travel, medical tourism and travel technology, plus the ITB Berlin Congress think tank.

LogiMAT 2027 runs 16-18 March at Messe Stuttgart, covering intralogistics and process management technology. The trade fair includes a dedicated careers and networking event on 18 March. Sister events LogiMAT India (8-10 February 2027) and LogiMAT China (21-23 April 2027) extend the brand internationally.

MIPIM 2027 brings the global real estate community to the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, 16-19 March, to connect capital, people and ideas across investment, urban development, innovation and sustainability. For 2027 the Housing Matters! programme becomes fully integrated into the main conference, opening the event on Tuesday 16 March.

DATA festival Munich 2027 runs 17-18 March at Muffatwerk in Munich. A fixture of Munich's event calendar since 2017, the festival serves as a year-round community platform for data, analytics and AI professionals, focused on practical implementation over hype.

TRANSFORM, the Bitkom-backed digital transformation event, runs 17-18 March 2027 at Station Berlin. It focuses on the digital transformation of businesses, showcasing technologies and solutions for digitalising processes and business models. Executives, CDOs, CIOs and digital experts from across industries attend the two-day event.

START Summit returns to St. Gallen 18-19 March 2027, featuring 120+ speakers across five tracks including startup pitches, investor programming and a FoodFestival. The 2026 edition hosted speakers such as Vinted co-founder Milda Mitkute and Helsing CTO Robert Fink, alongside dozens of early-stage startup elevator pitches.

TechChill 2027, one of the largest Baltic tech events, runs its main event days 18-19 March in Riga, with side events on 17 March. The three-day event brings together roughly 2,000 attendees, 310+ startups, 250+ investors and 80+ speakers, including the annual 50 Founders Battle pitch competition.

BIM World Paris 2027 runs 31 March - 1 April at Paris Expo, covering digital twin and BIM technology for the construction and real estate sectors. Past exhibitors and speakers have included Vinci Construction, Bouygues, the Societe du Grand Paris and Eiffage. The event addresses BTP workforce training and technology adoption across the industry.