What's happening: Week of 8 June 2026
SuperReturn Venture is Europe's premier gathering for the venture capital and LP community — 1,000+ attendees across three days at Hotel Palace Berlin, with 350+ LPs and 500+ VCs from…
TEDxBerlin returns for a two-day deep dive into how AI is reshaping business, society, and creativity. Day 1 at Factory Berlin Mitte (Mon 8 Jun) is hands-on — workshops, panels,…
with Joe Tsai (Co-founder and Chairman, Alibaba Group) · Rev Lebaredian (Vice President, Physical AI Simulation, NVIDIA) · Dr. Karsten Wildberger (Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization, Federal Government of Germany) + 5 more
Bosch ConnectedWorld is the global flagship conference for AI, digital systems, future tech, and mobility, hosted by Robert Bosch GmbH at the Tempodrom (opening) and Arena Berlin. BCW26 brings together corporate CEOs, government leaders, and AI executives — confirmed speakers include Joe Tsai (Alibaba), Rev Lebaredian (NVIDIA), Oliver Blume (Volkswagen), Stefan Hartung (Bosch), David Reger (Neura Robotics), and Karsten Wildberger (Germany's Federal Minister for Digital Transformation). Two days of keynotes, exhibition, hackathon, and structured networking. Targeted at engineering and product leaders building AI into industrial and connected products.
The Thursday Gathering at Venture Café Berlin takes on aerospace and New Space this week — a sector attracting serious attention and capital as Berlin positions itself as a European hub for space tech and dual-use innovation. Open networking from 17:00, programme from 18:00. Free to attend, open to founders, investors, engineers and ecosystem professionals with an interest in the sector. CIC Berlin at Lohmühlenstraße 65.
GreenTech Festival is Berlin's flagship gathering for the people and companies pushing sustainability and climate technology forward — three days at Station Berlin in Kreuzberg with 100+ sessions, 50+ leaders…
DevOpsCon Berlin is one of Europe's most established conferences for CI/CD, Kubernetes, microservices, cloud, and DevSecOps — and the 2026 edition is built around how AI is reshaping the entire DevOps stack. Five days at the Maritim proArte Hotel: workshops on the 15th and 18th, the main conference on 16–17 June, with a dedicated expo running alongside. Expect deep, hands-on tracks on Agentic AI, Tool-Driven Systems, RAG in production, platform engineering, and Terraform-scale cloud operations. Designed for senior engineers, SREs, architects, and platform leads moving real AI workloads into real production. In-person or online.
PITS — the Public-IT-Security Congress — is Germany's flagship event for IT security in the public sector. Two days at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski bring together IT leaders from federal, state and municipal authorities, plus industry, academia and the security vendor ecosystem. The 2026 motto is "Heroes and Heroines in the Background." Expect substantive sessions on AI in security operations, cloud usage by public administration, building IT security capacity, and the daily reality of defending public-sector systems against cyber attack. Highly relevant for anyone selling into the public sector, working on regulated AI/cloud deployments, or building security products for institutional buyers.
A weekend hackathon built for the Berlin builder community working at the intersection of robotics and agentic AI — two full days (Sat–Sun, 10:00–17:30) of hands-on team building, demos and structured judging. The format brings together engineers, researchers, founders and investors to build real solutions that pair robotics hardware with agentic AI software stacks. Open to individuals or teams; matchmaking on the morning of day one. Good fit for ML/robotics engineers, technical founders prototyping a deeptech idea, and operators who want to see what the next wave of physical-AI looks like up close. Venue confirmed on registration.