Top network and data center events 2025

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.

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.

January 2025

• CES, Las Vegas, Nevada: January 7-10
• Quantum.Tech, Doha, Qatar: January 13-15
• OPEX World Summit, Miami, Florida: January 29-29
• AI Super Summit 1.0, Tampa, Florida: January 30-31

February 2025

• Pink25 IT service management event, Las Vegas, Nevada: February 2-5
• NANOG 93, Atlanta, Georgia: February 3-5
• Cisco Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands: February 9-14
• Gartner CIO Leadership Forum, Hollywood, Florida: February 10-11
• Deep Learning & Advanced ML Summit, San Jose, California: February 11
• Generative AI Summit, Austin, Texas: February 12
• Chief AI Officer Summit, London, England: February 12
• S4x25, Tampa, Florida: February 10-13
• Gartner CIO Leadership Forum, Phoenix, Arizona: February 24-25

March 2025

• Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Sydney, Australia: March 3-4
• Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, Orlando, Florida: March 3-5
• MWC, Barcelona, Spain: March 3-6
• SXSW, Austin, Texas: March 7-13 
• Gartner Tech Growth & Innovation Conference, Grapevine, Texas: March 10-11
• Tech Show, London, England: March 12-13
• Big Data & AI World, London, England: March 12-13
• NVIDIA GTC AI Conference, San Jose, California: March 17-21
• OFC50, San Francisco, California: March 30-April 3

April 2025

• The HBS & MIT Sloan Technology & National Security Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts: April 4-5
• Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, Dubai UAE: April 7-8
• RSA Conference, San Francisco, California: April 28 – May 1

May 2025

• Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, Sydney, Australia: May 13-14
• Computex Taipei Summit, Taipei, Taiwan: May 20-23

June 2025

• Cisco Live, San Diego, California: June 8-12
• Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, National Harbor, Maryland: June 9-11
• London Tech Week, London, England: June 9-13

July 2025

• USENIX ATC, Boston, Massachusetts: July 7-9
• Gartner CIO Leadership Forum, Tokyo, Japan: July 9-10

August 2025

• Black Hat USA, Las Vegas, Nevada: August 2-7
• DEF CON, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 7-10

September 2025

• Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, Gold Coast, Australia: September 8-10
• .conf25, Boston, Massachusetts: September 8-11
• Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, London, England: September 22-24

October 2025

• Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, Orlando, Florida: October 20-23

November 2025

• Web Summit, Lisbon, Portugal: November 10-13
• KubeCon & CloudNativeCon, Atlanta, Georgia: November 10-13

December 2024

• AWS re:Invent, Las Vegas, Nevada: December 1-5
• Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit, Grapevine, Texas: December 8-10

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