02.06-03.06.2025
Hamburg Sustainability Conference
Global leaders in politics, business, science and society come together for the Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) and discuss how to achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and find answers to the most pressing challenges of our time.

03.06.- 04.06.2025
Empack Hamburg + Logistics & Animation Hamburg
Empack, the regional trade fair for the packaging industry, presents all the latest innovations, trends and packaging solutions along the value chain and will be held parallel to the Logistics & AutomationHamburg.

05.06.2025
AWS Summit
Amazon Web Services' free AWS Summit is an opportunity to learn from industry leaders, collaborate with peers and have experts answer questions.

10.06. - 13.06.2025
ISC High Performance

The ISC Hamburg trade fair is the world’s leading conference for advancing the application of high-performance computing in academia, government, and the private sector. Emphasis is on networking, storage, high-performance data analytics and AI/machine learning.

15.06. - 18.06.2025
UITP Summit
Hamburg is hosting UITP's flagship summit on mobility in both 2025 and 2027. Around 400 speakers and 300 exhibitors from 110 countries are expected this year alone. Movers and shakers in public transport will provide insight and discuss all the latest ideas for the future.

23.06.2025
Food Innovation Camp
The sustainable food scene with up to 90 startups meets representatives of retail, catering and politics as well as investors during the Food Innovation Camp (FIC ). Founders can exhibit their products, pitch their business models and present their latest food products during the event in the Chamber of Commerce Hamburg.

25.06.- 26.06.2025
Sustainability Summit
Sustainability managers in SMEs and corporations will meet during the Sustainability Summit to discuss all the latest trends, strategies and technologies in a bid to future-proof sustainable corporate development. Leading providers present their IT solutions for sustainability and environment, social affairs, corporate governance (ESG)  in the exhibition space.

25.06.-26.06.2025
Procurement Summit
The Procurement Summit for digitalisation and innovation focuses on the future. Emphasis is on new technologies; promoting sustainability and agile procurement practices.

26.06.2025
Solutions Essentials
Solutions Essentials is the self-coined makers summit and gives delegates fresh impetus and solutions. The focus is on knowledge transfer, co-creation and sharing experiences in presentations, workshops, masterclasses and expert insights.

27.06.- 28.06.2025
Green World Tour
The Green World Tour Hamburg trade fair for sustainable products, technologies and concepts. Products, services and information will present issues on e-mobility, renewable energies, CO2-neutral heating systems, green lifestyle products and green office concept

01.07.-02.07.2025
Building Green
The event for sustainable building and ecological architecture offers a platform for all the latest developments and best practices. The fair brings together architects, engineers, planners, public clients and decision-makers. Building Green will also take place be held from October 1-2, 2025, in Heidelberg’s new Congress Centrum.

03.07.2025
Butter at the fintechs
The fintech community will meet at Finance City Hamburg to gain insight into the city as a fintech hub and to forge contacts. Registrations will soon be accepted and the agenda will follow shortly.

10.07.2025
Hamburg Innovation Summit
"Innovations Made in Hamburg" is the motto of Hamburg's leading Hamburg Innovation Summit (HHIS). Innovators gather to tackle local challenges and advance positive global change through networking, collaboration and co-creation.

04.09-07.09.2025
Open Mouth Festival
The Open Mouth Hamburg Food Festival highlights culinary diversity in the city and the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. The agenda features presentations by producers and restaurateurs as well as tastings in diverse venues.

10.09.2025
Scoopcamp, organized by nextmedia.Hamburg, is the innovation conference for the media and digital industry. This year, publishers will meet to discuss how journalism can be financed sustainably.

10.09.2025
Job Fair Hamburg
The Job Fair Hamburg will be held under the motto “All paths to your new career!”. Global stakeholders, SMEs, educational establishments and institutions across a wide range of sectors will be offering information on starting a career, professional reorientation, training and further education as well as career-related topics.

10.09. - 12.09.2025 
Seatrade Europe
Around 250 exhibitors from around 50 nations will present their latest products and services for the cruise and river cruise industry during Seatrade Europe 2025. Shipyards, ship chandlers, classification societies, tourist boards, cruise ports and tour operators are among the delegates at the European trade fair in the Hamburg's exhibition halls.

11.09.-12.09.2025
Working Products
The Working Products conference focuses on agile and sustainable product culture for product managers and all those responsible for developing and supporting digital products and services.

17.09.- 20.09.2025
Reeperbahn Festival
Europe's largest club festival in Hamburg's St. Pauli district will become a hotspot of the global music scene when the Reeperbahn Festival brings all its movers and shakers together. The festival has long since morphed into one of Europe's leading platforms for international musicians and pop culture - all in the spirit of diversity, sustainability, fun and networking.

18.09-19.09.2025
Next Conference
The Next Conference is held during the Reeperbahn Festival. This European digital industry meet focuses on all things technology, innovations and their impact on human beings and social issues.

25.09.2025
ID X Summit 2025
The ID X Summit will turn Hamburg into a hotspot of online identification and the associated digital trends. The event in the Factory Hammerbrooklyn highlights the latest developments and gives insight into digital identity. Emphasis is on protecting identities for the digital supply chain, identity management, the cloud as a security factor and trends in (mobile) authentication.

25.09. -04.10.2025 
Filmfest Hamburg
"Curtain up" is the motto of the 33rd Filmfest Hamburg in 2025. 

09.- 10.10.2025
Mediale Hamburg
The north German Mediale Hamburg congress targets young professionals in the media and IT industry. The event offers workshops and events on online trends and on the future of the creative industry.

10.10. - 12.10.2025
Polaris Convention, Hamburg
This mix of gaming, anime, manga and Asian pop culture, aka the Polaris Convention,  regularly transforms Hamburg's exhibition halls into a universe driven by influencers, streamers, games developers and musicians, their fans and numerous exhibitors.

15.10.2025
AI Summit
The AI Summit focuses on artificial intelligence in all its diversity. AI.Hamburg promotes knowledge of and the broader use of AI especially machine learning in workshops, masterclasses and expert insights.

16.10.2025
Career Day (see also dates in April)

21.10 - 23.10.2025
Hydrogen Technology Expo Europe
Hydrogen Technology Expo aims to deliver advanced technologies in the hydrogen and fuel cell industry and solutions for a low-carbon hydrogen future. The world's leading trade fair brings together the entire value chain to discuss efficient production, storage and sales.

21.10.-23.10.2025
Carbon Capture Technology Expo
The leading Carbon Capture Technology Expo focuses on the introduction and commercialisation of technologies to achieve net zero emissions. Delegates include engineering firms, technology manufacturers and suppliers, energy companies, research groups, government agencies and non-governmental organisations.

12.11.-13.11. 2025 and 19.11.-20.11.2025
Merchandising Messe Hamburg
The Merchandising Messe Hamburg trade fair for marketing and merchandising targets managers in sports and industry. Exhibitors will showcase all their latest innovations and products.

19.11. - 20.11.2025
Sales Summit + Service Summit
The Sales Summit trade fair and conference focuses on digitalisation and innovation in sales. brings together sales managers from leading companies with innovative thought leaders from start-ups and other providers of B2B sales technologies. The Service Summit, a trade fair and conference focusing on digitalisation and innovation in customer service, will be held simultaneously.

11.06. –14.06.2025
Viva Technology, Paris
Startups, technology leaders, entrepreneurs and investors meet at Viva Technology to accelerate innovation and challenges of the 21st century. 

14.06. – 16.6.
Fehmarnbelt Days 2025, Lübeck
The Fehrmanbelt Days will be held on the banks of the River Trave to celebrate German-Scandinavian friendship. The festival features music, talks, all kinds of delicacies and street performances. Then on June 16, everything will revolve around the FBD conference.

20.08.-24.08.2025 
Gamescom, Cologne
Gamescom in Cologne is the world's leading trade fair for computer and video games and consumer electronics.

17.09+ 18.09.2025 
Dmexco, Cologne
Dmexco in Cologne is Europe's leading digital marketing and technology events. This year's motto "Prompting the Future" calls for the creative use of new technologies.

17.09. – 19.09.2025
Smart Energy Week, Chiba, Japan
The second Smart Energy Week gets underway in the Japanese city of Chiba and brings together 500 exhibitors in the fields of hydrogen and fuel cell sector etc.

29.09. -01.10.2025 
Bits& Pretzels, Munich
Founders, investors and industry leaders can network and do business at Bits & Pretzels during the world-famous Munich Oktoberfest.

06.10.-08.10.2025
Expo Real, Munich
The international Expo Real property and investment trade fair is held every year in Munich and attracts many Hamburg-based companies as well.  

10.11,- 13.11.2025
Web Summit, Lisbon
The Web Summit in Lisbon is the world's largest technology conference. Emphasis is on IT and communication technology. Over 800 speakers, 900 investors and 2,600 startups are expected next November.

19.11 + 20.11.2025
Slush, Helsiniki
One of Europe's largest startup events takes place in Helsinki. Slush offers startups and investors from all over the world a platform to forge new partnerships, explore investment opportunities and to pitch their innovative business ideas.

19.11.-21.11.2025
Smart Energy Week, Osaka
The third  Smart Energy Week gets underway in Osaka, Japan.

This overview will be updated regularly. Our partner portal Startup City Hamburg has compiled an overview of all startup events.
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