Sixteen events turned up on the newswires this week, from a supercar lawn in Las Vegas to a lab robot booth in Frankfurt. Five have already ended, two are running now, and the rest run from next week into May 2027. They’re listed below in date order, with what each one is and what got announced around it.
Beyond EMEA 2026, October 18–20, Bella Center Copenhagen, Copenhagen
Beyond is Pax8’s partner conference for the managed service providers who buy cloud and security software through its marketplace. At the EMEA edition, SentinelOne took Pax8’s Partner’s Most Valuable Vendor award, one of ten vendor awards handed out. The two have worked together since 2019, and Pax8 says it now reaches more than 47,000 IT partners serving about 800,000 small and mid-sized businesses.
WETEX 2026, October 20–22, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai
The 28th Water, Energy, Technology and Environment Exhibition is run by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority. Last week’s digest covered the four MoUs signed by DEWA International. This round came through Moro Hub, a Digital DEWA subsidiary, and it’s about IT, not power plants. Huawei will supply hardware, software and services for DEWA’s networks, data centers and digital substations. Nozomi Networks will centralize cybersecurity license management on its Vantage platform. Syskey Softlabs will run log management, asset monitoring and risk management for DEWA’s operational technology. No values or terms were given.
Reuters Events: Automotive USA 2026, October 27–28, Huntington Place, Detroit
Taiwan Excellence, the export brand run by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, brought a pavilion of 19 automotive products from ten companies: AUO, Conquer Electronics, CUB Elecparts, Delta Electronics, iBASE, Macronix, oToBrite, Pegatron, Realtek Semiconductor and Whetron Electronics. The exhibits covered driver assistance, edge AI, cockpit displays, automotive chips and EV power electronics. An executive forum the day before the show included talks on CUB Elecparts’ millimeter-wave radar and Macronix memory.
Critical Minerals Expo North America 2026, October 28–29, Cobb Convention Center, Atlanta
The expo shares a floor with the Battery Recycling Expo and E-Waste World Expo. On day one, ERI chairman and CEO John Shegerian and Bethany Edwards of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development sat on a panel called “Scaling the Above Ground Mine”, about recovering critical materials from discarded electronics rather than new mines. ERI says it is the largest US electronics recycler, processing more than a billion pounds of e-waste a year across eight certified sites.
gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2026, October 29–November 1, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok
This year gamescom asia moved to Bangkok and merged with the Thailand Game Show. The business area runs October 29 and 30 and the consumer days run through November 1. Payments company Xsolla is in the B2B hall at booth E21 with a whitepaper, written with Niko Partners, that puts Southeast Asia’s games market at about $5.6 billion and close to 300 million players. Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam account for about $3.8 billion of it. The payments detail is the useful part: just over half of Indonesian and Vietnamese players already pay through third-party channels, and 44.8% of Thai players buy from publishers’ own web shops.
The Concours at Wynn Las Vegas 2026, October 29–November 1, Wynn Golf Club, Las Vegas
The fifth Concours at Wynn puts collector cars on the hotel’s golf course greens. duPont REGISTRY Group, the luxury car marketplace, is there for the first time with a 2020 Ferrari 488 Pista in Bianco Fuji with Grigio Silverstone stripes and a 2023 Acura ARX-06 IMSA prototype. It will also hand out a duPont REGISTRY Editor’s Choice Award.
Fal.Con Europe 2026, November 2–4, Fira Gran Via, Barcelona
CrowdStrike’s European user conference is sold out, with about 3,000 security people from more than 1,200 organizations in 83 countries. A partner summit opens it on November 2, followed by two keynote days. There are 70 sponsors. AWS, Horizon3 and Schwarz Digits are at the top tier, and Dell, Intel, Zscaler, Proofpoint, ExtraHop and Theta Lake are just below them.
EICMA 2026, November 3–8, Fiera Milano Rho, Milan
The Milan motorcycle show opens with press and trade days on November 3 and 4, and the public comes in from November 5. TVS Motor Company is back in Hall 18, stand I64, with a press conference at 10:00 on November 3. It hasn’t named the new European models yet. The Europe numbers are more concrete: about 100 dealers in Italy, Italian retail sales up 110% this year against a market up about 10%, and new dealers in Spain, Hungary, Portugal and Malta, with Greece, Serbia and Romania to follow.
DataHub CONTEXT 2026, November 4, Online
DataHub’s annual conference is a free, half-day virtual event starting at 8:00 a.m. Pacific. It’s about the metadata and context that AI agents need to answer questions correctly from company data. Speakers come from BlackRock, Google Cloud, Optiver and Miro. Miro will explain how its analytics agent’s accuracy went from about 50% to about 90%.
MetricStream 14th Annual U.S. GRC Summit, November 4–5, Online
The governance, risk and compliance software company runs its summit as two free virtual half-days from 7:30 a.m. Pacific, with more than 1,500 registrations so far. The theme is AI in GRC, mostly how to let agents do compliance work with a human still signing off. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Intel are presenting case studies.
electronica 2026, November 10–13, Messe München, Munich
The world’s largest electronic components fair runs alongside SEMICON Europa 2026. Aptiv is in Hall B3, booth 317, with power, signal and data connectors, high-voltage parts for EVs, energy storage and data centers, and a robot arm that assembles wiring harnesses automatically. Alpha and Omega Semiconductor is at booth C4-102 with power controllers and smart power stages for high-current GPUs, plus MOSFETs, silicon carbide and gallium nitride parts for 48V and 800V data center power.
RE+ 2026, November 16–19, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas
RE+ is North America’s largest clean energy show. Aratas, the former OMRON Electronic Components business in the US, is at booth C6554 in the Central Hall. It’s showing high-voltage DC relays, solid-state relays rated up to 3,300 V, a hydrogen sensor still in development that detects gas released when lithium-ion cells go into thermal runaway, and a weather sensor with no moving parts.
Formnext 2026, November 17–20, Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Formnext is the main additive manufacturing fair. Stratasys, in Hall 12.1 at booth D129, will unveil a new printer for serial production on November 17 at 1:00 p.m. and hasn’t named it yet. The F870 makes its European debut there. It’s a large-format FDM machine for tooling, jigs and fixtures, with a fully heated build chamber of 1,000 x 610 x 610 mm. On November 18, Toyota and Stratasys engineers present a talk on simulating and validating large FDM tooling for car production.
2027 Advyzon Conference, February 24–26, 2027, Fairmont Dallas, Dallas
The wealth management software company announced its fourth user conference, with more than 75 speakers. Vanessa Van Edwards gives the keynote, and Michael Kitces and Schwab’s Michael Townsend are also on the program. Advyzon says the 2026 edition was three times the size of its 2024 debut.
6th BioCentury-BayHelix East-West Biopharma Summit, March 15–17, 2027, Conrad Seoul, Seoul
The summit pairs Western biopharma with Chinese and other Asian drug developers for licensing deals, NewCo formation and partnerships. Virtual partnering days follow on March 23 and 24, and nominations for the 2027 presenting companies are open now.
Avetta 2027 Summit Series, May 25–27, 2027, Renaissance Austin Arboretum, Austin
Avetta, which vets suppliers and contractors for safety and compliance, set its flagship North American summit for Austin. Sydney and London editions follow later in 2027, with dates still to come. Speaker proposals are due February 1.
Next on the calendar are Fal.Con Europe on Monday and EICMA’s press day on Tuesday.