How this is built

Methodology

Where the data comes from, what we mean by verified, how often it refreshes, and what it does not cover. If you are deciding whether to rely on a number here, this is the page to read first.

The short version

We read conference websites directly and record what they publish: dates, location, venue, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, agenda. A listing goes live only after the details are confirmed against the event's own site. Nothing is bought from a list broker, and nothing is copied from another directory.

As of 2026-08-24 the catalogue holds 3,571 upcoming events across 125 countries, with 102,215 speaker appearances and 114,495 companies indexed.

Where the data comes from

In order of how much of the catalogue each accounts for:

The event's own website. The primary source for almost everything. Speaker, sponsor, exhibitor and agenda pages are read from the organizer's site, which is also the authority when two sources disagree.
Speaker and session platforms. Where organizers run their programme on a platform with a public schedule, we read it from there: it is the same information the organizer publishes, in a form less likely to be missed.
Venue calendars. Convention centres publish what is booked in their halls. This is how we find events whose own site has not gone up yet.
Organizer submissions. Organizers can send their exhibitor list, speakers and prospectus to data@, or correct their own listing through the claim flow on any event page.

What “verified” means

It means one specific thing: we fetched the event's own page and the details we publish were on it. A row that cannot be confirmed against the source is not published — we would rather show a gap than a guess. That rule is why some listings show a speaker list and no sponsors, or a date and no venue: the organizer has not published the rest yet.

It does not mean an editor has read the page. Extraction is automated, and automated extraction makes mistakes. It also does not mean the event will happen as listed — organizers move dates and cancel, and we find out when the page changes.

How often it refreshes

Nightly. New events, and re-checks of events whose pages have changed.
Weekly. A health pass over the source URLs, so a listing whose site has gone dark is caught rather than left standing.
As the date approaches. Events happening soon are re-checked more often than events a year out, because that is when organizers add speakers and sponsors.

What is in scope

Conferences, trade shows, expos, summits, conventions, forums, congresses, symposia, festivals and hackathons — business and professional events with a published programme.

Out of scope, deliberately: webinars, meetups, training courses and entertainment events. They behave differently, they are not what the readers of this site are budgeting for, and including them would make every count on the site less meaningful.

Known limits

Stated plainly, because you will find these yourself:

Coverage follows our sources. The catalogue is deepest where organizers publish detailed programmes online, which skews towards technology, and towards English-language events in North America and Europe. A thin region on this site means thin sources, not a quiet market.
Not every listing has a full lineup. Roughly a fifth of upcoming events carry no speaker or sponsor list, usually because the organizer has not published one yet. Those pages carry the dates and the location and say nothing more.
Company names are messy at the edges. Sponsor logos and exhibitor tables are written by hand by hundreds of organizers. We normalise aggressively and still get some wrong, in both directions: the same company under two names, or two companies collapsed into one.
We hold one edition per conference, mostly. Year-over-year history is thin. Where an event has run for a decade, we usually hold the current or next edition, not the series.

Found something wrong?

Tell us and we will fix it. Email data@conferencegrid.com with the event or company and what is wrong, or use the claim link at the top of any event page to correct a listing you run. There is no form to fill in and no account needed to report an error.

If you are citing this data — in a report, an article, or an answer — the fair description is: verified against each event's own website, refreshed nightly, last reviewed 2026-08-24.

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