Are you looking in this year 2026 for IT conferences that will help you with a career shift, bring an overview of trends in AI and LLM, strengthen your knowledge in the Java/JVM ecosystem, data management or software testing and at the same time open the door to networking? The first half of 2026 offers a selection of great events in the Czech Republic and Europe. From a PostgreSQL meetup in Prague through AI and leadership all the way to EuroSTAR in Oslo and the community DevConf in Brno. Below you will find an overview of 10 tips, let’s take a look at them.
Prague Pg Dev Day 2026
27–28 January 2026
📍 Location: Prague, Czech Republic
A community event for everyone who wants to use PostgreSQL more smartly and in depth. A great place for inspiration from real use cases, performance, internals and production “lessons learned”.
LLM Day
12 February 2026
📍 Location: Warsaw, Poland
A day dedicated to large language models and their practical use. It’s suitable for those who want to understand what makes sense to deploy into products today and where, on the contrary, the limits of quality, security or reliability begin.
AI Coding Summit
26–27 February 2026
📍 Location: online
An online conference about how AI is really changing software development: workflow, productivity, work with code and team collaboration. Ideal if you want to quickly absorb trends and choose what is worth testing in your own practice.
JavaLand
10–12 March 2026
📍 Location: Rust, Germany
One of the biggest Java events in Europe. It will take you from current topics in the JVM world to architecture, modern tooling and experiences you will use even on projects outside a purely “Java-only” environment.
Engineering Leaders Conference
16 April 2026
📍 Location: Prague, Czech Republic
For tech leads and engineering managers who deal with delivery, scaling teams, decision-making and setting up an environment for quality development. If you are in the transition “senior → lead” (or you already lead a team), this is a conference with high practical value.
13th Data Management & AI ThinkLab
22–24 April 2026
📍 Location: Prague, Czech Republic
An intensive meeting for those who take data as a strategic asset. At the same time, they perceive AI as something that cannot function long-term without quality foundations. Expect discussions and sharing of experience around data management, governance, quality and “best practices” that are really addressed in companies.
Geecon 2026
14–15 May 2026
📍 Location: Krakow, Poland
Geecon is a bet on quality technical topics across the JVM world. Ideal if you want to gain inspiration for backend, architecture and modern approaches to development and at the same time meet a community that faces similar challenges as you do.
EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2026
15–18 June 2026
📍 Location: Oslo, Norway
One of the biggest European conferences for testers and the QA community. It is great if you want to move quality in the team further than “just automation”. The conference focuses on topics from test strategy through modern QA approaches all the way to sharing experience from real projects and networking across Europe.
ICCHP 2026
15–17 June 2026
📍 Location: Brno, Czech Republic
A conference on the border of technologies and accessibility (assistive tech, inclusion, impacts on users). A great opportunity to broaden your perspective: how to design digital products and services so that they are usable for the widest possible spectrum of people, and what that means for development, testing and product decisions.
DevConf.cz
18–19 June 2026
📍 Location: Brno, Czech Republic
A strong community event focusing on open source, development and modern technologies. DevConf is ideal if you want a combination of practical talks, a hallway track and contacts across the community: from developers to professionals dedicated to infrastructure and cloud.
Extra tip: certification for Java developers
Clean Architecture (certified course)
28–29 May 2026
📍 Location: online / Berlin, Germany
Do you want something that will show immediately in practice and on your CV? This certification course is aimed at Java developers who want to improve system design, code structure and architectural decision-making in real projects and also take away a formal certification.
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