FIELD GUIDES · By theater of operation
City Field Guides
Where the good events live in each city we deploy. Luma calendars, Gary's Guide, Yorkseed, tech-week hubs — plus our own theaters and every upcoming event on the radar that lands there. Pick your city.
North America
The city with 40 tech events a night and 12 rooftops per event.
NYC is a permanent conference. Between Advertising Week, NY Tech Week, Climate Week, and the ambient founder-happy-hour churn, you can go badge-free 51 weeks a year and still be over-scheduled.
6 field guides →
Where every dinner is a demo day and every demo day is a dinner.
SF Tech Week, Dreamforce, GDC, and a permanent floor of AI hackathons make SF the highest event-density city in the network. Bring a hoodie for the fog and a spreadsheet for the RSVPs.
5 field guides →
The only city where the venue's parking lot is the panel.
LA carries Silicon Beach + entertainment + creator economy. Adobe MAX, VidCon, and a permanent flywheel of talent-manager rooftops.
4 field guides →
SXSW is a season, not a week.
Austin runs on SXSW gravity but keeps a full year-round scene — Capital Factory, Austin Startup Week, ATX AI meetups.
5 field guides →
Where crypto winter is 78°F and the deck goes on the rooftop.
eMerge, Bitcoin Miami, Art Basel, and POSSIBLE take turns filling the Fontainebleau. Espresso before, Aperol after.
4 field guides →
Where the show floor is the strip and the strip is the show floor.
CES, Shoptalk, Money 20/20, AWS re:Invent, Black Hat — Vegas hosts more badge minutes per capita than anywhere on earth. The Uber line from Mandalay Bay is a networking event.
4 field guides →
Europe
The city where every tech event ends at a pub.
London Tech Week, PI LIVE, Web Summit-adjacent nights, and a permanent Shoreditch calendar. Bring a tote for the swag and comfortable shoes for the tube.
4 field guides →
VivaTech week is a French national holiday now.
VivaTech + Station F make Paris the anchor of European AI events. Louis Vuitton after-parties optional but strongly encouraged.
3 field guides →
Five days. Twelve yachts. One WiFi password.
For one week in June the Croisette becomes a decked-out ad industry theme park. The rest of the year it's a film festival with your name on the sign.
2 field guides →
The only conference where the badge line is a black-tie event.
For one week in January the WEF turns a Swiss ski town into the world's most expensive networking event. Snow boots mandatory. Fondue budget: aggressive.
2 field guides →
Web Summit turned Lisbon into a permanent tech capital.
Web Summit, POSSIBLE Lisbon, and a rising climate-tech scene. Pastéis de nata: non-optional.
3 field guides →