The Holiday Agenda: Top Tech Events To Watch in December 2023
With companies having wrapped up their annual agenda, December is a relatively quieter time for tech conferences.
- Spiceworks News & Insights brings you the important technology- and cybersecurity-focused events and a single point of curated conference catalog for December 2023.
- Check out five of the most important conferences scheduled for this month.
The holiday season is officially upon us, and with it usually comes a quieter technology front. As IT pros prepare for a break from the year-round propensity to develop, tech companies also scale back the number of product and service unveilings and the exuberance that generally goes with it.
As AWS re:Invent 2023 and the London series of six TechEx events wrap up today, Spiceworks News & Insights brings you its top five technology conferences to attend this December. For the true tech connoisseur, it’s not a lot, but here’s what December 2023 looks like.
Tech Conferences in December 2023
1. Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference
This three-day conference covers all things strategy when it comes to technology investments. What is the return on technology investments and best practices to adopt to derive value and agility?
Hear data center & IT infrastructure professionals, enterprise architects, DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, and 60 Gartner experts take the stage to deliver 178 research-driven sessions across nine tracks. The event is expected to offer networking opportunities with approximately 4,000 attendees.
Beyond the run-of-the-mill sessions, the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference will have interactive Workshops, Contract Negotiation Clinics to learn negotiation tactics, and Senior Leadership Circles where senior I&O leaders “explore new strategies, share innovative ideas, and grow their community of peers.”
Location: The Palazzo at The Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
Date(s): December 5-7, 2023
Attendance: Offline; paid registration required
2. Black Hat Europe 2023
Black Hat Europe, the summertime U.S. edition’s winter sibling, is right around the corner. Of the four-day conference, the first two days focus on technical hands-on ‘Training’ sessions (although attendees can continue to do this throughout the event), followed by two days of ‘Briefings’ where cybersecurity professionals disclose the latest research and vulnerabilities.
Black Hat Europe 2023 will also feature Arsenal sessions where developers can demonstrate their latest open-source tools with attendees in an interactive manner and an Executive Summit catering to CISO and other business executives in cybersecurity.
Keynote sessions are scheduled for the third and fourth days of the event. The two keynotes will be delivered by Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre, and Joe Sullivan, CEO of Ukraine Friends.
Location: ExCeL London, London, U.K.
Date(s): December 4-7, 2023
Attendance: Offline; paid registration required
See More: AWS re:Invent 2023: Amazon Intros New AI and General-Purpose Chips
3. DevOpsCon
The final of the two DevOpsCon conferences will be held in Munich and Singapore next week and the week after.
Both DevOpsCon events stretch four days. The two conferences will play host to continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), Kubernetes, and Agile experts, who are expected to deliver multiple keynotes and dozens of expert sessions.
DevOpsCon Munich will have eight Keynotes and 63 expert sessions compared to two keynotes and 18 expert sessions at DevOpsCon Singapore this year.
Additionally, the final day for DevOpsCon Munich is reserved for four hands-on Workshops, while the Singapore version will feature two full-day workshops on the last two days.
Location:
DevOpsCon Munich: Hilton Munich Park, Munich, Germany
DevOpsCon Singapore: Suntec Convention & Exhibition Center, Singapore
Date(s):
DevOpsCon Munich: December 4-7, 2023
DevOpsCon Singapore: December 11 – 14, 2023
Attendance: Online and offline; paid registration required
4. Cisco Live Australia
More than anything, Cisco Live offers IT pros to rub shoulders with Cisco engineers, executives, and fellows for business-specific insights and needs. Following the mid-year edition of Cisco Live in Las Vegas, Cisco Live Melbourne will feature 588 sessions, including 1:1 meetings, technical seminars, expert sessions, IT leadership programs, hands-on training, and more.
Cisco executives will deliver the opening Keynote addresses on the second day of the conference. The final-day closing Keynote will feature athletes, including an Olympian, a Paralympian, and current and former football players.
Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Date(s): December 5-8, 2023
Attendance: Online and offline; paid registration required
5. AI.dev North America
AI.dev North America aims to offer an avenue for open-source developers engaged in generative AI and machine learning. Expect deep-dive technical sessions, access to open-source AI tools, frameworks, best practices, and collaboration with fellow data scientists, ML engineers, AI researchers, software developers, and open-source enthusiasts.
“At the heart of this event is the belief that open source is the engine of innovation in AI. By uniting the brightest developers from around the world, we aim to ignite discussions, foster collaborations, and shape the trajectory of open-source AI,” The Linux Foundation noted.
Co-located with the Cassandra Summit, AI.dev North America will have 32 Featured speakers, including Jeff Boudier, product + service director at Hugging Face; Jerry Liu, co-founder & CEO of LlamaIndex; Elena Rastorgueva, deep learning applied scientist at NVIDIA; Neta Haiby, director AI Security, Office of CTO at Microsoft; Brian Granger, senior principal technologist, AI Platforms at AWS; Ben Brooks, head of public policy at Stability.ai; Manohar Paluri, senior director of AI, and more.
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