Copenhagen
Tech·the 2026 calendar
Thirteen conferences, five anchors, four monthly meetups. September is the peak — three of the five biggest fall in one fortnight. Everywhere else, pick a free meetup and a great dinner.
§ 01The five anchors
If you can time the trip, time it to one of theseEverything else on the calendar is supporting cast. These five carry the year — pick the one that matches your role and let the rest of the trip follow.
BBQ
Product
Days
§ 02The 2026 strip
May → November · every event knownRead left to right. Anchor conferences in black; supporting events in white. September is shaded — three of the five anchors land in one fortnight and hotels go fast.
May
Maj · M-05 1 eventJun
Juni · M-06 3 eventsJul
Juli · M-07 — quiet —continues
Jul 1–2
Aug
August · M-08 2 eventsSep
September · M-09 4 events · 3 anchorsOct
Oktober · M-10 2 eventsNov
November · M-11 1 event§ 03The monthly drumbeat
Off-cycle weeks · free · EnglishNo conference the week you're visiting? Drop into one of these four meetups. All free, all English, all rotating around friendly company offices.
CopenhagenJS
JavaScript, two community talks per evening, hosted at a friendly company. Everything in English.
github ⭐ 26Copenhagen .NET UG
CNUG. 3,649 members, 4.5★. Past hosts: twoday, KMD Ballerup, e-conomic. Every meeting free.
3,649 membersPyData CPH
Python / ML data community. Recent talks at Heyra on agentic workflows and Apache Arrow.
Data + MLLaravel CPH
Local node behind Laravel Live Denmark. Same crowd, smaller scale, year-round.
PHP§ 04Six venues, on repeat
All of the calendar above lives in these roomsTAP1
Øksnehallen
Bella Center
Lokomotivværkstedet
IDA Conference
Werkstatt on Reffen
§ 05Before you book
Five notes worth carrying⚠ KubeCon Europe is not here
Frequent confusion: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is in Amsterdam (Mar 23 – 26). Cloud Native Denmark is the local community-grade substitute — different scale.
September → book hotels early
TechBBQ (late Aug), Nordic Fintech Week, Future Product Days, and GOTO all crowd into a 5-week window. Hotels go fast; the airport gets busy.
Language
Default to English at the international names. Driving IT and some IDA tracks run partly in Danish — check the program before buying.
The Michelin pairing
GOTO and Nordic Fintech Week share TAP1 in Carlsberg City — walking distance to several starred restaurants in Vesterbro and Frederiksberg. NDC and Codegarden at Øksnehallen sit inside Kødbyen, the city's restaurant district.
Workshop pricing benchmark
NDC 2-day workshops list at 8,900 DKK (~€1,195). Full-conference passes for the big internationally-attended events typically run €800–€2,000 depending on early-bird timing.
Confirm dates close to the trip
The full Copenhagen developer-events calendar (conferences + meetups) is maintained at dev.events/EU/DK/Copenhagen. Useful for confirming dates close to your visit.
§ 06Companion pages
This calendar is one of three angles on the same tripA Copenhagen weekend around a Michelin dinner
The trip brief: which star, which conference week, which neighbourhood your dinner forces.
Things to do in Copenhagen
The central walking loop on day one, one neighbourhood + one museum on day two, Louisiana as the single must-do day-trip. Skip the Little Mermaid.
Michelin 2 & 3-star Copenhagen
Eight restaurants hold two or three Michelin stars right now — what each is, what it costs, and which you can actually book for a weekend.