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Vienna Tech 2026

What runs in Vienna this week and through the rest of 2026 — major conferences, recurring meetups, and the three windows that define the year.

28 events plotted 10 anchor conferences 12 recurring meetups 3 clustered windows
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May 2026
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January — April: quiet
May • opening
Security
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UX / AI / K8s
TEDAI
Innovation
Legend  · Security AI Cloud / K8s UX / Design General / Community Recurring meetup
★ This week — 28 May → 31 May 2026

Two events within walking distance.

Thu 28 May  ·  17:30 — tonight

Google Cloud Meetup Vienna #36

weXelerate, Praterstraße 1, 1020  ·  Free  ·  Two talks: long-term memory for AI agents; supply-chain attack anatomy [1]
AI · Cloud
Fri 29 — Sun 31 May

RubyConf Austria 2026

Das MuTh, Am Augartenspitz 1, 1020  ·  Vienna.rb meetup (Fri), conference (Sat), hike (Sun) [2][3]
Community · Ruby

Both venues sit in the 2nd district (Leopoldstadt), a 10-minute walk apart and an easy add-on if your Michelin reservation is in the inner city.

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Month-by-month

12 tiles · the year in slots

January

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No anchor conferences scheduled. Recurring meetups continue at their usual cadence — ViennaJS last Wednesday [18].

February

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Quiet on the conference front. Watch AI Austria for GenAI Community sessions [19].

March

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Quiet. Use this stretch for the meetup tour: PyData, CNCV, DevOps & Security.

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Quiet. The first half of 2026 holds its breath for the late-May / June run.

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OWASP Global AppSec EU 2026 banner
★ The security window — OWASP + ThreatModCon back-to-back
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ESSAI tails off on Jul 3 [19]. Otherwise quiet — Vienna's biggest dev event of the year, WeAreDevelopers World Congress, has moved to Berlin for 2026 (Jul 8–10) [17].

August

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Summer break. Conferences resume mid-September; meetups stay light.

September

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Cloud Native Days Austria 2026
★ The autumn cluster — UX, applied AI, cloud-native, three weeks straight
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  • 16–17Wed – Thu
    uxcon vienna 2026
    University of Vienna
    600 UXers from 43 countries · UX research & design [10]
    UX
  • 18Fri
    Future Builders (post-uxcon)
    Vienna
    60 senior practitioners — design / eng / product [10]
    UX · Invite
  • 24Thu
    AAIC — Applied AI Conference
    WKÖ, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 63, 1045
    Austria's flagship applied-AI business symposium [12]
    Applied AI
  • 29–30Tue – Wed
    Cloud Native Days Austria 2026
    Cineplexx Wienerberg
    K8s / CNCF · 4th edition (formerly KCD Austria) [11]
    K8s · CNCF

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  • 28–30Wed – Fri
    TEDAI Vienna 2026
    Hofburg imperial palace
    1,100+ guests from 65+ countries, 20+ TED Talks · Geoffrey Hinton, Nicholas Thompson, Peter Steinberger on the bill [13][14][15]
    AI · Marquee
    €1,500 Standard · €2,500 Executive ex-VAT

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  • 26Thu
    Future Forward 2026
    weXelerate Innovation Hub
    1,000+ attendees · 50+ speakers · 42 nations represented [16]
    Innovation summit

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No anchor conferences. Recurring groups slow toward the holidays; ViennaJS hits its last-Wednesday December slot before the new year.

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Where it happens

three venues carry most of the year
weXelerate, Jean Nouvel building, Praterstraße 1

weXelerate

Praterstraße 1 · 1020 · 5 min from Schwedenplatz

9,000m² hub in the Jean Nouvel building. Hosts Google Cloud Meetup, Future Forward, frequent AI/startup events [27].

OWASP Global AppSec EU at Austria Center Vienna

Austria Center Vienna (ACV)

22nd district · large international congress centre

The city's big international congress hall — OWASP Global AppSec EU lives here [4].

AAIC — Applied AI Conference at WKÖ

Messe Wien & WKÖ

Messe Wien: 2nd district · WKÖ: Wiedner Hauptstr. 63, 1045

Messe Wien hosts Microsoft techConference and other large IT trade events [9]; WKÖ hosts AAIC [12].

For the showpiece events, the Hofburg (TEDAI [13]) and Das MuTh (RubyConf [3]) put you inside historic Vienna — the venue choice is part of the value, not just a hall.

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Recurring meetups worth a calendar slot

twelve groups · year-round cadence
ViennaJS
Last Wed monthly · JS · EN · rotating venues [18]
AI Austria
Multiple events/month · GenAI, agents, ML [19][20]
Vienna DevOps & Security
~Monthly · ÖBB Open Innovation, Lassallestraße 5 [21]
Cloud Native Computing Vienna
~Monthly · K8s, CNCF, platform [22]
PyData Vienna
~Monthly · Python, R, Julia [23]
Vienna Data and AI Meetup
Regular · DS/DE/ML/AI · Accenture-sponsored [24]
Vienna AI Engineering
Regular · LLM ops, inference · est. 2015 [25]
Vienna Deep Learning
Monthly · DL / neural nets [26]
PyLadies Vienna
Workshops · Python · women-focused [26]
React Vienna
Monthly · React · midweek talks [26]
Vue.js Vienna
Monthly · Vue.js · near centre [26]
Vienna Data Engineering
Monthly · 2 speakers + Q&A + drinks [26]

More: dev.events Vienna filters tech by topic + date [5]; AI Austria's event calendar is the densest single source for AI events (60+ entries Jun-Oct) [19]; WeAreDevelopers' Vienna meetup guide [26].

⚠ Not in Vienna in 2026

Three things people will ask you about that aren't here this year.

WeAreDevelopers World Congress

Vienna's long-time flagship moved to Berlin for 2026 (Jul 8–10). 15,000+ attendees, 500+ speakers across 20+ stages [17].

4GAMECHANGERS Festival

ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4's annual is on a creative break — 2026 dates listed as TBA [28].

European Forum Alpbach

Held in Alpbach the village (Tyrol), not Vienna. Easy to confuse the two — don't book the wrong train.

Continue the weekend
Sibling · Expedition

Things to do in Vienna

Schönbrunn morning + Belvedere afternoon on one day, Stephansdom + Hofburg + a real coffee house on the other.