TL;DR From June 2, the next events are AI Conf (Jun 24, €99, Italian-language AI), Codemotion (Oct 28–29, €179, broadest dev conference), ServerlessDays (Oct 13, free, community), and Cloud Day (Nov 18, €49, vendor-neutral cloud). May 2026 was the peak cluster — AI Week, ETHMilan, AWS Summit, and Google Cloud AI Live all ran within 10 days of each other. [2] [8] [5] [6]
Full 2026 calendar
| Date | Event | Venue | Category | Cost (est.) | Lang |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21–22 ✓ | AI Festival Milan | Bocconi University | AI / startup | conf fees | EN |
| Jan 27–30 ✓ | ITCS 2026 | Bocconi University | TCS academic | conf fees | EN |
| May 19–20 ✓ | AI Week | Fiera Milano Rho | AI (Europe’s largest) | €159–€999 | EN |
| May 21 ✓ | Milan0Day | Università degli Studi di Milano | Cybersecurity | free / low | IT |
| May 21–22 ✓ | ETHMilan 2026 | Museo della Scienza e Tecnologia | Web3 / Ethereum | free (students) | EN |
| May 21 ✓ | Google Cloud AI Live | CityOval | Cloud / AI | free | EN/IT |
| May 26–27 ✓ | ItaliaSec 2026 | Milan Marriott | Cybersecurity (CISO) | executive | IT |
| May 28 ✓ | AWS Summit Milano | Fiera Milano Rho | Cloud / AI | free | EN/IT |
| Jun 15–17 → | ECIS 2026 | Bocconi University | Info Systems academic | conf fees | EN |
| Jun 24 → | AI Conf 2026 | Talent Garden Calabiana | AI (Italian-native) | €99–€169 | IT |
| Oct 13 → | ServerlessDays Milano | TBD | Serverless community | free / low | EN |
| Oct 28–29 → | Codemotion Milan | Superstudio Più, via Tortona 27 | Dev / tech leadership | €179–€499 | EN |
| Nov 18 → | Cloud Day 2026 | Talent Garden Calabiana | Cloud (vendor-neutral) | €49–€99 | IT |
| Dec 3–4 | The Principal Dev Masterclass | Milan | Tech leads | — | EN |
| Dec 10–11 | Clean Architecture Masterclass | Milan | Architecture | — | EN |
✓ = already past as of June 2, 2026 → = upcoming
Upcoming events — details
AI Conf 2026 — Jun 24 [10]
Italy’s longest-running native AI conference (7th edition). Three tracks: Data Science, AI Technologies, Use Cases — plus an Executive track (Business Pass only) on strategy, governance, and ROI. Speakers include reps from AWS, NVIDIA, Google Cloud, Generali, Sky Italia, and Lamborghini. Sessions recorded and available via Improove Play. Note: sessions mostly in Italian.
- Venue: Talent Garden Calabiana, via Arcivescovo Calabiana 6
- Tickets: €99 Conference Pass / €169 Business Pass
ECIS 2026 — Jun 15–17 [9]
34th European Conference on Information Systems, hosted by Bocconi University and University of Milan. Theme: “Reimagining Digital Technology for Business, Management, and Society.” Academic focus with tracks on digital transformation, AI in organisations, and sustainable IT. Pre-conference doctoral consortium and workshops run June 12–14.
- Venue: Bocconi University
- Audience: researchers and IS academics; less practitioner-focused than industry conferences
ServerlessDays Milano — Oct 13 [11]
Part of the global non-profit ServerlessDays series. Described as “local, non-profit, accessible and inclusive.” Community-driven with regional speakers; free or low-cost by design. Venue TBC — check the official site closer to the date.
Codemotion Milan 2026 — Oct 28–29 [12] [13]
The broadest developer conference on the Milan calendar. Explicitly targets mid-to-advanced practitioners — introductory content is filtered out at CFP stage. Four main topic areas: AI/ML, Software Engineering & Architecture, Cloud & DevOps, Cybersecurity. Confirmed speakers from Atlassian, Uber, Nationale-Nederlanden; keynote includes the creators of CSS and JSON. Special CTO Connect track for engineering leaders.
- Venue: Superstudio Più, via Tortona 27
- Tickets: €179 (early) → €499 (door); student discount available
- Two full days; no single-day tickets
Cloud Day 2026 — Nov 18 [14]
8th edition. Vendor-neutral, practitioner-focused cloud conference: 3 tracks, 24 talks, targeting architects, CTOs, and engineering decision-makers. Topics: cloud sovereignty, AI on cloud (cost/scalability/security), real production case studies. Explicitly no “generic demos” or marketing content. Sponsors: beSharp, Reply (Storm Reply), Condense. Sessions mostly in Italian.
- Venue: Talent Garden Calabiana, via Arcivescovo Calabiana 6
- Tickets: €49 Super Early Bird (until Sep 12) → €99 regular
May 2026 cluster — recap
Five major events in 10 days made May the highest-density week of the year:
AI Week [2] [3] — May 19–20, Fiera Milano Rho. Europe’s self-styled largest AI event: 700+ speakers, 17 stages, 25,000+ attendees, 250 exhibitors. Hackathon (AI Agent Olympics), startup pitches. Business Pass was €159 early / €399 final.
ETHMilan 2026 [5] — May 21–22, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia. Italy’s largest Web3 conference (4th edition): 2,000+ attendees, 100+ speakers, tracks on DeFi, ZK Proofs, Stablecoins, Agentic Payments, Real World Assets. Students admitted free.
Google Cloud AI Live Milano [6] — May 21, CityOval. Free, full-day event on agentic AI, MarTech, and cloud architecture. On-demand recordings now available.
ItaliaSec 2026 [7] — May 26–27, Milan Marriott. 10th anniversary; intimate (~150 attendees), exclusive CISO-track event. Speakers from Ferrari, L’Oreal, Barilla, Philip Morris. Sessions in Italian. Executive-level pricing.
AWS Summit Milano 2026 [8] — May 28, Fiera Milano Rho. Free one-day event; 100+ technical sessions on GenAI, serverless, security, and data analytics. Keynote by Giulia Gasparini (AWS Italy Country Leader). On-demand available.
Recurring Milan tech community
Beyond one-off conferences, Milan has active year-round meetup groups [3]:
- GDG Milano (1,587 members) — Google Developer Group; watch for Google I/O Extended watch party events
- Milano Frontend (2,083 members) — frontend dev meetups
- Data Science Milan (1,792 members)
- Milano DevOps — DevOps practitioners
- Serverless Italy — links to ServerlessDays and interim meetups
- GDG Cloud Milano — cloud-focused Google developer community