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IT Conferences and Tech Events in Dénia

Dénia itself has no standalone IT conference circuit — just a monthly WordPress meetup and a new annual student hackathon — but Valencia (90 km north) runs two major tech events on the same October weekend.

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TL;DR There is no IT conference scene in Dénia proper. The town’s tech footprint is a monthly WordPress meetup (631 members, 61 events held [1][2]) and a freshly-launched annual student hackathon [3]. For conferences, look 90 km up the coast: Valencia hosts the Valencia Digital Summit (12,000+ attendees) and PGConf.EU on the same October 20-23 window — both a day-trip or overnight from Dénia.


In Dénia: Events

WordPress Dénia Meetup

The only recurring professional tech community in Dénia. [1][2]

Attribute Detail
Members 631, rated 4.8 ★ (123 reviews)
Events held 61 past events
Schedule 3rd Thursday of every month, 19:00
Venue Knowhere Dénia, Calle Ramón y Cajal 30
Topics WordPress dev, design, e-commerce, remote work, community
Sponsors WooCommerce, Jetpack, WordPress.com, Hostinger
Contact meetup@wpdenia.com

⚠ No upcoming events were listed as of June 2026 — the group operates on a loose monthly rhythm rather than fixed future bookings. Check meetup.com/es-es/wordpress-marina-alta or wpdenia.com before planning.

I Hackathon Intercentros Marina Alta (inaugural, April 2026)

Dénia hosted its first inter-school tech competition on 21 April 2026 at IES Maria Ibars. [3][4][5]

  • Format: 36 vocational-training (FP) students from three schools — IES Maria Ibars (Dénia), IES La Mar (Xàbia), CIPFP Dénia — split into cross-school teams.
  • Challenges set by: Helados Palacio, Hotel Daniya, BMW Benigar, Baleària (ferry company posed the final-round challenge). [4]
  • Winning team: students from all three schools, recognised for creativity and problem-solving; prize: Baleària boat trip. [16]
  • Next edition: organizers are “already preparing future convocations with new centers” — expected to repeat annually in spring. [5]

This is an educational hackathon, not a professional conference. Visiting techies can’t participate, but it signals a growing local tech-education culture.


In Dénia: Community Infrastructure

Three coworking spaces provide the backbone for Dénia’s distributed tech community:

Space Address Notable for
Knowhere Dénia [9] C/ Ramón y Cajal 30 (near castle) WordPress meetup host; Makerspace with 3D printing, Arduino, robotics courses
Micelium [10] City centre Telegram community of devs, SEO/SEM, creatives; training room (15 pax)
CO-CO Coliving [11] Between mountain and sea, Dénia Coliving + coworking launched late 2023; workations, retreats, digital nomads

CoworkZINQ is a fourth option focused on minimalist shared desks with 1 Gb fibre. None of the spaces publish a public tech-event calendar, but Knowhere’s Makerspace runs ad-hoc courses and robotics workshops worth enquiring about directly.


Day-Trip Range: Valencia (90 km, ~1 h by car)

The nearest major tech conference city. Two events coincide on 20–23 October 2026, making a combined Valencia trip particularly efficient:

Valencia Digital Summit (VDS) 2026 — 21-22 Oct

Europe’s leading startup-to-corporate networking event, 9th edition. [6][14]

Detail Info
Venue City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
Scale 12,000+ attendees, 120+ countries, 3,000 startups, 800+ investors (€300B AUM)
Stages 7 high-production stages, 600+ speakers
Topics AI, HealthTech, GreenTech, Cybersecurity, venture
Passes Ecosystem (~€83 early), Business, Investor (~€845)

PGConf.EU 2026 — 20-23 Oct

16th annual European PostgreSQL conference. [7]

Detail Info
Venue Palacio de Congresos, Valencia
Format 3-day / 4-track conference + Community Day (Oct 23)
Sponsors Google Cloud, Microsoft, AWS, Aiven, EDB, CYBERTEC, pganalyze
CFP closed 1 June 2026

WordCamp Valencia (annual, next edition TBD)

WordCamp Valencia 2025 (Nov 8-9) drew 300+ attendees under the “WordPress Tech Congress” banner, covering AI, SEO, e-commerce, and web dev. [13] Three Valencia organizers now lead WordCamp Europe 2026 (Kraków, 4-6 June). No 2026 Valencia date is announced yet; the event has run annually since 2021.

SeleniumConf & AppiumConf Valencia 2026

Already concluded (May 6-8, 2026) at Veles e Vents. [12] Filed here as context for the regional conference density — Valencia is an active host city.


Day-Trip Range: Alicante (80 km, ~1 h by car)

Alicante Tech Meetup

The most active ongoing tech community within reach. [8]

  • 3,331 members, 4.7 ★ (344 reviews), 303 past events since 2013
  • Regular formats: After Work Drinks (AWD, monthly), AI Co-Lab (AI coworking sessions), Friday Network Brunch (12 people, €5)
  • Topics: AI, cloud, Linux, open source, web dev, DevOps, blockchain, 3D printing

→ The most practical option if you want a casual tech gathering without a conference ticket.

Alicante Nomad Summit 2026 — also in the pipeline for 2026, with hands-on sessions and skill-sharing for digital nomads and remote workers; dates not yet confirmed.


Timing

If your Dénia weekend is flexible, October is the richest window: VDS + PGConf.EU land on adjacent days in Valencia, making a single overnight extension cover both. For a standalone Dénia visit any other month, the WordPress meetup (3rd Thursday) is the only predictable local event to anchor on — worth emailing wpdenia.com ahead to confirm it is running that month.

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