Upcoming professional conferences and events

A professional summit in Norfolk addressing maritime operations and information warfare.

The New Jersey transportation conference lists a 2027 three-day programme with an exhibit hall, vehicle exhibits and additional workshop sessions at Harrah’s Resort & Casino in Atlantic City.

SHIFT is a distribution-leadership event built around educational sessions, cohort roundtables, and case studies on sales, digital, data analytics, and culture.

Nordic trade fair for intelligent automation, robotics and digital transformation in industrial production.

The European Congress of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology covers pulmonology, oncology and thoracic surgery.

A professional legal conference organized by the International Association of Young Lawyers in Athens, addressing contemporary legal practice and legal frameworks concerning culture and creative industries.

Congress on European Union law, including financing, external borders, fundamental rights, and strategic autonomy.

A professional trade fair focused on data analytics, generative AI, machine learning and data governance for business.

An academic and practitioner conference on the future of work, with a 2027 theme addressing generative AI, agentic AI, automation, human-AI collaboration, algorithmic accountability, and responsible AI governance.

A professional food-industry automation conference focused on logistics and operational efficiency. The programme covers automation, robotisation, digitalisation, AI and predictive analytics.

A professional conference on cloud and AI infrastructure for the DACH region, covering the infrastructure foundations of business AI.

LIDA 2027 examines artificial intelligence and ethical institutional response in libraries and other memory institutions, including AI for heritage management, digital preservation, responsible AI, privacy and AI-ready collections. The conference is scheduled in Šibenik.

Professional Industry 4.0 trade show covering advanced automation, robotics, industrial data and AI, with sessions on industrial AI and autonomous factories.

International conference focused on urban freight and city logistics, scheduled in Vilamoura.

Austria’s municipal-policy congress brings mayors, city politicians, administrative leaders, experts and representatives of institutions together to discuss the future of cities. Mobility is identified as one of the congress’s major challenges alongside climate, digitalisation and social issues.

Professional congress of European toll-road infrastructure operators taking place in Lisbon.

A regional conference on maintenance, modernisation and interoperability of helicopter technology, scheduled in Budapest.

A professional logistics exhibition covering supply-chain management, materials handling, transport management, goods mobility and distribution.

A highways and roads trade show for road professionals seeking products, partners and suppliers for network projects.

MILEX-2027 is an international professional exhibition of armament and military equipment held in Minsk. Its published thematic sections include transport vehicles and tractors, aviation and aerospace technologies, pilot-navigation systems, and road, construction and lifting equipment.

The Montana Infrastructure Coalition summit is scheduled for two days in Billings and brings infrastructure professionals together for discussion and collaboration.

A two-day professional retreat focused on transit and mobility, held in Charleston, West Virginia.

The Washington Public Ports Association spring meeting for Washington public-port professionals, scheduled as a three-day in-person meeting.

The ACEC Wisconsin–WisDOT Transportation Partnering Meeting is scheduled for May 19, 2027 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Madison.

An IEEE Region 4 conference on electrical, computer, and information technologies, with program emphasis including artificial intelligence, IoT and edge computing, robotics, and cybersecurity.

A technical deep-dive for software professionals covering AI development, coding tools, architecture, live builds and practical AI business applications.

Dig South’s 15th summit is scheduled for May 20–21, 2027, in Charleston. The professional programme includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, AI infrastructure and agentic-AI-related content alongside technology and venture programming.

A professional conference examining how AI-enabled health technologies can move from prototypes to clinical and healthcare adoption. It brings together entrepreneurs, researchers, health professionals, policymakers and investors.

A hybrid congress with technical sessions, panels and tutorials; its published tracks include artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics and intelligent analytics.

A summit on manufacturing execution systems and Industry 4.0, including industrial digital transformation, automation, analytics and intelligent manufacturing.

A professional transport and logistics exhibition presenting commercial vehicles, trailers, material handling, warehouse and automation solutions, ICT, services and equipment.

A B2B outdoor trade show for construction machinery, trucks and related technologies, scheduled for 20–22 May 2027 at TCS Racing Park near Bucharest. The event includes live demonstrations and technical presentations.

A professional Swissrail event focused on mobility and the rail-industry ecosystem.

The eighth International Transport Festival includes an innovative transport exhibition, a bus-driver skills contest and a business programme with plenary and round-table sessions.

A focused day of legislative briefings, policy discussions, and advocacy on issues affecting California transit.

A regional business-aviation forum with education sessions, an aircraft display, and more than 100 exhibits.

A scheduled meeting of the New Mexico Transit Association Board of Directors, which meets at member transit agencies around New Mexico.

A professional conference presenting AI case studies, current models and practical technical perspectives for AI practitioners and interested professionals.

The third annual Y-Conference examines empires and their contemporary afterlives through interdisciplinary humanities and social-science research focused on the Caucasus and Eurasia. The published topic list includes imperial transport and mobilities.

A scheduled public meeting of the Rio Metro Regional Transit District Board of Directors.

The association’s 2027 annual conference includes committee meetings, exhibitor load-in, programming days, an exhibitor reception, and an awards banquet at Stoney Creek Hotel in Broken Arrow.

The 24th European Semantic Web Conference covers semantic technologies and knowledge graphs, with a technical programme spanning artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information retrieval and machine learning. The programme includes conference sessions, workshops, tutorials, demonstrations, a poster exhibition and a doctoral symposium.

The Washington Trucking Associations’ annual leadership conference and vendor showcase is scheduled at the Coeur d’Alene Resort and includes high-level industry discussion, networking, and vendor participation.

An international workshop on freight transportation and logistics, including routing, fleet management, intermodal transportation, and maritime logistics.

International conference on energy-system developments including solar, wind, storage and hydrogen.

A professional research and industry conference covering machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, explainable AI and related applications.

International conference on robotics, automation and intelligent systems, including artificial-intelligence and machine-learning applications.

Nordic conference focused on applied artificial intelligence, bringing together professional, research and public-sector perspectives in Halden.