Most large organisations now have the AI budgets approved and the transformation roadmaps drawn up. The harder question is what actually reaches production. That gap between strategy and delivery is the organising idea behind TechEx Europe 2026, which runs on 19 and 20 October at the RAI Amsterdam and gathers senior enterprise technology leaders from across Europe around a single theme: execution.
Structurally, TechEx is eight co-located events under one pass, spanning AI and Big Data, Cyber Security and Cloud, Digital Transformation, Intelligent Automation, IoT Tech, Edge Computing, Data Centres, and a new Physical AI Expo.
The Physical AI track is the notable addition this year, reflecting the move of machine learning off the screen and into robotics, autonomous systems, and sensor-driven environments. One ticket covers all eight, which fits how tightly these areas overlap in practice: an AI deployment is also a data problem, a security problem, and eventually a question of where the compute sits.
The agenda leans on people who have shipped something, with practitioner-led sessions, technical case studies, and architecture discussions from teams running real deployments. Organisers expect more than 8,000 professionals and over 200 speakers from companies including Coca-Cola, Citi, Google, Unilever, IKEA, Booking.com, Nestlé, Lloyds Banking Group, ING, Santander, Michelin, and Heineken.
The audience is aimed at people who own outcomes: CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, chief data officers, enterprise architects, heads of engineering, and AI and transformation leads. For them, the value is hearing how peers solved the same problems, from modernising a data platform to scaling automation across sites, with the specifics that vendor pitches tend to leave out.
More than 200 solution providers will exhibit alongside the conference, among them NTT DATA, Langley Holdings, Henkel Adhesive Technologies, and Overhaul, giving attendees a chance to test platforms and implementation partners against their own environments.
The timing fits the moment. European enterprises are navigating AI adoption, tighter cybersecurity requirements, the economics of where data and compute reside, and regulation that treats all of it as a governance question rather than IT housekeeping.
Putting data, security, and infrastructure leaders in the same building reflects how connected those problems have become. The strategies are mostly settled; the hard part, as ever, is getting them to run, and that is the case TechEx is making for October.
Dates: 19-20 October 2026Venue: RAI Amsterdam, NetherlandsScale: Eight co-located events, 8,000+ attendees, 200+ speakers, 200+ exhibitorsFor CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, chief data officers, enterprise architects, and AI and transformation leadersRegister:Secure your pass today
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