The events world is pitch dark.
We hold the light.
ConfBeacon watches the conferences in your field, has every change cleared by an editor, and ranks what is worth your season. The product is built. The database is filling right now — source by source, edition by edition.
You will not find a count of watched events on this page. We publish numbers once they are real — today they would only be a promise about a database that is still filling.
What we are doing right now
None of this is a mock-up. Everything below already runs — it just does not yet run over enough of the world to open the catalogue.
Sources vetted one at a time
Before a crawler is pointed at a site we check who publishes it, how often it changes and whether its dates hold up. One bad source poisons a whole vertical, so this is the slow part on purpose.
Every record passes a person
The machine proposes, an editor decides. That is the rule the catalogue is built on — and it is also why the database fills at the speed of reading rather than the speed of scraping.
Opening one field at a time
A vertical opens when its sources hold up and someone is editing it. Rather than a thin catalogue of everything, we open the first fields properly — and tell you which ones.
Programmes change the week before
Speakers drop, stages move, prices jump. The conference website is the last to admit it.
“Top 50 events” lists aren't about you
They rank by the author's reach. Your market, your role and your budget never appear in them once.
So the call gets made late and blind
Early bird expires, flights double, and the team goes wherever it went last year.
Three steps from dark to a route
Set it once. The beacon stays lit all year.
Tell us where you're headed
Your market, region, role and budget. It takes a few minutes, and every answer is a filter you can change later — not a form you fill in once and never see again.
The beacon sweeps
Discovery walks known sources looking for events we don't have yet. The nightwatch re-reads pages already in the catalogue and files a proposal the moment a date, price or venue moves.
A person decides, then you hear about it
No machine writes to the catalogue on its own. A change reaches your list once an editor has cleared it — which is why every field can tell you its source and the day it was last checked.
A score that shows its work
You never get a number without a reason. Every part of a score is a row you can open — and every weight behind it is a setting in the admin, not a constant compiled into the product.
When something moves, you hear it
A keynote cancels, a second CFP wave opens, the price goes up. The watcher catches it on its next pass, an editor clears it, and it lands in your inbox — not on LinkedIn a month later.
Every record says when it was last checked
Fresh, ageing or stale is a field on the record, not a feeling. Anything that goes quiet for too long gets queued for another look automatically.
The fields we are opening first
These are the verticals the taxonomy already covers. They are names of fields, not a claim about how full any of them is today.
- European Tech
- Fintech
- Payments (MPE)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Crypto & Digital Assets
Yours missing? Write it in the form below. A vertical here is a taxonomy entry plus its sources and its editor — opening one is configuration, not a release, so the queue is short.
Data somebody stands behind
Machines collect, editors decide. Every change to an agenda, a price or a venue passes a human before it changes your list. That is why we can tell you not just what is true, but since when and on whose word.
Not the website in general — the exact page a date, a price or a venue was read from.
A record carries the day somebody last confirmed it. Old data is allowed to be old; it is not allowed to look fresh.
No machine writes to the catalogue on its own. That holds today, while the database is being built, and it will hold when it is full.
Questions we get most
Once the first verticals have enough vetted sources and an editor behind them — that is exactly what is happening now. Leave your address and you will hear from us the day it opens; the roadmap shows what is already done.
Official event sites and their agendas, plus aggregators we have vetted. Every field carries its source and the date it was last verified — and you can see both.
A calendar shows everything and leaves the judgement to you. ConfBeacon ranks, and tells you why a line sits where it sits.
Tell us. A vertical here is a taxonomy entry plus its sources and its editor — opening one is configuration, not a release, so it does not wait for a deploy.
No. Organisers cannot buy a better position, and they do not get to see what you looked at or decided.
Be there when the light goes on
One message, on the day the catalogue opens. No newsletter, no drip campaign, and nobody else gets your address.