Events, conferences and meetups

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Year-roundMeetupAWE NitesAWE's local AR meetups, run monthly by volunteer chapters in more than thirty cities — Berlin, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Helsinki, Brisbane and on. Each chapter picks its own night and topic, so read your city's listing rather than this row.Worldwide

Autumn 2026ConferenceDevFest 2026Hundreds of local conferences run by Google Developer Groups. Android XR sessions turn up at the larger ones, but the programme is set chapter by chapter, so check your local listing rather than assuming.Worldwide

Sep 8 – 10 Sept 2026ConferenceCIOF 2026The 37th China International Optics Fair fills the China International Exhibition Centre with around 800 exhibitors, names AI eyewear a core theme, and opens with a business-matching session dedicated to smart glasses and eyewear. One of the two officially endorsed optical fairs in China, and the eyewear-industry counterpart to CIOE in Shenzhen the same week.Beijing, China

Sep 9 – 11 Sept 2026ConferenceCIOE 2026The 27th China International Optoelectronic Exposition fills Shenzhen World with the photonics supply chain, and one of its eight co-located expos is dedicated to AR and VR. This is where the waveguide, light-engine and micro-display makers behind smart glasses show what the next frames will be built from, among more than 3,800 exhibitors.Shenzhen, China

16 Sept 2026ConferenceSPECS Launch 2026Announced in newsroom.snap.com: “See for Yourself: Watch the SPECS Launch on September 16”. Programme and registration are on the organiser's page.Los Angeles, USA · Online

Sep 16 – 17 Sept 2026ConferenceAR/VR Connect 2026TechBlick and the MicroLED Association run this two-day summit at the High Tech Campus, on AR and VR displays, light engines, waveguides, metasurfaces and the manufacturing and testing behind them. One ticket also covers the co-located MicroLED Connect, making it a component-level view of the display stack smart glasses depend on.Eindhoven, Netherlands

Sep 16 – 17 Sept 2026ConferenceMicroLED Connect 2026The MicroLED Industry Association and TechBlick bring the microLED display and light-engine world to the High Tech Campus, with keynotes from the makers building the panels headed for AR wearables and the first Optical I/O Connect closing the second day. One ticket also covers the co-located AR/VR Connect, so the two days read as one component-level view of the display stack.Eindhoven, Netherlands

17 Sept 2026MeetupSpecs Launch After PartyXDG Mumbai, the community group behind the Paytm Meta Ray-Ban Display hackathon, hosts an evening watch party for the Snap Specs launch, followed by an in-person CLAD developer demo and a hands-on session with Spectacles developer kits. The organizers say the newer Specs will not be in the room, the current dev kits will. Free on Luma, venue to be announced.Mumbai, India

Sep 22 – 24 Sept 2026ConferenceSnapdragon Summit 2026Qualcomm announces its next flagship silicon at this invite-heavy Maui event, and the keynotes stream free. It matters here because the Snapdragon AR chips inside the Ray-Ban Meta line and much of the category come from the same roadmap, so what is announced sets what the next wave of smart glasses will run on. It overlaps Meta Connect on September 23 and 24.Maui, USA

Sep 23 – 24 Sept 2026ConferenceMeta Connect 2026Meta's own developer conference, streamed free — the keynote and the wearables sessions are where the glasses toolkits get their yearly reset.Menlo Park, USA

Sep 25 – 28 Sept 2026ConferenceSILMO Paris 2026The world optical trade fair fills Paris Nord Villepinte with around 900 exhibitors and more than 1,500 brands, and its SILMO d'Or awards keep a category reserved for smart eyewear. This is where the eyewear industry proper meets smart glasses, frames-first rather than chips-first, with a futurology village for what comes next.Paris, France

Oct 7 – 9 Oct 2026ConferenceXR Creator Con 2026 ShowcaseThe Berlin end of the XRCC next.app hackathon. Twenty finalist teams demo their glasses builds at CityCube Berlin across three days, on a showcase floor inside xr&mobile-gamesCon, in front of investors, publishers, platform teams and enterprise buyers. Display glasses will be on hand to look through, per the organizers, so the floor is worth walking for the hardware as much as the projects.Berlin, Germany

Oct 27 – 29 Oct 2026ConferenceAI+AR Smart Glasses Industry Expo 2026Three days at Shenzhen World devoted entirely to the smart-glasses supply chain, from optical modules and light engines to finished frames and the lines that assemble them, with AR forums and investor matchmaking beside the floor. Where the eyewear fairs reach toward smart glasses frames-first, this expo starts from the components and works outward, in the city most of them come from.Shenzhen, China

Nov 30 – 2 Dec 2026ConferenceXR Kaigi 2026Japan's largest XR conference, three days at Port City Takeshiba. The 2026 programme puts smart-glasses and on-device AI case studies on the main stage. Sessions are Japanese-first.Tokyo, Japan

Dec 1 – 4 Dec 2026ConferenceSIGGRAPH Asia 2026The graphics research conference's Asian edition, in Kuala Lumpur for the first time. Waveguide, display and hand-tracking work turns up in these papers a year or two before it reaches a shipping pair.Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dec 7 – 9 Dec 2026ConferenceUnitedXR Europe 2026What replaced AWE EU: AWE and Stereopsia merged their European events into one. Vendor-neutral like its parent, so competing glasses platforms are demonstrated in the same room.Brussels, Belgium

Jan 6 – 9 Jan 2027ConferenceCES 2027Trade-only, but the January show floor is where the challenger makers put their next frames in front of developers first.Las Vegas, USA

Feb 6 – 8 Feb 2027ConferenceMIDO 2027The eyewear trade's own fair. It matters to this industry from the frames end — lens suppliers, hinges, fit — which is the half of a wearable pair that no SDK fixes.Milan, Italy

Mar 1 – 4 Mar 2027ConferenceMWC Barcelona 2027The mobile industry's yearly gathering. Carriers, chipmakers and phone brands announce their glasses tie-ins here, and the Android XR partners usually bring hardware to the floor.Barcelona, Spain

Apr 7 – 9 Apr 2027ConferenceLaval Virtual 2027France's long-running XR week, in its 29th edition. The programme leans industrial and enterprise, so it shows glasses being worn for work rather than demonstrated on a stand.Laval, France

Jun 14 – 17 Jun 2027ConferenceAWE USA 2027The largest independent AR gathering — vendor-neutral, so it is the one week where every glasses platform is demonstrated side by side.Long Beach, USA

Jul 14 – 16 Jul 2027ConferenceAWE Asia 2027AWE's Asian edition, and the shortest trip to see the Chinese glasses makers' line-ups side by side rather than one launch at a time.Shanghai, China