Events, conferences and meetups

Where glasses developers meet — soonest first, past dates drop off automatically. Filter by company, glasses class or event kind.

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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 4 – 8 Sept 2026ConferenceIFA 2026Berlin's consumer-electronics floor. There is no developer track, but the makers who skip CES show their next frames here, and the European launch dates tend to be set the same week.Berlin, Germany

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 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

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

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