2021 Microsoft Conference Calendar: For Partners, IT Pros and Developers -- Redmond Channel Partner

2021 Microsoft Conference Calendar: For Partners, IT Pros and Developers

Here's your guide to all the IT training sessions, partner meet-ups and annual Microsoft conferences you won't want to miss.

By Gladys Rama
January 21, 2021

Editor's Note: An asterisk ( * ) indicates a schedule or venue change, while a ~~strikethrough~~ indicates a cancellation.

Did we miss something? E-mail [email protected] to let us know of any events we didn't include.

Event	Date	Location	Audience
SQLSaturday Hosted by: PASS	Jan. 23	Virtual	DBAs, data professionals, SQL Server professionals
NDC London Hosted by: NDC Conferences	Jan. 25-29	Virtual	Developers
AI and ML for Your Enterprise Hosted by: Oracle	Jan. 26	Virtual	AI professionals, IT decision makers
Teams Platform Roadshow Hosted by: Microsoft	Jan. 26	Virtual	Microsoft 365 administrators
Secure Home Office Virtual Conference Hosted by: Executive Insights GmbH	Jan. 26-29	Virtual	IT decision makers, IT security professionals
Edge Global Week Hosted by: BroadGroup	Jan. 26-28	Virtual	IT decision makers
Best of Breed Virtual Series Hosted by: The Channel Company	Jan. 27	Virtual	Solution providers
RSAC 365 Virtual Summit Hosted by: RSA Security LLC	Jan. 27	Virtual	CISOs, IT security professionals
AI and ML for Your Enterprise Hosted by: Oracle	Jan. 28	Virtual	AI professionals, IT decision makers
Windows Virtual Desktop Master Class Hosted by: Microsoft	Jan. 28	Virtual	IT professionals
Deep Learning 2.0 Hosted by: RE•WORK	Jan. 28-29	Virtual	Machine learning scientists, data platform professionals
Women in Cloud Digital Summit Hosted by: Women in Cloud	Jan. 28-30	Virtual	IT professionals
AI and ML for Your Enterprise Hosted by: Oracle	Feb. 2	Virtual	AI professionals, IT decision makers
Offensive and Defensive Security of Microsoft 365 Hosted by: 1105 Media	Feb. 11-12	Virtual	IT security professionals, Microsoft 365 administrators
dotnetdays Hosted by: DotNetIasi	Feb. 15-19	Virtual	Developers, software architects
Envision Hosted by: Microsoft	Feb. 16	Virtual	IT decision makers
CloudWorld Hosted by: DevNetwork	Feb. 17-19	Virtual	Cloud professionals
DeveloperWeek Hosted by: DevNetwork	Feb. 17-19	Virtual	Developers
Security & Risk Management Summit Hosted by: Gartner	Feb. 22-23	Virtual	CISOs, IT security professionals
CPX 360 Hosted by: Check Point Software	Feb. 23-24	Virtual	IT security professionals
Mobile World Congress Hosted by: GSM Association	Feb. 23-25	Shanghai, China	IT decision makers
SQLSaturday Hosted by: PASS	Feb. 27	Virtual	DBAs, data professionals, SQL Server professionals
CAM Training 101 Hosted by: CompTIA	March 1-5	Virtual	Partners
Channel Partners Virtual Hosted by: Informa PLC	March 2-4	Virtual	MSPs, VARs
Microsoft Ignite Hosted by: Microsoft	March 2-4	Virtual	IT professionals, developers
Implementing Least Privilege and Allow-Listing in the Real World Hosted by: 1105 Media	March 4-5	Virtual	IT professionals
XChange+ Hosted by: The Channel Company	March 7-11	Orlando, Fla. and Virtual	Solution providers
Esri Developer Summit Hosted by: Esri	March 9-11	Virtual	Developers
Technology and Solutions Summit Hosted by: HPE	March 15-18	Virtual	Partners, solution architects
Microsoft Licensing Boot Camp Hosted by: Directions on Microsoft	March 15-19	Virtual	IT procurement specialists, partners
DynamicsCon Hosted by: Innovia	March 16-18	Virtual	Dynamics 365 users, administrators and partners
Security & Risk Management Summit Hosted by: Gartner	March 17-18	Virtual	CISOs, IT security professionals
Analytics in Unison: Understanding Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Big Data and BI Hosted by: 1105 Media	March 23-24	Virtual	Developers, DBAs, data engineers, architects
Security & Risk Management Summit Hosted by: Gartner	March 23-24	Virtual	CISOs, IT security professionals
Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference Hosted by: M365Conferences	March 23-25	Las Vegas, Nev.	Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Power Platform administrators
NDC Manchester Hosted by: NDC Conferences	March 23-26	Virtual	Developers
WITS Virtual Summit Hosted by: The Women In Tech Summit	March 24-26	Virtual	IT professionals
RISE Hosted by: Connected Intelligence Limited	March 25	Virtual	IT decision makers, C-level
Applied AI Summit Hosted by: RE•WORK	March 25-26	Boston, Mass.	AI professionals, IT decision makers
MVP Global Summit Hosted by: Microsoft	March 28-April 2	Virtual	Microsoft MVPs
Infosecurity Data & Cloud Expo Hosted by: Jaarbeurs B.V.	March 31-April 1	Brussels, Belgium	CIOs, IT security professionals
IT Sales and Marketing Boot Camp Hosted by: Technology Marketing Toolkit Inc.	April 6-9	Nashville, Tenn.	Partners
Days of Knowledge Hosted by: Directions 4 Partners	April 9-10	Odense, Denmark	Dynamics 365 partners
Learn to Use GitHub to do DevOps with .NET Core Hosted by: 1105 Media	April 13-14	Virtual	Developers
SMB TechFest Hosted by: SMB TechFest	April 14-15	Virtual	Solution providers, MSPs, VARs
Directions ASIA Hosted by: Directions 4 Partners	April 15-16	Bangkok, Thailand	Dynamics 365 partners
SQLSaturday Hosted by: PASS	April 17	Skopje, North Macedonia	DBAs, data professionals, SQL Server professionals
TSIA Interact Hosted by: Technology & Services Industry Association	April 19-21	Virtual	Partners
Embedded IoT World Hosted by: Informa PLC	April 21-22	Virtual	Developers, IT decision makers
HardwareCon Hosted by: Hardware Massive	April 22	Mountain View, Calif.	IT decision makers
Digital Workplace Summit Hosted by: Gartner	April 26-27	Virtual	IT decision makers
eMerge Hosted by: eMerge Americas	April 26-27	Miami Beach, Fla.	IT decision makers
Red Hat Summit Hosted by: Red Hat	April 27-28	Virtual	IT professionals, partners
Identity & Access Management Summit Hosted by: Gartner	April 28-29	Virtual	CISOs, IT security professionals
Midsize Enterprise Summit Hosted by: The Channel Company	May 2-4	Orlando, Fla.	IT decision makers
Connect IT Hosted by: Kaseya	May 3-6	Las Vegas, Nev.	MSPs
Midwest Management Summit Hosted by: MMSMOA	May 3-6	Bloomington, Minn.	Systems management professionals
Building Your First .NET 5 MVC Application Hosted by: 1105 Media	May 4-5	Virtual	Developers, data engineers, architects
VeeamON Hosted by: Veeam	May 4-5	Hollywood, Fla.	Data management professionals, partners
Cloud Summit Hosted by: Ingram Micro Inc.	May 4-6	Miami Beach, Fla.	Cloud professionals, partners
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Hosted by: The Linux Foundation	May 4-7	Virtual	Open source professionals
Innovia Customer Conference Hosted by: Innovia	May 5-6	South Bend, Ind.	ISVs, Dynamics 365 administrators and partners
ChannelPro SMB Forum Hosted by: ChannelPro Network	May 6	Chicago, Ill. and Virtual	SMB partners and MSPs
Microsoft Licensing Boot Camp Hosted by: Directions on Microsoft	May 10-14	Virtual	IT procurement specialists, partners
Visual Studio Live! Hosted by: 1105 Media	May 10-14	Austin, Texas	Developers
Identity & Access Management Summit Hosted by: Gartner	May 11-12	Virtual	CISOs, IT security professionals
RSA Conference Hosted by: RSA Security LLC	May 17-20	Virtual	CISOs, IT security professionals
Days of Knowledge Hosted by: Directions 4 Partners	May 21-22	Birmingham, England	Dynamics 365 partners
SPFest Hosted by: Tech Conferences LLC	May 24-28	Dallas, Texas	Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Power Platform administrators
Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit Hosted by: Gartner	May 26-27	Virtual	Developers, software architects
Infosecurity Mexico Hosted by: Reed Exhibitions	May 26-27	Virtual	IT security professionals
Computex Hosted by: Taiwan External Trade Development Council	June 1-4	Taipei, Taiwan and Virtual	IT professionals
Avaya ENGAGE Hosted by: Avaya	June 6-9	Orlando, Fla.	UC professionals and partners
AngleBrackets & AngularMix Hosted by: DEVintersection	June 8-10	Orlando, Fla.	Developers
Cisco Live Hosted by: Cisco	June 8-10	Virtual	IT professionals
Infosecurity Europe Hosted by: Reed Exhibitions	June 8-10	London, England	IT security professionals
Microsoft Azure + AI Conference Hosted by: DEVintersection	June 8-10	Orlando, Fla.	Developers, data scientists, data engineers
ChannelPro SMB Forum Hosted by: ChannelPro Network	June 9	Dallas, Texas and Virtual	SMB partners and MSPs
Digital Workplace Summit Hosted by: Gartner	June 14-15	Virtual	IT decision makers
European Collaboration Summit Hosted by: Nubelus UG	June 14-16	Wiesbaden, Germany	Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Power Platform administrators
Red Hat Summit Hosted by: Red Hat	June 15-16	Virtual	IT professionals, partners
DattoCon Hosted by: Datto	June 21-23	Seattle, Wash.	MSPs
IT Nation Explore Hosted by: ConnectWise	June 21-23	Orlando, Fla.	Partners
Collision Hosted by: Connected Intelligence Limited	June 21-24	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	IT decision makers, C-level
Learn to Build and Run Cloud-Native .NET Code Hosted by: 1105 Media	June 22-23	Virtual	Developers
Mobile World Congress Hosted by: GSM Association	June 28-July 1	Barcelona, Spain	IT decision makers
Commsverse Hosted by: Commsverse Ltd.	June 29-30	Weybridge, U.K.	IT professionals
ChannelPro SMB Forum Hosted by: ChannelPro Network	July 8	Raleigh, N.C. and Virtual	SMB partners and MSPs
SMB TechFest Hosted by: SMB TechFest	July 14-15	Virtual	Solution providers, MSPs, VARs
SPFest Hosted by: Tech Conferences LLC	Juy 26-30	Chicago, Ill.	Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Power Platform administrators
Black Hat Hosted by: Informa PLC	July 31-Aug. 5	Las Vegas, Nev.	IT security professionals
Open Source Summit Hosted by: The Linux Foundation	Aug. 4-6	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Open source professionals
Visual Studio Live! Hosted by: 1105 Media	Aug. 9-13	Redmond, Wash.	Developers
Data Center World Hosted by: Informa PLC	Aug. 16-19	Orlando, Fla.	Infrastructure professionals
ChannelPro SMB Forum Hosted by: ChannelPro Network	Sept. 2	Boston, Mass. and Virtual	SMB partners and MSPs
IFA Hosted by: Messe Berlin	Sept. 3-7	Berlin, Germany	IT decision makers
AI in Finance Summit Hosted by: RE•WORK	Sept. 9-10	New York, N.Y.	AI professionals, IT decision makers
NDC Security Hosted by: NDC Conferences	~~Jan. 20-22~~ Sept. 13-17 *	Oslo, Norway	Developers, security professionals
SQLSaturday Hosted by: PASS	Sept. 18	Albuquerque, N.M.	DBAs, data professionals, SQL Server professionals
SPFest Hosted by: Tech Conferences LLC	Sept. 20-24	Washington, D.C.	Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Power Platform administrators
Enterprise Connect Hosted by: Informa PLC	Sept. 27-29	Orlando, Fla. and Virtual	UC professionals and partners
European Cloud Summit Hosted by: Nubelus UG	Sept. 27-29	Frankfurt, Germany	Cloud architects and administrators, developers
Open Source Summit Hosted by: The Linux Foundation	Sept. 29-Oct. 1	Dublin, Ireland	Open source professionals
ChannelPro SMB Forum Hosted by: ChannelPro Network	Oct. 6	Atlanta, Ga. and Virtual	SMB partners and MSPs
SQLSaturday Hosted by: PASS	Oct. 9	Orlando, Fla.	DBAs, data professionals, SQL Server professionals
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Hosted by: The Linux Foundation	Oct. 12-15	Los Angeles, Calif.	Open source professionals
SMB TechFest Hosted by: SMB TechFest	Oct. 13-14	Virtual	Solution providers, MSPs, VARs
Dotnetos Hosted by: Dotnetos	Oct. 13-15	Warsaw, Poland	Developers
SuiteWorld Hosted by: Oracle NetSuite	Oct. 18-21	Las Vegas, Nev.	Partners, developers
WITS Virtual Summit Hosted by: The Women In Tech Summit	Oct. 20-22	Virtual	IT professionals
AI DevWorld Hosted by: DevNetwork	Oct. 26-28	San Jose, Calif.	AI professionals
European Cloud Conference Hosted by: QualTech Ltd.	Oct. 26-28	Nice, France	Cloud architects and administrators, IT professionals
Midwest Management Summit Hosted by: MMSMOA	Oct. 26-28	Miami Beach, Fla.	Systems management professionals
Directions EMEA Hosted by: Directions 4 Partners	Oct. 27-29	Milan, Italy	Dynamics 365 partners
SecTor Hosted by: Informa PLC	Nov. 1-4	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	CIOs, IT security professionals
IoT World Hosted by: Informa PLC	Nov. 2-4	Santa Clara, Calif.	Developers, IT decision makers
Infosecurity Data & Cloud Expo Hosted by: Jaarbeurs B.V.	Nov. 3-4	Utrecht, Netherlands	CIOs, IT security professionals
AI in Healthcare Virtual Summit Hosted by: RE•WORK	Nov. 10	Virtual	AI professionals, IT decision makers
IT Nation Connect Hosted by: ConnectWise	Nov. 10-12	Virtual	Partners, IT decision makers
AI for Good Summit Hosted by: RE•WORK	Nov. 11-12	Seattle, Wash.	AI professionals, IT decision makers
Live! 360 Hosted by: 1105 Media	Nov. 14-19	Orlando, Fla.	Developers
ChannelPro SMB Forum Hosted by: ChannelPro Network	Nov. 16	Los Angeles, Calif. and Virtual	SMB partners and MSPs
DeveloperWeek Hosted by: DevNetwork	Nov. 17-18	Virtual	Developers
Update Conference Hosted by: Update Conference s.r.o.	Nov. 18-19	Prague, Czech Republic	Developers
SQLSaturday Hosted by: PASS	Nov. 21	Parma, Italy	DBAs, data professionals, SQL Server professionals
Cisco Live Hosted by: Cisco	Dec. 7-10	Melbourne, Australia	IT professionals

About the Author

Gladys Rama is the senior site producer for Redmondmag.com, RCPmag.com and MCPmag.com.

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