What is real here

This site lists conferences and sends you to the organiser. It sells no tickets, takes no commission, and is affiliated with nothing. Every figure on it is counted when the page is served.

Two sources, never blurred together

The open register. confs.tech is a community-maintained, MIT-licensed register of conferences that anyone can read, correct or add to. feed.php reads all 42 of its topic files every six hours and caches the result; 42 answered on the last read. No API key is involved, which is why this pipeline cannot quietly stop working when a key expires. It currently supplies 186 of the upcoming listings.

The curated set. 20 business conferences kept by hand from what was here before, each retained only because the organiser's own site proves it exists. This half does not refresh, so the site tells you the date it was compiled (2026-09-08) instead of implying it is live. Every card says which half it came from.

What was here before, and what happened to it

This domain previously carried a page with a LIVE badge, a “LIVE just now” timestamp and a SYNC button, which told the reader its sources were “Ticketmaster, Songkick, venue APIs & local promoters” and that all event data was “sourced from official partners”. It made no network requests at all. There were no partners, no APIs and no syncing.

It also stated its own size four different ways on one screen — 199 EVENTS in the hero, 209 conferences found over the results, All 291 conferences mapped on the venues tab, and Total conferences: 210 in the data file's own header. Only the last was true.

Every listing was checked against the organiser

Of its 210 records, 146 pointed their “Get Tickets” button at https://tickets.conf.llc/ — a subdomain that has never existed. All 146 were searched for on the live web and then re-checked by a second pass whose only job was to disprove the first. 2 turned out to be real. 144 could not be found to exist at all.

The remaining records carried a real organiser link, and that turned out not to be enough. The same link had been attached to events that were not the organiser's: imts.com sat on seven different listings, websummit.com on four, blackhat.com on three. Only one of each was the real show. So every one of those 47 pages was opened and read.

• 13 the organiser’s page shows the event on those dates — kept as listed
• 7 the event is real but a date or venue was wrong — kept, with the organiser’s own details
• 14 the organiser lists no such event — deleted
• 4 the organiser’s page showed a real but different event — deleted, not quietly swapped in
• 9 the page could not be read, or belonged to a different organiser — deleted rather than guessed

That fourth line is the one worth dwelling on. Checking can fail in a way that looks like success: a listing for a “Health System CEO & Strategy Summit” in San Francisco points at HLTH's site, which carries HLTH USA in Las Vegas. Accepting that would have turned an invented listing into a real one by moving it. Four listings were rescued that way and all four were deleted instead.

20 of the original 210 survived. 190 were deleted. Of those kept, 7 had a date or a venue that was simply wrong on the old site — the Chief Marketing Officer Summit in Chicago was listed for 12 November at the Chicago Cultural Center; the organiser has it on 17 November at the Embassy Suites.

The deleted ones shared a shape: “Sustainable Finance & ESG Investment Summit 2026”, “Chief AI Officer Summit — San Francisco 2026”, “Global AI Safety & Governance Summit 2026” — an industry, a buzzword, a big city and a year. A real conference was often cloned into invented cities around it: Fierce Pharma Week, which genuinely runs in Philadelphia, also appeared in Washington, Cape Town and San Francisco. Only Philadelphia exists.

What this site will not do

It will not invent a ticket link. Every card links to the organiser's own page and nowhere else. If a conference has no public page, it is not listed.

It will not call itself live when it is not. The open register genuinely re-reads itself and the footer says when. The curated set does not, and the footer says that too.

It will not show you a conference that has finished. Listings whose last day has passed are dropped at the moment you load the page — 222 right now. A quarter of the old data was already in the past while the page advertised it as upcoming.

Counting

There is no stored total anywhere on this site. Each page counts the register it just read. If the read fails, the pages say the register is quiet rather than showing a reassuring number.