Nordic Tech Week: dates, who attends, and how founders get in
Nordic Tech Week is the largest technology festival in the Nordics, bringing together founders, investors, operators, developers, enterprises, and policymakers through hundreds of events across Stockholm.
The essentials from the organiser's own pages: when, where, how big, and how founders get in. Speakers, investor lists and past editions are on the official site.
- Next edition
- Dates not yet announced
- Where
- City-wide, with no single venue; Tech Open takes place at Kungsträdgården., Stockholm, Sweden
- Format
- in-person
- Tickets
- Free; no ticket required (2026) source
- Startup pass
- General attendance is free through the official event calendar; no overall ticket or gatekeeper is required. Startups can submit a free, relevant event on Luma for review, or apply for the selected Founders Drop stage (2026 applications are closed). source
- Cadence
- Annual, every September
Next edition
The organiser has not published dates for the next edition; historically it annual, every September. We re-check weekly and list dates only when the organiser prints them with a year.
How founders get in
| Startup programme | General attendance is free through the official event calendar; no overall ticket or gatekeeper is required. Startups can submit a free, relevant event on Luma for review, or apply for the selected Founders Drop stage (2026 applications are closed). source |
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The Founders Drop is the documented startup launch and pitch stage
Meeting investors there
Founders can attend Investor Day at Epicenter for VC and LP discussions, pitch sessions and dealmaking; the organiser says 400 investors gathered there (2026). source
| Investors attending | 400 investors (2026) source |
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Before you go: the hub's cold email to VCs playbook covers the pre-event outreach that fills a meeting calendar, and Causo matches your stage and thesis to the funds in its database so you know who to ask for a meeting.
Official links and socials
Prepare for it
- How to cold email VCs — book the meetings before you land.
- The 12-slide seed deck — what to have ready when a partner says "send me the deck".
- Pitch Deck Roaster — a slide-by-slide pass before you submit to The Founders Drop is the documented startup launch and pitch stage.
- Accelerator deadlines — the application windows that open around the event.
Sources
Every fact above was read from one of these official pages on Oct 8, 2026: