MSP Events 2026: The Complete Conference Calendar

Key Takeaways

• There are 70+ MSP events running in 2026 across the US, UK, Europe, Canada and Australia. This calendar lists all of them with dates, locations and who each one is actually for.
• The four biggest general MSP conferences of the year: Kaseya Connect Global (April, Las Vegas), Pax8 Beyond (June, Salt Lake City), IT Nation Connect Global (November, Orlando) and MSP GLOBAL (October, Barcelona).
• For marketing and sales specifically, the standouts are ScaleCon (September, San Diego), Keep It Real Bootcamp (April, Nashville) and 7 Figure MSP Live (April and October).
• UK and European MSPs have a far deeper calendar than most lists suggest: IT Nation Connect Europe, CloudFest, MSP Show, the Managed Services Summit series, XChange UK and EMEA, ChannelCon EMEA and a circuit of one-day roadshows.
• Q4 is the crunch: Pax8 Beyond EMEA, MSP GLOBAL, DattoCon APAC, MSPNXT, IT Nation Connect and ChannelCon EMEA all land within five weeks of each other.

Quick Answer

If you only attend three MSP events in 2026, make it one vendor ecosystem conference (Kaseya Connect, Pax8 Beyond or IT Nation Connect, whichever matches your stack), one growth-focused event (ScaleCon or MSP Summit if you are in the US, MSP GLOBAL if you are in Europe), and one small-format regional event where you can actually talk to people (an ASCII Edge stop, a Managed Services Summit, or a local MSP meetup). Big conferences give you vendor leverage and market intel. Small rooms give you the relationships.

How This List Was Built

We run growth for MSPs, including inside a national MSP, so we spend a lot of the year at these events ourselves and track the calendar for our clients. Every date below was checked against the organizer's own event page in July 2026. Where an event has been announced without final dates, we say so rather than guessing. The list gets updated as organizers publish changes, and the 2027 calendar is already live as dates are confirmed.

One honest note: several popular lists of MSP events contain wrong dates and even wrong cities for 2026. Organizers move things. Before booking flights, confirm on the event site. We link the official page for every major event in the tables below.

The Complete 2026 MSP Events Calendar

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The Best MSP Events by Category

Best for marketing and sales

ScaleCon (September, San Diego) is the one event built entirely around MSP marketing, sales and account management, and the organizers do not sell speaking slots to sponsors, so the stage stays practitioner-only. Keep It Real Bootcamp (April, Nashville) is the continuation of the well-known Robin Robins boot camp under Technology Marketing Toolkit. 7 Figure MSP Live runs twice a year for owners who want an intensive. If you are deciding where marketing budget goes after the event, our guide to the best MSP marketing agencies is the logical next read.

Best vendor ecosystem conferences

Pick by your stack. Kaseya Connect Global (April, Las Vegas) and Kaseya Connect Europe (June, Prague) cover the Kaseya, Datto and IT Glue world, with DattoCon running in Sydney this year. Pax8 Beyond (June, Salt Lake City) and Beyond EMEA (October, Copenhagen) are consistently among the best-run events in the channel. IT Nation Connect (November, Orlando) anchors the ConnectWise community, with European and ANZ editions earlier in the year. N-able Empower ran in April in Fort Lauderdale, and NinjaOne enters the conference game with MSPNXT in Austin in October.

Best for security-focused MSPs

Right of Boom (February, Las Vegas) has become the serious security event for MSPs and MSSPs. Zero Trust World (March, Orlando) is ThreatLocker's hands-on training event. XChange Security (July, Frisco) uses a hosted-buyer model, and MSSP Alert Live (November) is virtual and free.

Best in the UK and Europe

This is where most US-centric lists go thin. The real European calendar: IT Nation Connect Europe (March, London), CloudFest (March, Europa-Park, the largest cloud industry gathering in the world), MSP Show (May, ExCeL London), Kaseya Connect Europe (June, Prague), XChange EMEA (June, The Hague), Pax8 Beyond EMEA (October, Copenhagen), MSP GLOBAL (October, Barcelona, the biggest dedicated MSP event in Europe) and GTIA ChannelCon EMEA (November, London). Around those anchors runs a circuit of one-day executive events: the Managed Services Summit series (London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Stockholm), the MSP Growth Forum series and the MSP Channel Insights Roadshow stops in Manchester, Birmingham, London, Dublin, Utrecht and Copenhagen.

Best small-room and community events

ASCII Edge runs eight two-day stops across North America. MSPGeekCon (May, Orlando) is run by the community with no vendor keynotes. CanITCon (September, Calgary) is the Canadian anchor. Peer communities like The Tech Tribe also run local monthly meetups worldwide plus organized meetups and WhatsApp groups at the big conferences, which is often where the most useful conversations happen.

For owners thinking about M&A and investment

MSP GLOBAL runs an invite-only Inner Circle program for owners of established MSPs, and TopDown Horizons (November, Scottsdale) is a dedicated invitation-only summit connecting MSP founders with investors, LPs and aggregators. Both reflect where the industry is heading: consolidation. If a sale or acquisition is anywhere on your horizon, these rooms matter more than any expo floor.

How to Choose (and Get ROI)

Three filters beat any ranking. First, your stack: one vendor conference where you already spend money returns more than two where you do not. Second, your goal this year: pipeline says go where your prospects are, which for most MSPs means local business events, not MSP conferences; skills and pricing intel say go where your peers are. Third, your size: under roughly $5M revenue, small-format events and peer communities return more per dollar than the mega-conferences.

On ROI itself, the pattern we see repeatedly: the attendees who win book their 1:1 meetings before they fly, skip half the sessions in favor of hallway conversations, and follow up within a week. The ones who complain about wasted money walked the expo floor collecting badge scans. And if you sponsor a booth, staff it with people who stand in front of it and ask questions. Simple booths with engaged humans consistently out-close expensive builds with staff on their laptops.

For a wider view of who actually shows up in AI search results when MSP buyers look for providers, see our MSP visibility rankings, and if you want the event pipeline further out, the 2027 MSP events calendar is tracking confirmed dates as they land.