What ITCS does

ITCS Conference GmbH, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, organizes the ITCS event series — a hybrid of tech conference, IT job fair, and festival — held annually across five German cities (Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Darmstadt). The company serves two primary audiences: enterprise employers recruiting tech talent (with named exhibitors including IBM, Accenture, BMW, Airbus, Huawei, Deutsche Bundesbank, KPMG, PwC, Capgemini, BASF, and government agencies such as BND and the European Space Agency) and tech professionals/job seekers. Per-event attendance is cited at over 20,000 visitors, with more than 500 companies having recruited through the platform, and over 100 companies participating at each event. The core product is the in-person event itself, delivered at established German venues (Messe Frankfurt, MOC Munich, XPOST Cologne, Hamburg Trade Fair Centre, darmstadtium) and featuring keynotes, masterclasses, tech talks, exhibition booths, and festival amenities (eSports, arcade games, after-party).

The underlying technology stack combines the in-person events with several digital modules: an ITCS Job Portal (ITCS Jobbörse) hosting company profiles and listings, an on-demand Media Library (ITCS Mediathek) with 350+ recorded sessions, the bi-weekly Pizzatime Tech Podcast distributed via Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and the xeem challenges platform integrated in 2024. Supporting infrastructure relies on standard third-party providers — pretix for ticketing, rapidmail for email, Podigee for podcast hosting, Borlabs for GDPR cookie consent, and hCaptcha for form protection — with single sign-on via GitHub, LinkedIn, Facebook, and XING. The platform reportedly reaches ~300,000 active users and ~50 million impressions, with a consent-managed analytics layer using Google Analytics 4 and Meta/TikTok pixels.

ITCS monetizes primarily through negotiated exhibitor booth rentals and track sponsorships (including dedicated cooperation tracks for Women in Tech, Cyber Security, AI, Green IT, Gaming/eSports, and Startups), supplemented by self-serve job posting packages (Basis Fix from 129 EUR for 30–90 days, Basis Flex at 99 EUR/month, Business Boost at 199 EUR one-time) and visibility upgrades on the job portal. GTM is event-driven and sales-led: a small direct sales team (with named contacts Simone Daun and Rachid Fennan, supported by working student Nicolai Steurer) acquires enterprise exhibitors, while SMBs self-serve on the job portal. The company is founder/management-owned with two co-Managing Directors (Philipp Umbeck and Rachid Fennan), is privately held with no disclosed external funding, and operates with an 11–50 person core team out of Frankfurt.

Name

ITCS

Legal name

ITCS Conference GmbH

Website

https://it-cs.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ITCS Conference GmbH organizes a five-city German circuit of tech conferences, job fairs, and festivals connecting enterprise tech recruiters with 20,000+ annual visitors, supported by a job portal, media library, podcast, and challenges platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Tech Recruiting Events

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192), Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

akta.pro primary industry

Conferences & Conventions Operations Services (Registration, AV, Logistics) (MPAGAGAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Information Technology & Software (EDAAAPAB), Executive Summits & Invitation-Only Forums (MPAGAGAK)

Keywords

• Tech recruiting events
• IT job fairs
• Tech conferences
• Employer branding events
• Career summits

Headquarters

HQ city

Frankfurt

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Job Listing Packages: ITCS generates revenue through three tiers of job posting packages: Basis Fix (one-off, 129 EUR for 30-90 days), Basis Flex (monthly subscription, 99 EUR/month), and Business Boost (199 EUR one-time with business profile and 1 included job advert). Revenue is transaction-based with fixed-term or recurring billing models.
2. Exhibitor Booth Rental: Companies pay to exhibit at ITCS events, gaining access to tech talent pool of 20,000+ visitors per event. Pricing follows negotiated contracts with tiered cancellation policies (25-90% of contract value based on timing).
3. Company Profiles and Visibility: Optional paid visibility features including company profile pages on the platform and enhanced positioning in job listings.
4. Event Sponsorships: Companies sponsor specific areas such as Women in Tech, Cyber Security, AI, Green IT, Gaming/eSports, and Startups tracks at events.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

ITCS organizes combined tech conference, job fair, and festival events across five German cities (Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Darmstadt), selling exhibition booths, track sponsorships, and digital job posting packages to companies seeking to recruit IT professionals. Around the live events, ITCS operates a self-serve IT job portal, an on-demand media library of recorded sessions, a bi-weekly tech podcast (Pizzatime), and the xeem interactive innovation-challenges platform.

Product overview

ITCS (IT Career Summit) is a unified tech event platform combining three core offerings: (1) in-person tech conferences and job fairs held across German cities (Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Darmstadt), (2) a digital job portal (ITCS Jobbörse) with over 300,000 active users and 50 million impressions, and (3) content platforms including the Pizzatime Tech Podcast and an on-demand media library (ITCS Mediathek) with 350+ recorded sessions. Supporting modules include xeem for innovation challenges, Behind the Scenes Tours for exhibitors, recruiting packages for employers, and a sustainability program (ITCS Green). The events feature keynotes, masterclasses, exhibition booths, and festival entertainment combining tech recruiting with community experience.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• xeem: Interactive challenges platform for innovation, tech and careers where companies meet young talents
• Pizzatime Tech Podcast

Products and services

• ITCS Events (Tech Conference, Job Fair, Festival) Multi-format in-person events held across Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, and Darmstadt, bundling keynotes, masterclasses, tech talks, exhibition booths, networking, and festival entertainment (table football, arcade games, eSports, chillout areas, afterparty) for tech talent and recruiting companies.
• ITCS Jobbörse (Job Portal) Self-serve online job board for posting IT positions, creating company profiles, and managing applications, with access to approximately 300,000 active users and around 50 million impressions.
• ITCS Mediathek (Media Library) On-demand archive of recorded lectures, keynotes, interviews, and presentations from past ITCS events, searchable by event, stage, language, and subject area.
• Pizzatime Tech Podcast Bi-weekly tech podcast by ITCS featuring interviews with industry insiders on IT trends, technology topics, and careers, distributed on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
• xeem Innovation Challenges Platform Platform for interactive innovation, tech, and career challenges where companies post real challenges to an engaged community and receive fresh, unconventional ideas from young talent.
• ITCS Behind the Scenes Tour Exclusive guided tours for company representatives to experience ITCS events from behind the scenes, including access to keynote stages, Women in Tech areas, AI & Cyber Security stages, and networking with other exhibitors.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20,000+ tech talent visitors per year across 5 event locations
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration16 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• xeemcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2024xeem is now part of the ITCS-Family. Xeem is a platform for interactive challenges relating to innovation, tech and careers where companies can post real challenges and engage with young talents through practical problem-solving rather than traditional application processes.
• fairclimatefundminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerITCS offsets CO2 emissions through UN Gold Standard projects via fairclimatefund. Currently supporting clean cooking projects for families in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. Allows exhibitors and visitors to offset their event-related emissions.
• everwaveminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnvironmental cleanup organization that uses AI-supported rubbish collection boats to prevent waste from entering oceans. ITCS supports their cleanup projects in Serbia, Thailand, and Cambodia. Everwave has collected over 1 million tonnes of waste from rivers.
• Forest Foundation (Wald.de)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerITCS plants trees in North Rhine-Westphalia in partnership with Forest Foundation to support German sustainability projects alongside international CO2 offset initiatives.
• LabdoominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal network of volunteers enabling children to participate digitally by equipping old laptops/tablets with educational software. Flight sponsors transport IT donations CO2-neutrally to destinations. ITCS supports with used equipment donations.
• pretixcoreTechnology or IntegrationTicketing system provider (pretix GmbH, Heidelberg) used for event registration, ticket purchasing, and ticket management via ticket.it-cs.io subdomain.
• msg systemsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSponsor of Cyber Security area at ITCS events, supporting the dedicated cybersecurity track alongside Giesecke+Devrient GmbH.
• Giesecke+Devrient GmbHminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSponsor of Cyber Security area at ITCS events, supporting the dedicated cybersecurity track alongside msg systems.
• Messen.deminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed on Messen.de directory for trade fairs and events in Germany, providing additional event discovery channel.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Salesforce Dreamforce: Dreamforce is a global enterprise tech conference combining keynote content, training, and recruiting; it represents the scaled, global benchmark for the kind of enterprise tech event ITCS aspires to replicate at regional level.
• OMR: OMR is a large digital marketing and tech festival in Hamburg with festival-style elements and strong exhibitor economics, competing with ITCS for German marketing, recruiting, and tech-event sponsorships.
• DMEXCO: DMEXCO is a large digital-economy and marketing conference in Cologne, attracting many of the same enterprise marketing and HR buyers as ITCS but at a much broader digital-business scope.
• StepStone: StepStone is one of Germany's leading online job platforms, an indirect competitor to ITCS's job portal and exhibitor-value proposition as employers shift budget toward digital channels.

Direct peers

• Get in IT: Get in IT organizes IT-focused career fairs and recruiting events across Germany, directly competing with ITCS for both tech talent and enterprise exhibitor relationships in the same DACH market.
• jobmesse deutschland: jobmesse deutschland runs a multi-city network of generalist job fairs across Germany, competing for the same exhibitor booth revenue and visiting job seekers, with a less IT-specialized positioning.
• T5 Jobmesse: T5 Jobmesse runs regional German job fairs targeting technical and IT talent, overlapping with ITCS on event format, exhibitor base, and tech-job-seeker audience.
• Stellenwerk: Stellenwerk organizes campus and graduate recruiting fairs across German university cities, overlapping with ITCS on early-career tech talent acquisition and enterprise exhibitor relationships.
• Bits & Pretzels: Bits & Pretzels is a Munich-based tech and startup conference with strong recruiting and founder-networking elements, competing with ITCS for German tech community attention and corporate sponsorship budgets.
• Heise Career: Heise Career is Heise Verlag's IT-focused job platform with associated career events and content, competing directly with ITCS's job portal and media library for tech-candidate mindshare in Germany.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCNPJvUr2HEkcY45P-rUKRhA
• Facebookfacebook.com/ITCSGERMANY
• LinkedInde.linkedin.com/company/itcs-conference
• Instagraminstagram.com/itcs_conference
• Xx.com/itcs_conference

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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