Digital Festival

Name

Digital Festival

Legal name

Digital Festival

Website

https://digitalfestival.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Digital Festival is a Swiss event and community organization, founded in 2016 in Zürich, that advances discussions on technology, innovation, and digitalization in Switzerland and is closely linked to HackZurich. It is currently on hiatus with no active operations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Technology Events and Innovation Conferences

NAICS

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

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Technology & Developer Conferences (MPAGAGAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Technology & Innovation Expos Organizers (THAHABAE)

Keywords

• Technology events
• Innovation conferences
• Digital transformation
• Tech community
• Hackathons

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Digital Festival is the Swiss platform for discussions on the topics of technology, innovation and digitalisation, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Zürich. The festival convenes a community of technology stakeholders and is associated with HackZurich, Switzerland's largest hackathon event. The organization is currently on hiatus while evaluating future opportunities in Switzerland's digital landscape.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Digital Festival

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• MCH GroupunclearOthersMCH Group operates the Digital Festival's contact email ([email protected]), hosts the official website, and provides legal infrastructure including the disclaimer, imprint, and data protection pages. The relationship appears to be parent company or operational host rather than a formal partnership.

Broad incumbents

• Web Summit: Web Summit is the largest technology conference globally (Lisbon, plus regional events in Rio, Doha, Vancouver). It is the dominant incumbent in the tech-conference category that Digital Festival operates in, offering vastly greater scale, sponsor base, and global reach.
• TechCrunch Disrupt: TechCrunch Disrupt is a major global tech conference with a strong startup/developer focus. It competes for the same European tech attendees and sponsors that Digital Festival targets, but operates at much larger global scale.
• CES (Consumer Electronics Show): CES is the world's largest technology and innovation trade show, held annually in Las Vegas. It is a broad incumbent in the technology-innovation events space, attracting the same global tech sponsors and exhibitors Digital Festival courts.

Direct peers

• The Next Web (TNW) Conference: TNW Conference is a European technology festival held annually in Amsterdam. It targets the same tech professional audience, focuses on innovation and startups, and competes for similar sponsorship and attendee pools as Digital Festival.
• Slush: Slush is a leading European technology and startup conference held annually in Helsinki. It is a directly comparable tech-innovation festival targeting startups, investors, and developers in the same category as Digital Festival.
• VivaTech: VivaTech is Europe's flagship startup and technology event held annually in Paris. It directly competes with Digital Festival for European tech sponsors, attendees, and media coverage, and shares the same digital-innovation theme.
• Codemotion: Codemotion is a European tech community and conference operator focused on developers and innovation. It is comparable to Digital Festival in scale, developer audience focus, and European geographic positioning.

Regional players

• Davos / World Economic Forum: The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos is a Switzerland-based technology, business, and innovation gathering. While a much larger and more elite event, it competes for the attention of the same Swiss/European tech-policy audience Digital Festival serves.
• SAAM (Swiss Alps Agile & Management): SAAM is a Switzerland-based innovation and management conference. It is a regional peer competing for the same Swiss tech and innovation audience, with overlapping themes around digital transformation.

Others

• MCH Group events: MCH Group is the parent/operational host of Digital Festival and operates major Swiss exhibitions and events (Art Basel, Swissbau, etc.). It is comparable as the operational infrastructure owner and as a sibling event organizer in the same Swiss market.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/DiFe_Zurich
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCJouOGUI68hITSoJ_-k9dBQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/DigitalFestival.org
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/digitalfestival
• Instagraminstagram.com/digital_festival

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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