HIPTHER Events 2026: Best iGaming Meet-ups in Europe

HIPTHER Events 2026 provide you with most focused and future‑driven European gaming and tech meetups next year. From Prague to the Baltics and Warsaw, every summit weaves sharp content with networking that actually leads to deals and partnerships. The line‑up is based on the authentic iGaming, eSports, blockchain, AI and fintech news. Each summit has a variety of expert keynotes, roundtables, HIPTHER Academy workshops, and industry awards that recognize the best of the best. These events will help you to engage in real conversations with regulators, lawyers, product owners, founders, and investors, rather than getting lost in a massive expo hall. Wanna join? Read further to find how!

HIPTHER Events 2026 Calendar

HIPTHER Prague Summit 2026

HIPTHER Prague Summit is the premier gathering of tech, compliance and innovation in one of Europe’s most dynamic metropolises. In Vienna House by Wyndham Andel’s Prague for two days, the summit marries a heady conference agenda with an intimate, laid-back networking atmosphere, helping to ensure its chats lead seamlessly from stage to coffee break to evening drinks. Data from iGaming, eSports, blockchain, AI, fintech, and responsible innovation for operators, suppliers, affiliates, regulators, consultants, and tech providers seeking to lead through rapidly evolving regulation or technology. Expect a combination of keynote presentations, expert panels, interactive roundtables, and HIPTHER Academy workshops covering issues such as AI‑led marketing, data‑driven compliance, UX and player safety, and payment innovation.

You also have access to those gaming technologies to the GamingTECH CEE Awards 2026 the 2nd day is a full circle energy blend of insight and recognition for the region’s highest performing, most innovative and compliant brands. Other prominent speakers among them Bill Pascrell III (BP3), Arnav Dutta, Sarah Blackburn, Dr. Joerg Hofmann, Dr. Arthur Stadler, Kaspar Szymanski, Jaka Repanšek and more keep this discussion practical, legal‑sound and future‑oriented.

HIPTHER Baltics in Vilnius

Vilnius focuses particularly on Lithuania’s growing iGaming sector and fintech environment and is an “must‑go” destination for people interested in payments, licensing, and compliance within Lithuania. The event meets at Hilton Garden Inn Vilnius City Centre, offering a modern city‑center setting tempered by a highly focused business‑first atmosphere in which you can gather with regulators, lawyers, and payment innovators in a single place. The agenda is structured around Baltic iGaming regulation, fintech‑enabled payments, AML and KYC hurdles, and the nitty-gritty of local licensing, with a nod toward partnerships between operators and fintech players.

HIPTHER Academy workshops here tend to be a lot more ‘hands‑on’: think tours of onboarding flows, real‑life AML cases and first-hand examples of how to design compliant yet frictionless payment journeys. Speakers like Marija Nudga, Rokas Muraška, Ivan Nevzorov, Agnė Klimavičienė, Denis Kosinsky and others bring both legal and operational perspectives, so every session rings true to how things actually work, behind the scenes, not just in theory. And if you intend to enter Lithuania — or optimize the payment stack out of nothing — or align your AML strategy with local expectations, Vilnius is your depth in one high‑impact day.

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HIPTHER Baltics in Riga 2026

Riga tackles one of the biggest pressure points facing modern iGaming: international compliance and player protection. With high standards and content that addresses the difficult issue of responsible gambling, data privacy, and multi‑jurisdiction licensing in the upscale Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga, this summit is one of the best. Daily you’ll find session‑driven, in‑house deep‑dive panels on areas such as harmonising AML policies between countries, handling conflicting or overlapping regulatory regimes, establishing effective player‑protection systems, and the preparation for audits and enforcement measures.

Workshops and HIPTHER Academy sessions further this application and demonstrate how to build internal processes, documentation and tech stacks in a way that works to satisfy regulatory requirements. With such professionals as Frieder Backu, Marina Davidova, Henrik Mägi, Lev Bass, Asse Sauga, Tīna Lūse, Guntars Pupelis, etc, Riga attracts lawyers, regulators, compliance officers, and C‑level authorities. It is of particular benefit to the companies operating in the Baltics and CEE, which need to align policies, minimize risk, and project their player‐centric brand cred.

HIPTHER Baltics in Tallinn

Tallinn is where digital society meets iGaming, tech and policy! This event will take place at Hilton Tallinn Park, tapping into Estonia’s reputation as a digital pioneer to investigate how e‑government, digital identities and tech‑led regulation can shape the future of gambling and adjacent industries. The program reaches beyond “core” iGaming-related subject areas and examines larger topics such as digital governance, startup innovation, data portability, identity verification, and public–private partnerships in building trusted digital ecosystems. Sessions often bring together founders, investors, regulators and policy experts at a single stage, so they can engage in frank conversations around what supports — and stifles — innovation.

HIPTHER Academy’s sessions in Tallinn would be particularly appealing with startups and scale‑ups, on how to create compliant products from the start, how to fund and structure a growing company, navigating regulatory sandboxes and pilot projects. Its speakers include Agne Kaarlep, Aleksandra Andrishak, Alexis Wicén, Aleksey Gavrikov, Andrius Gabnys, Anna Agu, and beyond; you’ll get both strategic vision as well as concrete legal and business advice.

HIPTHER Warsaw Summit 2026

Warsaw Summit is an annual high point, linking Poland with the continent’s vibrant market and Europe and outside world. IHG’s InterContinental Warsaw The event, taking place at the InterContinental Warsaw, draws together skyline views with a very international community of operators, suppliers, affiliates, payment suppliers and marketing and tech professionals. Content is strategy‑driven and multi‑faceted: compliance updates for Poland and the region, payment trends, platform and product innovation, AI for ops and marketing, SEO and acquisition, and leadership topics for scaling businesses. Sessions are structured to support champions and international brands to streamline expansion strategies, performance optimization and ensure firm, regulation‑proof business models are being developed and proven.

Elite networking is there throughout the entire summit: curated meetups, VIP meetings, coffee‑table discussions, evening socials, and other opportunities for your very own VIPs and coffee-table gatherings can help you meet the people most important to your roadmap at every point in the summit with friends. They can feel the value of the EiGE Awards, which are an extra piece of cake: the festive and celebratory keynote for excellence and innovation from across the spectrum of EU iGaming and give finalists and winners a visual increase in spotlight throughout the European iGaming ecosystem. Speaking with Adrianna Aftańska, Robert Zoltan Toth, Rafał Lebiedziński, Lars Westhoff, Izabel Hakim, Wiktor Garczyński, Ewa Kaźmierska, and many others at their respective conferences, Warsaw is what you need to get a broad, growth focused view of the industry if you want to have a big‑picture, growth‑oriented view of the industry.