Frontier in Tech: Apple, GitHub, Google & Anthropic

Four organisations set the pace the rest of the industry reacts to, and all four publish dated sessions you can join from a desk in Luxembourg. Apple opens its Meet with Apple programme online: group labs where you put a question to the engineers, written question and answer windows on the Developer Forums, and streamed interest days from its Cupertino developer centre. GitHub runs a steady line of one hour webinars on Copilot, agentic workflows and code governance, and sells a virtual pass to GitHub Universe that it labels free, keynotes included. Google Cloud does the same through Cloud OnAir, with TechByte briefings, hands-on Cloud Labs evenings and its quarterly Foundations workshop. Anthropic, the maker of Claude, adds webinars on building with its models and streams its Founder House days.

Two more entries mark the calendar rather than fill an evening. Y Combinator sets the rhythm of the startup year with its batch application deadlines and its Demo Days, and lets anyone follow the new companies online through Launch YC. The flagship keynotes work differently: Apple announces its autumn event, and Google its next I/O and Cloud Next, on their own schedule, so they appear here the day the date becomes official and never as an estimate.

Singapore is the other pole this section watches. Its financial centre runs the Singapore FinTech Festival, organised by the central bank and the largest fintech gathering in the world, which Luxembourg's own finance industry follows closely. Alongside it sit TOKEN2049, the biggest crypto conference anywhere, and Asia Tech x Singapore, the city-state's broad technology showcase. These are in-person events, some seven hours ahead, so their entries carry the dates and the official links to plan a trip or follow the coverage, never a claim that they are free: these festivals are paid.

The same rule as the rest of the agenda applies, and it is the reason this page exists. Every date, time and link is verified at the source before publication, foreign times are converted to Luxembourg time rather than copied, and free access is stated only where the organiser says so. Nothing here happens in the Grand Duchy: these are the global moments you watch from your desk, or plan a trip around.