TechBBQ has kept its playful name — a backyard barbecue among neighbors to talk startups — but the event it now represents is anything but small. Thirteen years on, more than 10,000 people are expected to gather at Copenhagen’s Bella Center, including 4,000 founders and operators and nearly 2,000 investors arriving from more than 90 countries.

What began as a local startup meetup has become one of the clearest symbols of the Nordic ecosystem’s maturation. The scale of attendance alone reflects how far the region has come: TechBBQ is no longer just a community event, but a major international convening point for capital, talent and companies looking at the Nordics as a serious innovation hub.

The article frames TechBBQ 2026 as a marker of an ecosystem entering adulthood. The continued use of the informal “barbecue” branding underscores the event’s origins and culture, but the numbers now point to a far broader reality: a Nordic startup scene that has grown from neighborhood-style networking into a global destination capable of drawing thousands of founders, operators and investors from around the world.

Le nom a gardé quelque chose de bon enfant, un barbecue, entre voisins, pour parler startups. Treize ans plus tard, c’est plus de 10 000 personnes qui convergeront vers le Bella Center de Copenhague, dont 4 000 fondateurs et opérateurs et près de 2 000 investisseurs venus de plus de 90 pays. Le nom n’a …

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