If you work in vertical farming, 2027 will not be a year you can plan from a single industry calendar. The most useful conversations are now spread across dedicated vertical farming conferences, greenhouse technology exhibitions, hydroponics symposia, smart-farming shows, and specialist meetings on substrates, crop modelling, and plant health.
In this article8 sections
- Why 2027 will be a convergence year
- How events were selected
- The full 2027 vertical farming events calendar
- Confirmed for 2027, dates still to be announced
- 2027 events at a glance
- How to build your 2027 events strategy
- Confirmed 2026 events that will not return in the same form in 2027
- Why the 2027 preview starts on Vertical Farming Blog
That is not a weakness. It is a sign that controlled environment agriculture is becoming part of the wider horticultural and food-production system rather than operating as an isolated category.
The confirmed 2027 dates create a genuinely global route: France and Belgium in January; Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia in March; Dubai and Hamburg in April; Thailand and Japan in May; Korea, the Netherlands, and Brazil in June; Australia in July; Taiwan and Greece in September; Japan and China in October; and New Zealand and northern Japan in November. The calendar includes English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and multilingual event sources wherever organizers have published them.
This is the early edition of the 2027 calendar. It contains events whose organizers have already published a 2027 date, plus a clearly separated watchlist for events that have confirmed a 2027 edition but have not yet released the date. It does not turn an expected annual event into a confirmed one simply because it happened in 2026.
This preliminary calendar is being published first on Vertical Farming Blog while the 2026 event season is still active. At the end of 2026, the verified 2027 event data will also be published on verticalfarmingevents.com, the dedicated events platform within our network. Until then, the blog is the clearer place to announce early dates without mixing a provisional 2027 planning list into the still-current 2026 calendar.
Why 2027 will be a convergence year
The distinction between a vertical farm, a high-tech greenhouse, a plant factory, and a smart protected-cropping operation is becoming less useful than it once was. The systems increasingly share the same suppliers and technical problems: LED lighting, HVAC and dehumidification, fertigation, water treatment, automation, sensors, robotics, crop models, energy management, substrates, food safety, and biological crop protection.
That is why this calendar is broader than a list of conferences with “vertical farming” in the title. Dedicated events remain the best places to meet the concentrated industry. But many of the technologies that determine whether an indoor farm performs commercially are developed, tested, and sold at adjacent horticulture and agricultural-technology events.
The useful question for 2027 is therefore not only “Is this a vertical farming event?” It is “Which part of a CEA operation can this event help improve?”
How events were selected
To keep the calendar useful, every event below is assigned one of three relevance levels. Scientific symposia and other research-focused meetings are not a separate tier: their format is already shown in the “Type” line for that entry, and their relevance level still follows the same three-way test.
Core Vertical Farming & CEA: The event is explicitly built around indoor farming, vertical farming, plant factories, or controlled environment agriculture.
Strong CEA Relevance: The event covers a broader protected-horticulture or facility-agriculture market, but its exhibitor or conference scope directly includes technologies used in vertical farms.
Related Industry Event: Vertical farming is not the central subject. The event is included because it covers a specific operational layer, such as hydroponics, substrates, crop modelling, IPM, automation, or horticultural supply chains, that directly affects CEA performance.
One event on this calendar does not fit any of the three tiers above: GREEN×EXPO 2027 is a six-month public horticultural expo, not a technical trade event, and it is included for strategic context rather than supplier or research content. It is labelled Context Event below, and it is the only entry that carries that label.
This distinction matters. A broad agriculture exhibition should not be presented as a vertical farming conference, but it may still be commercially valuable to a lighting manufacturer, irrigation supplier, automation company, researcher, or operator entering that region.
The full 2027 vertical farming events calendar
January: France and Belgium open the year
SIVAL 2027
📍 Angers Exhibition Centre, Angers, France | 📅 January 12–14, 2027 | Exhibition
Relevance: Related Industry Event
SIVAL is not a dedicated vertical farming show. It is a major French exhibition for specialised plant production, which is precisely why it belongs on this calendar. Its official sector coverage includes greenhouses and equipment, soilless crops, precision irrigation, crop protection, digital tools, and decision-support systems.
The CEA touchpoints are practical rather than promotional: climate-control components, water and nutrient delivery, sensors, growing systems, propagation, and horticultural inputs. For suppliers entering France or growers comparing technology beyond the vertical farming bubble, SIVAL provides access to the wider production ecosystem. The organizer also maintains a French-language event site and a detailed sector overview.
VertiFarm 2027 – IV International Workshop on Vertical Farming
📍 Ghent, Belgium | 📅 January 31 – February 4, 2027 | Scientific Workshop
Relevance: Core Vertical Farming & CEA
VertiFarm is the first confirmed dedicated vertical farming event of 2027 and one of the year’s strongest research-led meetings. Hosted in Ghent under the International Society for Horticultural Science umbrella, the workshop brings together plant scientists, engineers, growers, and technology specialists working directly on vertical farming systems.
The programme begins with a reception on January 31, followed by three conference days and technical tours on February 4. The speaker list includes leading researchers in plant factories, lighting, crop physiology, environmental control, and resource efficiency. The technical tours add particular value: they connect the scientific programme with operating research and production facilities in Belgium.
This is the event to prioritise if your work depends on crop performance rather than market headlines. Registration and fee details are available on the official registration page; the workshop is also listed by the ISHS.
March: the calendar goes global
Agritec Africa 2027
📍 Johannesburg Expo Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa | 📅 March 2–4, 2027 | Exhibition
Relevance: Related Industry Event
Agritec Africa is a broad agricultural technology exhibition, not an indoor-farming conference. It earns a place here because its official exhibitor profile explicitly covers greenhouses, horticulture, irrigation and water technologies, plasticulture, precision agriculture, renewable energy, seeds, propagation, and farm software.
Those categories are central to building CEA projects in African markets, where water availability, cooling loads, power reliability, crop choice, and local maintenance capacity can determine whether a technically impressive system is commercially viable. Attend for regional partners, infrastructure suppliers, and market intelligence, not for a concentrated vertical farming programme.
CEA Leafy Greens Network Event 2027
📍 Controlled Environment Agriculture Research Complex (CEARC), Columbus, Ohio, USA + Online | 📅 March 3, 2027 | Hybrid Research + Industry Networking
Relevance: Core Vertical Farming & CEA
The third CEA Leafy Greens Network Event connects growers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and technology providers working on controlled-environment leafy-green production. Hosted at The Ohio State University in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research, the meeting is available both in person and online.
For CEA professionals focused on crop performance and practical research exchange, this is a targeted North American meeting rather than a large equipment trade show. The announced date and hybrid format make it accessible to participants outside Ohio.
GreenTech Americas 2027
📍 Querétaro Centro de Congresos, Querétaro, Mexico | 📅 March 9–11, 2027 | Conference + Exhibition
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
GreenTech Americas is one of the most important 2027 dates for the Latin American CEA market. The organizer describes it as the region’s specialist event for controlled environment production of high-value crops, and it brings growers together with suppliers of greenhouse systems, climate technology, lighting, irrigation, automation, and data platforms.
It is broader than multi-layer vertical farming, but the technical overlap is extensive. For companies evaluating Mexico and Latin America, the value lies in meeting commercial growers and integrators who already understand protected cultivation, often a more realistic entry point than trying to create a market from scratch. A full Spanish-language overview is available from the organizer.
HortEx Vietnam 2027 and AGRITECHNICA ASIA 2027
📍 Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 📅 March 17–19, 2027 | Co-located Exhibitions
Relevance: Related Industry Event
These co-located shows combine horticultural production and processing with agricultural machinery and smart-farming technology. Neither is exclusively about vertical farming, and conventional agriculture remains a substantial part of the exhibition floor.
The reason to include them is the Southeast Asian supply chain. Greenhouse structures, climate and irrigation systems, automation, crop inputs, packaging, cold-chain equipment, and post-harvest technology all touch indoor and protected production. For a CEA company seeking distributors, project partners, or buyers in Vietnam and neighbouring markets, the combined event can be more useful than a small specialist gathering with limited regional reach.
GREEN×EXPO 2027
📍 Yokohama, Japan | 📅 March 19 – September 26, 2027 | International Horticultural Expo
Relevance: Context Event
GREEN×EXPO 2027 is not a trade conference and should not be planned like one. It is a six-month international horticultural exhibition under the theme “Scenery of the Future for Happiness,” with a much broader public, cultural, environmental, and policy remit.
Its relevance to vertical farming lies in the surrounding conversation about future horticulture, urban development, resilience, biodiversity, and sustainable production systems. It may also turn into a venue for production technologies as national and corporate programmes are announced, but visitors should check the programme before assuming there will be a dedicated plant-factory component. For CEA professionals already travelling to Japan, it is best treated as a strategic context event rather than a supplier show. Official ticket information is available in English, and the expo is recognised by the International Association of Horticultural Producers.
Indoor Ag-Con 2027
📍 Westgate Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA | 📅 March 24–25, 2027 | Trade Show + Conference
Relevance: Core Vertical Farming & CEA
Indoor Ag-Con remains the clearest all-round entry point to the North American indoor agriculture market. Its scope covers vertical farming, greenhouses, and the wider CEA sector, bringing growers, equipment suppliers, researchers, investors, and service providers into one venue.
The 2027 conference programme is organised across ten crop and sector tracks, with more than 25 sessions and over 90 speakers planned by the organizer. A newly announced Greenhouse Education Track, curated by Dr. Nadia Sabeh of Dr. Greenhouse, adds practical sessions on climate management, technology decisions, and greenhouse renovation. That breadth makes it useful whether your priority is leafy greens, cannabis, vine crops, mushrooms, alternative crops, operations, or technology procurement.
If you are new to the industry, this is still one of the easiest events at which to understand the full value chain. If you are already operating, the reason to attend is the density of North American peers and suppliers rather than the stage programme alone.
Beijing International Modern Facility Agriculture Expo 2027
📍 China National Convention Center, Beijing, China | 📅 March 29–31, 2027 | Exhibition
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
China’s facility-agriculture market deserves direct attention, and this Beijing exhibition offers one of the clearest windows into it. The Chinese-language organizer site lists smart greenhouses, agricultural robots, precision irrigation, digital agriculture, environmental controls, and plant factories within the exhibition scope.
That makes the show particularly relevant to equipment manufacturers, integrators, sourcing teams, and international companies trying to understand how Chinese suppliers are approaching automation and controlled production. It is not exclusively a vertical farming show, but plant factories sit inside the event’s stated remit rather than being an incidental theme.
ISSCH2027 – V International Symposium on Soilless Culture and Hydroponics
📍 University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy | 📅 March 30 – April 3, 2027 | Scientific Symposium
Relevance: Related Industry Event
Hydroponics and soilless cultivation are not synonymous with vertical farming, but they form the crop-production backbone of a large share of the sector. ISSCH2027 focuses on the science and management of root-zone environments, nutrient solutions, water efficiency, recirculation, and soilless growing systems.
The direct CEA touchpoints are crop yield, nutrient-use efficiency, water quality, disease control, and circular resource management. This is more valuable to crop scientists, agronomists, R&D teams, and technically minded operators than to general investors. The symposium is also listed by the ISHS.
April: Dubai and Hamburg connect production with new food systems
7th Global Vertical Farming Show 2027
📍 Festival Arena, Dubai, UAE | 📅 April 6–7, 2027 | Trade Show + Conference
Relevance: Core Vertical Farming & CEA
The Global Vertical Farming Show is the year’s dedicated Middle Eastern vertical farming marketplace. Dubai remains strategically important because Gulf countries continue to connect food security, water constraints, import dependence, and investment in controlled production.
There is one essential calendar note: this is the postponed seventh edition originally promoted for September 2026, not a separate new edition following a completed 2026 show. The revised April 2027 dates are also listed on the Netherlands’ international agricultural network; the earlier listing records the rescheduling.
For technology suppliers, project developers, investors, and growers targeting the Middle East, GVF offers a much more concentrated audience than a general agriculture show. As with any regional event, review current travel guidance and the organizer’s latest announcements before booking.
Inhouse Farming – Feed & Food Convention 2027
📍 Congress Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany | 📅 April 21–22, 2027 | Convention
Relevance: Related Industry Event
The Inhouse Farming convention is broader than crop-based vertical farming. Its remit extends across new food and feed production systems, including alternative proteins, algae, insects, cellular agriculture, and other controlled production technologies.
Why include it? Vertical farms increasingly sit within integrated food systems rather than standalone growing rooms. Resource loops, energy and heat integration, co-products, automation, new ingredients, and investor interest cross these categories. The convention is therefore useful for companies exploring system integration and future food value chains, but it should not be mistaken for a pure vertical farming event.
The format is also important: DLG alternates the standalone convention with the larger Inhouse Farming show held alongside EuroTier. The organizer confirms that the 2027 edition returns as the Hamburg convention.
May: online CEA, Southeast Asia, and Japan
CEA & Indoor Farming 2027
📍 Online | 📅 May 7, 14, and 21, 2027 | Virtual Conference + Exhibition
Relevance: Core Vertical Farming & CEA
CEA & Indoor Farming 2027 is structured across three Fridays rather than running continuously from May 7 to May 21. The first date opens the online environment, followed by two conference days on May 14 and May 21.
The online format lowers the barrier for teams that cannot justify intercontinental travel and makes it easier to involve technical staff who would not normally attend a trade show. The event is built around controlled environments, indoor production, automation, and commercial growing, with more than 40 speakers and an international audience, according to the organizer. Ticket and format details are also available through the official registration listing.
Horti & Agri Asia 2027
📍 BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand | 📅 May 19–21, 2027 | Trade Exhibition
Relevance: Related Industry Event
Horti & Agri Asia covers the full chain from modern production to processing and market access. It is not dedicated to indoor growing, but the official scope includes smart farming, climate control, greenhouse technology, and vertical farming solutions.
Its value is regional reach. Southeast Asia presents very different CEA questions from Northern Europe or North America: cooling and dehumidification, tropical crop protection, energy economics, water treatment, and localisation of equipment all matter. Attend for suppliers, distributors, and market access; do not expect every conference session or exhibitor to be relevant to vertical farming.
J-AGRI Kyushu 2027
📍 Grandmesse Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan | 📅 May 27–28, 2027 | Exhibition
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
J-AGRI Kyushu is a broad agricultural technology exhibition, but its official exhibit profile makes the CEA connection unusually direct: plant factories, vertical farming systems, hydroponics, LED grow lights, environmental controls, nutrient delivery, automated irrigation, and monitoring technologies are all included.
The Kyushu edition provides access to southern Japan’s agricultural market and a supplier ecosystem known for precision, reliability, and incremental technical improvement. It is particularly useful for manufacturers, sourcing teams, and companies evaluating Japanese partnerships. Note that the 2027 show is currently scheduled for two days, not the three-day format used in 2026.
June: Korea and the Netherlands
Smart Farm Korea 2027
📍 Changwon Exhibition Convention Center, Changwon, South Korea | 📅 June 2–4, 2027 | Exhibition
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
Smart Farm Korea sits at the intersection of agricultural automation, protected cultivation, urban agriculture, data systems, and smart production infrastructure. It is broader than vertical farming, but it offers direct access to the Korean technology ecosystem and domestic companies working on sensors, controls, robotics, lighting, and integrated farm systems.
For international visitors, the main value is not simply discovering products. It is understanding how Korea is combining electronics, automation, and agriculture, and identifying partners capable of supporting installations locally. The organizer publishes event information in Korean, with selected English-language material.
GreenSys 2027
📍 Wageningen, Netherlands | 📅 June 6–10, 2027 | Scientific Symposium
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
GreenSys is one of the most technically relevant events on the calendar even though it is not branded as a vertical farming conference. Its focus is advanced greenhouse and controlled environment systems, including crop management, engineering, environmental control, resource efficiency, and resilient production.
The 2027 programme combines a welcome reception, scientific sessions from June 7–9, and a technical tour on June 10. Wageningen gives the event unusual density: research institutions, greenhouse companies, breeders, and technology suppliers are already embedded in the surrounding ecosystem. The official programme also points out that the visit can be combined with GreenTech Amsterdam the following week. Further details are available from Wageningen University & Research and the ISHS.
GreenTech Amsterdam 2027
📍 RAI Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands | 📅 June 15–17, 2027 | Trade Show + Conference
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
GreenTech Amsterdam remains the global benchmark for horticultural technology. It is not limited to warehouse-style vertical farms, but almost every critical CEA technology category is represented: climate computers, lighting, irrigation, water treatment, robotics, AI, sensors, substrates, propagation, crop protection, and greenhouse systems.
For vertical farming operators, this is where the industry’s component technologies can be compared at scale. For suppliers, it is where the wider horticultural customer base becomes visible. Combining GreenSys and GreenTech creates one of the strongest research-plus-commercial travel blocks of 2027.
Hortitec 2027
📍 Parque da Expoflora, Holambra, São Paulo, Brazil | 📅 June 22–24, 2027 | Exhibition
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
Hortitec brings together horticultural producers, input manufacturers, equipment suppliers, and technology providers in Brazil. Its broader protected-cultivation and hydroponics coverage makes it a relevant commercial meeting point for companies serving controlled-environment production.
The confirmed 2027 dates move Hortitec from the planning watchlist into the chronological calendar. For suppliers exploring Brazilian and wider South American markets, its importance lies in local relationships, distribution, and growing-system procurement.
July: Australia’s protected-cropping market
Protected Cropping Australia Conference 2027
📍 Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast, Australia | 📅 July 26–28, 2027 | Conference + Trade Exhibition
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
Protected Cropping Australia covers the spectrum from practical greenhouse production to high-technology vertical farms. That breadth makes it the key regional meeting point for growers, agronomists, researchers, suppliers, and project developers across Australia and New Zealand.
The direct vertical farming touchpoints include climate management, water efficiency, labour and automation, crop protection, energy, lighting, and commercial operating models. It is especially valuable for anyone entering Australasia, where climate, distance, biosecurity, labour availability, and service coverage create market conditions that cannot be understood from a European or North American event alone.
September: smart agriculture and the root zone
Taiwan Smart Agriweek 2027
📍 Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1, Taipei, Taiwan | 📅 September 8–10, 2027 | B2B Exhibition
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
Taiwan Smart Agriweek covers smart agriculture alongside fisheries, livestock, and food technologies. The AGRITECH segment provides a relevant window into agricultural automation, digital monitoring, and equipment used in controlled production.
This is not a dedicated vertical farming event, but it gives CEA suppliers and integrators a way to assess Taiwanese technology partners and the wider regional smart-farming ecosystem. The organizer now lists both the 2027 dates and Taipei venue.
III International Symposium on Growing Media, Compost Utilization and Substrate Analysis for Soilless Cultivation
📍 Athens, Greece | 📅 September 27–30, 2027 | Scientific Symposium
Relevance: Related Industry Event
Growing media rarely receive headline attention in vertical farming, but they directly affect irrigation strategy, oxygen availability, root health, nutrient performance, crop consistency, and waste streams. This symposium focuses on growing media, compost utilisation, and substrate analysis for soilless cultivation.
It is included because substrate decisions are operational decisions in CEA. The move toward peat reduction, renewable materials, circular inputs, and better root-zone monitoring has consequences for both sustainability claims and crop economics. This is a specialist event for researchers, substrate suppliers, agronomists, and technical growers rather than a general indoor-farming audience. The symposium is also listed by the ISHS.
October: Japanese agri-tech and crop modelling in China
J-AGRI Tokyo 2027
📍 Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan | 📅 October 13–15, 2027 | Exhibition
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
The 17th Tokyo edition of J-AGRI brings agricultural technology suppliers, buyers, growers, and distributors together at Makuhari Messe. Its wider agriculture remit includes technologies relevant to plant factories, sensors, automation, and controlled cultivation.
For CEA businesses interested in Japan, the Tokyo edition complements J-AGRI Kyushu by providing another opportunity to meet equipment companies and commercial partners. Dates and venue are now listed by organizer RX Japan.
HorchiModel2027
📍 Nanjing, China | 📅 October 17–21, 2027 | Scientific Symposium
Relevance: Related Industry Event
HorchiModel2027 focuses on modelling plant growth, environmental conditions, and farm management in horticultural systems. It is not a commercial vertical farming show. Its relevance lies in the software and control layer that increasingly separates a basic indoor farm from a well-optimised one.
Crop models support lighting strategies, climate algorithms, yield prediction, resource planning, digital twins, and decision-support systems. The protected-cultivation context makes the work directly transferable to CEA, even where individual studies are conducted in greenhouses rather than stacked farms. The symposium is also listed by the ISHS.
November: plant health and biosecurity in New Zealand
XXI International Plant Protection Congress and 26th Australasian Plant Pathology Conference
📍 Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand | 📅 November 1–5, 2027 | Scientific Congress
Relevance: Related Industry Event
This is the most specialised and least directly vertical-farming-focused event in the main calendar. It is included for plant-health teams, IPM specialists, researchers, and operators managing biosecurity-sensitive facilities, not as a general industry networking event.
Enclosed farms reduce some pest pathways but can amplify others. Once a pathogen, insect, or contaminated input enters a tightly connected production system, rapid spread and limited chemical options can make prevention, diagnostics, hygiene, and biological control especially important. Those are the CEA touchpoints. General commercial visitors should prioritise other events; crop-protection specialists may find this one uniquely valuable.
J-AGRI Hokkaido 2027
📍 Sapporo Industrial Exhibition Hall, Sapporo, Japan | 📅 November 25–26, 2027 | Exhibition
Relevance: Related Industry Event
The inaugural Hokkaido edition extends the J-AGRI exhibition series into northern Japan. It is a broad agricultural and livestock show, offering a regional meeting point for equipment suppliers, farm operators, and technology providers.
CEA relevance will depend on the eventual exhibitor mix, so this first edition is classified as a related industry event rather than a specialist indoor-farming show. RX Japan lists the November dates and the Sapporo venue as its current schedule.
Confirmed for 2027, dates still to be announced
The following events have published evidence of a 2027 edition, but no final date was available at the time of this update. They belong on the planning watchlist, not yet in the confirmed chronological calendar.
3rd Congreso de Hidroponía de Argentina
📍 Argentina | 📅 Date and location to be announced | Congress
Relevance: Strong CEA Relevance
The Argentine Hydroponic Association states that its congress will return in 2027. Hydroponics is one of the most direct entry points into CEA in South America, making this an important Spanish-language event to monitor for growers, educators, suppliers, and regional project developers.
CEAg World 2027
📍 USA | 📅 Date and location to be announced | Conference + Expo
Relevance: Core Vertical Farming & CEA
The organizer has opened its 2027 call for speakers, confirming that CEAg World is being prepared, but the final date and location were not published when this calendar was checked. The event is commercially focused on controlled environment operations, technology, crop production, and business performance. Move it into the main calendar as soon as the organizer releases the details.
2027 events at a glance
| Event | Location | Dates | Type | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIVAL 2027 | Angers, France | Jan 12–14 | Exhibition | Related Industry |
| VertiFarm 2027 | Ghent, Belgium | Jan 31 – Feb 4 | Workshop | Core VF & CEA |
| Agritec Africa | Johannesburg, South Africa | Mar 2–4 | Exhibition | Related Industry |
| CEA Leafy Greens Network Event | Columbus, USA + Online | Mar 3 | Hybrid Research Event | Core VF & CEA |
| GreenTech Americas | Querétaro, Mexico | Mar 9–11 | Conference + Expo | Strong CEA |
| HortEx + AGRITECHNICA ASIA | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | Mar 17–19 | Exhibitions | Related Industry |
| GREEN×EXPO 2027 | Yokohama, Japan | Mar 19 – Sep 26 | International Expo | Context Event |
| Indoor Ag-Con | Las Vegas, USA | Mar 24–25 | Trade Show + Conference | Core VF & CEA |
| Beijing Facility Agriculture Expo | Beijing, China | Mar 29–31 | Exhibition | Strong CEA |
| ISSCH2027 | Palermo, Italy | Mar 30 – Apr 3 | Symposium | Related Industry |
| Global Vertical Farming Show | Dubai, UAE | Apr 6–7 | Trade Show + Conference | Core VF & CEA |
| Inhouse Farming Convention | Hamburg, Germany | Apr 21–22 | Convention | Related Industry |
| CEA & Indoor Farming | Online | May 7, 14 & 21 | Virtual Conference | Core VF & CEA |
| Horti & Agri Asia | Bangkok, Thailand | May 19–21 | Exhibition | Related Industry |
| J-AGRI Kyushu | Kumamoto, Japan | May 27–28 | Exhibition | Strong CEA |
| Smart Farm Korea | Changwon, South Korea | Jun 2–4 | Exhibition | Strong CEA |
| GreenSys 2027 | Wageningen, Netherlands | Jun 6–10 | Symposium | Strong CEA |
| GreenTech Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Jun 15–17 | Trade Show + Conference | Strong CEA |
| Hortitec 2027 | Holambra, Brazil | Jun 22–24 | Exhibition | Strong CEA |
| Protected Cropping Australia | Gold Coast, Australia | Jul 26–28 | Conference + Expo | Strong CEA |
| Taiwan Smart Agriweek | Taipei, Taiwan | Sep 8–10 | B2B Exhibition | Strong CEA |
| Growing Media Symposium | Athens, Greece | Sep 27–30 | Symposium | Related Industry |
| J-AGRI Tokyo | Chiba, Japan | Oct 13–15 | Exhibition | Strong CEA |
| HorchiModel2027 | Nanjing, China | Oct 17–21 | Symposium | Related Industry |
| International Plant Protection Congress | Christchurch, New Zealand | Nov 1–5 | Congress | Related Industry |
| J-AGRI Hokkaido | Sapporo, Japan | Nov 25–26 | Exhibition | Related Industry |
Watchlist with dates pending: 3rd Congreso de Hidroponía de Argentina and CEAg World 2027.
How to build your 2027 events strategy
With this calendar, the wrong strategy is to choose events by size alone. Start with the operational or commercial problem you need to solve.
If you are a vertical farm operator: VertiFarm, Indoor Ag-Con, GVF Dubai, and GreenTech Amsterdam offer the strongest combination of relevant peers, suppliers, and technical content. Add ISSCH if nutrient management and root-zone performance are current priorities.
If you are a greenhouse or CEA grower: GreenTech Americas, GreenSys, GreenTech Amsterdam, and Protected Cropping Australia provide the broadest protected-production perspective. The most efficient European trip is GreenSys in Wageningen followed by GreenTech Amsterdam.
If you are a technology supplier: Select the market before the event. Beijing, Taiwan Smart Agriweek, and Smart Farm Korea open doors into Northeast Asian technology ecosystems; the J-AGRI exhibitions provide access to Japan; Horti & Agri Asia and HortEx support Southeast Asia; Agritec Africa provides a broad entry point to African buyers; and GreenTech Americas and Hortitec provide confirmed Latin American CEA-relevant dates.
If you are a researcher or R&D lead: VertiFarm is the most directly relevant scientific vertical farming meeting. ISSCH covers hydroponics and soilless systems, GreenSys covers controlled production, the Athens symposium covers substrates, and HorchiModel covers the modelling and decision-support layer.
If you are an investor or strategist: Indoor Ag-Con and GVF Dubai offer the clearest concentrated views of North American and Middle Eastern market activity. GreenTech Amsterdam is valuable for judging the maturity of the underlying technology supply chain. The Inhouse Farming convention helps place crop-based CEA inside the wider future-food industry.
If your priority is Japan: GREEN×EXPO runs for six months, and J-AGRI now has three announced 2027 dates: Kyushu in May, Tokyo in October, and the inaugural Hokkaido edition in November. The next JPFA International Symposium on Plant Factory is scheduled for 2028, not 2027. Check the latest organizer programmes before committing to travel.
Confirmed 2026 events that will not return in the same form in 2027
This section needs careful wording. A missing 2027 event page does not prove that an annual event has been cancelled. The entries below are included only where an organizer or official event cycle shows that the 2026 event will not be repeated in the same form during 2027.
GPEC – Greenhouse Horticulture & Plant Factory Exhibition
GPEC takes place in Tokyo in July 2026, but the official site identifies the next edition as summer 2028. There is therefore no GPEC edition scheduled for 2027. This is an event-cycle decision, not evidence that the event has ended.
International Horticultural Congress
IHC2026 will not return in 2027 because the congress operates on a four-year cycle. The next International Horticultural Congress is IHC2030 in Milan, scheduled for August 25–30, 2030.
Inhouse Farming – Feed & Food Show at EuroTier
The large trade-show format returns alongside EuroTier in November 2026. It will not be repeated in that same format in 2027 because DLG alternates it with the smaller Inhouse Farming – Feed & Food Convention. The 2027 convention is confirmed for April 21–22 in Hamburg and is included above.
7th Global Vertical Farming Show
The edition originally listed for September 2026 has been moved to April 6–7, 2027. It should not be counted once as a cancelled 2026 show and again as an unrelated new 2027 edition. It is the same seventh edition on a revised date.
JPFA International Symposium on Plant Factory
The Japan Plant Factory Association held its third symposium in 2026 and has announced the fourth for February 28–29, 2028. It should therefore not be treated as a 2027 event with an unannounced date.
Not cancelled, just not announced yet
As of October 21, 2026, no verified 2027 date was identified for several familiar names from the 2026 calendar, including CEA Summit East, Vertical Farming World Congress, Canadian Greenhouse Conference, Saudi Agriculture, the World Intelligent Farming Summit, the AVF Asia Forum, AgriNext, and GreenTech North America.
That does not mean these events will not happen. It only means they should not yet be presented to readers as confirmed 2027 dates. This article will move them into the main calendar when their organizers publish official information.
Why the 2027 preview starts on Vertical Farming Blog
verticalfarmingevents.com is part of our network and remains the dedicated platform for structured event listings. However, the 2026 event season is still underway. Publishing a provisional 2027 database there now would mix two planning cycles and could make early, incomplete information look more final than it is.
That is why Vertical Farming Blog is publishing this editorial 2027 preview first. It gives readers an early planning tool while leaving room to explain why adjacent events are relevant, which dates are genuinely confirmed, and where information is still missing.
Toward the end of 2026, the verified information from this article will also be published on verticalfarmingevents.com. At that point, the platform will become the structured and continuously maintained home of the 2027 calendar, including direct organizer links, registration information, event updates, and further regional additions.
Until then, this article is the working 2027 preview. New dates will be added here as organizers complete their planning cycles.
If you organize a 2027 event that belongs on this calendar, send us the official date, venue, organizer page, and a short explanation of its connection to vertical farming or controlled environment agriculture. That last part matters: the goal is not to build the longest list, but the most useful one.
This article is part of the Vertical Farming Blog’s ongoing coverage of the global CEA industry. For a comprehensive directory of vertical farming companies, indoor farms, suppliers, consultants, and research organisations worldwide, visit verticalfarming.directory.
Last updated: October 21, 2026. Event dates, venues, and formats can change. Always verify the organizer’s official website before registering or booking travel.