OCPP Plugfest & Conference Europe 2026

Date

September 22–23, 2026 · 9:00–18:00 CEST

Location

ESB Headquarters, Dublin, Ireland

Format

In-person

Organizer

Open Charge Alliance

The Open Charge Alliance's European Plugfest: vendors put their OCPP implementations in one room and test them against each other in structured round-robin sessions, alongside a conference track and a cybersecurity pentest run by ElaadNL. Conference sessions cover Ireland's electrification journey, how the open standards themselves are evolving, and cybersecurity as critical infrastructure — CRA, NIS2 and AFIR among the regulations on the table. Face-to-face working group meetings follow on the 23rd and 24th. If you build or operate charging software, this is where interoperability gets proven rather than claimed.