How to Discover Tech Conferences with Copilot
Find tech conferences in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. Developer events at your fingertips.
Tool
Copilot brings event discovery directly into your development environment, making it easy to find tech meetups, developer conferences, and team activities without switching away from your editor. Search for events focused on specific technologies you work with, get results formatted for quick calendar integration, and share upcoming events with your team -- all from the same tool where you are already spending your day writing code.
Connect ToolRouter to Copilot
1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouterServer description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp3Set Authentication to None and click Create
Steps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Events Nearby tool:
- In Copilot Chat: "Find Rust or systems programming conferences using events-nearby"
- Copilot returns relevant tech events
- Ask: "Get details on the one with the best speaker lineup"
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Events Nearby tool
Find Go and Kubernetes conferences in North America this year.
Tips
- Research conferences while working in the technology you want to learn more about
- Ask for conferences that offer workshops for hands-on learning