I published this a week ago but am republishing it now because it’s quite timely on Jan. 1 and because I added several additional events to the calendar.
For the past two years I put together a calendar of some of the best social media, technology, media and marketing conferences for the upcoming year. Here’s the list for 2009. Apologies, I had to leave out events outside the U.S. or the list would triple in size, and I left out newspaper conferences. This also doesn’t include the many worthy BarCamps, PodCamps and Social Media Club gatherings around the country.
If you know of other must-attend events, please add them by posting in the comments at the bottom.
| Conference | Date | Place |
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| * indicates conferences I’ll be attending or speaking at. | ||
| January | ||
| Macworld Expo* | Jan. 5-9 | San Francisco |
| Apple says this will be the last Macworld Expo it will participate in. No Uncle Steve this year. | ||
| Consumer Electronics Show* | Jan. 8-11 | Las Vegas |
| Still the largest electronics show on the planet. I’ll be there as part of the Intel Insiders, and speaking at the P2P Media Summit there. |  |
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| Agency of the Year | Jan. 20-21 | New York City |
| OMMA’s Agency of the Year Awards celebrates the agencies that were able to rise above the rest. MEDIA’s Agency of the Year Awards pays tribute to the agencies that set the gold standard in the business of media planning and buying. | ||
| BlogWell Chicago | Jan. 22 | Chicago |
| The second in a series of events exploring social media in the enterprise, put on by GasPedal and the Blog Council. | ||
| Social Media Conference | Jan. 22-23 | Miami |
| The event focuses on business management for the social networking industry. | ||
| OMMA Social | Jan. 26 | New York City |
| OMMA Social is designed to guide you through the terrain of social media and how it relates to your brand or web property. MediaPost organizes the Online Media, Marketing & Advertising (OMMA) events. |  |
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| Teens in Tech* | Jan. 31 | San Francisco |
| Smart young people talk technology and culture. | ||
| February | ||
| AlwaysOn: OnMedia NYC | Feb. 2-4 | New York City |
| “Meet the disruptors of marketing, advertising, branding and PR.” | ||
| O’Reilly Money:Tech | Feb. 4-6 | New York City |
| Theme: “After the Goldrush: Financial Tools for New Times.” |
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| UGCX: User Generated Content | Feb. 9-10 | San Jose |
| UGCX, a new mediabistro.com event, is the first conference and expo to bring together content-trendsetters and business leaders in various fields to examine how these worlds collide and what the future holds. | ||
| O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing | Feb. 9-11 | New York City |
| A conference on emerging trends around digital publishing, including ebooks, digital printing, mobile content, new authoring tools, alternative business models for paid content, etc. | ||
| FASTforward ’09 | Feb. 9-11 | Las Vegas |
| The largest business and technology conference dedicated to search-driven innovation, put on by Microsoft. | ||
| SMX West | Feb. 10-12 | Santa Clara, Calif. |
| SMX West features three days of educational sessions, keynotes and access to the leading vendors in search marketing. Other events include SMX Social Media Marketing in New York, SMX Search Analytics in Toronto and SMX Advanced in Seattle. | ||
| Web Content: Tampa Bay | Feb. 17-18 | Clearwater, Fla. |
| Industry leaders and experienced web professionals will deliver presentations, offer case studies and lead discussions designed to demystify the impact of social media on Web marketing strategies. Other conferences are scheduled for Chicago and Austin. |  |
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| Public Media ’09 | Feb. 17-21 | Atlanta |
| Put on by the Integrated Media Association, this may be the largest public media gathering of the year, with panels featuring representatives from NPR, PBS, et al. | ||
| edSocialMedia Bootcamp | Feb. 19 | Montclair, NJ |
| A one-day in-depth introduction to social media technology for school leaders, administrators and teachers at the Montclair Kimberley Academy. | ||
| Future of Web Apps | Feb. 23-24 | Miami |
| Speakers on the future of the browser, how to build community, how to use video and podcasting for increased success. | ||
| We Media Miami | Feb. 24-26 | Miami |
| Engage with leaders and ideas shaping media, business, communication, technology, education and participation in the connected society. |  |
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| March | ||
| Social Enterprise Conference | March 1 | Cambridge, Mass. |
| The Social Enterprise conference at Harvard Business School brings together the nonprofit, private, and public sectors to work toward the common good. Conference site needs updating. | ||
| DEMO | March 1-3 | Palm Desert, Calif. |
| More than 20,000 innovative technologies have been reviewed and 1,500 companies selected to launch on the DEMO stage over the past 18 years. |  |
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| Emerging Communications (eComm) | March 3-5 | San Francisco |
| The second annual forum dedicated to defining and profiting from the post-telecom era. | ||
| MediaXchange | March 9-11 | Las Vegas |
| MediaXchange replaces Newspaper Association of America’s Marketing and NEXPO, and the new gathering marks an increased focus on emerging digital platforms. | ||
| GoingGreen East | March 9-11 | Boston |
| “Where green entrepreneurs take on Big Business.” | ||
| O’Reilly Emerging Technology (ETech)* | March 9-12 | San Jose |
| Since 2002, ETech has brought to light the disruptive yet important innovations that we see on the horizon, rather than the ones that have already arrived. |  |
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| Mashup/Remix Culture* | March 12-13 | Columbus, Ohio |
| I’m speaking at this two-day conference at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law on “Mashup/Remix Culture: Law, Politics, Art and Society.” | ||
| South by Southwest | March 13-22 | Austin |
| This year’s SXSW schedule: Interactive March 13-17, Film March 13-21, Music March 18-22. | ||
| New America Media LA | March 14 | Los Angeles |
| New America Media is holding a daylong training workshop for ethnic media publications in Southern California. | ||
| Media Summit | March 18-19 | New York City |
| Over 1,200 of the country’s top media, entertainment and technology executives are expected to attend this gathering to discuss broadband, wireless, advertising, TV, film, cable, satellite, publishing, news and other media. |  |
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| New America Media SF | March 21 | San Francisco |
| New America Media is holding a daylong training workshop for ethnic media publications in Northern California. | ||
| Sex::Tech 2009 | March 22-23 | San Francisco |
| ISIS presents Sexual Health + Tech + Youth = Sex::Tech 2009 | ||
| OMMA Global: Hollywood | March 23-24 | San Francisco |
| This biannual conference and trade show for the business of Online Media, Marketing and Advertising attracts about 4,000 people. | ||
| Web 2.0 Expo* | Mar 31-Apr 3 | San Francisco |
| Web 2.0 Expo provides insight into the new generation of services and opportunities offered by Web 2.0. | ||
| April | ||
| Politics Online* | April 7-9 | Washington, DC |
| Roll your own conference panel. | ||
| eM9 | April 21-22 | San Francisco |
| The eMarketing conference brings together marketers from around the world in a sophisticated forum of presentations, networking opportunities and sessions. |  |
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| ad:tech | April 21-23 | San Francisco |
| “To deliver on your needs, we’re providing more hands-on, practical tips sessions, plenty of case studies and a series that is all about brand you.” | ||
| Nonprofit Technology* | April 26-28 | San Francisco |
| Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) kicks off with a Day of Service to give back to the community. | ||
| NewComm Forum* | April 27-29 | San Francisco |
| I’ll be speaking at the Society for New Communications Research’s NewComm Forum, perhaps at an April 27 workshop. | ||
| OnHollywood | April 27-29 | Hollywood |
| Silicon Valley goes to Hollywood. | ||
| New Marketing Summit – SF | April 28-29 | San Francisco |
| This new conference geared chiefly to marketers is being created by Chris Brogan, David Meerman Scott and Paul Gillin. | ||
| SMX Social Media Marketing | April 29-30 | New York City |
| Internet marketers will learn to harness the power of user engagement from YouTube to Digg in this two-day gathering with a focus on real-life tactical advice. | ||
| May | ||
| SOBCon | May 1-3 | Chicago |
| SOBCon09 is “Biz School for Blogging,” focusing on the ROI of relationships in the enterprise. The conference is designed to build solid action plans tailored to attendees’ individual needs. | ||
| Digital Hollywood Spring* | May 4-7 | Santa Monica |
| I’ve spoken at several sessions at Digital Hollywood, one of the nation’s premier entertainment and technology conferences. Other Digital Hollywood productions, such as Advertising 2.0 New York and Building Blocks and Digital Hollywood Fall, will likely be held again in 2009. | ||
| Tech Policy Summit | May11-13 | San Mateo, Calif. |
| The summit brings together prominent leaders from the private and public sectors to examine critical policy issues impacting technology innovation and adoption. | ||
| Streaming Media East | May 12-13 | New York City |
| Content owners, viral video creators, online marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies, educators and others gather to hear the latest on online video technology. Streaming Media West will likely repeat in September 2009 in San Jose, Calif. | ||
| Word of Mouth Marketing University | May 14-15 | Miami |
| WOMM-U is a two-day comprehensive and interactive educational experience built around giving you the real-world knowledge you need to execute exceptional word of mouth marketing programs. |  |
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| Media Relations Summit | May 17-19 | New York City |
| Bulldog Reporter puts on a conference for PR and corporate communications professionals who want to learn skills and techniques that are transforming media and the PR profession. | ||
| Where 2.0 | May 19-21 | San Jose, Calif. |
| Where 2.0 2009 delves into the emerging technologies surrounding the geospatial industry, particularly the way our lives are organized, from finding a restaurant to finding the source of a new millennium plague. | ||
| Winning Media Strategies | May 20-22 | Washington, D.C. |
| “Battling Competitive Economic and Market Forces,” from the Kelsey Group. | ||
| NetSquared* | May 26-27 | San Jose, Calif. |
| N2Y4 will be the can’t-miss gathering of nonprofits and social change agents. | ||
| D Conference | May 26-28 | Carlsbad, Calif. |
| The seventh edition of D, put on by the WSJ’s Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, will again features executives and thinkers driving the digital revolution. |  |
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| New Marketing Summit – Dallas | May 27-28 | Dallas |
| The third in a series of conferences geared chiefly to marketers. | ||
| Cause Marketing Forum | May 27-29 | Chicago |
| “Bottom Line Cause Marketing” is the theme of the 7th annual Cause Marketing Forum aimed at business and nonprofit executives. Held at the Westin Chicago River North. | ||
| June | ||
| Conversational Marketing Summit | June 1-2 | New York City |
| Federated Media’s CM Summit makes its second NYC appearance discussing how marketing and social media intersect. | ||
| Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup* | June 1-2 | San Francisco |
| YPulse, which tracks how youths use emerging media, will mark its fifth anniversary this year. YPulse will hold a second event in November 2009 in New York. |  |
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| Connections | June 2-4 | Santa Clara, Calif. |
| From Park Associates: Connections: the digital living conference and showcase. | ||
| Beyond Broadcast | June 3-6 | Los Angeles |
| “Public Service Media from Local to Global” at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication. | ||
| New America Media | June 4-5 | Atlanta |
| The national conference of New America Media. | ||
| IABC World Conference | June 7-10 | San Francisco |
| The World Conference of the International Association of Business Communicators is the premier gathering of business communicators. | ||
| Focus on Mobile & Enterprise Social Networking | June 11-12 | San Francisco |
| Social networking in the enterprise. | ||
| OMMA Video & Publish | June 16-17 | New York City |
| OMMA Video is designed for content producers, brand marketers and agency professionals to discuss the latest trends on online video advertising, content production, syndication and delivery. OMMA Publish follows on June 17 and OMMA Adnets on June 18. | ||
| Enterprise 2.0 | June 22-25 | Boston |
| E2 brings together the leading enterprise social software companies. Put on by the same folks who put on the famous Web 2.0 conferences, E2 is producing a tutorial dedicated to Media 2.0 at this gathering. | ||
| Digital Media | June 25 | Northern Virginia |
| A gathering of digital communicators and content providers from the Washington, DC, region. | ||
| July | ||
| NewTeeVee Pier Screenings* | Summer | SF, NY, LA |
| NewTeeVee Pier Screenings are expected to return in summer ’09. | ||
| Open Source (OSCON) | July 20-24 | San Jose, Calif. |
| The premier open source gathering around. | ||
| Fortune Brainstorm Tech | July 22-24 | Pasadena, Calif. |
| Fortune’s “conference for the thinking person,” held in Half Moon Bay last summer, moves to Pasadena. | ||
| BlogHer | July 23-25 | Chicago |
| BlogHer’s fifth annual conference will be held in conjunction with BlogHer Business. |  |
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| Stanford Summit* | July 28-30 | Palo Alto, Calif. |
| The annual tech gathering, introducing the new captains of industry, organized by AlwaysOn at Stanford. | ||
| August | ||
| Gnomedex* | Aug. 20-22 | Seattle |
| Gnomedex is a top gathering of geeks, open source pioneers and cool kids. | ||
| September | ||
| Social Capital Markets* | Sept. 1-3 | San Francisco |
| Social Capital Markets, which had a sensational kickoff in May 2008, will hold its second gathering at Fort Mason in SF to bring together social entrepreneurs and other change-makers. | ||
| TechCrunch50* | Sept. 14-15 | San Francisco |
| TechCrunch puts on its annual look at the top tech startups at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse. | ||
| GoingGreen West | Sept. 14-16 | Sausalito, Calif. |
| The second year of the green technologies conference organized by AlwaysOn. | ||
| Office 2.0* | Sept. 21-23 | San Francisco |
| How to get things done at the office, at home and on the go — speakers, vendors and attendees suss out the future of online productivity and collaboration. |  |
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| VON Conference & Expo | Sept. 21-23 | Miami |
| VON: The Voice of Network Convergence showcases the best of the global IP communications world for service providers and large enterprises. | ||
| DEMOfall | Sept. 21-23 | San Diego |
| The fall edition of the august tech innovation conference. | ||
| New Marketing Summit – Boston | Sept. 30-Oct. 1 | Boston |
| The fourth in a series of conferences geared chiefly to marketers. | ||
| Creating Technology for Social Good | Sept. 30-Oct. 3 | Tucson, Ariz. |
| Put on by Women in Computing, a program of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, this gathering is designed to advance the research and career interests of women in computing. | ||
| October | ||
| Online News Association* | Oct. 1-3 | San Francisco |
| I just renewed at ONA for the next three years — it’ll be nice to see this gathering of new media movers and shakers return to the West Coast. | ||
| BlogWorld & New Media Expo* | Oct. 15-17 | Las Vegas |
| BlogWorldExpo and New Media Expo both put on trade shows last August. Problem solved: BWE acquired NME. The combined new show will move to October. |  |
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| Web 2.0 Summit* | Oct. 20-22 | San Francisco |
| Where tech luminaries gather. | ||
| Pop!Tech | Oct. 21-23 | Camden, Maine |
| Pop!Tech is a newtwork of remarkable people, extraordinary conferences, powerful ideas and innovative projects that are changing the world. I attended one year — it’s a remarkable gathering. | ||
| Social Networking World Forum – North America | Oct. 26-27 | Santa Clara, Calif. |
| A conference dedicated to social networking with a focus on mobile social networking and social media. | ||
| Alliance for Community Media – West | ?? | ?? |
| ACM West may be held in fall 2009. Past venues include Denver and Monterey. | ||
| November | ||
| Web 2.0 Expo NY | Nov. 16-19 | New York City |
| The NYC edition of Web 2.0 Expo. | ||
| December | ||
| Supernova* | Dec. 1-3 | San Francisco |
| At Supernova, CEOs and bloggers, entrepreneurs and academics, policy experts and industry leaders share insights and build relationships. This year’s theme is “Change Networks.” |  |
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| Interactive Local Media | Dec. 9-11 | Los Angeles |
| The Kelsey Group’s conference provides a 360-degree view of the local marketplace, covering a range of topics, including local search, Internet Yellow Pages, vertical directories, Internet video, online classifieds, social media and mobile search. | ||
You probably arrived here from a retweet on Twitter (or a Google search), so follow me here: http://www.twitter.com/jdlasica.
For an even more comprehensive list of all things geek, check out Robert Scoble’s Upcoming events list.
In addition, Conference Alerts seems to have a pretty good listing of 2009 academic conferences by subject category, including Politics (apologies to TechPresident and Netroots Nation for not including them in this listing) and Communications and Media.
Update: Susan Mernit has a good list of 2009 women and technology conferences.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
For anyone willing to head north of the border, mesh is an interesting conference for anyone interested in how the Web is changing how we work, live and play. It happens in Toronto on April 7/8.
Mark
Nice list. Thanks for putting it together and highlighting which conferecnes you’ll be attending.
See you at CES!
–Steve
Glad you included Pop!Tech. Thoughts of years past..
Merry Christmas…
Buzz
hi @jdlasica great list of confs – would be grateful if you wouldn’t mind adding this edSocMe Bootcamp to the list, Feb 19, http://is.gd/bs5u
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@ernestkoe
Hi JD,
Happy Holidays! Hope you’re doing well. Thanks for spending the time to create such a great resource like this, and for including Tech Policy Summit. I hope to see you in ’09.
One update: I noticed that the URL for Tech Policy Summit is actually pointing to another event. Our home page is at http://events.techpolicycentral.com.
Best,
Natalie
You forgot Bulldog Reporter’s Media Relations Summit in NYC–May 17-19
Robert Scoble did a very wonderful keynote for this event last year.
http://www.bulldogreporter.com
Here is a link to this year’s current press release:
http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20081218/new-york-times.htm
Thanks, Natalie, looks like that was the only url I missed.
Thanks, Lailoni, the Bulldog event is in there now.
Missing from the list
* Affiliate Summit (January 11-13, Vegas) – The largest Affiliate Summit, this three day conference includes an exhibit hall with affiliate merchants, vendors, and networks, as well as multiple tracks of educational sessions covering the latest trends and information from affiliate marketing experts.
* LeadsCon (March 3-5, Vegas) pioneering conference and expo dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of those operating in the online lead generation industry. Reply.com is a gold sponsor and will be presenting at the show.
* ad:tech San Francisco (April 21-23) Reply.com will be exhibiting at the show with a major presence.
You can add RecentChangesCamp, the first and longest-running annual wiki unconference, to February (20-22 in Portland, Oregon).
http://2009rcc.org/
Great post JD, thanks for putting this together.
Adapting Journalism to the New News Ecology (A Poynter – Journalism that Matters Conference)
March 1-4, 2009: a three-day conversation and work session designed to define the new jobs, skills and relationships that will sustain a 21st-century news gathering organization.
http://www.poynter.org/jtm
AAAI Spring Symposium: Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0, 23-25 March, 2009, Stanford, California.
http://tw.rpi.edu/portal/AAAI-SSS-09:_Social_Semantic_Web:_Where_Web_2.0_Meets_Web_3.0
Great List! Digged/Sphinned. Kudos
Third International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 17-20 May, 2009, San Jose, California
http://www.icwsm.org/2009/
It’s probably tilted toward the West Coast because I’m from out here (and most tech conferences happen in SF/Silicon Valley), but feel free to add more East Coast events …
Thanks for compiling this list. Wish there were more on the East Coast!
great list JD! Thanks much!
I highly recommend the community run open-source events like SCaLE (Feb 20-22, 2009), Ohio Linux Fest, LinuxFest North West, and others.
*I’m a bit biased as someone whos spoken at OLF and LFNW, as well as co-organizes SCaLE.
February 25 One Day Social Media Marketing for Business at UCLA Faculty Center
Join top social media experts Beverly Macy and Rodney Rumford for a full day of information, big brand case studies, special guest speakers,and networking. In this classroom-like setting, you will learn how to establish strategic objectives and ROI targets for successful social media campaigns. You will leave knowing how to get started in the Social Media world and move in the right direction to meet your business objectives.
Early bird registration NOW
you can add:
1) Glue (www.gluecon.com) on may 12-13th
and
2) Defrag (www.defragcon.com) on Nov 11-12th.
I originally planned to list Northern Voice (even tho it’s in Canada) but thought it might have required me to include all the other gatherings for Drupal, Joomla, etc. etc. But glad you cited it here! Great gathering.
Great list. I also recommend adding the Northern Voice Personal Blogging and Social Media Conference
http://2009.northernvoice.ca/
It is here in Vancouver and is always an enjoyable experience.
Great list. Please don’t forget Northern Voice, our social media conference now in its fifth year in Vancouver, BC. It has a personal and cultural, not a corporate, bent, but probably merits inclusion:
http://www.northernvoice.ca
I wanna go to SXSW!! Now that sounds like my idea of a Party!!
+ WEB3D.0 is Next!
Cheers Everybody! Billy ;)) Peace*
Great list. Please don’t forget AEJMC in Boston August 5-8 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
AEJMC is a non-profit association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. Its mission is to advance education, foster scholarly research, cultivate better professional practice and promote the free flow of communication.
You can find more information on AEJMC Boston at http://aejmc.org/_events/convention/09convention/index.php
We put on an annual Social Commerce Summit in Austin, TX — this year April 27-29. Last year featured Kelly Mooney, Ze Frank, Josh Bernoff, Andy Sernovitz, and several brand execs.
It’s not an open event and is limited to brands (manufacturers, retailers, financial, etc.) but last year our attendees (from Walmart, P&G, Dell, BestBuy, etc.) said it was the best conference they attended! So if you’re a marketing professional from a Brand, drop us a note.
http://www.socialcommercesummit.com
and http://www.socialcommercesummit.co.uk
Please add us!
UGCX
February 9-10, 2009
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose, CA
User-generated content is a rapidly developing revolution in media. “Average Joe” internet users now wield power over online content, and new business models are emerging in response to this shift. UGCX is the first conference and expo organized to bring together content-trendsetters and business leaders in various fields to examine how these worlds collide and what the future holds. This new mediabistro.com event will unlock the knowledge businesses and non-profits need to respond to this shift.
UGCX is part trade show, and part educational conference program. Conference program sessions will be loaded with successful case studies and business models in four tracks: social content, photography, video & gaming, and music.
Love to see our SMX Social Media Marketing show added:
http://searchmarketingexpo.com/social
Runs April 29-30, covers the ins-and-outs of social media marketing from YouTube to Digg, with a focus on real-life tactical advice.
ASTD Techknowledge is in Vegas the last week of January for all e-learning folks.
Pamela, this took me more than two full days to compile. As I explained in the intro, I didn’t have another couple of days to devote to expanding this to other events around the world. :~)
You forgot the Social Networking World Forum in London in March. You seem to have forgotten the rest of the world, in fact.
http://www.socialnetworking-forum.com/
Susan Mernit says:
She’s Geeky is happening in Mountain View Jan. 30-31; low-cost & great unconference-register & more info @ shesgeeky.org
great post! i have been searching for a list like this everywhere. hope 2 meet u at one of the events!
The BIG OMAHA Event May 7th & 8th in Omaha.
Gary Vaynerchuk and others are set to converge on Omaha to bring together the Midwest’s creatives, innovators and next generation of entrepreneurs.
More to come soon!
Call for Documentary Film/Video Entries
Diversity in Place: Making Documentaries on the Multicultural City, Honolulu HI, April 24th, 2009
In an innovative way toward mutual learning, we invite the submission of video and photo documentaries whose emphasis is on exploring multicultural cities and processes of place-making.
http://diversityinplace.wordpress.com/
BlogHer is already there, but thanks for expanding on it!
BlogHer ’09: “In Real Life”
July 23-25, 2009
The Chicago Sheraton and Towers in Chicago, IL
http://www.blogher.com/blogher_conference/conf
Thursday, July 23: 3rd Annual BlogHer Business Conference
Now in its third year, the BlogHer Business Conference is an annual “crash course” on best practices for reaching the most influential and powerful consumers — women online — in the quickly evolving social media world. Attendees find themselves on fertile ground for innovative ideas, interacting with a mix of social media experts, business bloggers and brand marketers who have experience building campaigns and working in social media environments.
Friday and Saturday, July 24-25: 5th Annual BlogHer Annual Conference
Building on the momentum of four consecutive sold-out annual conferences, BlogHer ’09 will bring bloggers from every corner of the blogosphere together for hands-on learning, rich discussions, opportunities to meet with the brands that support them and plentiful networking opportunities. BlogHer ’09 will bring over one thousand attendees together to celebrate 2009’s theme: “In Real Life.”
The sixth annual Personal Democracy Forum, the country’s leading conference on how technology is changing politics, will be taking place June 29-30 in New York City. More details at http://www.personaldemocracy.com/conference
This year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is September 30-October 3 in Tuscon, AZ with the theme “Creating Technology For Social Good”
http://gracehopper.org/
Hi Micah, I’m a big fan of Personal Democracy Forum, and hope readers will attend. The list was already long at social media, tech and marketing conferences so decided not to throw in politics too.
Hey JD,
Thanks for including Web 2.0 Expo on your list, we really appreciate it!
Did you know that we are also producing a tutorial dedicated to Media 2.0 at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, June 22-25 in Boston?
I don’t know if you’re planning on updating the list, but if you are, I think E2 would be a great addition.
Thanks again.
Sarah passes along this addition for January:
Prediction Markets Summit
January 23, 2009
San Francisco, CA
http://www.pmcluster.com/SFO09.htm
TWTRCON SF 09 is the first conference entirely focused on Twitter as a business platform: how to use Twitter to reach and engage customers, influence opinions and activate markets. In addition to brand case studies, TWTRCON SF 09 will feature Twitter entrepreneurs MC Hammer and Adventure Girl, keynotes by Alltop's Guy Kawasaki, Twitterville author Shel Israel, Edelman Digital's Steve Rubel, and a highly anticipated closing debate featuring investor Dave McClure, futurist Paul Saffo, Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang, and moderated by D: All Things Digital's Kara Swisher.
Please include our event:
Sprout is hosting a half-day Social Media Summit in Santa Monica on Tuesday, August 18th. Hear from the social networks, see case studies, learn best practices, network with like minds. Request an invitation here: http://sproutinc.com/social-media-events/
The next TWTRCON conference is coming up in Washington, DC on October 22:
TWTRCON DC 09
Twitter for Business | Grand Hyatt Washington DC | October 22, 2009
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TWTRCON focuses entirely on the business use and value of Twitter. Network and share ideas with leading business, marketing, media, PR and government executives, key Twitter developers and social media experts. Speakers include Michael Dilorenzo (NHL), Craig Newmark (Craigslist), Steve Rubel (Edelman Digital), Stacy Gratz (H&R Block) Alan Murray (The Wall Street Journal), Joshua Karpf (PepsiCo), Clay Johnson (Sunlight Labs), David Armano (Dachis Corporation), Seth Greenberg (Intuit), Rohit Bhargava (Ogilvy 360 Digital), (David Puner (Dunkin’ Brands), Stefanie Michaels (Adventure Girl), Brian Dresher (USA Today).