Calendar of social media, tech & marketing events: April 2013

At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September (Photo by JD Lasica).

Guide to the month’s best conferences & events

April brings us the busiest conference month of the year, with a ton of events worth attending or tuning into. I’ll be attending DEMO Mobile in San Francisco and following — through Twitter hashtags, blog posts and live streams — the Inbound Marketing Summit, ad:tech SF, Power of eMarketing, Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit, eMetrics Summit, Conversion Conference, paidContent, Social Fresh East, World Social Marketing Conference, Pubcon, Social Media Strategies Summit, TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Digital Hollywood Spring, stellar overseas events NEXT Berlin and The Next Web and others.

Wow.

How about you? Which ones will you be attending?

For the full year, see our full Calendar of 2013 social media, tech and marketing conferences. And our sister site Socialbrite has our calendar of nonprofit and social change events for April.

Conference	Date	Place
April
Mobile Summit	April 1-2	Sausalito, Calif.
Now in its third year, the VentureBeat Mobile Summit has emerged as one of the most important gatherings in the industry. This year’s program will revolve around a series of intimate boardroom sessions where all participants collectively work to develop concrete, actionable solutions to the major business and policy challenges facing the industry.
An Event Apart	April 1-3	Seattle
An Event Apart is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based Web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, join this gathering for 12 speakers and sessions, plus an optional day-long workshop on multi-device web design.
edSocial Media Summit	April 2	Boston
The edSocial Media Summit offers a one-day, practical application of social media tools in a school environment. The workshop provides an in-depth, hands-on introduction to social media for school leaders and administrators, complete with an opportunity to create and share content through edSocialMedia’s practice lab site and other social media channels.
SNW	April 2-4	Orlando, Fla.
SNW is the world’s largest independently produced conference series focused on the evolution of architecture for a new world of mobility, Big Data and business agility. Unlike events focused on a specific vendor agenda and product portfolio, SNW provides a forum of open thought leadership and practical education that defines the spectrum of storage, data and infrastructure solutions available to a highly qualified audience of enterprise technology decision-makers.
Cloud Connect	April 2-5	Silicon Valley
Cloud Connect, produced by UBM Tech, is the defining event of the cloud computing industry. As both a conference and an exhibition, Cloud Connect’s goal is to chart the course of cloud computing’s development by bringing together enterprise IT professionals, developers, infrastructure and service providers and cloud computing innovators. Also look for Cloud Connect in Chicago Oct. 21-24 and in India, May 23-24.
Inbound Marketing Summit	April 3-4	New York
Inbound Marketing Summit is the one event that brings together enterprise CMOs and business leaders, awesome keynotes, expert panels, plus solutions providers and their tools for enterprise marketing, all in a dynamic, community-based setting. IMS will also take place June 18-19 in San Francisco and in October in Boston.
Information Architecture Summit	April 3-7	Baltimore
The IA Summit is the premiere, community-curated and volunteer-run gathering on the ever-evolving disciplines of information architecture and experience design. It provides students, practitioners and anyone interested with great tactical skills, amazing inspiring ideas and an opportunity to collaborate and celebrate the great things happening in our communities of practice.
Innotech	April 4	Dallas
In one focused day, Innotech creates an environment where education, innovation, peer-to-peer networking and the latest technology and business solutions are all available specifically for IT professionals. Other Innotech conference schedules for the year 2013 can be found at the Innotech website
National Association of Broadcasters	April 6–11	Las Vegas
The National Association of Broadcasters event will help you produce and deliver memorable content while grappling with the changes that the broadcast industry is undergoing.
YTH Live Youth + Tech + Health	April 7-9	San Francisco
YTH Live Youth + Tech + Health is a two-day annual conference hosted by ISIS that brings health and technology professionals together with youths, parents and community leaders to advance the sexual health of youths in the U.S. and abroad. YTH Live is the only conference that showcases high-tech educational content (mobile, social media, Internet) developed by professionals, highlights national and local program successes and puts youth leadership at the forefront.
ad:tech San Francisco	April 9-10	San Francisco
ad:tech SF is the leading digital media event for marketing and technology professionals from all over the world – a marketplace for buying and selling, a community for networking, a forum for exchanging ideas and an opportunity for contributing to industry trends and initiatives.
Power of eMarketing	April 9-10	San Francisco
With over 35 expert speakers and 33 sessions, the Power of eMarketing Conference will energize and make you ready with relevant, actionable new processes, techniques, ideas and a bunch of new meaningful contacts. You can design your own conference around dedicated topics on social, email, search and mobile marketing.
Intel Developer Forum	April 10-11	Beijing
Intel Developer Forum is where people from every part of the technology industry gather to hear about Intel’s latest advances. The conference provides a rare chance to engage and learn about Intel products across the entire compute continuum. IDF will provide you with information and connections you need to advance your latest initiatives and effectively plan for the future.
Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit	April 10-11	Chicago
Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit is the mobile event of 2013, including compelling case studies, interactive workshops and innovative presentations that will help you measure and understand mobile ROI; craft a strategic approach to mobile; define mobile marketing for your organization; and discover what other top name brands are doing within the mobile space.
Search Starts Here	April 13-16	Las Vegas
Speakers from across the search space will be on hand at Search Starts Here to discuss industry trends, lessons learned, success stories, new technology applications and useful innovations in the local search industry.
eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit	April 14-18	San Francisco
12 years of finding the best and brightest to deliver the wit and wisdom of marketing analytics means every session is insightful and impactful. The eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit aims to investigate social media, online media, mobile marketing and marketing analytics; help you soak up intelligence from keynotes, breakouts and exhibit hall booths; take advantage of unparalleled networking with experts and peers and more.
mediaXchange	April 14	Orlando, Fla.
The Newspaper Association of America’s mediaXchange is the largest annual gathering of industry executives in North America, offering networking opportunities that combine an exchange of information and ideas with programming designed to generate results. The conference is designed to provide valuable ideas and insights to help newspaper professionals grow audience and revenue for their print and digital products.
Conversion Conference	April 15-17	San Francisco
Conversion Conference is a worldwide conference series dedicated exclusively to issues related to optimizing the conversion rates of online campaigns. Experts and authors in disciplines ranging from Web design, email marketing and persuasion principles to multivariate testing and usability converge for two days to discuss the latest tools and techniques available to help website owners and marketers increase the effectiveness of their online marketing efforts. Conversion will also take place June 11-13 in Chicago and Sept. 30-Oct. 1 in Boston.
paidContent	April 17	New York
paidContent features the best minds in global media who debate how to make money from content and create scalable, sustainable media enterprises.
DEMO Mobile	April 17	San Francisco
DEMO Mobile (formerly DEMO Spring) will showcase a selection of the most innovative mobile products across a variety of categories and industries, including apps, devices, social, local, games, enterprise, health and commerce. At Demo Mobile, you’ll catch a glimpse of where the mobile future is headed.
Social Fresh East	April 18-19	Tampa, Fla.
Social Fresh East offers two days of advanced social media training from social media officers at companies like JetBlue, Campbell’s Soup, ESPNW and more.
CampaignTech	April 18-19	Washington, DC
Join CampaignTech‘s hands-on trainings, workshops, round-table conversations and panel discussions that will enhance your knowledge of practical politics, refine your digital campaign skills and inspire you to exceed your goals for the next campaign season.
International Symposium on Online Journalism	April 19-20	Austin, Texas
Since 1999, the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) has attracted journalists, media executives and scholars from around the world to a unique conference that mixes top leaders of the news industry and academics who present cutting-edge research on the field of digital journalism.
World Social Marketing Conference	April 21-23	Toronto
The goal of the World Social Marketing Conference is to act as a vehicle to help build a global movement dedicated to capturing, spreading and nurturing good practice in social marketing, as well as increase the efficiency and effectiveness of social marketing practice at both operational and strategic levels.
Pubcon New Orleans	April 22-25	New Orleans
Pubcon New Orleans will offer a multi-day look at the future of technology, social media and search optimization. The event will be an ambitious gathering of search and social media innovators and leading technology and online marketing visionaries charged with offering attendees valuable new ideas and solutions for their businesses. Also look to Pubcon Las Vegas on Oct. 21.
BIO International Convention	April 22-25	Chicago
At the BIO International Convention, get up to date on policies, regulation, marketing and innovations, learn better practices for business development, finance, manufacturing and more.
Social Media Strategies Summit	April 23-24	Chicago
Learn effective social media marketing strategies that have been proven to skyrocket marketing ROI and revenue. Whether your organization is a start-up or a large enterprise, Social Media Strategies Summit will elevate your social media marketing efforts to reach your business goals.
NEXT Berlin	April 23-24	Berlin
NEXT Berlin leads the way as a meeting place for the European digital industry and is a vital driving force across borders. At the conference, marketing decision-makers and business developers meet technical experts and creative minds to discuss what will be important in the next 12 months – a mix that is unique among European conferences.
The Next Web	April 25-26	Amsterdam
The seventh edition of The Next Web Europe Conference will be packed with high-quality content, networking events, parties and dealmaking opportunities. It’s the place to be for all Web and mobile professionals.
Advanced Analytics for High Tech	April 25-26	San Francisco
The Advanced Analytics for the High-Tech Industry Summit brings together the leaders from the field of analytics within the high-tech industry for a summit acclaimed for its innovative insight.
TechCrunch Disrupt NYC	April 27-May 1	New York
TechCrunch Disrupt NYC is one of the most anticipated tech conferences of the year. The event will begin with a Hackathon and then reveal an all-new slate of outstanding startups, influential speakers, guests and more.
Enterprise Data World	April 28-May 2	San Diego
Enterprise Data World is the business world’s most comprehensive educational event about data and information management. Over five days, EDW presents a diverse schedule of programming that addresses every level of proficiency, including keynotes, workshops, tutorials, case studies and discussions.
Open Business Conference	April 29-30	San Francisco
Computerworld’s Open Business Conference (OSBC) is the premier forum for learning from and sharing with the industry’s top strategists in open technologies, helping attendees to discover and deploy game winning open source game planes. This two-day conference covers the open source strategic challenges that IT management deals with on a daily basis, implementation challenges and the latest in open source innovation.
Future Insights Live	April 29-May 2	Las Vegas
The second Future Insights Live is a multi-track, four-day tech conference that combines the Future of Web Apps, Future of Web Design and Future of Mobile conferences. FILive will discuss the future technologies, platforms, and business models you should be using and implementing to launch the next big thing.
Digital Hollywood Spring	April 29-May 2	Marina del Rey, Calif.
Digital Hollywood is the premier entertainment and technology conference in the country. Dozens of media and entertainment execs convene to discuss the state of digital content.
RailsConf	April 29-May 2	Portland, Ore.
RailsConf has been the largest gathering of Rails developers in the world and the largest gathering of Rubyists, as well. Every year, RailsConf draws world-class developers and companies together to see the state of the art in Rails and Web development, to learn about new products and tools and for good, old-fashioned networking.

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.