Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events scheduled for the month of April. For the full year, see: Calendar of 2010 social media, tech and marketing conferences.
Note that we’ve published a roundup of social change conferences and events for April on our sister site, Socialbrite.
We’ll publish a list of noteworthy conferences and events on the first of each month during the year. Hope to see you at some of these! If you know of other must-attend events, please add them by posting in the comments at the bottom and I’ll add them as I can.
| Conference | Date | Place |
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| Social Web Business Forum | April 8-9 | Los Angeles |
| The Social Web Business Forum is where top online executives gather to discuss the intersection of online communities, social media and Enterprise 2.0. | ||
| mediaXchange | April 11-14 | Orlando, FL |
| For the 2nd year, mediaXchange replaces the Newspaper Association of America’s Marketing and NEXPO. It’s a cost-efficient way to learn about new revenue opportunities and network with your newspaper media peers. | ||
| PubCon South | April 13-15 | Dallas |
| PubCon Dallas is a multi-track technology conference with an extensive program of educational sessions where cutting-edge Internet marketing knowledge hot topics and trends are dissected. |  |
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| Inbound Marketing Summit – SF | April 14-15 | San Francisco |
| Chris Brogan presents the second year of this conference series geared to social influence marketers. Other Inbound Marketing Summits are coming to Chicago (June 23-24), Boston (Oct. 6-7) and Austin (Nov. 9-10). | ||
| Commercializing the Cloud | April 16 | Mountain View, Calif. |
| Under the Radar’s “Commercializing the Cloud” brings together CIOs and heads of IT from large enterprises, small businesses, carriers and media companies that are innovating to stay ahead in the fast-evolving IT ecosystem. | ||
| Future Midwest | April 16-17 | Royal Oak, Mich. |
| This is the region’s largest two-day technology and knowledge conference. The gathering looks at how technology and digital tools have dramatically changed the way we do business and the effect this transition has had on companies. | ||
| Social Business Edge | April 19 | New York City |
| Social Business Edge is designed to address issues like basic principles of business: how to innovate and prosper, to stay in step with a changing world, and the rise of the social web. This will be an event loosely modeled on late night television, a format to reduce the formalities to get into some deep discussions. |  |
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| Emerging Communications (eComm) | April 19-21 | San Francisco |
| The third annual eComm Conference & Awards is designed to showcase tech and business model innovation — especially around telecom, mobile and Internet communications — and to explore the latest opportunities. |  |
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| ad:tech | April 19-21 | San Francisco |
| Ad:tech is the event for digital marketers, with lots of hands-on sessions with practical tips and case studies. Other upcoming ad:tech events are in Singapore (June 3-4), London (Sept. 21-22), Shanghai (Oct.), Tokyo (Oct. 28-29), Beijing (Nov. 17-18) and New York (Nov. 3-5). | ||
| 140 Characters Conference – New York | April 20-21 | New York |
| #140conf explores the effects of Twitter on such topics as celebrity, media, advertising, politics, music, education, public safety and public diplomacy. Other 140 Characters Conferences will take place this year in London and Los Angeles. |  |
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| NewComm Forum * | April 20-23 | San Mateo, Calif. |
| I’ll be speaking at the Society for New Communications Research’s NewComm Forum, one of the best gatherings of new media professionals and social marketers. |  |
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| The Power of eMarketing | 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. | ||
| Next Web | April 27-29 | Amsterdam |
| One of the best networking events in Europe, the Next Web conference welcomes 1,200 Web professionals — decision makers from the European & American Internet scene, technology entrepreneurs, start-ups, innovators, along with venture capitalists, industry journalist, bloggers and senior level executives for 3 talks, business and fun. |  |
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| Free State Social | April 29-30 | Lawrence, Kansas |
| The Free State Social will highlight the best in social media from the Kansas region, educate attendees about the current state of social media, present opportunities for its use and talk about where the industry is headed. | ||
| SOBCon | Apr 30-May 2 | Chicago |
| SOBCon is “Biz School for Blogging,” focusing on the ROI of relationships in the enterprise. It’s where the best minds in social marketing gather to present models, discuss insights and determine best practices. |  |
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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.
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