Social media, tech & marketing events: May

Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events scheduled for the month of May. For the full year, see: Calendar of 2010 social media, tech and marketing conferences. It’s a busy month, and I’ll be kicking it off by heading to Web 2.0 Expo today.

Even if you can’t attend, you should be able to follow part of the proceedings on Twitter — type in the name of the conference on Twitter Search and look for the hashtag associated with it (then click on it).

Note that we’ve published a roundup of social change conferences and events for May 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
May
NYC Symposium for Social Change	May 3	New York
The NYC Symposium for Social Change brings together the powerful economic tools of Wall Street with the entrepreneurship of social innovation to impact New York City’s most pressing issues in education, environment and impact investing.
CMS Expo	May 3-5	Evanston, Ill.
At CMS Expo, you’ll get 3 full days of CMS skills training for Joomla, Drupal and WordPress, plus a CMS Foundations Track and CMS PowerTrack, built to help you power up your CMS to its maximum efficiency.
Social Media & Community 2.0 Strategies	May 3-5	Boston
Targeted advice for business managers seeking real-life stories of how to leverage social media for real results. Not just buzz but real-world examples of driving revenue, cutting costs and energizing conversations around your brand.
Web 2.0 Expo *	May 3-6	San Francisco
Web 2.0 Expo provides insight into the new generation of services and opportunities offered by Web 2.0. Heavy on vendors and products, it’s a larger gathering than Web 2.0 Summit.
Digital Hollywood Spring	May 3-6	Santa Monica
I’ve spoken at several sessions at Digital Hollywood but likely won’t return this year. It’s one of the nation’s premier entertainment and technology conferences.
MarketingProfs B2B Forum	May 4-5	Boston
The B2B Forum is a one-stop shop for the skills you need to drive sales. You’ll learn from B2B marketing experts in a variety of formats from panel discussions to round-tables to one-on-one therapy.
Lift10	May 5-7	Geneva, Switzerland
Lift10 will welcome 1,000 participants from 40 countries to explore the most overlooked aspect of innovation: people.
MaximumFunCon	May 7-9	Lake Arrowhead, Calif.
The second annual MaximumFunCon is a gathering of creative people who wish to be more awesome, hosted by MaximumFun.org.
next10	May 11-12	Berlin
Organized by SinnerSchrader, the next conference is one of the top networking and trend conferences within the European Web industry.
Streaming Media East	May 11-12	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 take place Nov. 2-3 in Los Angeles.
Making Your Media Matter	May 12	Washington, D.C.
Making Your Media Matter is a conference for established and aspiring filmmakers, nonprofit communications leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for making their media matter.
Winning Media Strategies	May 20-22	Washington, D.C.
BIA/Kelsey’s annual conference focused on the latest developments and trends for enhancing the traditional media business and creating the progressive change television, radio, cable and newspaper companies must make to ensure long-term success.
Search Exchange Internet Marketing Conference	May 17-19	Charlotte, NC
Join hundreds of business professionals and entrepreneurs, hear keynotes and panel discussions on search engine optimization, social media marketing, pay per click advertising and web analytics.
Gilbane Conference	May 18-20	San Francisco
Intranets, blogs, wikis, portals and social software tools provide knowledge workers increasingly efficient ways to collaborate and share knowledge. This conference is organized into four tracks so whether you are in marketing, IT, a business unit or an internal function, you will be able to plan a customized agenda to get the information you need for success. A corresponding Gilbrane Boston conference will likely be held in the fall.
WebVisions	May 19-21	Portland. Ore.
WebVisions explores the future of web design, technology, user experience and business strategy to uncover the trends for web and mobile applications, blogs, social media, animation, motion graphics and more.
Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup	May 24-25	San Francisco
YPulse, which tracks how youths use emerging media, again showcases entrepreneurs between the ages of 13 and 24. Guy Kawasaki has tentatively agreed to return and moderate the Totally Wired Youth Entrepreneur panel.
Conference on Weblogs and Social Media	May 23-26	Washington, D.C.
The 4th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media brings together researchers from disparate disciplines to increase our understanding of social media in all its incarnations. This event will be held in Washington, D.C., where government innovators are experimenting with the use of social media to increase transparency and better engage with the citizenry.
School of WOM	May 24-26	Chicago
The Word of Mouth Marketing Association puts on this training workshop for marketers.
SocialMediaPlus	May 25	Philadelphia
SocialMediaPlus is a one-day social media and Web 2.0 conference for business leaders in the mid-Atlantic area. Its four tracks are for executives, marketing and sales, IT and human resources.
Gov 2.0 Expo	May 25-27	Washington, D.C.
Government 2.0 is about empowering government employees to serve citizens better and opening up the government into a platform that enables citizens to better help their communities.

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.