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January 1, 2009

2009 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing

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
* 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. ces2
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. charlene-li
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.”
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. palmtree
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. wemedia3d
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. demo
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. zoe
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. mediasummit
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. em9
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. womma
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. waltkara
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. danahboyd
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. jory
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. office20
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. blogworld
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.” leahculver
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 works with major com­pa­nies and non­prof­its on social media strate­gies. See his busi­ness pro­file, con­tact JD or leave a comment.

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1.
Mark Evans

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

Comment by Mark EvansNo Gravatar — December 23, 2008 @ 5:32 pm

2.
Steve Garfield

Nice list. Thanks for putting it together and high­light­ing which con­fer­ec­nes you’ll be attending.

See you at CES!
–Steve

Comment by Steve Garfield — December 23, 2008 @ 5:32 pm

3.
Buzz Bruggeman

Glad you included Pop!Tech. Thoughts of years past..

Merry Christ­mas…

Buzz

Comment by Buzz BruggemanNo Gravatar — December 23, 2008 @ 5:32 pm

4.
Ernest Koe

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

-

@ernestkoe

Comment by Ernest KoeNo Gravatar — December 23, 2008 @ 5:32 pm

5.
Natalie Fonseca

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

Comment by Natalie FonsecaNo Gravatar — December 23, 2008 @ 8:23 pm

6.
Lailoni

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

Comment by LailoniNo Gravatar — December 23, 2008 @ 8:23 pm

7.
JD Lasica

Thanks, Natalie, looks like that was the only url I missed.

Thanks, Lailoni, the Bull­dog event is in there now.

Comment by JD LasicaNo Gravatar — December 23, 2008 @ 8:33 pm

8.
Brian Bowman

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.

Comment by Brian BowmanNo Gravatar — December 24, 2008 @ 11:53 am

9.
Steven Walling

You can add RecentChangesCamp, the first and longest-running annual wiki uncon­fer­ence, to Feb­ru­ary (20–22 in Port­land, Oregon).

http://2009rcc.org/

Comment by Steven WallingNo Gravatar — December 24, 2008 @ 11:53 am

10.
John Cass

Great post JD, thanks for putting this together.

Comment by John Cass — December 24, 2008 @ 11:53 am

11.
Ellyn Angelotti

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

Comment by Ellyn AngelottiNo Gravatar — December 24, 2008 @ 11:53 am

12.
tim

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

Comment by timNo Gravatar — December 24, 2008 @ 1:23 pm

13.
JustinSMV

Great List! Digged/Sphinned. Kudos

Comment by JustinSMVNo Gravatar — December 24, 2008 @ 1:23 pm

14.
tim

Third Inter­na­tional AAAI Con­fer­ence on Weblogs and Social Media, 17–20 May, 2009, San Jose, California

http://www.icwsm.org/2009/

Comment by timNo Gravatar — December 24, 2008 @ 1:23 pm

15.
JD Lasica

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 …

Comment by JD LasicaNo Gravatar — December 25, 2008 @ 9:53 pm

16.
Patsy Stewart

Thanks for com­pil­ing this list. Wish there were more on the East Coast!

Comment by Patsy StewartNo Gravatar — December 25, 2008 @ 9:53 pm

17.
Nathaniel Whittemore

great list JD! Thanks much!

Comment by Nathaniel WhittemoreNo Gravatar — December 27, 2008 @ 12:04 pm

18.
Ilan Rabinovitch

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.

Comment by Ilan RabinovitchNo Gravatar — December 27, 2008 @ 8:28 pm

19.
Beverly Macy

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

Comment by Beverly MacyNo Gravatar — December 28, 2008 @ 3:49 pm

20.
eric norlin

you can add:

1) Glue (www.gluecon.com) on may 12-13th

and

2) Defrag (www.defragcon.com) on Nov 11-12th.

Comment by eric norlinNo Gravatar — December 28, 2008 @ 3:49 pm

21.
JD

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.

Comment by JDNo Gravatar — December 28, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

22.
tyfn

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.

Comment by tyfnNo Gravatar — December 28, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

23.
Darren Barefoot

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

Comment by Darren BarefootNo Gravatar — December 28, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

24.
BillyWarhol

I wanna go to SXSW!! Now that sounds like my idea of a Party!!

+ WEB3D.0 is Next!

Cheers Every­body! Billy ;)) Peace*

Comment by BillyWarholNo Gravatar — December 28, 2008 @ 6:44 pm

25.
Mich Sineath

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

Comment by Mich SineathNo Gravatar — December 28, 2008 @ 8:05 pm

26.
Sam Decker

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

Comment by Sam Decker — December 28, 2008 @ 8:55 pm

27.
Noreen McCaffrey

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.

Comment by Noreen McCaffreyNo Gravatar — December 29, 2008 @ 11:42 am

28.
Danny Sullivan

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.

Comment by Danny SullivanNo Gravatar — December 29, 2008 @ 11:42 am

29.
Chris LaBossiere

ASTD Tech­knowl­edge is in Vegas the last week of Jan­u­ary for all e-learning folks.

Comment by Chris LaBossiere — December 30, 2008 @ 9:51 pm

30.
JD Lasica

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. :~)

Comment by JD Lasica — December 31, 2008 @ 2:31 am

31.
Pamela Poole

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/

Comment by Pamela PooleNo Gravatar — December 31, 2008 @ 2:31 am

32.
JD

Susan Mer­nit says:

She’s Geeky is hap­pen­ing in Moun­tain View Jan. 30–31; low-cost & great unconference-register & more info @ shesgeeky.org

Comment by JDNo Gravatar — January 1, 2009 @ 10:13 pm

33.
jessica mullen

great post! i have been search­ing for a list like this every­where. hope 2 meet u at one of the events!

Comment by jessica mullenNo Gravatar — January 2, 2009 @ 1:28 am

34.
Jeff Slobotski

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!

Comment by Jeff SlobotskiNo Gravatar — January 3, 2009 @ 1:47 pm

35.
Vera Zambonelli

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/

Comment by Vera ZambonelliNo Gravatar — January 6, 2009 @ 8:46 am

36.
JD Lasica

BlogHer is already there, but thanks for expand­ing on it!

Comment by JD LasicaNo Gravatar — January 6, 2009 @ 10:24 am

37.
Yulimar Chiu

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.”

Comment by Yulimar ChiuNo Gravatar — January 6, 2009 @ 10:24 am

38.
Micah Sifry

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

Comment by Micah SifryNo Gravatar — January 10, 2009 @ 1:23 pm

39.
BJ Wishinsky

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/

Comment by BJ WishinskyNo Gravatar — January 10, 2009 @ 1:23 pm

40.
JD Lasica

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.

Comment by JD Lasica — January 10, 2009 @ 1:25 pm

41.
Justin Jarvis

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.

Comment by Justin JarvisNo Gravatar — January 10, 2009 @ 1:27 pm

42.
JD Lasica

Sarah passes along this addi­tion for January:

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets Sum­mit
Jan­u­ary 23, 2009
San Fran­cisco, CA
http://www.pmcluster.com/SFO09.htm

Comment by JD Lasica — January 11, 2009 @ 2:31 pm

43.
Tonia Ries

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.

Comment by Tonia RiesNo Gravatar — May 2, 2009 @ 8:53 pm

44.
lzimberoff

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/

Comment by lzimberoffNo Gravatar — July 30, 2009 @ 12:03 am

45.
Carolyn Carson

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
http://www.TWTRCON.com

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).

Comment by Carolyn CarsonNo Gravatar — August 7, 2009 @ 3:30 pm

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