January 21, 2010

2010 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing

Girls in Tech
Lucia Gia­co­man­to­nio, Adri­ana Gas­coigne and Robyn Cohen at Web 2.0 Expo, April 2009.

The Ulti­mate Guide to con­fer­ences & events, month by month

JD LasicaFor the past three years I’ve painstak­ingly put together a cal­en­dar of the best social media, tech­nol­ogy, media and mar­ket­ing con­fer­ences for the upcom­ing year. Here’s the list for 2010.

This is not intended to be an all-encompassing list, and many of the con­fer­ences out­side of the United States aren’t listed here. I’ve also left out some tra­di­tional news­pa­per con­fer­ences and some of the wor­thy but fast-changing Bar­Camps, Pod­Camps, Mobile­Camps 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 and I’ll add them as I can.

Also please check out our Cal­en­dar of 2010 social change, non­profit and media reform con­fer­ences on our sis­ter site, Socialbrite.org. It’s the first cal­en­dar of its kind that I’ve spotted!

You prob­a­bly arrived here from a retweet on Twit­ter (or a Google search), so fol­low me here if you’d like: @jdlasica. Con­fer­ences marked with an * indi­cate that I’ll be speak­ing or attending.

Con­fer­ence Date Place
* indi­cates con­fer­ences I’ll be attend­ing or speak­ing at.
Jan­u­ary
Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show* Jan. 7–10 Las Vegas
Still the largest elec­tron­ics show on the planet. I’ll be cov­er­ing it as part of the Intel Insid­ers. Cov­er­age here and pho­tos here. ces2
Agency of the Year Jan. 12 New York City
At this awards cer­e­mony, 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 in 2009.
Girls in Tech: Cat­a­lyst Conference Jan. 26 San Fran­cisco
Cat­a­lyst Con­fer­ence brings more than 250 pas­sion­ate, cre­ative women together to fuel new rela­tion­ships and ideas. Come pre­pared to share con­crete tech­nol­ogy and busi­ness tools and tac­tics, meet ener­getic lead­ers and entre­pre­neurs, and develop your own busi­ness ventures.
OMMA Social Jan. 26 San Fran­cisco
OMMA Social San Fran­cisco looks to help atten­dees pre­pare for the next raft of social media change – change that may impact all online media as plat­forms such as Face­book Con­nect become embed­ded in sites through­out the Web. charlene-li
Web 3.0 Jan. 26–27 Santa Clara, Calif.
This con­fer­ence will explore how com­pa­nies are, and should be, using the new seman­tic Web tech­nolo­gies for bot­tom line impact in areas like mar­ket­ing, cor­po­rate infor­ma­tion man­age­ment, pub­lish­ing, cus­tomer ser­vice and per­sonal productivity.
Enter­prise Social 2.0 Jan. 27–28 Ams­ter­dam
This senior exec­u­tive event will bring together deci­sion mak­ers from the Top For­tune com­pa­nies to dis­cuss inno­v­a­tive strate­gies on how to max­imise busi­ness per­for­mance through social media engagement.
Social Media Conference Jan. 27–29 Miami
This is expected to be the largest gath­er­ing of senior exec­u­tives from the enter­prise social net­work­ing indus­try. The event will dis­cuss social net­work­ing busi­ness mod­els, global busi­ness strate­gies, part­ner­ships, legal issues, pay­ment sys­tems and more.
Twi­istup Jan. 28 Los Ange­les
More than just a con­fer­ence, Twi­istup is LA’s biggest tech­nol­ogy event. Twi­istup com­bines a show­case for inno­va­tion, a plat­form for thought lead­ers and an audi­ence of entre­pre­neurs, media and investors all wrapped in a unique, styl­ized envi­ron­ment that rivals a Hol­ly­wood production. twiistup
Search Con­gress Jan. 28–29 Bil­bao, Spain
The biggest Search Engines: Search Mar­ket­ing and Online Mar­ket­ing event starts the year in the north of Spain. SC Bil­bao will offer 9 pro­fes­sion­als work­shops, 8 con­fer­ences and 2 days of learn­ing and net­work­ing. Socialmedia.biz read­ers get a 30% dis­count — use the pro­mo­tional code: ILOVESEARCH.
She’s Geeky Jan. 29 Moun­tain View, Calif.
The third Bay Area event takes place at the Com­puter His­tory Museum. She’s Geeky hosts uncon­fer­ences across the U.S. to give women in STEM tech­nolo­gies an oppor­tu­nity to get together to learn from each other and dis­cuss the issues they face in their respec­tive fields.
Feb­ru­ary
AlwaysOn: OnMedia NYC Feb. 1–3 New York City
Tech CEOs from Sil­i­con Val­ley meet the global adver­tis­ing and media estab­lish­ment. This exec­u­tive event fea­tures CEO pre­sen­ta­tions and dis­cus­sions about which forces are dis­rupt­ing user behav­ior and cre­at­ing new oppor­tu­ni­ties in the mar­ket­ing, brand­ing, adver­tis­ing and PR industries.
Social Media Week* Feb. 1–5 Var­i­ous
Learn about the poten­tial of social media in a series of events in your city: New York, San Fran­cisco, Lon­don, Berlin, Toronto and Sao Paulo.
Vator Splash Feb. 4 San Fran­cisco
Vator.tv is host­ing an event for seed– to early-stage star­tups that want to learn about build­ing their busi­ness and launch and/or show­case their com­pa­nies before their indus­try peers, investors and media.
Teens in Tech 2.0 Feb. 6 San Fran­cisco
Learn from teenagers what they think about the cur­rent trends of teenage tech­nol­ogy. Cre­ate tech­nol­ogy and hear directly from devel­op­ers, entre­pre­neurs and video bloggers. Daniel
Social Fresh Feb. 8 Tampa, Fla.
Social Fresh is a one-day, case study rich con­fer­ence chiefly for mar­keters, with more than 30 speakers.
Train­ing: Social Media for Government Feb. 8–11 Wash­ing­ton, D.C.
Attend this con­fer­ence to learn how to cap­ture the power of social media in your orga­ni­za­tion, along with help­ful tools, tips and tech­niques to get started, includ­ing how to develop a social media strategy.
Mac­world Expo* Feb. 9–13 San Fran­cisco
Guy Kawasaki, cutting-edge tech, prod­uct roll-outs, soft­ware classes and more. This is the first year Apple is not par­tic­i­pat­ing, but the Mac prod­uct and soft­ware ecosys­tem remains vibrant. macworld
TED Feb. 9–13 Long Beach, Calif.
TED (Tech­nol­ogy, Enter­tain­ment, Design) is where the world’s lead­ing thinkers and doers gather to share ideas worth spread­ing. TEDAc­tive, a simul­cast expe­ri­ence, takes place in Palm Springs. TEDx brings the TED expe­ri­ence to local communities.
Online Com­mu­nity Uncon­fer­ence East Feb. 10 New York City
This is an open space gath­er­ing of online com­mu­nity man­agers, devel­op­ers, busi­ness peo­ple, tool providers and investors to dis­cuss best prac­tices in devel­op­ing and grow­ing online com­mu­ni­ties. The West Coast ver­sion takes place June 9.
140 Char­ac­ters Con­fer­ence — Barcelona Feb. 15 Barcelona
#140conf explores the effects of Twit­ter on such top­ics as celebrity, media, adver­tis­ing, pol­i­tics, music, edu­ca­tion, pub­lic safety and pub­lic diplomacy.
Blog­Well Feb. 16 San Diego
You’ll hear eight case stud­ies on the best social media pro­grams at large cor­po­ra­tions directly from the social media execs them­selves in this ongo­ing series of events put on by GasPedal and the Blog Council.
edSo­cial­Me­dia Bootcamp Feb. 16 Boston
Are you try­ing to under­stand social media and how it can be used at your school? Do you need a bet­ter grasp of the ben­e­fits and chal­lenges of social media before jump­ing in? The gath­er­ing will tackle how social media can be used in education. clock
paid­Con­tent Feb. 19 New York City
paidContent2010 gath­ers senior busi­ness lead­ers rep­re­sent­ing pub­lish­ers, con­tent tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies, investors, ana­lysts, blog­gers and jour­nal­ists to dis­cuss busi­ness strate­gies and mod­els that are work­ing across news, infor­ma­tion and enter­tain­ment, and to explore cross-platform approaches to devel­op­ing diverse rev­enue streams.
Grav­ity Summit Feb. 22 Los Ange­les
Grav­ity Sum­mit events help bridge the gap between the new social media mar­ket­ing tools and the busi­ness com­mu­nity. The event seeks to help inform mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als, small busi­ness own­ers, adver­tis­ers, exec­u­tives and oth­ers about the new mar­ket­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tions landscape.
Vir­tual Edge Feb. 22–23 Santa Clara, Calif.
Vir­tual Edge Sum­mit 2010 is the only event that focuses exclu­sively on pro­vid­ing edu­ca­tion, train­ing and solu­tions for plan­ning and pro­duc­ing vir­tual events, meet­ings and com­mu­ni­ties. The sum­mit is designed for all vir­tual mar­ket­ing and meet­ing pro­fes­sion­als, as well as for those with exper­tise in pro­duc­ing phys­i­cal events and in-person meet­ings that now need to expand into adding vir­tual solutions. VirtualEdge 2010
O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Feb. 22–24 New York City
A con­fer­ence on emerg­ing trends around dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing, includ­ing the mobile Web, ebooks, dig­i­tal print­ing, new author­ing tools, evolv­ing busi­ness mod­els for paid con­tent, etc.
Future of Web Apps Feb. 22–24 Miami
Speak­ers on the 10 Golden Prin­ci­ples for Suc­cess­ful Web Apps, mar­ket­ing met­rics, open source libraries and more.
Online Mar­ket­ing Summit Feb. 22–25 San Diego
Join your mar­ket­ing peers as they share ideas, hear from expert prac­ti­tion­ers and learn best prac­tices in the areas of social media, search, email, ana­lyt­ics and more -– in a com­pletely vendor-free environment.
Think Tank Live Feb. 23 Mil­wau­kee, WI, area
Think Tank is a col­lec­tive group of inte­grated mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als from Chicago and Mil­wau­kee. Each of the pre­sen­ters rep­re­sents a dif­fer­ent area in the world of Inter­net mar­ket­ing: SEO, SEM, brand­ing, web devel­op­ment, ana­lyt­ics, blog­ging and social media.
Sex::Tech 2010 Feb. 26–27 San Fran­cisco
The Inter­net and mobile tech have strength­ened youth net­works and increased youth access to tools and infor­ma­tion for improv­ing their sex­ual health. Sex::Tech explores tools and meth­ods for reach­ing youth with STD/HIV pre­ven­tion and sex edu­ca­tion interventions. sextech
March
Global Ignite Week March 1–4 World­wide
Ignite, started in 2006, brings together geeks to do 5-minute talks in front of small audi­ences — with slides that rotate every 15 sec­onds. Global Ignite Week fea­tures 500 talks in 40 cities, includ­ing New York, LA, the Bay Area, Boston, Madrid, Manila, Paris and Sydney. micki
SMX West March 2–4 Santa Clara, Calif.
SMX West fea­tures three days of ses­sions, keynotes and access to the lead­ing ven­dors in search mar­ket­ing. Ses­sions will focus on SEO, PPC, social media, local & mobile search and more. Other SMX events: Toronto (April 8–9), Syd­ney (April 22–23), Lon­don (May 17–18), Seat­tle (June 8–9), New York (Oct. 4–6).
The Co-Alignment of the Cor­po­rate and Per­sonal Brand March 4–5 Chicago
You’ll develop your copy of “The Draft,” SOHO’s 16-page social com­mu­ni­ca­tions pol­icy work­book for busi­nesses and cor­po­ra­tions. The focus in 2010 is co-aligning the cor­po­rate brand with inter­nal and exter­nal communications.
Search­Fest March 9 Port­land, Ore.
Search­Fest is ded­i­cated to search mar­ket­ing edu­ca­tion and net­work­ing. Indus­try experts and thought lead­ers from around the coun­try are sched­uled to deliver in-depth pre­sen­ta­tions. This year will be the most com­pre­hen­sive Search­Fest ever with top­ics like Social Media Mar­ket­ing, Advanced Search Engine Opti­miza­tion, Local Search, Ana­lyt­ics, Paid Search Mar­ket­ing and more. SearchFest
We Media Miami March 9–11 Miami
Here you can meet the Game Chang­ers, watch the PitchIt! finals, be a part of a live global broad­cast by The BBC and exchange ideas with a group of inno­va­tors, thinkers, vision­ar­ies, investors and entrepreneurs. wemedia3d
Media Sum­mit March 10–11 New York City
Hun­dreds 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.
South by South­west* March 12–21 Austin
This year’s SXSW sched­ule: Inter­ac­tive March 12–16, Film March 12–20, Music March 17–21. Coun­ter­cul­ture meets geek techies, indie film­mak­ers and alt bands. tim street
Social Net­work­ing World Forum — Europe March 15–16 Lon­don
The con­fer­ence bills itself as Europe’s lead­ing social media event. The event fea­tures con­fer­ence streams and work­shops on enter­prise social media, mobile, social TV and more. A date for the World Forum — North Amer­ica in the fall has not been announced
MIX10 March 15–17 Las Vegas
Now in its fifth year, Microsoft’s MIX con­fer­ence is a gath­er­ing of design­ers and devel­op­ers who are build­ing the world’s most inno­v­a­tive websites.
ad:tech March 16–17 Syd­ney
ad:tech is the event for dig­i­tal mar­keters, with lots of hands-on ses­sions with prac­ti­cal tips and case stud­ies. Other ad:tech events are in San Fran­cisco (April 19–21), Sin­ga­pore (June 3–4), Lon­don (Sept. 21–22), Shang­hai (Oct.), Tokyo (Oct. 28–29), Bei­jing (Nov. 17–18) and New York (Nov. 3–5). adtech
OMMA Global March 17–18 San Fran­cisco
This bian­nual con­fer­ence and trade show for the busi­ness of Online Media, Mar­ket­ing and Adver­tis­ing attracts about 4,000 peo­ple. This year’s theme is Cut­ting The Cord: The End Of Online.
DEMO spring March 21–23 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 19 years. How­ever, the start-ups pay a steep fee to do so. demo
Opti­miza­tion Summits March 23–24 Dal­las
At the Dal­las 2010 Opti­miza­tion Sum­mits, you’ll expe­ri­ence learn­ing by doing. You’ll build your own two-day cur­ricu­lum on top­ics rang­ing from social media to rev­enue management.
Social Media Strate­gies for Travel March 24–25 San Fran­cisco
Social media is chang­ing the way we com­mu­ni­cate with our cus­tomers. Get the low-down on how travel com­pa­nies are cap­i­tal­iz­ing on social media and take home prac­ti­cal advice on how to drive real return from your social media initiatives.
Social­Tech March 25 San Jose, Calif.
Social­Tech 2010 brings together the vision­ar­ies and experts who are using the power of social media to trans­form the way that B2B tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies mar­ket their prod­ucts and services.
The Freemium Sum­mit — The Busi­ness of Free March 26 San Fran­cisco
The first Freemium Sum­mit is a one-day event focused on explor­ing what it takes to suc­ceed under the freemium busi­ness model.
Where 2.0 March 30-April 1 San Jose, Calif.
Sit­u­a­tional aware­ness has become one of the essen­tial ana­lyt­ics for our lives and our busi­ness. Where 2.0 looks at mon­e­ti­za­tion strate­gies, emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies and how new com­pa­nies are jump­ing in to change the rules. where20
April
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. pubcon
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. Stowe Boyd
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. ecomm
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. Ann Curry at 140 Characters
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. Brian Solis at NewComm
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. The Next Web Conference
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. sobcon
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. Seth-Godin
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. Social Media & Community 2.0 Strategies
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. eric-schmidt
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. MarketingProfs B2B Forum
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. next10
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. Making Your Media Matter 2010
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. Search Exchange Internet Marketing Conference
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. The Gilbane Conference
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. webvisions
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. danahboyd
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. Bob Kraut
TechCrunch Dis­rupt May 24–26 New York
TechCrunch Dis­rupt is the only con­fer­ence that gath­ers Web inno­va­tors dis­rupt­ing media and tech­nol­ogy and also exec­u­tives suc­cess­fully nav­i­gat­ing dis­rup­tion to talk about turn­ing change into oppor­tu­nity. You’ll hear from lumi­nar­ies and see launches, with emerg­ing com­pa­nies show­ing off new ideas for the iPad, gam­ing, Hol­ly­wood con­tent and more. After three intense days, one startup will take home $50,000 to con­tinue build­ing their vision. TechCrunch Disrupt
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. Rohit Bhargava
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.
June
D Con­fer­ence June 1–3 Palos Verdes, Calif.
The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Dig­i­tal con­fer­ence has been break­ing news, high­light­ing inno­va­tion and bring­ing you straight-up, unvar­nished con­ver­sa­tions with the most influ­en­tial fig­ures in tech­nol­ogy since 2003. D is dif­fer­ent from other con­fer­ences: no canned speeches, no mar­ket­ing pitches — just content. waltkara
PLATO @ 50 June 2–3 Moun­tain View, Calif.
The first-ever con­fer­ence on the his­tory of the amaz­ing PLATO sys­tem. Come find out what social soft­ware, e-learning, online com­mu­nity and mul­ti­player games were like long before the Inter­net took off. Learn how the lessons of the PLATO era are still abun­dantly applic­a­ble today. Try out one of the fully restored orig­i­nal PLATO plasma-panel terminals. Ray Ozzie
Per­sonal Democ­racy Forum* June 2–5 New York City
The annual gath­er­ing of polit­i­cal activists, gov­ern­ment reform advo­cates and techies, with a Change Mak­ers Boot­camp on June 2 (I’ll be co-presenting with Katrin Ver­clas) and an uncon­fer­ence for the Sat­ur­day after the for­mal con­fer­ence ends.
IABC World Conference June 6–9 Toronto
The World Con­fer­ence of the Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Busi­ness Com­mu­ni­ca­tors brings together 1,400 com­mu­ni­ca­tion prac­ti­tion­ers from 40 coun­tries for four days of learn­ing, cama­raderie and inspiration.. iabc
RailsConf June 7–10 Bal­ti­more, Md.
RailsConf, the largest offi­cial con­fer­ence ded­i­cated to every­thing Rails, brings together the most inno­v­a­tive and suc­cess­ful Rails experts and com­pa­nies. Learn use­ful infor­ma­tion, ideas and tech­niques you can put to work imme­di­ately with a pro­gram designed for all lev­els of expertise. railsconf
Inter­net Week NYC June 7–14 New York City
Inter­net Week New York is a week­long fes­ti­val of events salut­ing NYC’s thriv­ing Inter­net indus­try and the com­pa­nies, orga­ni­za­tions and inno­va­tors cre­at­ing the future of online media.
SMX Advanced June 8–9 Seat­tle
Search Mar­ket­ing Expo Advanced is the only search mar­ket­ing con­fer­ence designed exclu­sively for expe­ri­enced inter­net mar­keters. Ses­sions are fast-paced, Q&A-packed, fre­quently con­tro­ver­sial and quite informative.
Con­nec­tions June 8–10 Santa Clara, Calif.
Con­nec­tions: The Dig­i­tal Liv­ing Con­fer­ence and Show­case, hosted by research firm Parks Asso­ciates with sup­port from the Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Asso­ci­a­tion, is the exec­u­tive event focused on mar­ket devel­op­ments for advanced dig­i­tal lifestyle solutions.
Online Com­mu­nity Unconference June 9 Moun­tain View, Calif.
The Online Com­mu­nity Uncon­fer­ence is a gath­er­ing of online com­mu­nity man­agers, devel­op­ers, busi­ness peo­ple, tool providers and investors to dis­cuss how to develop and grow online communities.
Adver­tis­ing 2.0 June 7–8 New York City
The annual gath­er­ing of adver­tis­ing, mar­ket­ing and media execs cov­er­ing global brands, mar­ket­ing, mobile and media. It’s put on by Barry Diller’s IAC and Dig­i­tal Hollywood.
Inno­va­tion Jour­nal­ism 7 June 7–9 Palo Alto, Calif.
IJ-7 is a meet­ing place to dis­cuss how jour­nal­ism and inno­va­tion come together: How jour­nal­ism affects inno­va­tion, how inno­va­tion affects jour­nal­ism, how jour­nal­ism cov­ers inno­va­tion and the mar­ket for it. The con­fer­ence wel­comes all jour­nal­ism and inno­va­tion stake­hold­ers: jour­nal­ists, indus­try, policy-makers in media and inno­va­tion, PR, aca­d­e­mic researchers, fac­ulty and stu­dents in related areas of study, other pro­fes­sion­als con­nected to the news indus­try, as well as indi­vid­u­als with a spe­cial inter­est in jour­nal­ism and innovation. Krishna Bharat
VON Con­fer­ence & Expo June 9–11 Wash­ing­ton, D.C.
VON: The Voice of Net­work Con­ver­gence show­cases the best of the global IP com­mu­ni­ca­tions world for ser­vice providers and large enterprises.
Turn­ing Ideas Into Business June 13–16 Banff, Canada
The Banff World Tele­vi­sion Fes­ti­val (BANFF) and next­MEDIA have announced an inno­v­a­tive strate­gic part­ner­ship that will see these two pop­u­lar indus­try events run concurrently.
Tab­ula Rasa DC June 14 McLean, VA
Tab­ula Rasa DC assem­bles a mas­ter cast of inno­va­tors, devel­op­ers and vision­ar­ies for hands-on guid­ance, cre­ative inspi­ra­tion and how-to maps for apps on the iPad and the wave of mobile, high-concept, high-touch per­sonal computers. hands-on-smarts
TWTRCON NY June 14 New York
TWTRCON NY is a one-day con­fer­ence focused entirely on the busi­ness use of Twit­ter where you’ll see case stud­ies and learn best prac­tices from lead­ing orga­ni­za­tions that are using the real-time Web to deliver bottom-line results. Joshua-Karpf1
Enter­prise 2.0 June 14–17 Boston
E2 takes a strate­gic per­spec­tive, empha­siz­ing the big­ger pic­ture impli­ca­tions of the tech­nol­ogy and the explo­ration of what is at stake for orga­ni­za­tions try­ing to change not only tools, but also cul­ture and process. enterprise20
Social Net­work­ing Conference June 16–18 Bev­erly Hills, Calif.
The annual event is for social net­work­ing exec­u­tives who have an inter­est in learn­ing about new tech­nolo­gies, busi­ness social net­work­ing, mar­ket­ing strate­gies, busi­ness man­age­ment, ven­ture cap­i­tal, net­works and mobile tele­com. Experts in man­age­ment, soft­ware, mobile tech­nol­ogy, ven­ture cap­i­tal and mar­ket­ing for social net­work­ing with expe­ri­ence with both the mobile/wireless mar­ket and the enter­prise social net­work­ing mar­ket will present. socialmediaconference
SIME Barcelona June 16–17 Barcelona, Spain
SIME is north­ern Europe’s largest con­fer­ence about the Inter­net and dig­i­tal oppor­tu­ni­ties with events in Helsinki, Stock­holm, Barcelona and now for the first time in San Fran­cisco. SIME brings together top exec­u­tives, mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als, afi­ciona­dos and mem­bers of the press. SIME is about how dig­i­tal oppor­tu­ni­ties can con­vert to new busi­ness and a bet­ter world. SIME Barcelona
Veloc­ity June 22–24 Santa Clara, Calif.
Now in its third year, Veloc­ity — the Web Per­for­mance and Oper­a­tions Con­fer­ence from O’Reilly Media — is ded­i­cated to help­ing peo­ple build a bet­ter Inter­net that is fast by default. Join hun­dreds of web devel­op­ers and experts under one roof at the pre­mier con­fer­ence ded­i­cated to build­ing indus­trial strength sites at Inter­net speed shanti-subramanyam
Inbound Mar­ket­ing Sum­mit — Chicago June 23–24 Chicago
Chris Bro­gan presents the sec­ond in a series of social influ­ence mar­ket­ing con­fer­ences for 2010.
M.O.B. Con­fer­ence June 24–25 New York City
The New­house School’s M.O.B. (“Mon­e­tiz­ing Online Busi­ness”) Con­fer­ence focuses on ways to deduce entirely new, suc­cess­ful media busi­ness mod­els based on the real­i­ties of 21st cen­tury media use. This will be an inter­ac­tive con­fer­ence with exten­sive audi­ence par­tic­i­pa­tion that aims to explore and clearly define the new busi­ness mod­els that have the best chance at prof­itabil­ity for media. David Zaslav
Part­ners for Growth & Innovation June 28–30 Tus­cany, Italy
This con­fer­ence is designed not just for CEOs, CMOs, ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists, devel­op­ers or design­ers, but also reaches out to every­one, includ­ing those inter­ested in tech­nol­ogy – CTOs, angel investors, acad­e­mia and gov­ern­ment employ­ees. The gath­er­ing will bring in speak­ers from the United States and from around Italy and other parts of Europe to talk about how to be inno­v­a­tive and build upon the entre­pre­neur­ial spirit. Valto Loikanen
Cloud Com­put­ing World Forum June 29–30 Lon­don
In this 2-day con­fer­ence and exhi­bi­tion, you’ll hear lead­ing case stud­ies about how busi­nesses have inte­grated cloud com­put­ing and Enter­prise 2.0 into their work­ing practices.
July
Blue­Glass LA July 19 Marina Del Rey, Calif.
Blue­Glass LA is an online mar­ket­ing con­fer­ence fea­tur­ing top-class speak­ers in search mar­ket­ing, social media and entre­pre­neur­ship that will pro­vide all you need to know on indus­try trends and strategies. blueglassla
OSCON July 19–23 Port­land, Ore.
In its 12th year, OSCON con­tin­ues to be the pre­mier meet­ing ground for every­one using open source. At OSCON, you’ll par­tic­i­pate in hun­dreds of ses­sions cov­er­ing open source lan­guages and plat­forms, prac­ti­cal tuto­ri­als, inspi­ra­tional keynotes, an Expo Hall and great net­work­ing events. Join over 2,500 peo­ple pas­sion­ate about open source. brian-fitzpatrick
Super Genius: How to Be Great at Word of Mouth Marketing July 20 New York
GasPedal’s lat­est gath­er­ing pulls together 12 real-world case stud­ies of word of mouth suc­cess sto­ries from great com­pa­nies and six authors as well as a keynote from Tony Hsieh, author of “Deliv­er­ing Hap­pi­ness: A Path to Prof­its, Pas­sion, and Pur­pose” and CEO of Zappos. Tony Hsieh
For­tune Brain­storm: Tech July 22–24 Aspen, Colo.
For­tune Brain­storm: Tech is a mar­ket­place of ideas that assem­bles some of the smartest peo­ple in tech and media — the thinkers, oper­a­tors, entre­pre­neurs, inno­va­tors and influ­encers — for dis­cus­sions about the chang­ing landscape. brainstorm
Sum­mit at Stanford July 27–29 Palo Alto, Calif.
This exec­u­tive gath­er­ing high­lights the sig­nif­i­cant eco­nomic, polit­i­cal and com­mer­cial trends affect­ing the global tech­nol­ogy indus­tries. The sum­mit fea­tures the most inno­v­a­tive com­pa­nies, emi­nent tech­nol­o­gists, influ­en­tial investors and jour­nal­ists in keynote pre­sen­ta­tions, panel debates and pri­vate com­pany CEO showcases.
Super­nova July 30 Philadel­phia
At Super­nova, CEOs and blog­gers, entre­pre­neurs and aca­d­e­mics, pol­icy experts and indus­try lead­ers share insights and build rela­tion­ships. It’s moved from San Fran­cisco to Philly for the first time. leahculver
August
Techon­omy Conference Aug. 4–6 Lake Tahoe
We’ve seen the fail­ure of mar­kets in Sep­tem­ber 2008, the fail­ure of inter­na­tional action in Copen­hagen last Decem­ber and the great dif­fi­culty Wash­ing­ton has get­ting things done. If we want solu­tions to major prob­lems, the insti­tu­tions, tools and resources we have now will not suf­fice. We have got to look to inno­va­tion — both tech­no­log­i­cal and social. techonomy
BlogHer Aug. 5–7 New York
BlogHer’s sixth annual con­fer­ence (Aug. 6–7) will be held in con­junc­tion with BlogHer Busi­ness (Aug. 5). The con­fer­ence for women blog­gers attracts about 90% women, 10% men. Jory Des Jardins
Big South Social Media Summit Aug. 14 Nashville, Tenn.
This gath­er­ing will fea­ture forward-thinking busi­ness exec­u­tives from com­pa­nies like South­west, SAP, Com­cast and Domino’s as well as social media lov­ing celebri­ties who will speak directly on how they drive ROI through social media. Speak­ers will share real-world suc­cess sto­ries, pit­falls and case stud­ies to demon­strate the true value of social media. Ted Murphy
Affil­i­ate Sum­mit East Aug. 15–17 New York City
This gath­er­ing 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. affiliate summit
Gnomedex Aug. 19–21 Seat­tle
Gnomedex is a top gath­er­ing of geeks, open source pio­neers and cool kids.
Sep­tem­ber
Gov 2.0 Summit Sept. 7–8 Wash­ing­ton, D.C.
O’Reilly’s Gov 2.0 Sum­mit returns to the nation’s cap­i­tal some time in September.
WITI’s Women and Tech­nol­ogy Summit Sept. 12–14 Sil­i­con Val­ley, Calif.
WITI’s annual Women and Tech­nol­ogy Sum­mit in Sil­i­con Val­ley pro­vides oppor­tu­ni­ties to get con­nected to amaz­ing women from around the world con­ven­ing in one place.
DEMO­fall Sept. 13–15 Santa Clara, Calif.
The fall edi­tion of the august tech inno­va­tion con­fer­ence (which charges com­pa­nies about $20,000 to present on stage).
Latino2* Sept. 18 Los Ange­les
The first Latino2 con­fer­ence aims to cre­ate the largest gath­er­ing of busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als inter­ested in engag­ing Lati­nos in the dig­i­tal age. Brought to you by Lati­nos in Social Media (LatISM), the event will have a strong focus on tech­nol­ogy, enter­tain­ment, media and pub­lic pol­icy. It’ll be held at the LA Con­ven­tion Center. latino-logo
PICNIC Sept. 22–24 Ams­ter­dam
PICNIC is a cross-discipline plat­form for cre­ative con­ver­sa­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion. It’s a unique fes­ti­val fea­tur­ing a strate­gic con­fer­ence com­ple­mented by hands-on work­shops and match­mak­ing sessions. picnic
Web 2.0 Expo NY Sept. 27–30 New York City
The NYC edi­tion of Web 2.0 Expo.
Octo­ber
SMX East Oct. 4–6 New York City
SMX East fea­tures three days of ses­sions, keynotes and access to the lead­ing ven­dors in search mar­ket­ing. Ses­sions will cover a wide range of search engine mar­ket­ing top­ics: SEO, paid search adver­tis­ing, ana­lyt­ics, local, mobile and more.
[Dig­i­tal PR Next Prac­tices Summit] Octo­ber 6 New York City
From lever­ag­ing social media to build­ing rela­tion­ships with online influ­encers, PR News’ third annual Dig­i­tal PR Next Prac­tices Sum­mit offers tac­tics and lessons learned in opti­miz­ing the dig­i­tal plat­form to advance your PR efforts.
Inbound Mar­ket­ing Sum­mit — Boston Oct. 6–7 Boston
Chris Bro­gan presents the third in a series of social influ­ence mar­ket­ing con­fer­ences for 2010.
Online Com­mu­nity Summit Oct. 7–8 Sonoma, Calif.
The Online Com­mu­nity Sum­mit is where thought lead­ers in online col­lab­o­ra­tion gather to dis­cuss best ideas for the future.
Blog­World & New Media Expo Oct. 14–16 Las Vegas, Nev.
The first day of the show is the Social Media Busi­ness Sum­mit. The final two days will be the trade show and rich selec­tion of con­fer­ence sessions. blogworld
Dig­i­tal Hol­ly­wood Fall Oct. 18–21 Santa Mon­ica
Dig­i­tal Hol­ly­wood remains one of the nation’s pre­mier enter­tain­ment and tech­nol­ogy conferences.
Social­Biz­World Oct. 22–23 Petaluma, Calif.
Social­Biz­World is a two-day social media and Web 2.0 busi­ness con­fer­ence for pri­vate and public-sector busi­ness exec­u­tives, lead­ers, man­agers, employ­ees and con­sul­tants look­ing for insight­ful speak­ers, hands-on work­shops, in-depth dis­cus­sions and real-world exam­ples to move their busi­ness for­ward with new media. Lon Safko
Pop!Tech Oct. 20–23 Cam­den, Maine
Pop!Tech is a net­work of remark­able peo­ple, extra­or­di­nary ses­sions, pow­er­ful ideas and inno­v­a­tive projects that are chang­ing the world. I attended one year — it’s a great gathering.
Online News Association Oct. 28–30 Wash­ing­ton, D.C.
The 10th annual gath­er­ing of new media movers and shak­ers, jour­nal­ists and online news managers.
Novem­ber
Inbound Mar­ket­ing Sum­mit — Austin Nov. 9–10 Austin
Chris Bro­gan presents the fourth in a series of social influ­ence mar­ket­ing con­fer­ences for 2010. Chris Brogan
Stream­ing Media West Nov. 15 Miami
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.
Web 2.0 Sum­mit * Nov. 15–17 San Fran­cisco
One of the best tech con­fer­ences in the world, period. A gath­er­ing about how to put the power of the Web to work — its tech­nolo­gies, its busi­ness mod­els and its philoso­phies of open­ness, col­lec­tive intel­li­gence and transparency. cto
WOMMA Sum­mit Nov. 17–19 Las Vegas
The Word of Mouth Mar­ket­ing Asso­ci­a­tion brings together thought lead­ers in the word-of-mouth mar­ket­ing space.
SIME Stock­holm Nov. 17–18 Stock­holm
SIME is north­ern Europe’s largest con­fer­ence about the Inter­net and dig­i­tal oppor­tu­ni­ties with events in Helsinki, Stock­holm, Barcelona and now San Fran­cisco. SIME brings together top exec­u­tives, mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als, afi­ciona­dos and mem­bers of the press. SIME is about how dig­i­tal oppor­tu­ni­ties can con­vert to new busi­ness and a bet­ter world. SIME Stockholm
Decem­ber
LeWeb Dec. Paris
LeWeb is the top Inter­net event in Europe, with 2,400 par­tic­i­pants from 50 coun­tries attend­ing in 2009. No date yet for the 2010 event.
Inter­ac­tive Local Media Dec. 8–10 Santa Clara, Calif.
Inter­ac­tive Local Media 2010 is BIA/Kelsey’s annual con­fer­ence devoted to dig­i­tal media with a local focus. This event pro­vides a 360-degree view of the local mar­ket­place, cov­er­ing local search, Inter­net Yel­low Pages, ver­ti­cal direc­to­ries, Inter­net video, online clas­si­fieds and mobile search.

I can’t find plans for a 2010 ver­sion of:

Reboot (last held June 25– 26, 2009, in Copen­hagen)
Dig­i­tal ID World
• FAST­for­ward
• Web Con­tent Con­fer­ences
• Con­ver­sa­tional Mar­ket­ing Sum­mit
• Bull­dog Reporter’s Media Rela­tions Sum­mit
• Beyond Broad­cast
• New­TeeVee Pier Screenings

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 2010 aca­d­e­mic con­fer­ences by sub­ject cat­e­gory, includ­ing Pol­i­tics and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Media.

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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Search Exchange

Search Exchange — http://searchexchange.org/ May 17–19 Char­lotte, NC
Keynote Speak­ers include Chris Bro­gan, Chris Win­field, David Szetela, Lee Odden, Rhea Drys­dale, and Rae Hoff­man. 3 full days of Social Media, SEO/ORM, and PPC/Analytics

Comment by Search ExchangeNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 8:31 pm

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Tami

You may also want to check out the Opti­miza­tion Sum­mits in Dal­las TX March 23rd & 24th . These are Work­shops, See It. Hear It. Do It. and get Real Time Results. Leave the event with a work­ing social media plan in place. Work­shop lead­ers include some of the Rock Stars of social media!

Comment by TamiNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 8:36 pm

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John Coonen

Great list, please add OUR con­fer­ence for May, 2010:

CMS Expo Learn­ing and Busi­ness Con­fer­ence
May 3, 4, 5, 2010
Hotel Orring­ton — Evanston, Illinois

Hosted by the CMS Asso­ci­a­tion for inter­na­tional Con­tent Man­age­ment professionals

Comment by John CoonenNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 8:42 pm

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@chudson

I’m orga­niz­ing one that I think is interesting:

Freemium Sum­mit — The Busi­ness of Free
http://www.freemiumsummit.com
March 26, 2010
San Fran­cisco, CA

Comment by @chudsonNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 9:48 pm

5.
Lucia

Wow, nice list JD.….and thanks for the GIT photog :)

Comment by LuciaNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 9:49 pm

6.
Michael Martin

No list­ing for PubCon?!?

Pub­Con South in Dal­las — April 13–15
Pub­Con Vegas — Nov 8–11

Comment by Michael MartinNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 10:01 pm

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Jubaloo Mobile — Mobile Marketing Agency & Mobile Media Placement

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JD Lasica

Thanks for the addi­tions, hard to remem­ber them all at the out­set, that’s where you all come in!

I’m also work­ing on a cal­en­dar of nonprofit/social causes events.

Is Twi­istup more suited for this cal­en­dar or the social causes calendar?

Comment by jdlasicaNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 10:27 pm

9.
Bill Johnston

Here are a few to add to the list:

Online Com­mu­nity Uncon­fer­ence East 2010
http://ocue2010.eventbrite.com/
10 Feb­ru­ary 2010
New York City, USA
The Online Com­mu­nity Uncon­fer­ence is an Open Space gath­er­ing of online com­mu­nity prac­ti­tion­ers — man­agers, devel­op­ers, busi­ness peo­ple, tool providers, investors — to dis­cuss expe­ri­ence and strate­gies in the devel­op­ment and growth of online communities.

Social Web Busi­ness Forum
http://forumonenetworks.com/content/calendar/deta...
April 8 — 9, 2010
Los Ange­les, CA, USA
The Social Web Busi­ness Forum — where top online exec­u­tives gather to dis­cuss the inter­sec­tion of online com­mu­ni­ties, social media and Enter­prise 2.0, in Los Ange­les, CA.

Online Com­mu­nity Uncon­fer­ence
http://ocu2010.eventbrite.com/
9 June 2010
Moun­tain View, CA, USA
The Online Com­mu­nity Uncon­fer­ence is a gath­er­ing of online com­mu­nity prac­ti­tion­ers — man­agers, devel­op­ers, busi­ness peo­ple, tool providers, investors — to dis­cuss expe­ri­ence and strate­gies in the devel­op­ment and growth of online communities.

Online Com­mu­nity Sum­mit
http://forumonenetworks.com/content/calendar/deta...
Octo­ber 7 — 8, 2010
Sonoma, CA, USA
The Online Com­mu­nity Sum­mit — where thought lead­ers in online col­lab­o­ra­tion gather to dis­cuss best ideas for the future, in Sonoma, California.

Comment by Bill JohnstonNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 10:34 pm

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@dministry

Thanks for this awe­some list. You can also post dig­i­tally focused events for free on Dig­i­tal Ministry.

Check it out at http://www.digitalministry.com

Comment by @dministryNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 11:08 pm

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JD Lasica

Thanks much for the addi­tional sug­ges­tions, Bill, I do like my unconferences!

We’ll try to sneak these in no later than the weekend.

Comment by jdlasicaNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 12:31 am

14.
John Coonen

At CMS Expo in Chicago, we’ve got “uncon­fer­ence” approach going on all 3 days too.

Thanks for writ­ing up this event list­ing. We’ve been get­ting quite a few new vis­i­tors today to our site.

Comment by John CoonenNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 12:40 am

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Big List of Social Media, Technology, Media, and Marketing Conferences for 2010 — Spinning the Social Web

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18.
@benasmith

Great list. Would be grate­ful if you could add the con­fer­ence I’m orga­niz­ing here in Lawrence, KS. Thanks! Ben

Free State Social
April 29–30, 2010
Lawrence KS
http://www.freestatesocial.com

Comment by @benasmithNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 4:14 am

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20.
Tony Adam

Nice list guys, you missed Twi­istup in Los Ange­les though!
http://www.twiistup.com/
Jan­u­ary 28th, 2010

Comment by Tony AdamNo Gravatar — January 21, 2010 @ 9:51 pm

21.
Lisa Myers

Great list guys, good to see you have (some) events in Europe in there as well. How come none of the big Search con­fer­ence are not on here? SES Lon­don is on 16–18 Feb­ru­ary and has LOADS of Social Media pan­els. I would argue doing Social Media with­out doing SEO is a waste. Inte­gra­tion is key :)

Comment by Lisa MyersNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 11:53 am

22.
Zee

What the…no The Next Web conference??

Comment by ZeeNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 4:57 pm

23.
Rob Blatt

pod­camp toronto — feb­ru­ary 20–21
http://2010.podcamptoronto.com/

Comment by Rob BlattNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 5:20 pm

24.
Matt Bowman

Hi JD,
Great list. You’re miss­ing Vator Splash on Feb 4th:
http://vatorsplash.eventbrite.com/

Keep up the good work,
M

Comment by Matt BowmanNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 6:35 pm

25.
Lisa Gschwandtner

Thanks for the list! Please check out the Sales 2.0 Con­fer­ence, where sales and mar­ket­ing lead­ers will learn how to lever­age sales-oriented SaaS tech­nolo­gies so their teams can sell faster, bet­ter, and smarter. Brett Queener of Salesforce.com and Mark Woollen of Ora­cle both keynoters.

Sales 2.0 Con­fer­ence
March 8–9, 2010
The Four Sea­sons Hotel, San Fran­cisco
http://www.sales20conf.com/SF2010

Comment by Lisa GschwandtnerNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 6:38 pm

26.
markevans

Here’s another con­fer­ence for your list:

mesh
Toronto, May 18/19 — http://www.meshconference.com

mesh is a chance to meet peo­ple who are just as pas­sion­ate and inter­ested in the Web and its poten­tial as you are, and look­ing to learn how it is chang­ing the way they live, work and play.

Comment by markevansNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 6:49 pm

27.
Coree Silvera

What a great job you’ve done putting this list together! I’ve been look­ing for some­thing just like this, Thanks!!

One more to add, too:
SOHO Sem­i­nar — Align­ing The Cor­po­rate and Per­sonal Brand — Chicago March 4–5, 2010
http://bit.ly/8w1XEh
Keynotes: Town Hall style with Dan Schaw­bel (@danschawbel) and Oliver Blan­chard (@thebrandbuilder)
15 Other Pre­sen­ta­tions on Mar­ket­ing, Social Media, PR, Legal, Sales, HR Indsustry

Comment by Coree SilveraNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 6:55 pm

28.
John Coonen

Thank you for adding our con­fer­ence, folks!

Comment by John CoonenNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 7:03 pm

29.
mary hodder

What about She’s Geeky? It’s next week. shesgeeky.org

Comment by mary hodderNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 7:22 pm

30.
Chester Bullock

ExactTarget’s Email Con­fer­ence, Con­nec­tions 2010, should be on your cal­en­dar. Sept 14–16, info at http://pages.exacttarget.com/Connections2010

Comment by Chester BullockNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 8:06 pm

31.
Finn

Love Social Media Biz but you are car­ing too much about the U.S. — take this one into account too http://www.marketing2conference.com — nice speaker list and not so overcrowded!

Comment by FinnNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 8:47 pm

32.
strangeways

Web­Vi­sions
May 19 — 21, 2010
Ore­gon Con­ven­tion Cen­ter
Port­land, OR
http://www.webvisionsevent.com/

Comment by strangewaysNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 8:55 pm

33.
JD Lasica

Thanks for the great new sug­ges­tions, folks! Added most of these, more com­ing this weekend.

Mary, I just added She’s Geeky, great event!

Comment by jdlasicaNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 9:28 pm

34.
JD Lasica

Thanks for the point­ers, we def­i­nitely need the power of the crowd to glob­al­ize the calendar! :~)

Comment by jdlasicaNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 9:35 pm

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Gianfranco Chico

here you might find some other addi­tions from around the World ;-)
http://www.conferencebasics.com/events-calendar-2...

Comment by Gianfranco ChicoNo Gravatar — January 22, 2010 @ 9:23 pm

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Matthew Finlay

eMet­rics has plenty of social media con­tent, not least how to mea­sure it:
eMet­rics Mar­ket­ing Opti­miza­tion Sum­mit — http://www.emetrics.org
Munich, March 23–24
Toronto, April 6–9
Syd­ney, April 22–23
San Jose, May 3–7
Lon­don, May 17–18
Wash­ing­ton DC, Octo­ber 18–22

Comment by Matthew FinlayNo Gravatar — January 24, 2010 @ 5:57 pm

40.
Matthew Finlay

also the first ever Sen­ti­ment Analy­sis Sym­po­sium — http://www.sentimentsymposium.com
New York, April 13, 2010

Comment by Matthew FinlayNo Gravatar — January 24, 2010 @ 5:59 pm

41.
Mason Rothman

Is there a Google Cal­en­dar or iCal link to these dates? Cheers –Mason

Comment by Mason RothmanNo Gravatar — January 25, 2010 @ 5:05 am

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JD Lasica

We’re adding all of these to the social media events Google cal­en­dar, in the right nav of this blog, even as we speak. It’s a pub­lic cal­en­dar, so you should be able to copy to your own cal­en­dars if you’d like.

Comment by jdlasicaNo Gravatar — January 25, 2010 @ 7:06 am

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@rschlachta

Thanks for com­pil­ing. Is there an euro­pean list of social media events avail­able, too?

Comment by @rschlachtaNo Gravatar — January 25, 2010 @ 1:32 pm

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JD Lasica

@rschlachta, we com­piled this cal­en­dar from scratch and by hand, so if there is, I don’t know about it! Send it our way if you spot one … thanks!

Comment by jdlasicaNo Gravatar — January 25, 2010 @ 6:23 pm

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Jane

hi, j.d. — just wanted to give you updated link for ONA con­fer­ence:
http://conference.journalists.org/2010conference/...
look­ing for­ward to see­ing you there!

Comment by Jane No Gravatar — February 2, 2010 @ 2:26 pm

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Jane McDonnell

hi, j.d. — just wanted to give you updated link for ONA10 in D.C. — we’ll be post­ing our new ses­sion selec­tor in, like, a minute. look for­ward to see­ing you there.
http://conference.journalists.org

Comment by Jane McDonnellNo Gravatar — February 2, 2010 @ 6:58 pm

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JD Lasica

Updated the link, Jane, thanks, and good luck with the event!

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Rachel Happe

A cou­ple of events the first week of May that are not on this list yet:

Mar­ket­ing­Profs B2B Mar­ket­ing Forum — http://www.marketingprofs.com/events/11/conferenc...
Social Media and Com­mu­nity 2.0 Strate­gies — http://www.iirusa.com/socialmedia/community20-200...

Both are the first week of May in Boston

Comment by Rachel HappeNo Gravatar — February 15, 2010 @ 10:14 pm

59.
Suzanne Axtell

Great list, JD! Thanks much for list­ing so many O’Reilly events, we appre­ci­ate it–and appre­ci­ate your pres­ence at ‘em too! Just a date cor­rec­tion for Web 2.0 Expo NY–it will be in mid-October (still firm­ing up dates). Gov 2.0 Sum­mit will be in Sep­tem­ber 2010, however.

Comment by Suzanne AxtellNo Gravatar — February 17, 2010 @ 1:51 am

60.
Ringo

I’m sur­prised you don’t have SES or Search and Social listed.

Comment by RingoNo Gravatar — February 17, 2010 @ 10:43 pm

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@tonia_ries

Thank you for this list, JD! Would be great if you could add TWTRCON NY. It’s June 14 at the New York Hilton http://twtrcon.com/ — the one-day con­fer­ence focused entirely on the busi­ness use of Twit­ter, with case stud­ies and best prac­tices from lead­ing orga­ni­za­tions that are using the real-time web to deliver bottom-line results. Thanks!

Comment by @tonia_riesNo Gravatar — February 20, 2010 @ 8:15 pm

62.
Ken Wasetis

You might want to add CMS Expo in Evanston, IL May 3–5, 2010. The co-founders of Plone and Dru­pal will be there, along with other experts from those tools and Joomla and Word­Press and oth­ers.
http://www.cmsexpo.net is the site for more information.

Comment by Ken WasetisNo Gravatar — April 14, 2010 @ 12:09 am

63.
Ken Wasetis

World Plone Day is on April 28th, 2010 this year. There will be free demon­stra­tions and train­ing ses­sions for Plone in over 30 cities all over the world. Our com­pany is host­ing one in Chicago, IL and you can get more infor­ma­tion on our event at: http://plone.org/events/wpd/2010/chicago-illinois...

If you want to see the full list of events for WPD, it is at: http://plone.org/events/wpd/2010/

You can fol­low the event on Twit­ter @wpd2010

Comment by Ken WasetisNo Gravatar — April 14, 2010 @ 12:12 am

64.
madlibrary

Hi, JD … could you please include this conference?

Com­put­ers, Free­dom, and Pri­vacy in a Net­worked Soci­ety http://www.cfp2010.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Twit­ter:http://twitter.com/cfpconf
Tues­day, June 15 — Fri­day, June 18, 2010
San Jose State Uni­ver­sity
San Jose, CA

Comment by madlibraryNo Gravatar — May 19, 2010 @ 2:47 pm

65.
John Gerstner

One more noo­dle for the soup:

ESSENTIAL SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS PRACTICUM, Com­mu­nitel­li­gence CLASSROOM at Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy, Atlanta, July 29, 2010 http://www.communitelligence.com/content/ahpg.cfm...

Comment by John GerstnerNo Gravatar — June 25, 2010 @ 8:19 pm

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@therichbrooks

There’s the 2nd annual Social Media FTW Fall Con­fer­ence here in Maine. Per­fect time of year in this part of the coun­try, plus cheap lob­ster rolls! It’s an all-day con­fer­ence on social media mar­ket­ing in Port­land, ME on 9/22. http://www.socialmediaftw.com

Comment by @therichbrooksNo Gravatar — July 6, 2010 @ 9:48 am

67.
Tanya

Great List! Here’s another con­fer­ence for Octo­ber we’re work­ing on as a des­ti­na­tion con­fer­ence in Puerto Val­larta, Mexico!

Tweet to Be Heard Oct 21–24 http://www.vallartaescapes.com/go/?p=10160

Comment by TanyaNo Gravatar — July 30, 2010 @ 1:17 pm

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