MarketingConferences

2008 Canadian Marketing Association B2B Marketing Conference

The 2008 CMA B2B Marketing Conference will showcase "innovative and relevant concepts" in the B2B marketing field. The conference will include topics on integrating enviromental issues into marketing plans, the impact of emerging technologies, optimizing senior management's needs, and more. Guest speakers include David Ceolin, founder of Digital Cement; Patrick Hart,Director Field Marketing for SAP Canada; and Guylaine Lavoie, Director Marketing Innovations for Air Canada.

Date: February 28, 2008
Location: InterContinental Toronto, ON, Canada
Cost: $745
Presented by: Canadian Marketing Association

"Let's connect, share, and inspire...let's mesh" in Canada

Mesh is Canada's premier web conference that attracts professionals from marketing, public relations, media, investors, entrepreneurs, politicians, and social activists. In short, it appeals to anyone integrated (meshing) with the web. This year the conference will introduce MeshU - small, focused workshops led by web experts. Mesh aims to be Canada's part of the Web 2.0 conversation. Mesh is being run by Mark Evans-b5media inc., Mathew Ingram-Globe & Mail, Mike McDerment-FreshBooks Online Invoicing, Rob Hyndman-Hyndman/Law, and Stuart MacDonald-founder Expedia.ca

Date: May 21-22, 2008
Location: MaRS Collaboration Centre, Toronto, Canada
Cost: TBD

Advertising Age Digital Marketing Conference

With the wide array of option available to marketers today, Ad Age's Digital Marketing two-day conference will focus on bringing digital technology "down to earth." It will help marketers weed through the crowded field of technology to see what is truly effective. The conference has a host of speakers and panelist to engage attendants in real life case studies. Speakers include Michael Barrett-Fox Interactive, Pete Blackshaw-Nielsen Online, Jerry Courtney-Target, Colleen Decourcey-TBWA, Mike Geiger-Goodby Silverstein and Partners, and other leaders in the field of digital marketing.

Date: March 18-19, 2008
Location: Time and Life Building, New York City, NY
Cost: $895 before Feb. 26
Presented by: Ad Age

MarketingTech: Tailormade London

The MarketingTech: Tailormade conference will offer 16 brand-led case studies and 16 interactive master classes. It will focus on new media and technology and how you can incorporate them into your marketing campaigns. The conference will cover hot topics such as mobile marketing, web 2.0, email campaigns, and more. Speakers include Andy Mihalop from DoubleClick Performics, Barry Holloway from uSwitch and UpMyStreet, and Carey Bunks from Yell.com to name a few.

Date: March 31, 2008
Location: The Grange City Hotel, London
Cost: £504
Presented by: Haymarket Events

2008 Media Summit - New York

Media Summit New York is an international conference on media, advertising, television, cable and satelilite, broadband, mobile, publishing and radio magazines, news media, motion pictures and marketing. The keynote speakers are Robert A. Iger, President and CEO of the Walt Disney Comany and Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation. This conference is packed with interesting speakers and sessions.

Date: March 11-12th, 2008
Location: McGraw-Hill Building, New York City, NY
Cost: $875
Presented by: Digital Hollywood

SXSW Interactive Conference and Festival 2008

SXSW (South by Southwest, INc.) Interactive is a 5-day festival attracting content developers, web designers, programmers, bloggers, wireless innovators, gamers, tech entrepreneurs, investors, and educators. This event focuses equally on creativity and technology and attracts industry experts each year. The gaming component of the festival is called ScreenBurn which showcases new innovations in the video game industry.

Date: March 7-11, 2008
Location: Austin, Texas
Cost: $400 Interactive badge, see other prices
Presented by: South by Southwest

Future of Web Apps Conference Comes to Miami

Future of Web Apps, known as FOWA, is coming to the east for the first time. The agenda is impressive and will cover hot topics such as - What makes the next great startup; Open social: plug in to a new platform; The future of web apps is beyond the browser; Launch a web app in 40 minutes; and The problem with social networks. With guest speakers from Superfluousbanter.org, Digg, TechCrunch, Flickr, Wordpress, Google, SoftTech VC, just to name a few, attendees will have the opportunity to learn from the "Grand Masters of Web Apps." This conference will be jam packed with valuable information from the industy's best of the best. Another Miami conference, how can you go wrong?

Date: February 28th - March 1st, 2008
Location: Carnival Centre, Miami, FLA
Cost: $195 conference only, see other prices
Presented by: Future of Web Apps

Content Week 2008

Content Week 2008
The Westgate Hotel, San Diego, CA
Jan 28-Feb 1, 2008.

IQPC’s Content Week 2008 is your gateway to effective Content Management strategy. This unique event offers creative solutions and best practices in all areas of Content Management. Ensuring usability, flexibility, localization and globalization of content to meet bottom line business objectives is today the ultimate priority.
To learn more and register, go to  www.iqpc.com/us/cw08

ad:tech comes to New York again in November

ad:tech New York is one of the most informative media, marketing, and technology conferences available today. This 2 1/2 day conference has more than 40 sessions and 200 speakers. The conference kicks off with 4 power panels and 2 keynote presentations. The ad:tech Exchange Series is a classroom-type environment for easy interaction between attendees and instructors. There will also be more than 350 interactive marketing companies exhibiting.

Date: November 5-8, 2007
Location: New York Hilton
Cost: early bird full conference pass $1395, other prices vary
Presented by: ad:tech conference series

ClickZ Specifics: Web Metrics New York

ClickZ Specifics: Web Metrics is "an intensive, one-day event designed to educate, inspire, and instill confidence in marketers, webmasters, executives and business owners who use or are planning to use web analytics to grow their business." In today's online world, everything is measured. This conference is a great way for marketers to get a handle on the overwhelming amount of web analytics data out there, understand what it means and how to use it.

Date: May 2, 2007
Location: Hilton, New York, NY
Cost: $495
Presented by: ClickZ Specifics