What Conferences Are You Attending?

Posted by Lee Odden on Apr 29th, 2008 in ACCM, DMA Annual Conference, Interactive Marketing, Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, PR Conferences, Pubcon, Search Engine Strategies, Search Marketing Expo, adtech |

Jeremiah Owyang posted recently asking his readers what conferences they would be attending in the coming months and I thought that would be a great question for Online Marketing Blog readers as well.

Over the past 3 years we’ve been focused on search marketing conferences but have expanded more into direct marketing, interactive and PR. We’ll continue that trend the rest of this year but with more conferences outside of search as our online marketing agency evolves.

Conferences that I’m attending in the coming months include:

May: ACCM in Florida
Jun: PRSA Digital Impact in NYC
Jul: ad:tech in Chicago
Aug: Search Engine Strategies in San Jose
Sep: Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas
Oct: DMA08 in Vegas
Oct PRSA International Conference in Detroit
Nov: Pubcon in Vegas

Personally, I try my best to limit conferences to one per month and those I am speaking at. The above list is not comprehensive for the TopRank team of course, since we do typically blog most SES and SMX conferences. We’ll definitely be at SMX Advanced this year as well as SES Chicago in December. It just won’t be me that attends. There are several other events that I may attend or speak at, I’m just not confirmed that far out.

There are many other great conferences with programming that touches on search, social, interactive and PR the rest of this year. What conferences are you attending in the coming months and remainder of 2008?

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April 29th, 2008 at 7:13 am Victor Caballero

Today EconSM, tomorrow Musexpo. Both in Los Angeles.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:45 am Carrie Hill

SMX Advanced - June 08
SES Travel - July 08??
SES San Jose - August 08
SMX East (maybe) - October 08
PubCon - November 08

There may be a few sprinkled in there - depends upon what speaking pitches/requests work out

~Carrie
April 29th, 2008 at 8:50 am Jon Kelly

I was just revieiwn my confernce doc. Here it is:
RBC Capital Markets Technology - August 08
SES San Jose - August 08
SMX East - Oct 08
Ad:tech NYC - Nov 08
PubCon - Nov 08
SES Chicago - Dec 08 (maybe)

I’m bummed to be missing SMX Advanced, that’s my favorite show now.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:54 am Lee Odden

Thank you Victor, Carrie and Jon. Much appreciated. I really want to get to a SMX event, but they always seem to conflict with others I speak at. Jon, another show your might consider in Dec is Search Insider Summit.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:59 am Joe Pulizzi

Lee…I come at this from more the content/publishing side, so here are mine.

May - American Business Media Spring Meeting
June - Web Content 2008 in Chicago
July - ABM B2B Breakfast on Content Marketing (Date TBD)
Nov - Ad:Tech NY
April 29th, 2008 at 9:12 am Adrienne Doss

I’ll be at SMX Advanced in June.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:15 am robin seidner

Hi Lee,

I am going to:
May: WOMM-U in Miami
June: BMA International Conference in Vegas
April 29th, 2008 at 9:34 am Lee Odden

Thanks Joe, Adrienne and Robin! I haven’t been to a ABM or BMA event before.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:47 am Dana Lookadoo

What great timing, Lee! Today, 4/29, is the last day for the Early Bird pricing at SES San Jose. I’ve been vacillating and need to decide today.

Attending: SMX Advanced in Seattle

Considering: PubCon & BlogWorld
April 29th, 2008 at 9:49 am Search Engine Guide

Hi Lee, I will be attending SES Toronto in June, this will be my first SEO Conference and I’m very excited about it, I will get to know many big SEO fish I read every day.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:22 am Jody

Ideally, it’s looking like:

SMX Advanced in Seattle - Jun
SES San Jose - Aug
SMX East - New York - Oct
Pubcon Las Vegas - Nov

Having said that it’s been so busy that I may have to limit this to SES San Jose and possibly SMX East. I wouldn’t mind attending Blog World in Vegas. Anyone heading to SES Toronto?
April 29th, 2008 at 10:27 am Gary Pool

I just attended SMX Social in LB

WebVisions - May 22-23, Portland, OR
SMX Advanced - June 3-4 Seattle, WA
Internet Strategy Forum Summit - July 17-18, Portland, OR
Inverge 2008 - September 4-5, Portland, OR
April 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pm Lee Odden

Thanks Dana for the reminder on early bird pricing for SES San Jose. Still seems so far away.

Jody and Gary, those are some serious conference schedules. The Internet Strategy Forum looks really good. Mike Moran is speaking at that one.

Gary, you are very fortunate to have so much available to you in your area. Such is not the case in Minneapolis.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:09 pm jim hedger

SMX Advanced - June 3-4 Seattle
SES Toronto - June 16 - 18
Fish-Con Muskoka - August 1 - 14 (vacation at family cottage)
SES San Jose - August 18 - 22
SMX East - October 6 - 8 New York (Oct 5 is my 40th birthday)
PubCon - November 11 - 14 Las Vegas
SES Chicago - December 8 - 11
April 29th, 2008 at 4:16 pm Lee Odden

Hey Jim, I like the first August trip, that sounds nice. So we’ll expect you’ll get into the conference around 4pm on day 1 of SMX East?
April 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm Jan Alvin

I am attending Marketing Conferences here in the Philippines. That when I was a student.