Conferences to attend in 2010
As I mentioned in a previous post, the unconference format, especially for the Hawaii community (and perhaps for yours) will be very important for 2010. For years we’ve been researching, networking, and building our kits with branding, marketing, and social media tools. Moving into the new year, the focus should be on building and strengthening your community.
As I have for the past few years, I’ll be traveling throughout the U.S. and for the first time, internationally; attending different tech, social media, and leadership conferences. Additionally, upon returning to Hawaii I will be conducting presentations based on what was learned, gained, and processed from each conference.
Here are a list of conferences that either I or my partners at Grilled Cornbread, LLP are considering attending in 2010:
January
- International CES
January 7 – 10, 2010
Las Vegas Convention Center/Hilton Convention Center/Venetian Hotel
Las Vegas, NV - Allied Ronin Leadership Retreat*
January 23 – 27, 2010
Four Springs Retreat Center
Middletown, CA - CHIRP: The Official Twitter Developer Conference**
February
- Social Fresh
February 8, 2010
Doubletree Hotel Tampa Westshore
Tampa, FL - Unconferenz III
February 20, 2010
Honolulu, HI
March
- SXSW
March 12 – 21, 2010
Interactive: March 12 – 16
Film: March 12 – 20
Music: March 17 – 21
Austin, TX - DEMO
March 21 – 23, 2010
Palm Desert, CA
April
- Inbound Marketing Summit
April 14 – 15, 2010
San Francisco, CA - SOBCon
April 30 – May 2, 2010
Chicago, IL
May
- Google I/O
May 19 – 20, 2010
Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA - [re]Think: Shanghai
May 24 – 28, 2010
Shanghai, China
June
- Social Media Conference
June 17 – 18, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
July
August
September
October
- BlogWorld Expo
Las Vegas, NV
November
- [re]Think: Hawaii
November 1 – 3, 2010
Hawaii - TEDxHonolulu
November 4, 2010
Hawaii - PUBCon
November 8 – 11, 2010
Las Vegas, NV
December
- LeWeb
Paris, France
This will be an evolving list because let’s face it, tech and social media conferences are planned in a handful of weeks. There are some unconferences that I have not listed because they’re invite only. What conferences are you attending to build and strengthen your community and team in 2010?
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