Conferences
A growing list of industry gatherings with member-only discounts
CES
January 7-10, 2025
Las Vegas, NV
For more than half a century, CES® has championed the very spirit of innovation that makes revolutionary ideas a reality, uniting the brightest tech luminaries in one place to pioneer the future and solve the world’s most delicate problems.
Tastemaker Conference
January 20-21, 2025
Las Vegas, NV
Whether you consider yourself kid chef level or a real pro, Tastemaker Conference is for all levels of experience to socialize with a community of makers, dreamers, and influencers in this impactful and memorable two-day event. It’s time to invest in yourself, and level up your food blog and content creator business.
Podfest Expo
January 16-19, 2025
Orlando, FL
PODFEST EXPO is the longest-running annual, in-person podcasting conference in the world. Returning in 2025 for an unprecedented 11th consecutive year, PODFEST has been on a wild ride of unbridled growth from its humble beginnings in 2015 to now.
Creator Economy Live
February 4-5, 2025
Caesars Forum, Las Vegas
With the creator economy estimated to generate over $22.3 billion in 2024, there is no arguing that influencer marketing is a force to be reckoned with and brands NEED to be paying attention.
That’s where Creator Economy Live comes in. On February 4 – 5, hundreds of brands will gather to hear unparalleled insights from industry giants so that they can take their influencer marketing to the next level and deliver campaign ROI.
You can expect tactical sessions led by top industry voices, equipping you with the tools and techniques you need to enhance your influencer strategies.
The best part? It’s totally free for the first 500 brands who sign up to attend!
DEW
February 10, 2025
Los Angeles, CA
Digital Entertainment World is the must attend B2B event and marketplace for global media and technology executives to evaluate the digital media landscape. This event brings together leading industry executives from video, music, games and publishing — the entire digital content ecosystem. DEW is the place where content creators and owners, enabling technology providers, digital distributors and device manufacturers connect and create the infrastructure and technology partnerships necessary to monetize digital content.
Ad Age NextGen Summit
March 4 – 6, 2025
New York
Join Ad Age in person in March for a three-day immersive event on Gen Z, direct-to-consumer marketing and the creator economy. This will be a crash-course for CMOs, brand strategists, agency leads, social marketers and media managers on how to innovate marketing strategies in 2025 to more authentically connect and engage with some of the most hard-to-reach consumers.
SXSW
March 7–15, 2025
Austin, TX
The SXSW Conference provides an opportunity for the global community of digital creatives to encounter cutting-edge ideas, discover new interests, and network with other professionals who share a similar appetite for forward-focused experiences.
Alt Summit 2025
March 14-17, 2025
Palm Springs, CA
The premier conference & community for thousands of creative entrepreneurs & influencers. Alt Summit is the perfect place to find a business bestie (or two) because of the completely collaborative tone of the conference. It’s not a competition or a chance to boast, it’s all about learning from each other, helping each other, and cheering each other on.
Youth Marketing Strategy
March 19-20, 2025
Brooklyn, NY
YMS NYC is America’s largest youth marketing festival, focused on how brands can better understand and target the Gen Z market. Returning to New York for a 7th year, this is our most diverse and exciting festival to date.
-80+ powerhouse speakers from Gen Z leading brands, and the most exciting, disruptive emerging brands.
– Leading marketers from top brands and agencies share their most effective marketing strategies
– Hear directly from a diverse mix of inspiring young people on 2024s lifestyle, content and tech trends to ensure you can speak authentically to Gen Z.
– Dedicated networking time to connect with your peers in our showcase area and after party.
The Platform
March 21, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA
The platform is the first conference of its kind, created exclusively for influencers and content creators to connect with brands. We know it’s tough out there and it can feel like the wild, wild west. Being with yourself and a ring light in the living room all day also comes with its own set of challenges. Let’s change that? compare notes and bridge the gap?
ShopTalk Spring
March 25-27, 2025
Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
Shoptalk is the ultimate gathering of retail, where 10,000+ retail decision-makers converge to discover the future of retail. Get ready for three action-packed days that will expand your horizons and catapult your business forward.
Social Media Marketing World
March 30-April 1, 2025
San Diego, CA
Marketing is changing more and more each day. If this industry has taught us anything, it’s that you’ve got to embrace change to get ahead.
Join thousands of the world’s smartest marketers at the only marketing conference you need to attend—brought to you by Social Media Examiner!
You’ll walk away with real business-building ideas that you can put to work for your business or clients right away.
Podcast Movement Evolutions
March 31 – April 3, 2025
Chicago, IL
Evolutions is Podcast Movement’s spring conference where audio and video podcasters, and podcast professionals, come together to strengthen their networks, elevate their craft, stay ahead of industry trends. Through interactive learning, expert insights, and meaningful connections, Evolutions empowers attendees from across the podcast ecosystem to thrive in podcasting’s ever-changing landscape.
Advertising Week Europe
April 1-3, 2025
London
Join us for Advertising Week Europe in London from 1-3 April and hear from the world’s greatest minds. Connect with more than 7,000 attendees and discover why it’s a must attend event for marketers and advertisers.
The Sports Marketing Playbook: Mastering Fan Engagement and Experiences
April 8, 2025
New York, NY
With game-changing developments in NIL, streaming, and fan engagement, the playbook for success in the sports marketing industry is being rewritten in real-time. Join Marketing Brew – alongside legacy and non-native sports brands, executives from your favorite teams and leagues, and leading voices in sports marketing strategy – for a deep dive into how brands should be seizing the moment for a bigger impact in the world of sports.
Influencer Marketing Show USA
April 22-25, 2025
Hollywood, FL
This event offers an unparalleled opportunity to connect with leading brands, innovative agencies, and cutting-edge tech that are shaping the future of the creator economy.
Whatever your objective, you’ll walk away with several strategies, new ideas and the confidence to convince any C-Suite that influencer marketing can drive incredible results in an authentic, transparent and measurable manner.
PI LIVE
April 22-25, 2025
Hollywood, FL
Get ready for an extraordinary experience as we move from Miami to the stunning Hard Rock Seminole in Hollywood for an unparalleled 3-day event. This is the premier gathering for the Affiliate & Performance Marketing community in the US, and you won’t want to miss it!
Our focus remains sharp on ecommerce-led affiliate marketing, seamlessly integrating all aspects of the modern performance marketing mix. Expect to dive deep into content commerce, incentive partnerships, influencers, CTV, finance, lead generation, and cutting-edge tech partnerships.
Meltwater Summit
May 6-7, 2025
New York
Meltwater Summit is where creativity and innovation intersect for enriching professional growth and networking experiences. Elevate your expertise, be inspired, and empowered as you chart the course for success in the ever-evolving landscape of PR, marketing, and communications.
Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo™
June 2-4, 2025
Denver, CO
The Gartner in-person marketing conference is a unique destination experience designed for top leadership teams to connect face-to-face with Gartner experts, peers, and a wide array of solution providers. Together, explore industry-shaping insight in an unforgettable atmosphere of excitement and camaraderie beyond the possibilities of a screen.
VidCon Anaheim
June 19-21, 2025
Anaheim, CA
The world’s leading digital creators, platform innovators, and their fans converge in one place. It’s the magic of online creators in real life! It is where everyone involved in that online magic comes together, in real life and in real time. The creators, the fans, the brands, all of us in one place — sometimes gathering in-person in cities all over the world, and sometimes connecting virtually. But always completely in-the-moment.
NFT.NYC
June 23-25, 2025
Times Square, New York City
The leading NFT event that attracts the Global NFT Community to New York City. It only puts the most passionate speakers from the NFT Community on stage.
Podcast Movement
August 18-21, 2025
Dallas, TX
Every year since 2014, Podcast Movement has gathered thousands of passionate podcasters and industry professionals from around the world under one roof to learn, grow professionally, and most importantly evolve and improve the podcast community.
FinCon 2025
September 10-12, 2025
Portland, Oregon
The annual event is a time to connect with other creators who create new media (blogging, podcasts, social media, and video) about financial topics (like debt, investing, and coupons). The majority of creators also attend to connect with brands for advertising partnerships.
The event includes panels and workshops where attendees can hear from experts and other creators on various topics related to creating, promoting and profiting from money-related content, as well as, what’s next in personal finance and investing.
Content Marketing World 2025
September 15-17, 2025
San Diego, CA
Learn from 100+ expert speakers, reinvigorate your strategies, and get the tools to advance your future.
Content Marketing World is produced by the Content Marketing Institute and brings together marketing leaders, content creators, communications experts, agencies, and creative professionals from around the world.
2025 Forbes Under 30 Summit
September 28-October 1, 2025
Columbus, OH
The 2025 Forbes Under 30 Summit returns to Ohio for its third and biggest iteration yet. Across four days in Columbus, we will convene the world’s top young leaders, founders and creators. The Summit is more an immersive experience than a static conference—featuring a private concert, A-list speakers, exclusive networking opportunities, industry-focused excursions, local culinary experiences, a legendary city crawl, a powerful day of community service and more.
TBEX
October 1-4, 2025
Wichita, Kansas
TBEX conferences attract 500-700 of the top travel and lifestyle creators from around the world. The mission is to meet up, network, and learn the latest trends, strategies, and tactics from each other. To become better creators, grow our audiences and of course, make more money blogging. AKA Monetizing our content.
VidSummit
October 7-9, 2025
Dallas, TX
It is where you become an industry insider. Without the fans at the event, influencers share the truth of what they do – the truth they would never share online. In other words, VidSummit is the only event where dozens of the top 1% of influencers show you how to get fans fast, build a brand, and make millions from your content.
The Definitive Marketing Event For Senior Professionals And The Future Of Marketing Tech
October 13-14, 2025
Times Square, NY
An exciting conference for the savvy and creative marketer, looking to take their influencer marketing campaigns to the next level!
Taking place in New York, the carefully curated agenda will share growth opportunities, trends and engagement techniques within the lucrative world of influencer strategies.
2025 ANA Masters of Marketing
October 21-24, 2025
Orlando, FL
The ANA Masters of Marketing Conference will showcase the creative thinking and inspirational strategies the world’s top CMOs and leading brands have implemented to meet and exceed their customer needs, drive growth, and inspire change.
Take part in unmatched networking, entertainment, and special events, and hear inspiring stories of growth, reinvention, and success from C-suite leaders across the industry.
Creatorfest
October 23, 2025
Europe
Join the brightest minds from Europe and worldwide as we unite brands, agencies, creators and tech to share experiences and insights to reimagine the future of the Creator Economy.
Through our curated agenda and networking opportunities, you’ll discover who the main players are that empower the community.
All whilst grasping how influencer marketing fits within an integrated marketing strategy and how brands can drive successful outcomes in an authentic, transparent, and measurable manner.
Brandweek by Adweek
November 1, 2025
TBA
Set against the beautiful desert backdrop of Phoenix, Arizona, Brandweek will gather the most dynamic minds in the industry for an unparalleled four-day journey of discovery. During a diverse array of intimate and expert-led sessions and compelling presentations, you and your team will join industry leaders from both stalwart brands and the newer, renegade entrants to unpack the strategies, new kinds of thinking, pathways to growth and skills that today’s marketers will need to succeed in this ever-evolving landscape. You’ll leave equipped with insights, inspiration and powerful connections to fuel your business and professional growth.
Adweek | X
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For the marketing industry, navigating the pinnacles and pitfalls of the year will take gumption, vision and critical decision-making that yield quick success and lasting momentum.
But it won’t be easy. Join Adweek for this important in-person gathering of the brightest minds in the business as we divine the (near) future and focus in on the key issues that will matter most: keeping up with consumer demand, how creatives and creators stay ahead of culture, how dynamic media channels are driving new business, what gen AI will mean for how we all work, and more. As well as what it will all mean for industry practitioners in their day-to-day. And as Adweek celebrates its 45th in ’24, we’ll take a look at the road ahead even as we regard the path that got us—and the industry we support—here
Ad World
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The world’s brightest minds in advertising to learn, share secrets and connect online.
For two days on 29-30 March 2023, Ad World will stream 6+ Digital Advertising Tracks, consisting of hyper-focused speeches, panels, and live Q&A sessions to help take the business to the next level.
The all-in-one advertising event will bring anyone closer to leading marketers and brands than ever before from the comfort of their home.
WWD Beauty CEO Summit
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The evolving landscape in the aftermath of the post-pandemic boom presents both unique challenges and opportunities as the industry navigates changing consumer behaviors and expectations. This year’s WWD Apparel & Retail CEO Summit – themed Thriving in a Post-Boom World – will dive into how brands and retailers should be speaking to their consumers in this era of slower growth, potential recession, ongoing war, China’s reopening, AI and more.
Digital Media & Advocacy Summit
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The Digital Media and Advocacy Summit is the premier event providing advanced content and best practices for the digital advocacy, public affairs and grassroots community. The Public Affairs Council brings together digital experts and experienced practitioners from Fortune 500 companies, influential advocacy groups and leading associations for a full day of idea sharing, networking and tactical skill building.
Social Media Strategies Summit
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The premier social media conference for solution and service providers to engage directly with a targeted audience of decision-making marketers. Learn from a mix of industry leaders who will share the proven social media strategies they use to grow their brands.
Marketing Brew: The Brief
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At Marketing Brew’s annual summit, we’re creating a space where marketers can keep pace with the industry’s constant evolution and drive it forward. In a world where innovation is the heartbeat, performance is the measure, and people are the driving force, the winning formula balances all three. We’re bringing together the brightest minds in the industry for a peek behind the curtain on how brands leverage tools to stay ahead of an ever-evolving market. The day will celebrate cutting-edge ideas and generative AI technology reshaping the landscape, explore performance-driven insights, and help perfect your people-centric approach to building stronger leaders, brand ambassadors, and creative thinkers. Come for the headline speakers, stay for the networking, and leave with tactical tools to improve your business acumen.
CultureCon
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CultureCon is the go-to conference for diverse creatives and young professionals. Whether you’re building a business or building a life, we’ll give you the tools you need to succeed.
Advertising Week New York
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Advertising Week is a worldwide gathering of marketing, advertising, technology and brand professionals. From daytime seminars and workshops featuring some of the industry’s brightest minds to organized networking and world-class entertainment, Advertising Week is a one-of-a-kind experience.
Adweek's Mediaweek
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In a year rife with industry-rocking change and upheaval, finding opportunities to break through the noise and captivate audiences in fresh and compelling ways is paramount. Across print, TV, audio, retail media networks, digital and social platforms, the terrain is complex yet teeming with growth opportunities. Join us at ADWEEK’s Mediaweek as we delve into groundbreaking strategies and spotlight success stories; empowering your brand to navigate the range of media channels, choose impactful partners, develop a winning first-party data strategy, uphold brand safety and ultimately drive business growth.
BeautyCon
TBD
Beautycon brings the future of beauty to life. Icons, Innovations, trends, and self-expression all converge in a dynamic, unforgettable experience.
Experience live interviews, dive into insightful panel discussions, and engage in unfiltered real talk with your favorite voices in beauty.
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