1. 2012 CONFERENCES
FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY
AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER
Friday, February 10, 2012

2. general info
LOCATION: Brooklyn
DATE: Once a month in the morning
COST: Free
what is it?
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•Yan Popov
•Mariatoph Niemann
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Friday, February 10, 2012

3. general info what is it?
Reflecting the global impact of social media – and its role
LOCATION: New York, NY as a catalyst in driving cultural, economic, political and
DATE: February 13-17, 2012 social change in developed and emerging markets – Social
Media Week is one of the world’s most unique global
COST: FREE platforms, offering a series of interconnected activities and
conversations around the world on emerging trends in
social and mobile media across all major industries.
2012 s peakers ellow of th e American In
stitute of
•Mich ael Graves, F
Architects Media, Inc.
row, C EO of Buddy
•Michael Lazen, CEO and Founder of Quirky
•Ben Kaufma l
•GOOD paneChairman and Curator of TEDM
ED 2012 topics
•Jay Walker, • Art & Culture
• Advertising & Marketing
• Politics & Government
• Business & Innovation
• Networking & Parties
Who attends? • Health & Wellness
• Media & Entertainment
The content is aimed to digital savvy people, • Social & Environmental Change
brands, and citizens.
Friday, February 10, 2012

4. general info
LOCATION: Geneva
DATE: February 22-24, 2012
COST: 100-990 Euros
what is it? spea kers
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current and e tity and anticip •Jean-Cl Kampm
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•David ammersly, Edit
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nd services.
who a ttends? 2012 topics
• Robotic
buzz • Game
• Design
• Digital creativity & Art
• Moblie & social platform
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• Digital Identity
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Friday, February 10, 2012

5. From Concept to Channel:
Inspired Digital Strategy
general info
LOCATION: New York, NY
DATE: February 24, 2012
what is it?
COST: $295 per person, 4A's This conference is about understanding the
consumer journey, how to communicate at the
members; $395 per person, Non 4A's right point, with the right message, and the right
members channel to deliver a coherent brand experience
across multiple touch-points.
This all-day seminar, conducted by Niall
McKinney, founder and CEO of UTalkMarketing,
will give you an understanding of how to
optimize communications in real time to increase
relevance to the consumer.
Seminar highlights
• Explore the digital ecosystem to see how brand marketing goals
Who attends?
can be effected by their online strategy
• Identify the ways digital is changing the customer journey to
purchase
Planners and Account Managers who want to
• Interrogate a brief to ensure the right objectives are set to target learn how to create an integrated strategy across
the right audiences multiple digital channels
• Examine strategic planning models Project Managers and Creatives who want a
• Utilize the power of integration to execute your digital strategy greater understanding of integrated digital
• Understand how to use web data to improve performance and strategy
ROI.
Friday, February 10, 2012

6. general info what is it?
TEDActive has 6 different projects that
LOCATION: Palm Springs, CA participants work with. Unlike other conferences
DATE: Feb. 27-March 2, 2012 TEDActive is not a preset conference. It’s open
COST: $3750 source, so your welcome to host your own
workshops, give talks and much more.
past sp eakers
hropist
• Bill G ates, Philant PepsiCo
yi, Chairman
• Indra Noo ecutive Chair, Ford
• Bill Ford Ex r, Activist
• Jamie Olivet, Film Critic
• Roger Eber
2012 topics
• The Observatory
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• The Library
• The Dinner Party
• The Lab
• The Earth
• The Crowd
otic exoskeleton.
Paralyzed woman walks on stage using an rob • The City 2.0
ctive
Has to use crutches, but still.... Wow. #TEDa • The Courtroom
• The Campfire
• The Classroom
• The Moment
Friday, February 10, 2012

7. general info
LOCATION: New York, NY
what is it?
PSFK’s conference celebrated agenda setters across the
innovation and communication fields.
DATE: March 8, 2012 PSFK conferences expose audience to ideas that are
COST: $395 literally and laterally related to these complex challenges,
that together form the building blocks innovation is made
of. Attendees walk away with tools and connections to
make meaningful change.
past s peakers rowley
ndy Spad e, Dennis C and
rd Fairey, A ering both established
Who attends?
• Shepa odin. Gath ry of
and Seth G have a histo eir
SFK events th
em erging leaders, P rs of start-ups before
e founde An audience of creative professionals from across
presenting th ome well-known. advertising, design, marketing and technology
ec
companies b industries will listen to a mix of inspirational
speakers curated by the PSFK editorial team.
2012 topics
• art
• technology
• design
• marketing
• media
Friday, February 10, 2012

8. 2012 ANA/WFA Global Marketing
Conference presented by The New
York Times
general info what is it?
LOCATION: New York, NY The Global Marketing Conference will share eclectic and
inspirational approaches to global brand building from the
DATE: March 14, 2012 four corners of the world.
COST: $495, member rate, $695 non
member rate
2012 s peakers mpany
The Coca-Cola Co
•Joe Tripodi,esguen, L'Oréal v
•Marc Mengraeve, Anheuser Busch InBe
•Chris Burg ney MBE, Luta
•Luke DowdKristof, The New York Times
• Nicholas
2012 topics
ttengds?ry
who anaAdvertisin Indust
• THE WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE GLOBAL BRAND
• INNOVATION, BEAUTY AND DIVERSITY
g d • THE WORLD'S LEADING BREWER, BUILDING SOCIAL
Marketin NETWORKS SINCE 1366
• A MODEL BRAND
Friday, February 10, 2012

9. general info what is it?
LOCATION: New York, NY The Ad Age Digital Conference is built around the principle
that digital is not a media silo but rather a cultural force
DATE: April 17-18, 2012 that affects everyone in our audience. Learn how to seize
the opportunities — and avoid the pitfalls. You'll leave with
COST: $1,250 through March 1st, a better understanding of social media and the new
and $1,495 after. Groups of 3+ technologies driving creative, as well as a better sense of
how to monetize and distribution compelling content.
receive $100 off each ticket.
past speakers of Content & Product S
olutions,
Who attends?
•
Eric Anderson, VP The content is aimed to design, marketing,
Samsung , RadioShack advertising, customer ser vice and brand
lbaum, CMO
•Lee App President of Revenue, Twitter professionals.
•Adam Bain, her, CMO, Skype
•Doug Bews
2011 topics
• M o bil e, S o cia l & Pos t - D igi t a l
Innovation
• Web Video & The TV- Int ernet
Collision
• Game Mechanics & The
'Gamification' of Marketing & Media
• Content
• Ecommerce
Friday, February 10, 2012

10. what is it?
GEL or Good Experience Live explores good
experience through Business, Art, Technology,
general info Society and Life. Instead of focusing on just one
discipline GEL brings together many ideas,
LOCATION: New York, NY experiences and thought leaders from many
DATE: April 18-21, 2012 disciplines.
COST: $1299
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2012 topics
buzz • Art
• Business
• Technology
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imposs ible to describe how happ • Society
swim a highlight!
attending #g el2011. Music by @johnny
4/29/2011
Friday, February 10, 2012

11. general info
LOCATION: New York, NY
DATE: April 18 2012 what is it?
COST: $475 (early rate before Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored is designed to
02.17, $575 after) give people access to the top business visionaries, inform
them about companies to watch, and inspire them to
bring innovative techniques to their own companies.
past speakers
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• Susan M. Lyne, CEO ike
“innovative business lead • Christina Norman, , Gilt Group
g to
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CEO, Oprah Win
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pro t
infrastruct ure to non- • Jared Leto, Actor, D
irector, Musicia
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2011 panels 2012TBD
buzz • Relentless Pursuit of Better Ways
• Leadership in the Spotlight
• Creating Infectious Action
• Marketing in a New Age
• Crowdsourcing Philanthropy
• Ethonomics: Can Business and Social Conscience
Coexist and Fuel Growth?
• The Transformative Power of Technology
Friday, February 10, 2012

12. what is it?
The 99% conference is designed to help people turn their
ideas into reality. Instead of teaching people how to
generate ideas, like most conferences, it tells people how
to make them happen.
general info who attends?
the conferenc
e targets peo
LOCATION: New York, NY who have ideas ple
but need directi
DATE: May 3-4 2012 in terms of mak on
ing them happe
“the goal of th n;
COST: SOLD OUT shift focus from
e conference is
to
idea generation
idea execution.” to
2011 panels past speakers . Johnson, R&D L
ead, Pixar
• Making Ideas Happen: Key Insights on Creative Execution • Dr. Michael B er, FuseProject
nder & Chief Design
• Innovating in the Real World: Using Design-Thinking To Create • Yves Béhar, Fouirector, Google Ideas
Positive Change • Jared Cohen, D ator & Co-Founder, Twitter
• Rede ning Risk: Increasing Con dence in Your Unconventional • Jack Dorsey, Cre ounder & Editor-In-Chief, Cool
Career • Josh Rubin, F
Hunting
buzz
Thrilled to see @simonsinek, author of the brilliant Start With
Why (http://j.mp/jPhfwO), opening @the99percent #99conf
5 May
Friday, February 10, 2012

13. general info
LOCATION: New York, NY
DATE: May 7-13 2012
what is it?
Creative Week is a celebration of creativity in advertising,
COST: $630-$700, all access
design, digital media and all the arts that feed and touch
those disciplines.
attenreatse?
o imed at C d iv s,
whek is a
The we e n t s,
illustrators, d esigners, stud
hs...
advertis ers, photograp
2012 Events
One Show student exhibition
Design show
Yo u n g O n e s p o r t o f o l i o
Review
One Show Interactive
Friday, February 10, 2012

14. what is it?
The World Innovation Forum brings together a
whole new group of experts and practitioners
general info who are shaping the way we do business. The
goal? Change reality. Provoke change. Shape the
LOCATION: New York, NY future.
DATE: June 20-21, 2012
COST: $1,690 (early rate before
03.05, $2,500 after)
2012 speakers
• Ray Kurzweil ney 2012 topics
• Mohanbir Sawhl • What innovation brings: the signs of the future we can read today
• Jane McGoniga n • Connect and engage
• Sir Ken Robinsough • Serious play
• Henry Chesbro • Leading a Culture of Creativity and Innovation
• Scott Cook • How innovation changed while you weren't looking
• Clay Shirky • Cultivating innovative ideas that endure
• Russell Stevens • Creativity in a connected age
• Guy Kawasaki • Creative Social Engagement
• The Art of Innovation
Friday, February 10, 2012

15. general info what is it?
LOCATION: New York, NY Ideas Economy: Human Potential brings together
DATE: September 27, 2012 broad thinkers from a variety of disciplines and
COST: $1300-$1600 progressive companies, to discuss new ideas
which will allow humans to ourish.
past speakers
thew Bishop, New York Bure
au Chief, The Economist
• Mat ndon Business School
• Lynda Gratton, Professor, Lo
us"
• Sonia Arrison, Author, "100 Pl ident, University of the People
• Shai Reshef, Founder and Pres
2012 topics
• education
• talent management
• policy
• technology
• design
Friday, February 10, 2012

16. what is it?
OMMA Global is the leading conference and
trade show for the business of Online Media,
Marketing and Advertising. The tracks are
designed to cover program themes of Search,
general info Behavioral Targeting, Social media, Mobile, Video,
In-Game advertising, Metrics & Measurement,
Performance & Email Marketing, and more.
LOCATION: New York, NY
DATE: Sept. 26-27, 2012
COST: FREE
past speake
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MT V Digital N
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ss Developm
ent,
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tors, • Aaron Rothman
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media planners, bu live and bre
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buzz 2011 topics Marketing
• The State of Online Media, bers
and Advertising by the Num
• Social Media Strategy: Zero to 60
orks
• The Evolution of Social NetwDestroying
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Surprise! Advertising ppl think @carribugbee's social med • How the New Socialism Is
lobal
privacy concerns are b.s. Charming panel! :( #ommag the Old Capitalism
9/28/2010 • Social Search Vs. Web Search
Friday, February 10, 2012

17. general info
LOCATION: New York, NY what is it?
The Media an
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DATE: October 17, 2012 buying rms
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COST: $99 per delegate technology p
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Friday, February 10, 2012

18. general info
LOCATION: Camden, Maine
DATE: Oct. 17-20, 2012
COST: $2500
what is it?
PopTech’s mission is to accelerate the positive
impact of world changing people, projects and
ideas.
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buzz 2011 topics
• Thinking Wrong
• How (Not) To Change The World
• Edge of Exploration
010 to
Helping any way I can. Wicked excited for #poptech2 • Human Dimensions
BVu
begin! (@ PopTech! w/ 2 others) http://4sq.com/dCJ • Collaborations for Change rception
10/20/2010 • Corruption: Deception & Pe
Friday, February 10, 2012