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2012 CONFERENCES

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: BrooklynDATE: Once a month in the morningCOST: Free

general info

•Yancey Strickler

•Maria Popova

•Christoph Niemann

past speakers

CreativeMornings is a monthly speaker series and morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 15-20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion.

what is it?

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: February 13-17, 2012COST: FREE

general infoReflecting the global impact of social media – and its role as a catalyst in driving cultural, economic, political and social change in developed and emerging markets – Social Media Week is one of the world’s most unique global platforms, offering a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world on emerging trends in social and mobile media across all major industries.

what is it?

The content is aimed to digital savvy people, brands, and citizens.

Who attends?

• Art & Culture• Advertising & Marketing• Politics & Government• Business & Innovation• Networking & Parties• Health & Wellness• Media & Entertainment• Social & Environmental Change

2012 topics•Michael Graves, Fellow of the American Institute of

Architects

•Michael Lazerow, CEO of Buddy Media, Inc.

•Ben Kaufman, CEO and Founder of Quirky

•GOOD panel

•Jay Walker, Chairman and Curator of TEDMED

2012 speakers

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: GenevaDATE: February 22-24, 2012COST: 100-990 Euros

general info

Lift works to identity and anticipate current and emerging usages of digital technologies through research, events, publications, and services.

what is it?

buzzA very good start for #lift11, ready to Engage! With @label @briansolis (@

LIFT Conference w/ 9 others) [pic]: http://4sq.com/hgFmJd

•Jean-Claude Biver, CEO, Hublot

•Marcel Kampman, Creative Director,

Dreamschool

•David Galbraith, Co-founder, Yelp

•Ben Hammersly, Editor at Large, Wired UK

past speakers

• Robotic• Game• Design• Digital creativity & Art• Moblie & social platform• Digital Identity• 3D printing

2012 topicswho attends?

Friday, February 10, 2012

From Concept to Channel: Inspired Digital Strategy

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: February 24, 2012COST: $295 per person, 4A's members; $395 per person, Non 4A's members

general info

This conference is about understanding the consumer journey, how to communicate at the right point, with the right message, and the right 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.

what is it?

• Explore the digital ecosystem to see how brand marketing goals can be effected by their online strategy

• Identify the ways digital is changing the customer journey to purchase

• Interrogate a brief to ensure the right objectives are set to target the right audiences

• Examine strategic planning models• Utilize the power of integration to execute your digital strategy• Understand how to use web data to improve performance and

ROI.

Seminar highlights

Planners and Account Managers who want to learn how to create an integrated strategy across multiple digital channelsProject Managers and Creatives who want a greater understanding of integrated digital strategy

Who attends?

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: Palm Springs, CADATE: Feb. 27-March 2, 2012COST: $3750

general info

• The Observatory• The Library• The Dinner Party• The Lab• The Earth• The Crowd• The City 2.0• The Courtroom• The Campfire• The Classroom• The Moment

2012 topics

TEDActive has 6 different projects that participants work with. Unlike other conferences TEDActive is not a preset conference. It’s open source, so your welcome to host your own workshops, give talks and much more.

what is it?

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• Bill Gates, Philanthropist

• Indra Nooyi, Chairman PepsiCo

• Bill Ford Executive Chair, Ford

• Jamie Oliver, Activist

• Roger Ebert, Film Critic

past speakers

Paralyzed woman walks on stage using an robotic exoskeleton.

Has to use crutches, but still.... Wow. #TEDactive

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: March 8, 2012COST: $395

general info

• art• technology• design• marketing• media

2012 topics

PSFK’s conference celebrated agenda setters across the innovation and communication fields.PSFK conferences expose audience to ideas that are 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.

what is it?

• Shepard Fairey,  Andy Spade,  Dennis Crowley

and Seth Godin. Gathering both established and

emerging leaders, PSFK events have a history of

presenting the founders of start-ups before their

companies become well-known.

past speakers

An audience of creative professionals from across advertising, design, marketing and technology industries will listen to a mix of inspirational speakers curated by the PSFK editorial team.

Who attends?

Friday, February 10, 2012

2012 ANA/WFA Global Marketing Conference presented by The New

York Times

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: March 14, 2012COST: $495, member rate, $695 non member rate

general info

•Joe Tripodi, The Coca-Cola Company

•Marc Menesguen, L'Oréal

•Chris Burggraeve, Anheuser Busch InBev

•Luke Dowdney MBE, Luta

• Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times

2012 speakers

Marketing and Advertising Industrywho attends? • THE WORLD'S MOST VALUABLE GLOBAL BRAND• INNOVATION, BEAUTY AND DIVERSITY• THE WORLD'S LEADING BREWER, BUILDING SOCIAL

NETWORKS SINCE 1366• A MODEL BRAND

2012 topics

The Global Marketing Conference will share eclectic and inspirational approaches to global brand building from the four corners of the world. 

what is it?

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: April 17-18, 2012COST: $1,250 through March 1st, and $1,495 after. Groups of 3+ receive $100 off each ticket.

general infoThe Ad Age Digital Conference is built around the principle that digital is not a media silo but rather a cultural force that affects everyone in our audience. Learn how to seize the opportunities — and avoid the pitfalls. You'll leave with a better understanding of social media and the new technologies driving creative, as well as a better sense of how to monetize and distribution compelling content.

what is it?

•Eric Anderson, VP of Content & Product Solutions,

Samsung•Lee Applbaum, CMO, RadioShack

•Adam Bain, President of Revenue, Twitter

•Doug Bewsher, CMO, Skype

past speakersThe content is aimed to design, marketing, advertising, customer service and brand professionals.

Who attends?

• Mobile, Socia l & Pos t -Digi ta l Innovation

• Web Video & The TV- Internet Collision

• G a m e M e c h a n i c s & T h e 'Gamification' of Marketing & Media

• Content• Ecommerce

2011 topics

Friday, February 10, 2012

• This American Life's Ira Glass• Harlem Children's Zone founder Geoffrey Canada• New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff• Craigslist founder Craig Newmark• John Reynolds Founder Twirlr

past speakers

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: April 18-21, 2012COST: $1299

general info

• Art• Business• Technology• Society

2012 topics

GEL or Good Experience Live explores good experience through Business, Art, Technology, Society and Life. Instead of focusing on just one discipline GEL brings together many ideas, experiences and thought leaders from many disciplines.

what is it?

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The Gel community is primarily made up of

creative leaders from a range of disciplines

and industries.

who attends?

impossible to describe how happy and satisfied I am after

attending #gel2011. Music by @johnnyswim a highlight!

4/29/2011

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: April 18 2012COST: $475 (early rate before 02.17, $575 after)

general info

the conference is aimed at

“innovative business leaders” in all

#elds ranging from advertising to

infrastruc ture to non-pro#t

organizations.

who attends?

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• Jason Kilar, CEO, Hulu• Mark Parker, CEO, Nike• Susan M. Lyne, CEO, Gilt Group• Christina Norman, CEO, Oprah Winfrey Network• Jared Leto, Actor, Director, Musician

past speakers

• 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

2011 panels 2012TBD

Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored is designed to 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.

what is it?

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: May 3-4 2012COST: SOLD OUT

general info

buzzThrilled to see @simonsinek, author of the brilliant Start With

Why (http://j.mp/jPhfwO), opening @the99percent #99conf

5 May

• Dr. Michael B. Johnson, R&D Lead, Pixar

• Yves Béhar, Founder & Chief Designer, FuseProject

• Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas

• Jack Dorsey, Creator & Co-Founder, Twitter

• Josh Rubin, Founder & Editor-In-Chief, Cool

Hunting

past speakers• Making Ideas Happen: Key Insights on Creative Execution• Innovating in the Real World: Using Design-Thinking To Create

Positive Change• Rede#ning Risk: Increasing Con#dence in Your Unconventional

Career

2011 panels

the conference targets people who have ideas but need direction in terms of making them happen; “the goal of the conference is to shift focus from idea generation to idea execution.”

who attends?

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.

what is it?

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: May 7-13 2012COST: $630-$700, all access

general info

Creative Week is a celebration of creativity in advertising, design, digital media and all the arts that feed and touch those disciplines.

what is it?

The week is aimed at Creatives,

illustrators, designers, students,

advertisers, photographs...

who attends?

One Show student exhibitionDesign showYo u n g O n e s p o r t o fo l i o ReviewOne Show Interactive

2012 Events

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: June 20-21, 2012COST: $1,690 (early rate before 03.05, $2,500 after)

general info

• Ray Kurzweil

• Mohanbir Sawhney

• Jane McGonigal

• Sir Ken Robinson

• Henry Chesbrough

• Scott Cook

• Clay Shirky

• Russell Stevens

• Guy Kawasaki

2012 speakers• What innovation brings: the signs of the future we can read today • Connect and engage• Serious play• Leading a Culture of Creativity and Innovation• How innovation changed while you weren't looking• Cultivating innovative ideas that endure• Creativity in a connected age• Creative Social Engagement• The Art of Innovation

2012 topics

The World Innovation Forum brings together a whole new group of experts and practitioners who are shaping the way we do business. The goal? Change reality. Provoke change. Shape the future.

what is it?

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: September 27, 2012COST: $1300-$1600

general infoIdeas Economy: Human Potential brings together broad thinkers from a variety of disciplines and progressive companies, to discuss new ideas which will allow humans to $ourish.

what is it?

• education• talent management• policy• technology• design

2012 topics

• Matthew Bishop, New York Bureau Chief, The Economist

• Lynda Gratton, Professor, London Business School

• Sonia Arrison, Author, "100 Plus"

• Shai Reshef, Founder and President, University of the People

past speakers

Friday, February 10, 2012

• Todd Bender, VP Business Development, MTV Digital Networks • Lauren Bruksch, Director of Marketing for Barbie, Mattel• Aaron Rothman, Senior Product Manager, Google

past speakers

LOCATION: New York, NY DATE: Sept. 26-27, 2012 COST: FREE

general info

• The State of Online Media, Marketing

and Advertising by the Numbers

• Social Media Strategy: Zero to 60

• The Evolution of Social Networks

• How the New Socialism Is Destroying

the Old Capitalism• Social Search Vs. Web Search

2011 topics

the backbone of the interactive industry:

the advertisers and the agency executives,

brand managers, marketing managers,

media planners, buyers, creative directors,

sellers, and suppliers who live and breathe

online.

who attends?

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, Behavioral Targeting, Social media, Mobile, Video, In-Game advertising, Metrics & Measurement, Performance & Email Marketing, and more.

what is it?

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Surprise! Advertising ppl think @carribugbee's social media

privacy concerns are b.s. Charming panel! :( #ommaglobal

9/28/2010

Friday, February 10, 2012

LOCATION: New York, NYDATE: October 17, 2012COST: $99 per delegate

general infoThe Media and Technology Conference will introduce major media buying #rms and their chief marketing officers to the new players and technology platforms that are quickly dominating the digital world. This high-level conference will host 350 guests for dynamic panel discussions with senior executives and thought-provoking leaders in the media and technology industries.

what is it?

buzzI'm at Adweek Social Media Strategies Conference (10 on the Park, 60

Columbus Circle, New York City) w/ 10 others. http://4sq.com/dkvjNo

Friday, February 10, 2012

• Kacie Kinzer, TweenBot• Riley Crane, Media Lab, MIT• Kyna Leski, Architecture Professor, RISD

past speakers

LOCATION: Camden, MaineDATE: Oct. 17-20, 2012 COST: $2500

general info

• Thinking Wrong• How (Not) To Change The World

• Edge of Exploration

• Human Dimensions

• Collaborations for Change

• Corruption: Deception & Perception

2011 topics

a global community of cutting-edge leaders,

thinkers, and doers from many different

disciplines, who come together to explore the

social impact of new technologies, the forces of

change shaping our future, and new approaches

to solving the world’s most signi#cant challenges.

who attends?

PopTech’s mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world changing people, projects and ideas.

what is it?

Helping any way I can. Wicked excited for #poptech2010 to

begin! (@ PopTech! w/ 2 others) http://4sq.com/dCJBVu

10/20/2010

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Friday, February 10, 2012