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Q3/Q4 Planning: Top Marketing Technology, Social Business Conferences & Events (30-July-14)

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Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we've missed something, don't hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can also view the full calendar here.)

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August Events

August 2 - 7 (Las Vegas): Black Hat USA Las Vegas 2014

The Black Hat Briefings are a series of highly technical information security conferences that bring together thought leaders from all facets of the infosec world - from the corporate and government sectors to academic and even underground researchers.

August 3 - 6 (Orlando): RetailNOW Orlando 2014

RetailNOW is the premier convention and expo for all professionals in the retail technology industry. RetailNOW is where the industry meets each year to become educated on new business trends, emerging technologies and best business practices along with exploring a diverse exhibit hall with more than 175 booths featuring the latest products in the retail technology industry.

August 5 (Boston): Road Show 2014: Content Sharing and Security Challenges Solved Boston

CIOs and IT Managers are invited to attend the Accusoft Road Show. Find out how to manage the massive task of communicating, collaborating and sharing content in today?s IT landscape using mobile viewing technology.

August 5 - 7 (Santa Clara): Flash Memory Summit Santa Clara 2014

The Flash Memory Summit is the only place where you will hear the people making these products happen! Network with companies and people that will create the next generation of hardware and software at the Flash Memory Summit.

August 5 - 6 (San Francisco): VentureBeat GrowthBeat San Francisco 2014

Analyzing big data, feeding customer data platforms, and connecting services, your site, your apps, and your ads into one giant seamless marketing machine that both fills the funnel and nurtures existing customers. But the number of marketing technology companies tripled in 2012 and tripled again in 2013 — it’s a confusing mess of capability and opportunity. GrowthBeat will help you make sense of it all.

August 6 (New York): IT Roadmap Conference & Expo New York 2014

The path to a winning next-generation enterprise is clear at IT Roadmap. This is where IT leaders come to explore strategies, trends and solutions for updating their IT infrastructures for the year ahead.

August 6 (San Francisco): Cynopsis Digital Small Screen/Big Ideas Conference San Francisco 2014

The explosion of digital video, the rise of social TV tools, the introduction of new technologies and the introduction of alternative platforms make for a perfect storm. Hear from experts, startups, thought leaders, tech providers and content creators about how they reach audiences and monetize content in this new world order.

August 7 (Dallas): Data Connectors Dallas Tech-Security Conference 2014

Data Connectors’ Tech Security Conferences focus on the latest tech security products and services such as email security, wireless security, network and infrastructure security, compliance, cloud computing, VoIP and networking. Our informative speaker sessions and sponsor exhibits help you keep up with the ever changing Information Security industry.

August 7 - 8 (Mumbai): 7th Annual Rural Marketing: The Next Big Revolution Mumbai

This 7th Annual Strategic Rural Marketing intensive conference is a one stop shop that is going to accelerate your rural expansion journey by presenting the major contributors in our rural arena. Use this opportunity to find alternative strategies and keep up with the rural victory through various ideas and techniques presented by our key experts.

August 10 - 12 (New York): Affiliate Summit East - New York 2014

Affiliate Summit was founded by Missy Ward and Shawn Collins in 2003 for the purpose of providing educational sessions on the latest industry issues and fostering a productive networking environment for affiliate marketers.Attendees at Affiliate Summit events break out into five main categories: agencies, affiliates, merchants, networks, and vendors.

August 11 (San Francisco): PR News' SEO Boot Camp San Francisco

Join PR News on August 11 at the Westin Francisco for a one-day boot camp that will immerse you in the latest best practices in search engine optimization. You’ll walk away with action items you can immediately put to use to make your content -- and your brand -- competitive in the crowded digital ecosystem.

August 11 - 14 (San Diego): Gartner Catalyst Conference San Diego 2014

Catalyst explores cutting-edge ideas, current challenges as well as emerging technologies that are shaping today's and tomorrow's enterprise. Catalyst Conference is renowned for its attendee-driven agenda, high-profile speakers, in-depth content and fiercely independent point of view.

August 11 - 14 (Philadelphia): eTail East 2014

Launched in 1999, eTail is the premier online and multi-channel retail conference dedicated to supporting the growth of the retail industry by facilitating high-level networking opportunities and providing leading industry knowledge.

August 11 - 14 (San Francisco): ClickZ Live San Francisco 2014

ClickZ Live provides marketing professionals, brand advertisers, agencies, and business leaders with the knowledge and tools needed to traverse the dynamic digital landscape. Designed for you by industry innovators, our instructional program will meet your needs whatever your experience level. Receive unparalleled education, network with peers, and achieve results!

August 11 - 15 (Redmond): TechMentor Conference Redmond 2014

Join us at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA for TechMentor 2014: Datacenter Edition! In this special TechMentor, we're focused entirely on making your server and management infrastructure more modern, more capable, and more manageable.

August 12 (San Francisco): Social Media 20/20 Summit San Francisco 2014

Join PR News in beautiful San Francisco on Aug. 12 for its Social Media 20/20 Summit, where you’ll learn from those brands and communicators that see where the social economy is headed. The PR News’ Social Media 20/20 Summit is the one conference that ties together the bedrock skills communicators have always excelled in with the social sharing strategies and tactics that have proven to be successful for the smartest brands.

August 12 (San Jose): Road Show 2014: Content Sharing and Security Challenges Solved San Jose

CIOs and IT Managers are invited to attend the Accusoft Road Show. Find out how to manage the massive task of communicating, collaborating and sharing content in today’s IT landscape using mobile viewing technology.

August 14 (Washington): Data Connectors Washington Tech-Security Conference 2014

The Washington DC Tech-Security Conference features 25-30 vendor exhibits and several industry experts discussing current tech-security issues such as email security, VoIP, LAN security, wireless security, USB drives security & more.

August 14 (San Francisco): Road Show 2014: Content Sharing and Security Challenges Solved San Francisco

CIOs and IT Managers are invited to attend the Accusoft Road Show. Find out how to manage the massive task of communicating, collaborating and sharing content in today's IT landscape using mobile viewing technology.

August 14 - 15 (New York): LeadsCon New York 2014

Founded in 2007, LeadsCon showcases the best people and companies in vertical media and direct-response marketing. 5000+ people rely each year on LeadsCon for unparalleled insights and access to marketing leaders. Those who desire accountability in their marketing spend and have results-driven marketing objectives -- from per click to per inquiry.

August 16 - 17 (Montreal): WordCamp Montreal 2014

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.

August 17 - 19 (San Antonio): XChange San Antonio 2014

In order to succeed, solution providers must provide unparalleled value to all of the influencers in this user-centric world to help business leaders innovate and deliver positive outcomes. Join us at XChange to deepen your understanding of dynamic IT trends such as cloud, the business of IT, collaboration, data center and storage, networking, virtualization, security, mobility and connectivity.

August 18 - 20 (New York): Customer Service Experience Conference New York 2014

The Customer Service Experience conference, co-located with the ever-growing CRM Evolution and SpeechTEK conferences, is the answer to your thirst for knowledge about customer service.

August 18 - 20 (New York): CRM Evolution Conference & Exhibition New York 2014

The combination of keynotes, Sunrise Discussions, presentations, and panels is designed to maximize not just what you need to be thinking about when it comes customer engagement, but also what the specific areas - such as analytics, social media, salesforce automation, marketing automation, and/or customer service - have to offer.

August 19 - 20 (Boston): MarTech 2014 Boston

We are thrilled to announce the launch of MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference -- a conference designed expressly for you, leaders at the intersection of marketing, strategy, and technology.

August 19 - 21  (San Jose): NoSQL NOW! San Jose 2014

The fourth annual NoSQL Now! Conference is the largest vendor-neutral forum focused on NoSQL (Not Only SQL) technologies.

August 19 - 21 (San Jose): Semantic Technology & Business Conference San Jose 2014

The Semantic Technology & Business Conference (#SemTechBiz) turns 10 this year! Co-located with NoSQL Now! Conference, SemTechBiz provides an outstanding opportunity for attendees from around the world to gather, share experiences and do business.

August 20 - 22 (Chicago): CloudOpen North America 2014

CloudOpen is the only event providing an education and collaboration space designed specifically to advance the open cloud. It is a conference celebrating and gathering together the open source projects, products, technologies and companies who comprise the cloud and are driving the cloud and big data ecosystems today and tomorrow.

August 21 (Online): CMSWire Tweet Jam: Social Business - Work as a Network #SocBizChat

Mark your calendars for our August Tweet Jam and stay tuned for more details as they become available!

August 21 (Online): (Webinar) 5 Effective Ways to Personalize Web Experiences

Join CMSWire and Clickability for this interactive discussion about personalizating web experiences. We'll focus on how you can deliver more relevant content to visitors based on the tracking of individual behavior, combined with effective persona, content and audience segmentation mapping.

August 23 - 29 (New York): Usability Week New York 2014

NN/g's Usability Week helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices so you can create successful interfaces.

August 25 (San Francisco): Thinking Big: The Evolution of Tech Ed San Francisco 2014

Are you in the know? Join us at Rackspace and get ready to see if you or your startup stands up to what the market wants.

August 25 - 26 (Sydney): Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit Sydney 2014

This year’s Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit shows you how to find the balance between enabling your organization to move forward against its objectives while also protecting it, your customers and employees, so you can have faster business process and improved ROI.

August 25 - 27 (Chicago): An Event Apart Chicago 2014

An Event Apart Chicago is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.

August 25 - 28 (San Francisco): VMWorld San Francisco 2014

The value of virtualization and cloud technology has never been greater. From the data center to the device, VMworld 2014 provides the essential tools and training to deliver real business value back to your organization. In the midst of a dramatic shift to the mobile-cloud era, VMworld can help you shape your software-defined enterprise, radically simplifying IT while delivering services at the speed of today’s business.

August 26 - 29 (Sydney): UX Australia 2014

The two days of main conference presentations (on 28-29 August) will cover a wide range of UX topics, from practical case studies to new approaches to how UX fits in an organisation. All presentations will be given by people with a ton of experience in their topic (though they may be new to conference speaking).

September Events

September 1 - 4 (Berlin): MobileTech Conference 2014 Berlin

Learn all about innovative business models, protifieren from insider knowledge about established and latest technologies, get to know the interfaces from which you can benefit the most, and explore markets in the enterprise and consumer environment.

September 1 - 4 (Singapore): 17th Annual Shared Services and Outsourcing Week Asia 2014

Taking place from 1–4 September 2014 in Singapore, the event focuses not only on the operational and transactional challenges but brings out the forefront of Shared Services innovation such as rise of the GBS Revolution, Data Analytics & the Cloud and C-Suite’s view of SSO.

September 2 (London): Intranet Now Conference London 2014

A mixture of set agenda 20/25 minute talks, plus lots of five minute slots for ‘lightning talks’ and time and space for unconference style group discussions.

September 2 - 4 (San Francisco): How Tomorrow Works Conference San Francisco 2014

Cloud and mobile are exploding. Everything is going online. People are working from everywhere. Enterprise software is learning from consumer technology. And, businesses function in completely different ways. So what’s next? Find out at BoxWorks, the industry-leading annual cloud conference from Box.

September 4 (Atlanta): Data Connectors Atlanta Tech-Security Conference 2014

The Atlanta Tech-Security Conference features 25-30 vendor exhibits and several industry experts discussing current tech-security issues such as email security, VoIP, LAN security, wireless security, USB drives security & more.

September 4 - 5 (Buenos Aires): Sustainable Brands '14 Buenos Aires

Brands that broaden their role within society and redesign the way they deliver value are recognizing the economic, environmental and social benefits that result. This newest community event in South America is yet another opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals.

September 8 - 9 (London): Enterprise 2.0 Summit London 2014

The Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT is a yearly event organized by Kongress Media since 2008. It is set up as a unique learning experience for Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business experts and practioneers in Europe.

September 8 - 10 (Las Vegas): Sitecore Symposium Las Vegas 2014

If you care about customer experience, you need to experience Sitecore Symposium 2014 Las Vegas. Scheduled for September 8–10 at the Aria Resort & Casino, the fourth Symposium offers education and inspiration to help you engage, win, and retain customers for life.

September 8 - 10 (Orlando): Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit Orlando 2014

This summit pulls together and creates a setting for the IT financial, procurement, vendor and asset management community to connect and share ideas, experiences and best practices on the latest topics.

September 8 - 10 (Hartford): The Information Governance Conference Hartford 2014

The Information Governance Conference: Educational, Affordable, Awesome.

September 8 - 10 (New Orleans): Cloud Partners Conference and Expo New Orleans 2014

Join us in New Orleans to connect with thousands of your peers, get the skinny from industry leading cloud providers and thought leaders, and map out where and how your practice can lever the higher cloud to maximize revenue and meet customer needs.

September 8 - 11 (Cleveland): Content Marketing World Cleveland 2014

Content Marketing World, the largest content marketing event on the planet, is the one event where you can learn from and network with the best and the brightest in the content marketing industry. You will leave with all the materials you need to take a content marketing strategy back to your team -- and -- to implement a plan that will grow your business and inspire your audience.

September 9 - 10 (London): Customer Festival London 2014

In the last 13 years Europe’s Customer Festival has evolved into a unique multi-sector market place, where all aspects of the customer journey are discussed. From customer loyalty to big data analytics, from innovative payment solutions to new omnichannel strategies, from customer engagement to customer experience – you’ll find it all here.

September 9 - 11 (Las Vegas): Super Mobility Week Las Vegas 2014

Powered by CTIA, Super Mobility Week is North America's largest forum for mobile innovation and the most influential mobile marketplace that brings together the leading authorities on the connected life all under one roof at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. Mobility supercharges everything. Live for Super.

September 9 - 12 (San Francisco): UX Week San Francisco 2014

Design professionals from all over the world gather for four days of community, inspiration and skills building. Now in its 12th year, UX Week delivers new tools you can put to use immediately.

September 10 - 12 (Cambridge): UX Cambridge 2014

UX Cambridge is a community-driven, practical User Experience conference for software, mobile and web applications. Connect and learn from your peers and leaders in the industry in a comfortable and exciting space and take away skills you can immediately use in your work.

September 10 - 12 (Orlando): Gartner Outsourcing & Strategic Partnerships Summit Orlando 2014

The premier outsourcing event for 2014 provides actionable advice, the latest thought leadership and best practices to guide CIOS, sourcing executives and leaders in making the best informed decisions while enabling a new balance between value, cost and risk.

September 11 (Salt Lake City): INTERFACE Salt Lake City 2014

At INTERFACE we’re committed to delivering content that is both timely and accurate. Our team is working with industry leaders to develop informative presentations for each event. Please check back for details as the event date approaches.

September 11 (New York): Information Security Executive Summit New York 2014

If you work in security for your organization, you probably have a few challenges that you need help to address. It might be the prospect of merging security infrastructure with another company; securing legacy systems until they age out; or convincing your management to budget more for defense than for compliance. Whatever it is, bring it to this exclusive end-user security event, where you will have the chance to work on it.

September 11 - 12 (Shanghai): Innovate 2014 Shanghai

Innovate 2014 Forum will gather innovation experts as well as organisations' top management to brainstorm and benchmark best practices to achieve true innovation success.

September 12 (Chicago): DAM Chicago 2014

Building on the success of previous DAM events, Henry Stewart returns to Chicago for a sixth consecutive year with 'The Art and Practice of Managing Digital Media' - all from the user's perspective. The presentations, keynote addresses, discussions, case studies, panels and round tables are specially formulated to ensure that you can keep abreast of the latest and the best.

September 12 - 14 (Arlington): TPRC42 Arlington 2014

TPRC is an annual conference on communication, information, and Internet policy that convenes international and interdisciplinary researchers and policymakers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations. Its purpose is to present original research relevant to policy making, share information about areas where research is needed, and engage in discussion on current policy issues.

September 12 - 14 (Amherest): NERDSummit Amherest 2014

This is an opening up and enlarging of the traditional learning camp and its intended audience. Running on a larger scale then typical camps, Friday Beginner Bootcamp Sessions, Saturday Regular Sessions, Media/Tech/Business/Edu Summits and Sunday Code Sprinting/Hacking are planned.

September 12 - 18 (San Francisco): DataWeek 2014 Conference + Expo San Francisco

DataWeek + API World 2014 Conference + Festival is the largest data + API event in San Francisco for the third year running, where over 3,000 engineers and executives converge to discuss the role of data + API innovation on business, technology, and society. API World 2014 represents standalone tracks and a dedicated tradeshow area of the DataWeek + API World event!

September 14 - 16 (Dallas): Midsize Enterprise Summit Dallas 2014

Today’s Midsize Enterprise CIOs are tackling their toughest challenges ever in face of a tech landscape changing faster than anyone can keep pace. Business is demanding more from IT than ever before while workplaces fill with next-generation tech-savvy workers challenging the status quo at every turn.

September 15 (London): Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit London 2014

Join the most important annual gathering of business and IT leaders responsible for collaboration and engagement between employees, customers and suppliers. This Summit will give you the vision and future trends, as well as the practical advice for immediate implementation.

September 15 (Atlanta): Employee Advocacy Summit Atlanta 2014

As Employee Advocacy grows into a new mega-trend for brands, business leaders across industries want to know how it will create value and how to best execute within their brand, while ensuring ROI and compliance.

September 15 - 16 (San Francisco): The Corporate Social Media Summit San Francisco 2014

The 4th Annual Corporate Social Media Summit San Francisco is your one-stop-shop for all the latest social media insight and best practice. It gives you a 360 degree look into building, operationalizing and initiating a successful social media strategy at your company plus provides you critical insight on the biggest issues you’ll face in 2014.

September 15 - 17 (New Orleans): The Resource Planning Summit New Orleans 2014

The Resource Planning Summit is celebrating its 5th year as the premier event for promoting the concepts and knowledge of Resource Management, Capacity Planning, and Demand Management, and how all this applies to Project Portfolio Management (PPM).

September 15 - 17 (New York): O'Reilly Velocity 2014 New York

Velocity is about the people and technologies that keep the Web fast, scalable, resilient, and highly available. From ecommerce to mobile to the cloud, Velocity is where the future of the Web takes shape.

September 15 - 18 (Boston): HubSpot's Inbound Conference Boston 2014

Join thousands of marketing and sales professionals from around the globe for the world's most remarkable business event. Inbound provides attendees with the inspiration, education, and connections needed to transform their businesses to match the way purchasing behaviors are evolving in a connected and digital world.

Learning Opportunities

September 15 - 19 (Las Vegas): IT/Dev Connections

No gimmicks: just in-depth training from the most experienced technology professionals in the industry. Our content is shaped by feedback from you and your peers. Why YOU need to be there:because you'll leave with tips and techniques you can implement immediately.

September 16 (London): Interaction Intranet Conference 2014

Interaction Intranet Conference #IIC14 is once again shaping up to be the best intranet conference in the UK and something you definitely don’t want to miss out on if your role involves looking after your company’s intranet.

September 16 - 17 (London): Digital Marketing Exchange London 2014

The Digital Exchange brings together over 60 C-Suite, VPs and Directors of Digital Marketing, Marketing, Branding, Social and IT to debate and discuss the practicalities of balancing the needs of business, to ensure growth for long term success.

September 16 - 19 (Boston): SPTechCon Boston 2014

Come to SPTechCon for technical classes and tutorials for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 administrators, IT professionals, business users and developers.

September 17 - 18 (Sydney): Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit Sydney 2014

The Big Data Innovation Summit is the largest gathering of senior business executives leading Big Data initiatives in Australasia. The summit brings together business leaders and innovators from the industry for an event acclaimed for its interactive format; combining keynote presentations, interactive breakout sessions and open discussion.

September 17 - 19 (Chicago): Social Media Strategy for Higher Education Chicago 2014

Join us in Chicago for one of our most popular conferences and learn the core components of a comprehensive social media strategy. You’ll leave this event with an action plan to help make your social media presence an integral part of your institution’s brand.

September 17 - 19 (San Jose): IAPP Privacy Academy and CSA Congress San Jose 2014

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) are bringing together the IAPP Privacy Academy and the CSA Congress under one roof, giving you access to even more valuable education and networking.

September 18 (Online): CMSWire Tweet Jam: Guiding the Customer Journey with Content Marketing #CXMChat

Be sure to mark your calendars for what is sure to be an hour full of insightful conversation on the customer journey!

September 18 (London): The Mobility of Things London Conference 2014

The Mobility of Things will help C-level business leaders define and drive their enterprise mobility vision. This exclusive one-day conference will guide you through today’s complex and evolving mobile landscape, providing a platform for demystifying complex and technical concerns and an opportunity to expand your mobility business network through peer-to-peer learning and networking.

September 18 (Munich): Open-Xchange Summit Munich 2014

Business leaders and technology experts from around the world return to Summit each year to experience where the open and trusted Cloud ecosystem is heading. Come to connect the value between how open software, trusted networks and secure data centers are the next level of value in Cloud Computing.

September 18 (New York): The 2014 Cyber Security Summit - NYC

The event will connect C-Level & Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with cutting-edge technology providers and renowned information security experts.

September 18 - 20 (New Orleans): FinCon14 New Orleans

FinCon is a peer conference for the financial media community. Attendees connect, learn to create compelling online content, and discover new trends in money and personal finance.

September 20 (Washington): MobileUX Camp DC 2014

MobileUXCamp DC is a mobile technology themed BarCamp. We aim to bring together mobile enthusiasts, explorers and professionals to share the current state and their visions for the future direction of mobility. MobileUXCamp DC hopes to support the many voices helping to unlock the potential of a truly digital life.

September 21 - 23 (New York): Meet Magento NY 2014

The leading Magento eCommerce Community Conference has arrived to New York City, and has been already inviting to the industry meeting for the last 8 years. Encounter the whole Magento ecosystem and meet Merchants, Magento Agencies, Magento Service Providers and the Magento Community.

September 21 - 26 (Toronto): Usability Week Toronto 2014

NN/g's Usability Week helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices so you can create successful interfaces.

September 22 - 23 (London): #dareconf 2014 London

At #dareconf you’ll learn to turn conflict -- and awkward conversations -- into collaboration, feel confident about your contributions and align your work with your values.

September 22 - 24 (Austin): An Event Apart Austin 2014

An Event Apart Austin is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.

September 22 - 24 (Denver): SharePoint Fest Denver 2014

At SharePoint Fest — D.C. there are sessions created for SharePoint administrators, software developers, information architects and knowledge workers which will ensure that you and your team walk away with as much knowledge as you desire to truly leverage SharePoint in your current environment!

September 22 - 14 (London): Business Analysis Conference Europe 2014

Business Analysis is growing at a phenomenal pace. Organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of business analysis in achieving successful change and many are investing heavily in developing this capability. The skills and techniques of business analysts are invaluable in shaping and forming business change overall as well as making the most of opportunities presented by new technologies.

September 22 - 24 (Stevenson): CIDM Best Practices Conference Stevenson 2014

The 2014 Best Practices conference brings together a community of young professionals and seasoned hands who share how they grapple with our rapidly changing information world.

September 24 - 25 (San Francisco): Social Media Strategies Summit San Francisco 2014

This two day summit will focus on the essentials that you want to learn about such content creation, building a strong internal team to maximize efficiency, and how to create meaningful and long-lasting relationships with your customers and users.

September 24 - 25 (New York): Digital Customer Experience Strategies Summit

Implement 10 key digital customer experience best practices / solutions / strategies into your organization.

September 24 - 25 (Austin): Clarity '14 Austin

Clarity ‘14 is a two-day, action-packed opportunity to hear from over a dozen global SEO thought leaders and practitioners, plus there will be specialized training where you can earn your Clarity “Masters” certification!

September 24 - 26 (Boston): Sustainable Brands New Metrics Boston 2014

New Metrics '14 - Explore the future of sustainable business metrics. The three-day event examines leading-edge work that expands the way business can create, quantify, manage and communicate value and enhance financial performance with shared value.

September 25 - 26 (San Francisco): Digital Marketing Innovation Summit San Francisco 2014

With 25+ Industry Speakers & 200+ delegates, Digital Marketing Innovation is the most exclusive gathering of leaders in digital marketing and digital media. Innovate your Digital Marketing and watch all presentation videos post-summit.

September 25 - 26 (Salt Lake City): The A to Z's of HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules Seminar Salt Lake City 2014

This session is designed to provide intensive, two-day training in HIPAA compliance, including what's new in the regulations, what's changed recently, and what needs to be addressed for compliance by covered entities and business associates.

September 26 (Guildford): WXG Guildford 2014

Kyan presents WXG, a conference dedicated to creating cutting-edge web and digital experiences, held in Guildford on 26 September from 9am to 5pm. With twin tracks, lots of time to chat, lunch included and drinks to follow, it’s a day not to be missed.

September 28 - October 2 (San Francisco): Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2014

You know at Oracle OpenWorld you're going to get a lot more: technology sessions, labs, demos; exhibitors and partners; opportunities to meet with industry leaders and more. Mark your calendars now!

September 29 - October 1 (Chicago): Market Research for Product Innovation Event Chicago 2014

We understand that innovation is risky. Whether you are adapting an existing product or service or expanding beyond your comfort zone, you need to be able to make smart decisions during the development process that are backed by the right data and information.

September 29 - October 3 (Amsterdam): DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014

DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 will bring together the brightest people from around the world who love Drupal, the open source content management platform.

September 29 - October 1 (Chicago): Market Research for Product Innovation Event Chicago 2014

Market research exists separate from product innovation, and product innovation exists separate from market research…. but they are better together. That is why we are addressing both at our Market Research for Product Innovation event. We invite you to join us September 29-October 1, 2014 in Chicago to meet and learn from the next generation of market researchers and innovation leaders.

September 30 - October 1 (Stockholm): Nordics' Customer Festival 2014

Nordics’ Customer Festival give you an opportunity to do just that by bringing together over 200 of the biggest brands to discuss all aspects of the customer journey; from product search and evaluation to purchase and onto repurchase.

September 30 - October 2 (Ottawa): Digital Strategy Conference Ottawa 2014

Digital Strategy Conference Ottawa happening Sept 30 to Oct 2nd, 2014 offers a unique learning experience for senior managers, directors and their digital teams. Get three-days of educational sessions.

September 30 - October 2 (New Orleans): American Marketing Association's 2014 Conference New Orleans

Last year over 400 attendees gathered in New Orleans to experience the convergence of best practices, emerging trends, the latest innovations, insightful observations and the resulting conversations that could only have happened at an event of this caliber. Join us this fall as the AMA again brings inspiration and innovation through fantastic speakers and excellent networking opportunities to the AMA's Annual Conference!

October Events

October 4 - 8 (Los Angeles): Adobe MAX. The Creativity Conference

Connect with over 5,000 of the most creative minds at Adobe MAX, the annual gathering of creative industry leaders, designers, developers, strategists, video pros, and photographers who come together to learn about and share the latest techniques and technologies for creating digital content.

October 5 - 9 (Boston): eMetrics Summit Boston 2014

eMetrics Summit is “Big Data for Marketing!” From early adopters leading the effort to those still in discovery mode, this is the only comprehensive event dedicated to digital analytics and marketing optimization. As the leading conference covering the impact of data & technology on marketing, eMetrics Summit focuses on driving business results through data analysis and technology adoption.

October 5 - 9 (Orlando): Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2014 Orlando 2014

Digital business is blurring the lines between the digital and the physical worlds, disrupting all industries and redefining the role of IT. At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2014, CIOs and senior IT executives will learn how to realize, build and optimize digital opportunities, move digital business from theory to practice, and evolve their own IT leadership to become indispensable in the new digital business world.

October 5 - 9 (Boston): Predictive Analytics World Boston 2014

Predictive Analytics World is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to achieve bigger wins, broader capabilities and big data.

October 5 - 7 (Boston): Liferay Symposium Boston 2014

The Liferay Symposium is designed to deliver practical business solutions while highlighting emerging industry trends. With keynote sessions and use cases featuring industry experts and leaders, the Symposium will equip you with the latest in portal technology.

October 6 - 7 (Portland): Delight 2014 Portland

Delight is a two-day conference in Portland, Oregon for brands and professionals who care about making experiences people love. The event gathers leaders working at the intersection of business, design and technology in an intimate forum that encourages big ideas, interactive discussions and lasting connections.

October 8 - 10 (Berlin): TYPO3 Conference Europe 2014

This conference offers a wide range of sessions with an interesting mix of topics for developers and for TYPO3 users alike as well as decision makers and marketing managers.

October 12 - 17 (Anaheim): STARWEST Anaheim 2014

STARWEST is the premier event for software testers and quality assurance professionals -- covering all your testing needs with 100+ learning and networking opportunities.

October 13 - 15 (London): JAX London 2014

JAX London is returning for 2014 this October, bringing Java, JVM and Enterprise Professionals together for our technology and methodology focused event. Known as the place where the most respected thinkers and the brightest minds of the tech community meet, JAX London offers a deep dive for the modern developer and architect aiming to transform open technologies into valuable business solutions.

October 13 - 18 (Norfolk): xTupleCon14 Norfolk

Two main days packed with inspirational keynote speakers (including leaders in government, technology and our local military), VIP guests and entertainment, delivered in premium breakout sessions, including content for everyone, at every level.

October 15 - 17 (New York): Strata + Hadoop World New York 2014

Strata + Hadoop World is where cutting-edge data science and new business fundamentals intersect -- and merge. You'll get up to speed on emerging techniques and technologies by dissecting case studies, develop new skills through in-depth tutorials, share emerging best practices in data science, and imagine the future.

October 16 - 18 (Paris): Paris Web 2014

We look forward to welcoming you to Belfry Montrouge Thursday 16 and Friday, October 17, 2014 for the ninth edition of the Paris conference Web. Workshops will be held Saturday, October 18

October 17 (Columbus): CloudDevelop Columbus 2014

CloudDevelop aims to bring together people exploring every aspect of cloud computing. If you're a developer working with .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, or just about anything else, you'll find sessions here relevant to you.

October 18 - 23 (Miami): DIGIMARCON Miami 2014

Whether it’s building customer loyalty, increasing sales, improving lead generation, or driving greater consumer engagement, DIGIMARCON Conferences have been specifically designed to help attendees develop their audience and build traffic, create brand awareness, improve customer service, and develop better use of digital tools internally to drive more productive business outcomes.

October 19 - 21 (Scottsdale): BOLO Conference 2014

At BOLO 2014, we will present a mix of current thought-leaders and up-and-coming digital marketing visionaries to give you a fresh yet grounded perspective on how to move your agency forward into the next stage of marketing evolution.

October 19 - 21 (San Diego): Marketing Operations & Technology Summit San Diego 2014

Keynote presentations set the stage, but the real 'meat' of the conference is when people share their stories and lead group discussions. The focus is on actionable takeaways. This is your opportunity to set the agenda and determine what discussions are most important to you.

October 20 - 22 (Boca Raton): The Market Research Event 2014 Boca Raton

It is a think tank dedicated to blending art and science to fully understand today's consumers. The TMRE experience is curated to disseminate best practices across industries and disciplines.

October 20 - 22 (Chicago): Digital Marketing Metrics & Analytics Summit Chicago 2014

IQPC’s Digital Marketing Metrics and Analytics Summit will be a hub for Digital Marketing professionals to get together and create fruitful and interactive discussion around both the topic of Metrics and aggregating the right data and deriving accurate insights with analytics.

October 21 - 22 (Kuala Lumpur): Sustainable Brands '14 Kuala Lumpur

The first Asian country as part of our global conference network, Malaysia, will bring another welcomed perspective as sustainability and design leaders gather from around the world. Learn from global thought leaders and practitioners as they discuss earnest ways forward towards a sustainable economy that delivers net good for customers and the world.

October 21 - 23 (San Diego): Digital Marketing Super Summit San Diego 2014

Create and optimize your organization’s digital presence, identify and implement the appropriate digital marketing strategies to communicate with your target audience, expand and improve your digital footprint by refining your strategy, plan effective digital marketing campaigns, determine appropriate metrics and your digital marketing ROI, learn to integrate email, social, mobile, paid/owned/earned media, and effective content and understand the use of big data and analytics for digital marketing campaigns all at this year's Digital Marketinf Super Summit

October 21 - 23 (Las Vegas): JiveWorld14 Las Vegas

This year’s JiveWorld will deliver three days of inspiring keynotes, over 50 sessions, the developer hacker lounge, and plenty of opportunities to help you build a meaningful network of smart successful people who are driven to change work for the better. And we promise, you’ll have more than a little bit of fun while your here…

October 22 - 23 (Raleigh): All Things Open Raleigh 2014

Be a part of the top Open Source developers, technologists and decision makers in the world! Join us on October 22nd & 23rd at the Raleigh Convention Center, as we explore Open Source, Open Tech and the Open Web in the enterprise.

October 22 - 24 (Philadelphia): Ascend 2014 Digital Marketing Summit Philadelphia

Speakers will cover a variety of topics, including: email marketing and deliverability, advanced content marketing, conversion optimization, affiliate marketing, SEO, and social media marketing. AWeber customers will also have the opportunity to consult with AWeber experts and solutions team members to enhance their email marketing efforts.

October 23 (London): The B2B Marketing Conference London 2014

Demonstrate ROI, Maximise Long-Term Engagement & Boost Your Multi-Channel & Social Media Impact: Drive Results & Prove Value With Winning B2B Marketing Strategies.

October 23 - 25 (Indianapolis): Midwest UX Conference 2014

Midwest UX is a 3-day conference founded on inter-disciplinary talks and workshops built around supporting and inspiring the growing Midwest design community. Located in Indianapolis in 2014, conference attendees will experience unique opportunities to participate and learn from regional professionals and international experts.

October 24 - 26 (Ohio): Ohio LinuxFest 2014

The Ohio LinuxFest is a grassroots conference for the GNU/Linux/Open Source Software/Free Software community that started in 2003 as a large inter-LUG meeting and has grown steadily since. It is a place for the community to gather and share information about Linux and Open Source Software.

October 25 - 30 (San Diego): DMA2014 San Diego

Returning to beautiful San Diego, the Global Event for Data-Driven Marketers will attract some of the planet’s brightest data-driven marketing minds to share their insights and best practices with YOU!

October 27 - 29 (San Francisco): Big Data TechCon San Francisco 2014

The “how-to” show for big data developers, IT managers and practitioners. Big Data TechCon is technology-agnostic and will apply to organizations using relational databases, NoSQL databases, graph databases, unstructured data, flat files and data feeds.

October 27 - 29 (Orlando): An Event Apart Orlando 2014

An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition lives up to its name by taking things to the next level. We’ll have not one, not two, but three days packed full of the brightest minds in the business.

October 29 - 30 (London): Predictive Analytics World London 2014

Predictive Analytics World London, the leading vendor-neutral analytics conference, is holding its fifth annual conference this October 29-30 in London, UK.

October 29 - 31 (San Francisco): Constellation's Connected Enterprise San Francisco 2014

Constellation's Connected Enterprise is the intimate innovation summit for senior business leaders successfully using disruptive technologies such as social business, cloud computing, mobile enterprise, big data and analytics, gamification, and unified communications/video to drive business value and transform business models.

October 31 - November 2 (Brno): Marketing Festival 2014

The Marketing Festival is a WORLD-CLASS DIGITAL MARKETING EVENT, held in the very heart of Europe. We are going to give to you respected top professionals – marketers, PPC professionals, and web analysts.

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About the Author

Stacey Harnish-Zinck

Stacey graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Saint Vincent University in 2008. She then completed a Bachelor of Education at the University of Maine in 2010.