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What are the best U.S. social media conferences in 2011?
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Conferences to Attend in 2011… Part II
The second-half of conferences tend to be more “developer-centric”. Companies put in a tremendous amount of money in ensuring developers are happy and are given the necessary tools and resources to be able to develop “apps” on the company’s platform — At Adobe Max last year, BlackBerry provided a BlackBerry Torch and a BlackBerry PlayBook (to be released by mid-year 2011) to encourage developers to build on their mobile platform. Whether not it worked, it definitely got a lot of attention within the community. p.s. the PlayBook front end GUI is built using Adobe AIR on-top of the QNX OS.
| Conference | Description | When | Where | Who Should Attend | Will I Attend? |
| Google I/O | Google’s Developer Conference | May 10-May 11 | San Francisco, CA | Developers | I will be there! |
| The D Conference | WSJ’s Digital Conference | May 31 Jun. 2 |
Ranchos Palos Verdes, CA | Executives | Already sold out! |
| WWDC | Apple’s Developer conference | Jun. 2011 | San Francisco, CA | Developers | I will be there! |
| BlackBerry DevCon | BlackBerry’ Developer Conference | Sept. 2011 | San Francisco, CA | Developers | 40/60 |
| Adobe Max | Adobe’s Designer and Developer conference | Oct. 1- Oct. 5 |
Los Angeles, CA | Designers Developers, Managers |
80/20 |
| Microsoft PDC | Microsoft’s Developer Conference | Oct. 2011 | Los Angeles, CA | Developers, Managers |
40/60 |
| Dive into Mobile | WSJ’s Mobile Conference | Dec. 2011 | San Francisco, CA | Executives | 50/50 |
Conferences to Attend in 2011… Part I
Over the years, I’ve attended a variety of conferences of different types: mobile-centric, UX-centric, developer-centric, and marketing-centric. I thought about putting out a list to share with folks who might be interested. I will post a second list (Jun 2011 – Dec. 2011) in a separate post. Please feel free to comment.
| Conference | Description | When | Where | Who Should Attend | Will I Attend this year? |
| CES | The ‘Ultimate Electronics’ trade show | Jan. 6- Jan.9 |
Las Vegas, NV | Developers, Marketers, Managers, Executives |
Next year in 2012 |
| Mobile World Congress | The ‘Global’ Mobile trade show | Feb. 14- Feb. 17 |
Barcelona, Spain | Designers, Developers, Marketers, Managers, Executives |
20/80 –Been there in 2007. Amazing experience if you’ve never been to Barcelona! |
| SXSW | SXSW Interactive Digital Conference | Mar. 11-Mar. 15 | Austin, TX | Designers, Developers, Marketers Managers |
20/80 |
| F8 | Facebook Developer Conference | Apr. 2011 | San Francisco, CA | Developers, Managers |
80/20 |
| Microsoft Mix | Microsoft’s UX Designer/Developer conference | Mar. 15- Mar. 17 | Las Vegas, NV | Designers, Developers, Managers |
50/50 — Been there 2006, 2007, 2008 — competes with Adobe Max for UX mindshare |
| CTIA Wireless 2011 | North American Mobile Trade Show | Mar. 22- Mar. 24 |
Orlando, FL | Developers, Marketers, Managers, Executives |
50/50 — Been there 2008, 2009. Strong US focus. |
| BlackBerry World 2011 | All-things BlackBerry Conference | May 3- May 5 |
Orlando, FL | Developers, Marketers, Managers, Executives |
40/60 — RIM is one of our clients. |
