Monday, September 05, 2011

Conferences Directory — Calendar Listing

Conferences Directory — Calendar Listing

September 2011

Agency Summit
Location: Bali, Malaysia
Dates: September 5-7, 2011
Attendance to the iMedia Agency Summits is by invitation only. iMedia Summit events include keynote addresses, interactive breakout sessions, panel discussions, working groups, recreational excursions, and delicious meals. iMedia Communications is a trade publisher and event producer serving interactive media and marketing industries. The company was founded in September of 2001 and is a subsidiary of dmg world media.
Angel Investor & Early-Stage VC Conference
Location: Houston, Texas
Dates: September 5, 2011
At the FundingPost Angel Investor & Early-Stage VC Conference you'll meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check. They will be discussing trends in early-stage investing, hot sectors, sectors that these angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an investment, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention, additional advice for entrepreneurs.
Broadband Traffic Management | Asia
Location: Singapore
Dates: September 5, 2011
According to a recent study by Ericsson, global mobile data traffic almost tripled in the past year, growing ten times faster than voice traffic. At the Broadband Traffic Management event, interact with and learn from an elite speaker panel of experts from Vodafone, Telefonica, Virgin Media and many more industry leaders and join 300+ attendees at the world’s only dedicated broadband traffic management event (relevant to fixed and mobile operators alike).
DisplaySearch Conference
Location: Berlin, Germany
Dates: September 5, 2011
The DisplaySearch US Flat Panel Display (FPD) conference will focus on all major and emerging flat panel display applications, as well as production equipment and key components and materials. It will boast two-and-a-half days of general sessions, more interactive sessions, three days of cutting-edge exhibits, and numerous networking opportunities including a welcome reception and dinner during the conference. Attendees will gain an instant return on investment by walking away with tens of thousands of dollars worth of market data and industry insight.
Social Media World Forum | Asia
Location: Singapore
Dates: September 1-2, 2011
Social Media has come a long way and the social media series will get right into the nitty gritty of these changes, giving delegates a way to learn, engage, debate and understand the latest in social media marketing. The aim of the Social Media World Forum is to bring together the social media community to debate the hot topics for the year ahead. A fully packed agenda looking into how brands can use social media as a marketing tool, the latest tips and tricks.
Telluride Film Festival (TFF)
Location: Telluride, Colorado
Dates: September 2-5, 2011
The Telluride Film Festival is presented by the National Film Preserve, a non profit arts and education organization celebrating the art of film. Held every Labor Day Weekend for 32 years in a beautiful Victorian mining town surrounded by 13,000 feet peaks, the Telluride Film Festival is a major showcase for the best in cinema. Its loyal and affluent passholders attend without knowing in advance what films will be shown or which famed artists they will encounter on the streets of Telluride, as the program is kept secret until opening day.

September 2011

Angel Investor & Early-Stage VC Conference
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Dates: September 7, 2011
At the FundingPost Angel Investor & Early-Stage VC Conference you'll meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check. They will be discussing trends in early-stage investing, hot sectors, sectors that these angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an investment, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention, additional advice for entrepreneurs.
Biomass Pellets Trade
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Dates: September 7-8, 2011
CMT's Biomass Pellets Trade Asia conference will focus on: global & Asia's growth of biomass demand in co-firing and co-generation; availability & competitiveness of wold pellets versus agro biomass, empty fruit bunch, rice husk & sugar; pricing + sustainability + shipping = economics; and making viable investmet in 'biomass to power' value chain in Asia.
CEDIA Expo
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Dates: September 7-10, 2011
If you want the hottest, most profitable products for the residential electronic systems industry, you have to be at CEDIA Expo. By the time your competition reads about these products or sees them somewhere else, you may have already cornered the market. A show without all of this industry's important exhibitors is like a toolbox with only half of its tools. CEDIA Expo gives you every exhibitor that is important to your success in this industry. The Expo also gives you product training so you can maximize your profits.
CIO Summit
Location: Miami, Florida
Dates: September 7-9, 2011
The CIO Summit is the event for the "who's who" of technology leaders at major hotel, casino, cruise line, management and timeshare companies. The Summit is a combination of networking, social events and program unlike any other. Attendees agree the most important part of The CIO Summit is peer-to-peer networking. Participants discuss (and debate) the technology and business issues facing the industry in both serious and not-so-serious environments.
DailyDealMedia Conference
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: September 8-9, 2011
At the DailyDealMedia Conference you'll have any opportunity to connect with the leading experts in social commerce and hundreds of companies who are blazing new paths in this explosive industry. Daily Deal Media tracks and rates publishers and merchants using key performance indicators such as daily sales, product offerings, performance metrics and deal history which allows us to provide our clients with valuable deal data and business intelligence.
Digital Media Pipeline
Location: Los Angeles, California
Dates: September 7, 2011
Digital Media Pipeline offers an opportunity for digital retailers, content owners and aggregators, and technology and service providers to share learnings and experiences in the business of retailing digital entertainment. This young industry is growing quickly, and new technologies and new business models are developing and testing almost weekly. Digital Media Pipeline offers opportunities for collaboration among partners in the supply chain.
DisplaySearch Conference
Location: Shanghai, China
Dates: September 8-9, 2011
DisplaySearch hosts the annual HDTV Conference. At the even you'll hear from ndustry leaders from the content, TV, DVD and component industries as well as analysts from DisplaySearch and The NPD Group. The latest HDTV-related findings will be presented which cover the entire TV supply chain from component shipments to retailer sell-through and maintain one of the largest consumer panels. The event features two days of content-rich sessions and a cutting-edge exhibitor showcase.
IBC Conference
Location: The Netherlands
Dates: September 8-13, 2011
IBC is committed to providing the world's best event for everyone involved in the creation, management and delivery of content for the entertainment industry. Run by the industry for the industry, IBC is owned by six Partners who represent both visitors and exhibitors. Uniquely, the key executives and committees who control the convention are drawn from these organizations, bringing with them experience and expertise in all aspects of our industry.
Leadership in Corporate Development
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: September 8, 2011
Argyle Executive Forum is pleased to present its Leadership in the Corporate Development. The Forum will bring 175 senior investment professionals (GPs, LPs, and FoFs across multiple alternative asset classes), senior operating executives from public and private firms, and select senior advisors. This event is by invitation only.
LTE | Asia Summit
Location: Singapore
Dates: September 6-7, 2011
LTE Asia Summit looks set to build upon hugely successful events of year's past, which attracted top operators from across the World. In attendance will be All the major LTE players, including all major operators, vendors, industry associations, industry press and bloggers and more! With over 80 stands and a comprehensive 6 track program, plus two co-located conferences, you can expect a fantastic turnout.
Open Video Conference
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 10-12, 2011
The Open Video Conference is a showcase for technical and creative innovation in online video. The conference is a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to explore the future of online video. The conference is expected to host to over 800 guests, including 150 workshop leaders, panelists and speakers. Over 8,000 viewers tuned in from home to watch last year's live broadcast.
Project Finance
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 7-9, 2011
Project Finance will take you step-by-step through the critical aspects of successful project financing. It will not only discuss the time proven fundamentals of risk assessment and mitigation, but will also lay out up-to-the-moment innovations in project structuring allowing you to utilize special provisions for new energy projects in the stimulus bill and other government initiatives. Crucially, this program will let you profit from the decades of real-world experience our faculty brings to the table.
The Customer Show | Asia
Location: Singapore
Dates: September 6-7, 2011
The Customer Show Asia is a dedicated customer management conference for all customer-facing industries. The Customer Show is dedicated customer management conference for all customer-facing industries. It is a two day strategic conference and a technology showcase exhibition. The conference features Senior Marketers from the largest brands in case studying customer management innovation and excellence.
Toronto International Film Festival
Location: Toronto, Canada
Dates: September 8-18, 2011
The Toronto International Film Festival®, one of several programming initiatives of the Toronto International Film Festival Group, is widely recognized as the most important film festival after Cannes and the largest and most successful public festival in the world. It is the discriminating and sophisticated Toronto filmgoers who make the Toronto International Film Festival a must-attend event for the public, industry, and press alike.
Turbines Towers & Vessels
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Dates: September 7-9, 2011
The Turbines Towers & Vessels conference is the only event focused on securing a place in the supply chain for the Northeastern offshore wind projects; where you will hear directly from turbine, tower and interconnection equipment suppliers about their manufacturing plans and supply chain needs, and; where you will network with all the experts and decision makers in the multi-billion dollar Northeastern offshore wind industry.

September 2011

Brand Summit
Location: Coronado, California
Dates: September 11-14, 2011
Far more than just another media conference, at the iMedia Brand Summit you'll join your colleagues, competitors, and the industry's cutting-edge thinkers in a stimulating dialogue that will take your company's interactive marketing efforts to the next level. Advertisers and their agencies rely upon the summit to provide needed information, industry discussion, collaboration and networking that result in the advancement of interactive as a marketing medium.
Brand Summit
Location: Hunter Valley, Australia
Dates: September 12-14 2011
Far more than just another media conference, at the iMedia Brand Summit you'll join your colleagues, competitors, and the industry's cutting-edge thinkers in a stimulating dialogue that will take your company's interactive marketing efforts to the next level. Advertisers and their agencies rely upon the summit to provide needed information, industry discussion, collaboration and networking that result in the advancement of interactive as a marketing medium.
CFO Corporate Performance Management Conference
Location: Dallas, Texas
Dates: September 11-13, 2012
The Corporate Performance Management Conference will offer practical guidance to CFOs on how to produce high-quality and predictive analytics, as well as explore how data is being embraced throughout companies and in diverse business categories. Through presentations from leading thought leaders and cutting-edge case studies, this year’s event will highlight the extensive reach of the data revolution.
CIO Perspectives Forum
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: September 14, 2011
Experience the IT executive event series from CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council. A one-day regional forum to meet, collaborate with and learn from your regional peers on the most important topics of the day. This unique series packs maximum value in a single-day, multi-format, conveniently located package. CIO Perspectives is the best way to connect and collaborate with your regional peers in one day that's all business and all value.
Customer Contact | APAC
Location: Manila, Philippines
Dates: September 15-16, 2011
The Frost & Sullivan Customer Contact | APAC is an interactive forum for customer care, contact center and sales & marketing executives seeking to maximize ROI through integrated technology innovations and customer-focused strategies. Frost & Sullivan Events are uniquely designed to integrate training, research, and strategic growth consulting skills with communication among the players in the industry.
DEMO Fall
Location: Silicon Valley, California
Dates: September 13-15, 2011
Take your place among the industry's elite for 2 days of ground-breaking launch presentations that showcase the most exciting innovations in the world of technology. Enjoy a highly-filtered look at the products destined to change the marketplace in the coming year. Exchange ideas with the industry's leading thinkers and decision-makers in a relaxed atmosphere guaranteed to inspire, inform, and engage. With renewed market momentum and innovation on the rise, DEMO is the premier event to make connections with leading thinkers and get a first look at the technologies shaping our future.
Enterprise Mobile Innovation Summit
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 14-15, 2011
The Enterprise Mobile Innovation Summit brings together top Fortune 500 executives to discuss the future of mobile technology as an enterprise-wide business tool. The power and popularity of mobile technology is undeniable and now, because of the convenience of these technologies, leading businesses are beginning to integrate mobile technologies into every facet of their enterprise—from supporting field workers to streamlining operations.
ERA | D2C Convention
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates: September 13-15, 2011
The Electronic Retailing Association is the trade association for companies who use the power of direct response to sell goods and services to the public on television, online, and on radio. ERA's last year's Annual DRC Convention is always a huge success. Don’t miss your chance to instantly increase your company’s sales and visibility. If you are looking for a way to showcase your company as a direct response leader, act now.
Future Leaders Conference
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: September 14-15, 2011
The Future Leaders Conference is presented by The Conference Board; a global, independent business membership and research association working in the public interest. Their mission is unique: To provide the world's leading organizations with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performance and better serve society.
FutureM
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Dates: September 12-16, 2011
FutureM is a multi-location event experience throughout the Greater Boston area dedicated to what's next in marketing. Dozens of events will take place to share and explore how the newest technologies and insights are changing the way marketers think, create, engage, and measure. FutureM is truly the best example of how community, collaboration and crowdsourcing can together create something bigger than all of us.
Gamification Summit
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 15-16, 2011
Gamification Summit is the leading, must-attend event in the dynamic and evolving field of gamification. Bringing together thought leaders and experts in game mechanics and engagement science, the event offers two days packed with keynotes, lectures, case studies, workshops, panels, and exhibits. Attend and learn how gamification is rewriting the rules of marketing, product design, customer relationship management, and user behavior–and how you can get your business in the game.
GIL | Silicon Valley
Location: San Jose, California
Dates: September 11-14, 2011
Frost & Sullivan's Global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership is focused on engaging, sharing, and inspiring a continuous flow of new ideas and fresh perspectives which leverage innovation as a resource to help shape a better future for the growth of our companies and our careers. If you and your company are serious about growth, and you’re interested in further developing your career, our GIL Global events are where you need to begin.
Global CEO Conference
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dates: September 12-14, 2011
Focusing on innovation as the driver of the worldwide economy, this event will attract top executives and influencers from every global region for a lively, informed debate. The event will be attended by highly esteemed delegates: The Forbes Global CEO Forum was attended by the upper echelon of global businesses; and, significant representation by large European companies with attendance by CEOs of North American and global corporations from every region of the world.
Inbound Marketing Summit | East
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Dates: September 14-16, 2011
The Inbound Marketing Summit is where the online marketing community gathers to solve today's marketing and business communications challenges. This event features the brightest minds in the business, including world-renowned authors and practitioners, as well as leaders from some of the companies already using the new tools and strategies. This fast-paced and information-packed event is your check-up on your existing business communications strategies.
InformationWeek 500
Location: Monarch Beach, California
Dates: September 11-13, 2011
The CIO of tomorrow must be a master of technology, help run a business and anticipate the demands of a global marketplace. The 2011 InformationWeek 500 Conference looks to uncover what skills, experience and expertise will ensure success for the CIO of the future. The Conference will feature in-depth, expert-led discussions on what it takes for current and next-generation CIOs to prosper as well as a keen focus on the technologies that will drive tomorrow's businesses.
International Search Summit
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 12, 2011
The International Search Summit is an event series dedicated to international and multilingual search and social media marketing. It goes further than any other event to dig deep into the issues involved in global online marketing campaigns and provide actionable, relevant tips and techniques to organizations operating internationally. In addition to great content, the Summit also offers plenty of opportunity for Q & A and networking with speakers and industry peers alike.
iStrategy | Global Digital Media
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Dates: September 13-14, 2011
The simple truth is that there is no magic one-size-fits-all marketing mix. The iStrategy conference will arm you with the deep understanding of aligning social media and digital strategy according to your organization’s processes and operations to achieve the objectives you’re after. Join iStrategy to network, share ideas, and most importantly find out how to build your marketing strategy to its fullest potential.
ITEXPO
Location: Austin, Texas
Dates: September 13-15, 2011
The world's largest VoIP marketplace—the Internet Telephony Conference & Expo, after a string of hugely successful events in Los Angeles, will be making a move to a larger venue to better accommodate their loyal attendees and exhibitors. The ITEXPO Conference promises to deliver the unmatched conference content and exhibit hall traffic that Internet Telephony Conference & EXPO has become known for.
IT Roadmap
Location: Dallas, Texas
Dates: September 13, 2011
The IT Roadmap Conference & Expo is where you'll hear brilliant IT strategies delivered direct to you from Network World editors. Where you can meet personally, one-on-one, with an IT all-star to discuss how coming technology will reshape your enterprise. Where you can accomplish a year's worth of vendor analysis among more than two dozen solution providers all in one day.
Mequoda Summit | East
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts
Dates: September 13-16, 2011
Learn how to build, manage, and get results from your online marketing program at the Mequoda Summit and Internet Marketing Conference. They strictly limit attendance to ensure that you receive the one-on-one attention so essential to the learning process. The Mequoda Summit includes ample networking breaks during which refreshments are provided. This is your opportunity to meet with others in a relaxed, informal setting to share ideas and experiences.
Midsize Enterprise Summit | West
Location: Huntington Beach, California
Dates: September 11-14, 2011
Midsize Enterprise Summit is the only global event addressing the information technology issues unique to midsize organizations. it is tailored to senior IT executives and technology vendors, and backed by Gartner, the world's most trusted independent authority where business meets technology. Join technology vendors, Gartner analysts and their peers to examine trends, discuss business and IT concerns, and evaluate products and services.
Mobile Broadband World
Location: Berlin, Germany
Dates: September 12-14, 2011
Mobile Broadband World is focused exclusively on driving the mobile broadband ecosystem, including HSPA, HSPA+, LTE, WiMAX, EDGE, WiFi and Femtocells. Mobile Broadband (MBB) has been cited as the revenue stream that will drive operator profitability and pull the communications industry through the economic slump. Make the most of this unique opportunity to learn from the world’s mobile broadband thought-leaders.
NAB Radio Show
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: September 14-16, 2011
The largest show focused exclusively on Radio delivers expertise and technology you can’t afford to miss. The NAB Radio show is hosted by The National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association that advocates on behalf of more than 8,300 free, local radio and television stations and also broadcast networks before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and the Courts.
Outsourcing & Vendor Management Summit
Location: Orlando, Florida
Dates: September 12-14, 2011
Opportunities to outsource various operations and projects continue to increase, but ensuring these initiatives provide the expected benefits is becoming more complex. Your choices are growing, but so are your risks. Improved flexibility and profitability from outsourcing depends on a solid understanding and smart management of every aspect of this business option. Know what's new, what's problematic, and how to make the most of onsite, offsite, and off-shore arrangements by attending the Gartner Outsourcing & Vendor Management Summit.
Private Equity Summit for Institutional Investors
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: September 15-16, 2011
Opal Financial Group's Private Equity Summit for Institutional Investors is an event designed for institutional investors to address current trends in private equity, venture capital and leveraged buyouts. They will discuss such issues as private equity portfolio theory, fund of funds as an investment vehicle, private equity buyouts in emerging markets, real estate opportunities and pitfalls, fixed income alternative investments, international investing, and more.
Real Asset Investing Forum
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: September 15-16, 2011
Opal's Real Asset Investing Forum aims to provide education and information on real estate and real assets to the key decision makers and other representatives of the nation's largest pension, endowment and foundation funds. Discussions will focus on reproducible assets such as farmland, buildings or machinery, and irreproducible assets such as land, a mine, or a work of art. The event will offer a chance for investors and managers to exchange ideas and to learn from other delegates and presenters.
Shop.org Annual Summit
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Dates: September 12-14, 2011
The Shop.org Annual Summit is an interactive forum for Shop.org members and guests to network, learn, and exchange ideas in a non-commercial environment. The event includes three days of sessions, including breakout sessions and an Online Retail Boot Camp, plus two expo halls with more than 100 exhibitors. More than 1500 industry professionals attend the Summit. The majority of Summit attendees are senior Internet and multichannel retail executives with decision-making and management responsibilities at their respective companies.
SMX | Search Marketing Expo
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 13-15, 2011
Search Marketing Expo is certain to be to the "must-attend" interactive and search engine marketing event of the year , delivering superior value to conference delegates and exhibit hall attendees alike. SMX has sessions designed just for you, whether you're just starting in search marketing or you're a seasoned expert. Learn the latest techniques for achieving superior results in both paid and organic search marketing. There are more than 20 sessions designed just for your skill level.
Supply Chain Executive Conference
Location: London, England
Dates: September 14-15, 2011
The world financial crisis that froze business has passed and growth appears ready to stage a comeback. But global business opportunities look radically different now as we enter the second decade of the 21st century. Infrastructure needed to tap emerging markets is being built just as an overhaul in our energy networks and manufacturing plants is beginning to accelerate. Gartner's Supply chain Executive Conference will look ahead to a smarter, more connected, and more sustainable physical and information infrastructure.
TechCrunch | Disrupt
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: September 12-14, 2011
The TechCrunch Disrupt conference was started in 2007 with a simple goal: find the best start-ups and launch them in front of the industry’s most influential VCs, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs and press. They created a platform where early-stage, and frequently unfunded, companies could take center stage based purely on merit, without regard to their own financial resources. This year they'll launch 50 companies over three days. In additional they're assembling an amazing line up of speakers.
The Ideas Economy | Human Potential
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 14-15, 2011
Ideas Economy | Human Potential is part of the The Ideas Economy series, founded on the premise that people and events are organized and compelled by ideas. Entire new industries and many existing ones have now turned from creating products to producing ideas. Infrastructure is one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. Over the next 30 years, the global population will skyrocket from roughly six and a half billion to between nine and twelve billion.
The LA Office RoadShow
Location: Hollywood, California
Dates: September 13-15, 2011
The LA Office RoadShow provides one of the best marketing opportunities in gaming, film, TV and music. Join brand marketers and agency executives as you are introduced to hundreds of entertainment marketing opportunities. Through special property presentations, top entertainment executives from music companies, network and cable companies, and Film Studios showcase their slate of upcoming promotional opportunities while highlighting what they are looking for in potential partners, marketing tie-in opportunities, and much, much more.
Tokyo Game Show
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Dates: September 15-18, 2011
The Tokyo Game Show is a game show with several objectives. They work to introduce games with a game design and ideas that are experimental and creative, and that cannot be called conventional or traditional, to heighten awareness of the importance of creating a game that astonishes people the moment they see it or hear the game concept, and that gives people a “sense of wonder,” a sense that something will change in their world, and to revitalize the game industry with the selected games.
Utility Scale Solar Finance & Investment Summit
Location: San Diego, California
Dates: September 12-14, 2011
Utility Scale Solar Finance & Investment Summit is the business hub where decision–makers—from project developers, technology providers, utilities, investors, lenders, EPC contractors and other industry players—who are rapidly expanding the utility scale project pipeline come to work out how to move these projects over the finish line. This is a great chance for the entire utility scale solar community to gather and get the latest insights into overcoming project development projects.

September 2011

BI & Analytics Perspective
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Dates: September 18-20, 2011
Today's competitive economy demands that enterprises can effectively and efficiently implement successful Business Intelligence (BI) strategies; survival may even depend on it. That is why it is essential that every organization identify its unique requirements as well as strategies for implementing the vision, managing risks and justifying costs. Computerworld's BI & Analytics Perspectives Conference attracts IT executives with substantial personal IT spending authority.
BioPartnering | Latin America
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dates: September 18-20, 2011
BioPartnering Latin America will showcase the entire region from Mexico to Chile, Brazil, and Argentina. The focus will be human, animal and plant health, highlighting a fast growing sector of innovative Latin America companies and presenting significant partnering opportunities. The event puts Latin America at the center of the investment and partnering world providing the opportunity for you to connect with the strategic partners you need to succeed.
Cap Intro: Credit / Fixed Income Alternative Investing
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 19, 2011
Cap Intro: Credit / Fixed Income Alternative Investing is a highly focused half-day capital introduction event bringing together active end-investors and successful, growing alternative investment managers focusing especially on opportunities in credit and fixed income strategies. At the Cap Intro: Credit / Fixed Income Alternative Investing, investors and investment managers get what they seek: one-on-one private meetings. It is an extraordinary opportunity to get first round or continued meetings with your potential investors/investment managers underway.
Consumer Returns
Location: Dallas, Texas
Dates: October 19-21, 2011
In today’s environment you need outside the box thinking to shave every cost without losing customers. You can’t solve the problem of product returns simply by looking internally all the time. Consumer Returns 2011 is your first step to recovery from excessive product returns. Walk away better equipped to maximize the efficiency of your returns programs by learning innovative cost minimization and profit recovery-driven strategies from leaders representing top OEMs, Manufacturers and retailers.
Digital Video Expo | West
Location: Pasadena, California
Dates: September 20-22, 2011
Digital Video Expo provides the production, postproduction, and delivery technology marketplaces with an inside look behind the scenes of digital video. If you're an independent filmmaker, broadcaster, or play any role, big or small, in the professional video industry, you need to come to DV Expo to engage with the talent behind the cameras, see the tools powering next-generation productions, and hear case studies chronicling technology hits and misses.
Directional Media Strategies (DMS)
Location: Denver, Colorado
Dates: September 20-22, 2011
The Kelsey Group’s Directional Media Strategies conference, attracts a diverse audience of senior executives from across the global directional media industry. The conference agenda reflects the challenges and opportunities presented by the changing local media landscape. DMS will cover the priorities of today’s traditional and online publishers, which must balance the need to focus on the basics—selling and publishing the best directory products they can in the current economy.
eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Dates: September 19-20, 2011
How do you measure the success of your website? The eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit has been addressing this question since 2002. Join your peers in helping answer it and increase the return from your corporation’s online investment. This event presents thought leaders, industry analysts and people like you—on the front lines. Several hours are reserved for world-class networking. There's nothing like learning from your peers.
Finance Transformation
Location: Dallas, Texas
Dates: September 20-22, 2011
As a serious finance professional, can you articulate what a successful finance transformation strategy entails. If you are facing challenges to meet your finance end-to-end and top quartile requirements, consider SSON's Finance Transformation—the most comprehensive event for anyone managing finance back office operations looking for end-to-end capability. The main themes explore the strategic views of true transformation across the entire finance supply chain.
iHT2 Health IT Summit
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 20-21, 2011
The iHT2 Health IT Summit brings together C-level, physician, practice management and IT decision-makers from North America’s leading provider organizations and physician practices. For two full days, executives interact with a national audience of peers, national leaders and solution providers featuring the latest solutions for practice management, mobility, telemedicine, outsourcing, IT infrastructure, next-generation electronic medical records, disease management, and more.
iHT2 Health Technology Investment Forum | East
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 20, 2011
The Health Technology Investment Forum is a one day conference that will provide an opportunity for investors and health care leaders to discover the latest trends and investment opportunities in healthcare information technology sector. Participants will have the opportunity to hear from both public and private high growth companies, gaining unparalleled investment insight to some of the fastest growing healthcare technology providers.
Leadership in Retail & Consumer Products Forum
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 20, 2011
Argyle Executive Forum’s Leadership in Retail & Consumer Products Forum brings together 135-150 senior operating executives from public and private large cap and mid cap corporations, with the founders / managing partners of investment firms, members of the endowment and foundation community, and select advisory firms. Argyle Executive Forum produces professional conferences for the senior operating executives and Board members of private and public firms, investment professionals, as well as for policy makers.
Los Angeles Business Conference
Location: Los Angeles, California
Dates: September 20-21, 2011
With over 150 participants, including leading private equity firms, lenders and hedge funds, the ACG Los Angeles Business Conference is one of the largest and most diverse capital connection events on the west coast. The conference is co-sponsored by ACG Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, 101 Corridor and Silicon Valley. Founded in 1954, the Association for Corporate Growth is the premier global association for professionals involved in corporate growth, corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions.
Mobile Hack Days
Locations: Santa Monica, California
Dates: September 16-18, 2011
Mobile Hack Days LA was originally suggested by on of the event organizers of, iPhoneDevLA, AndroidDevLA and put on by the mobile development community in Los Angeles supported by their sponsors. Their goal is to encourage hackers to come out and have fun over a weekend, starting Friday and ending Sunday, to create something great and unique and finally implement that idea you had and collaborate with other energetic, like-minded people.
Ottawa International Animation Festival
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Dates: September 21-25, 2011
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is the largest event of its kind in North America, a major film event attracting attendees from around the world. Film buffs, art lovers and cartoon fans won't want to miss this year's great line up of screenings taking place at the ByTowne Cinema, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Empire Theatres Rideau Centre.
REFF | London
Location: London, England
Dates: September 20-21, 2011
The Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) London is Europe's largest and best-established event for renewable energy finance and investment. conference will be the sector’s first large-scale discussion of the historic Renewable Energy Directive. It will also be the industry’s first major event since the financial crisis started shaking economies worldwide. The two-day event will unite investors with project developers and senior executives from across the renewable energy and technology sectors.
Security & Risk Management Summit
Location: London, England
Dates: September 19-20, 2011
The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit is the premier conference and meeting place for IT and business executives responsible for creating, implementing and managing a proactive and comprehensive IT strategy for information security, risk management, compliance and business continuity management, IT disaster recovery and business resiliency.
Signal Chicago
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: September 20, 2011
The Signal: Chicago conference, we'll be focusing on the theme of "Marketing in Real Time." From "real time bidding" on new demand-side and exchange platforms to "real time messaging" of location-based services, marketing has time-shifted into the present tense. A new suite of tools and services have evolved which enable the marketer to have conversations with customers in real time, creating both challenges and opportunities.
Smart Event
Location: Sophia-Antipolis, France
Dates: September 20-23, 2011
Smart Event has become a prominent meeting place for the industry and research in three interconnected areas: digital security, e-mobility and e-ID. Smart Event provides an opportunity to explore and discuss the dynamics of innovation which is the core of success: state-of-the-art technologies, market trends and issues, new strategies, next innovations... “The Innovation Forum for Mobility and Trusted Technologies & Services” was created for this purpose in 2000.
SMX | Search Marketing Expo
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Dates: September 19-21, 2011
Search Marketing Expo is certain to be to the "must-attend" interactive and search engine marketing event of the year , delivering superior value to conference delegates and exhibit hall attendees alike. SMX has sessions designed just for you, whether you're just starting in search marketing or you're a seasoned expert. Learn the latest techniques for achieving superior results in both paid and organic search marketing. There are more than 20 sessions designed just for your skill level.
Social Media Integration Conference
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Dates: September 16-17, 2011
Social media offers marketing professionals and business leaders with enormous opportunities, but how do you integrate new media strategies into existing interactive, public relations and marketing programs? And where do you start? Attendees will learn how to: use social media tools and services; track and measure social media Return on Investment (ROI); and, pptimize all marketing and public relations collateral for SEO.
StartupDay
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: September 17, 2011
StartupDay is a conference for pre-entrepreneurs interested in founding or joining a tech startup. Learn what’s important for creating a tech business from scratch. Meet one-on-one with advisors. Learn how to pick the right idea, build your team, fund the business, build your product, bring it to market and make a profit.. StartupDay is a conference organized by Seattle 2.0, a resource for technology entrepreneurs.
Strata Conference | East
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 19-21, 2011
The O’Reilly Strata Conference will bring audience face-to-face with the people, tools, and technologies that are mastering the challenges of Big Data. It’s here—and it changes everything. From lean startups to global corporations, smart companies know that the future of business comes from harnessing big data. Strata covers ow big data and analytics transform business and management; best practices and cautionary tales from early adopters and innovators; and, more.
The Security Standard
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 19-20, 2011
According to CSO magazine’s most recent State of the CSO Survey, nearly two in every three large organizations and nearly three in every four midsize counterparts say that security considerations are now a routine part of business processes. The Security Standard conference will address the challenges of security in the cloud era as well as other fundamental shifts in how organizations are updating, managing and integrating their information security programs.
Transmission Summit | West
Location: San Francisco, CA
Dates: September 19-21, 2012
The annual Transmission Summit has established itself as the premier business gathering for the transmission industry. Last year, over 150 senior transmission executives gathered to address the strategic, regulatory, investment and technology issues facing the industry and to explore strategies for maximizing the true value of their business. This year, two proposed FERC rulemakings have the potential to radically change the transmission game.

September 2011

ad:tech
Location: London, England
Dates: September 21-22, 2011
Connecting Globally: Markets in Motion. At ad:tech, you can widen your circle of influence and expand your vision. Listen to speakers from around the world, view the latest marketing technology and delve into the details with global case studies and market research. Fuel your entry into foreign lands with multi-cultural marketing and onto new platforms with their hands-on demo sessions.
Application Development & Delivery Forum
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Dates: September 22-23, 2011
Forrester's Application Development & Delivery Forum examines the dynamic changes facing technology buyers and sellers in this new, lasting ecosystem for IT—and presents innovative strategies that will work successfully for you. Forrester Events offer smaller, more intimate gatherings, which focus on specific market niches in the IT industry. Their sponsorship offerings put you directly in front of potential customers with real decision-making powers.
BIO India | International Partnering Conference
Location: Hyderabad, India
Dates: September 21-22, 2011
BIO India International Partnering Conference will bring together biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies from North America, Europe and Asia to meet and explore business opportunities with India’s emerging biotech sector. Private one-on-one meetings between investors, large biotech and pharmaceutical companies and emerging Indian biotech companies will be arranged through BIO’s new state-of-the-art software.
Customer Insight Week
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: September 26-28, 2011
Customer Insight Week features best practices for disseminating and acting on customer data from industry leaders, and focuses on the strategy—rather than just the tactical—behind leveraging customer feedback. By understanding the vitality of a top-down approach, participants will discover how feedback translates directly into business success, organic growth and profit.
dmexco Conference
Location: Cologne, Germany
Dates: September 21-22, 2011
The top-manned dmexco conference also met with great interest and enthusiasm: Over the past two days more than 150 international top speakers provided the dmexco with an over 100-hour conference program. The main theme topics included “Digital Creativity”, “Digital Efficiency” and “Digital Intelligence” – always seen against the background of what influence the increasing digitalization is currently having on the overall global economy.
Endowment & Foundation Forum
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Dates: September 21-23, 2011
The Endowment and Foundation Forum will provide a forum for the free exchange of ideas concerning portfolio planning and investment strategies. Rather than focusing on a particular investment style, this conference will tackle the issues that are most germane to the nation's endowments and charitable foundations by examining critical investment topics, as well as the need to align fiscal strategy with the goals of a particular organization.
Energy Storage Summit
Location: Houston, Texas
Dates: September 26-28, 2011
The Energy Storage Summit will present new advancements in the space and tackle key issues including: Develop a compelling value proposition that you can relay to investors, partners and customers; Reduce and manage costs for your energy storage projects; Learn from different models of private and public financing for existing projects; Acquire and leverage funds for project success; and, Compare and contrast the financing of international energy storage projects vs. domestic projects.
ESCA EDGE | Europe
Location: London, England
Dates: September 21-22, 2011
There’s a new EDGE to The Entertainment Supply Chain Academy. It’s more than just supply chain. It’s about leading EDGE ideas, cutting EDGE innovations and knowlEDGE leadership in the home entertainment. Originally created by Martin Porter and founding conference chairman Devendra Mishra in association with DEG: Digital Entertainment Group, ESCA began as the industry’s annual business conference responsible for driving efficiencies in the delivery of physical and digital home entertainment.
ESC | Boston
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Dates: September 26-29, 2011
To build the future the ESC Expo. It's where great minds come looking for solutions and where solutions come looking for great minds. No matter what your role is in creating the technology of tomorrow, the Embedded Systems Conference is the place to start. It's a unique opportunity to surround yourself in an atmosphere of innovative thinking, products, and tools, with the one thing you simply can't find anywhere else—the power of conversation.
Fusion Conference
Location: National Harbor, Maryland
Dates: September 25-28, 2011
The itSMF USA Fusion conference and exposition brings together the best minds in the service management industry. During the event, industry experts will present key insights on ITSM best practices, innovative new strategies, and real world results. The conference will provide inspirational speakers and top industry minds who will present the keynote addresses at itSMF USA Fusion. You'll find motivation for improving your IT service management program, discover how to build a stronger team, and expand your knowledge base.
Global Chinese Financial Forum (GCFF)
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Dates: September 23-25, 2011
The Global Chinese Financial Forum will be a truly international event and will provide North American and Greater Chinese public and private companies, financial institutions and service providers, as well as the North American Chinese-speaking investor community with substantive opportunities to meet their varied and distinct goals. The conference will operate under a vertical integration model where all of their participants will be able to engage with all the necessary levels of our profiled sectors.
HUSUM Wind Energy Conference
Location: Husum, Germany
Dates: September TBD, 2012
Besides being the most important international wind energy trade fair, HUSUM WindEnergy has also been the most important meeting place for the industry’s actors, movers and shakers for a good 20 years. Every two years HUSUM WindEnergy, as both shop window and market place, provides the best environment for making new business contacts and consolidating existing contacts.
NAB Small Market Television Exchange
Location: Austin, Texas
Dates: September 22-24, 2011
If you’re interested in money-making promotions, identifying and attracting emerging traditional and non-traditional advertisers, enhancing your station’s position in the marketplace and turning good ideas into actionable, revenue-generating plans, then you must find the budget—and make the time—to attend the NAB Small Market Television Exchange.
NTCA Fall Conference
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: September 25-28, 2011
The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA), "the voice of rural telecommunications," is the premiere non-profit association representing more than 580 small and rural telephone cooperatives and commercial companies. NTCA is a full-service association, offering a wide array of member services, including a highly effective government affairs program; and expert legal and industry representation; a broad range of educational services.
NY Games Conference
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 21-22, 2011
Join games industry leaders for the annual NY Games Conference. Likely attendees include leading video game publishers and developers, carriers, portals, technology companies, advertising execs, venture capitalists, lawyers, analysts and many more. The conference is produced by Digital Media Wire, launched in early 2000 with a simple yet compelling proposition to provide busy executives with a daily briefing of the most important news stories about the business of digital media.
Pocono Mountains Film Festival
Location: East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Dates: September 23-24, 2011
The Pocono Mountains Film Festival was established to provide some of the best independent filmmakers in the world with the opportunity to showcase their work. Their audience is a compilation of film lovers, critics and buyers who are searching for that independent film—to either purchase or distribute for sale. What makes the Pocono Mountains Film Festival a stellar event? They provide a social network for filmmakers to introduce their screenplays or independent films directly to an audience of shoppers
Power Generation World
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Dates: September 21-23, 2011
Power Generation World Caspian will provide a unique forum for regional governments, investors, utilities, power generators, technology companies, equipment suppliers, project financiers and consultants to discuss how to improve power generation supply, efficiency and distribution in the region. Power Generation World Caspian is co-located Gas Infrastructure World Caspian to ensured that there will be more people to network and do business with than ever before.
The Customer Show | Hong Kong
Location: Hong Kong, China
Dates: September 21-22, 2011
The Customer Show Hong Kong is a dedicated customer management conference for all customer-facing industries. The Customer Show is dedicated customer management conference for all customer-facing industries. It is a two day strategic conference and a technology showcase exhibition. The conference features Senior Marketers from the largest brands in case studying customer management innovation and excellence.

September 2011

Advanced Renewable Energy Project Finance
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 26-27, 2011
This in-depth course, Advanced Renewable Energy Project Finance & Analysis, taught by leading financial and legal experts with vast experience in renewable energy project development and finance, will provide you with the practical tools and analytic techniques to see your project successfully—and profitably—financed. Instruction will be example-driven using term sheets, structures and project documentation derived from renewable projects.
B2B Marketing Summit
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Dates: September 26-27, 2011
You're invited to discover advanced new B-to-B marketing techniques at MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Summit. Topics to be addressed at the summit includes: search marketing; video & viral, marketing to Fortune 500; white paper maximization; and, how to measure & manage leads. Case studies will be presented by your B-to-B marketing peers about their latest campaign tests.
Broadband World Forum | Europe
Location: Paris, France
Dates: September 27-29, 2011
The Broadband World Forum Europe will help you recognize the market potential of the latest broadband content, entertainment, applications, and services for the enterprise and home, delivering the promise of the ultimate connected world. Innovative session programming is complemented by a cutting-edge technology exhibition, where you can get plugged in to the world's most dynamic broadband technologies, applications, solutions, and services.
Carriers World | Europe
Location: London, England
Dates: September 26-28, 2011
Carriers World Asia brings together international wholesale carriers, telcos, mobile network operators (MNOS) and key stakeholders within Asia's carriers space. The event offers opportunities for sharing of best business practices and new growth profiles by industry leaders. At the conference you will learn: how to reposition your business model in the reality of declining voice revenues; and, how to transform a traditional carrier to a world-class customer-centric organization.
CMO Leadership Forum
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: September 27, 2011
Argyle Executive Forum is pleased to present its CMO Leadership Forum. The event brings together the marketing leadership of approximately 175 senior level marketers from the major consumer packaged good companies, technology firms, advertising and branding agencies, consulting firms, and financial and investment firms for an in depth discussion on global marketing trends and the challenges facing marketers in brand-building, marketing intelligence, customer relationship management, integrated marketing and the fusion of web technologies into positive ROI.
Digital East
Location: Tysons Corner, Virginia
Dates: September 28-29, 2011
Join hundreds of Internet executives, online marketers, web strategists, bloggers, entrepreneurs and investors at the inaugural Digital East event for expert content on opportunities and trends created by the latest in web innovation. At Digital East, hear from dozens of industry thought leaders and innovators on topics such as social media, cloud computing, web analytics, online marketing, ecommerce, email, and search among others.
FTTH Conference & Expo
Location: Orlando, Florida
Dates: September 26-30, 2011
The FTTH Conference & Expo is a must-attend event for service providers, developers and municipalities seeking the very latest solutions for their FTTH deployments. The most forward-thinking executives and professionals will attend the FTTH Conference & Expo which attracts more than 2000 attendees, 160 exhibitors and a distinguished line up of panelists, invited speakers and keynotes.
GigaOM | Mobilize
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: September 26-27, 2011
Opportunity. Everywhere. That’s the theme of Mobilize conference, and why, this year, our Mobilize event is doubling in scope, providing you two days of insight and analysis. Some of the topics we plan to cover relating to emerging trends for mobile web, connected devices and the mobile enterprise include: the rise (and potential fall) of the app economy; the tablet; mobile user experience rules; hardware beyond phones; and, location-based advertising.
GIL | India
Location: Mumbai, India
Dates: September 28-29, 2011
Frost & Sullivan's Global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership is focused on engaging, sharing, and inspiring a continuous flow of new ideas and fresh perspectives which leverage innovation as a resource to help shape a better future for the growth of our companies and our careers. If you and your company are serious about growth, and you’re interested in further developing your career, our GIL Global events are where you need to begin.
Green Basestations Summit
Location: Bath, England
Dates: September 29-30, 2011
How do you immediately reduce diesel consumption by 50% or more for generator powered base stations? This workshop will demystify the technology behind generator-battery hybrid power systems to enable more informed decision making when considering such solutions. The Green Basestations Summit is an introduction to generator-battery hybrid power systems. The workshop will benefit communications service providers, network equipment providers, managed services providers and analysts.
LAUNCH | Chicago
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: September 26-28, 2011
Connect with the enterprising web generation that has innovated business. Learn how tech startups compete for investment and discover the newest innovations coming out of the Midwest. midVenturesLAUNCH Innovation Workshops are a perfect opportunity to learn more about the future of Chicago tech and meet the successful entrepreneurs making innova
LTE | Next Generation Networks & Basestations
Location: Bath, England
Dates: September 26-28, 2011
The LTE—Next Generation Networks & Basestations event will address a range of topics, including: Understanding the steps to deploying LTE; Which markets, advantages and drawbacks of early movers; Application drivers, capacity and architecture; The impact in terms of new system requirements, enhancements and right-offs; First movers vs. late followers—trigger points for LTE launch; and, Solutions for in-building coverage with LTE.
NanoBusiness Conference
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: September 27-28, 2011
The NanoBusiness Conference will bring together financial luminaries from Wall Street and the CEOs of the most promising nanotechnology companies in the industry. These companies are on the frontier of global innovation in sectors such as “cleantech”- renewable energy and clean water, advanced materials, healthcare, defense, textiles, electronics and construction. The conference focuses on the commercial aspects of nanotechnology in each of these sectors and provides a forum for capital providers and innovators to meet, build relationships and learn from each other’s perspectives.
New York Film Festival
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 30-16, 2011
America’s pre-eminent film presentation organization, The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new filmmakers, and to enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art among a broad and diverse film going audience. The New York Film Festival continues its proud tradition of showing the newest and most important cinematic works by directors from around the world.
OMMA | Global
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 26-27, 2011
The attendees of OMMA East: Internet are the backbone of the interactive industry. They are the advertisers and the agency executives, brand managers, marketing managers, media planners, buyers, creative directors, sellers, and suppliers who live and breathe online. They have had their fill of research about how much to spend on interactive in the media mix and now want actionable information on how to better spend the budgets they already control.
OnHollywood
Location: Los Angeles, California
Dates: September 26-27, 2011
AlwaysOn's annual OnHollywood is a two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. Innovative technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley will meet up the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite.
Outsourcing & IT Services Summit
Location: London, England
Dates: September 26-27, 2011
Opportunities to outsource various operations and projects continue to increase, but ensuring these initiatives provide the expected benefits is becoming more complex. Your choices are growing, but so are your risks. Improved flexibility and profitability from outsourcing depends on a solid understanding and smart management of every aspect of this business option. Know what's new, what's problematic, and how to make the most of onsite, offsite, and off-shore arrangements by attending the Gartner Outsourcing & IT Services Summit.
Private Equity Analyst Conference
Location: New York, New York
Dates: September 27-28, 2011
The Private Equity Analyst Conference is the preeminent private equity event in the United States. The two-day program features a comprehensive examination of private equity's status and direction with insightful industry panels, expert roundtables, hands-on workshops, and sector-by-sector analyses of where and how deals are getting done and who's doing them.
REFF | West
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: September 26-27, 2011
Renewable Energy Finance Forum-West, a national conference addressing regional renewable energy issues will be an important event for financiers, investors and renewable energy project developers to network, strike deals and drive the industry forward. Industry leaders from around the country will present on a variety of topics, including venture capital, financing in a credit-constrained economy, emerging technologies, green building, energy efficiency, smart grid and transmission, government policies, and carbon finance.
San Diego Film Festival (SDFF)
Location: San Diego, California
Dates: September 28-2, 2011
San Diego Film Festival is the perfect destination Festival for your next great escape. The competitive five-day fest showcases more than 75 American and international feature, documentary and short films; intimate gatherings with filmmakers and celebrities; high-powered industry workshops, including the American Screenwriters Association's annual conference; and five nights of San Diego's most glamorous parties.
Semantic Technology | Europe
Location: London, England
Dates: September 26-27, 2011
Semantic Technology Conference is the world's largest, most authoritative conference on semantic technology for enterprise computing professionals. It covers every major technology and application area you'll need to know. Semantic Technology Conference gathers professionals from all aspects of technology and business: startups, business development, marketing, senior management, strategy, editorial, advertising, IT, and development.
Shared Services Exchange | Europe
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Dates: September 26-28, 2011
The Shared Services Exchange provides a one stop shop for assessing solutions in the marketplace to tackle problems head on. They do this by providing a forum where you can discuss best practices, mull over the coming challenges and how as a group of professionals you expect to overcome them. The setting allows you to listen to the successes and failures of your peers, share your experiences and identify ideas.
SoCal Film Festival
Location: Huntington Beach, California
Dates: September 28-2, 2011
The SoCal Film Festival will feature distribution awards through SCIFF for short films and distribution consideration through partners for feature films, Cash Prizes (as allowed by number of entries and sponsors), industry judges and speakers, and a showcase of award worthy films. An outlet for Independent filmmakers to show their work to industry professionals. Partnering with distributors, they get the SCIFF Award Winning films in front of the public and distributors.
Social Media World | Middle East
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dates: September 27, 2011
Social Media World Middle East brings together the regions leading consumer brands, social networks, and their partners to create social media strategies. As consumers open up to new channels, brands across the region are under pressure to develop a social strategy that works and delivers ROI. Businesses and brands from across Australia will be at Social Media World to develop strategy and source partners and solutions.
Social Networking Conference
Location: Moscow, Russia
Dates: September 29-30, 2011
The Social Networking Conference covers all business aspects in the social networking markets in the USA, the Europe and the Asia. Topics covered are: new technologies, revenue models for social networking, mobile, venture capital, social networking and online personals marketing, social networking software, online personals software, global business strategies, partnerships, legal issues and payments.
Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF)
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Dates: September 29-14, 2011
The Vancouver International Film & Television Trade Forum is western Canada's premier event dedicated to the art and business of filmmaking. The Festival is attended by more than 150,000 people, who will attend 500 screenings of over 300 films from more than 50 countries. The festival’s purpose is to encourage the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world, and to stimulate the motion picture industry.
Vator Splash
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: September 29, 2011
Vator Splash is democratizing access to the Silicon Valley elite. Ten early-stage startups selected by their peers share the stage with rockstar CEOs who share their secrets to success with the crowd of 400 startup CEOs, investors, service providers and bloggers. Vator Splash is hosted by Bambi Francisco. Investors from top VC firms, such as 500 Startups, Alsop Louie, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelPad and more will be attending or have attended their events.

October 2011

Adobe MAX
Location: Los Angeles, California
Dates: October 1-5, 2011
Adobe MAX is an experience unlike any other—an opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, partners, executives, and Adobe staff for education, inspiration, and community. The event provides an opportunity to exchange ideas and build relationships. You'll be able to choose from hundreds of sessions and labs presented by industry leaders and Adobe experts on best practices and emerging technologies.
Brand ManageCamp
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates: October 4-5, 2011
Brand ManageCamp (BMC) is the elite conference on branding has a roster of fresh topics and speakers. BMC has become the place to be to generate the fresh ideas your brands need to survive—especially in these turbulent times. Brand ManageCamp invites you to leave behind the creativity-sapping grind of the day-to-day to enjoy an oasis of fresh thinking and inspiration across a plethora of exciting, relevant and timely subjects—including innovation, advertising, brand strategy, consumer behavior, trends, PR, new media, design, emotional branding, brand experience, market research, and more.
CEO Summit
Location: Lake Maggiore, Italy
Dates: October 1-3, 2011
The Consumer Electronics CEO Summit presents a rare opportunity to network in a top executive-only environment, to gather insight helpful to your business and to focus on the issues most critical to the industry. Since 1997, executives from CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City, RadioShack, Sears, Wal-Mart, Audiovox, Sony, Yamaha and Toshiba have met to discuss building positive manufacturing-retailing relationships; delivering value to your customers; effectively branding and merchandising your products; achieving customer satisfaction and many other key industry issues.
COMPTEL PLUS | Fall
Location: Orlando, Florida
Dates: October 2-5, 2011
COMPTEL PLUS is your proven marketplace to meet with next-generation buyers and sellers of converged communications solutions and integrated services. COMPTEL is the leading industry association representing communications service providers and their supplier partners. COMPTEL advances its member's business through policy advocacy and through education, networking and trade shows. COMPTEL members are entrepreneurial companies building and deploying next-generation networks to provide competitive voice, data, and video services.
CRN Fast Growth
Location: Miami, Florida
Dates: October 5-7, 2011
CRN is bringing together the top channel executives with the fastest growing Solution Provider organizations in North America. These are the companies who are creating new customer demand and growing at phenomenal rates. The goal of this event is to bring top channel executives together with the fastest growing Solution Providers in an intimate setting where relationships are formed and business opportunities take place.
CTAM Summit
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 5-7, 2011
Cable’s premier educational marketing and management conference concentrates on strategic consumer marketing and breakthrough creative management. The Summit brings together the brightest minds in the industry to learn from outside business leaders and each other. Attracting a broad range of interests and levels, The Summit provides educational, business development, creative review and networking opportunities.
Developing Grid Storage Systems
Location: Dallas, Texas
Dates: October 5-6, 2011
Developing Grid Storage Projects< will provide a roadmap for market opportunities, segments, models, technologies, and barriers to energy storage. It will guide you through the development process in a systematic, step-by-step fashion, and is populated with case studies of ongoing energy storage projects. You will acquire the key strategic framework and know-how to play your part. This conference will give you the opportunity to ask the hard questions, network with potential partners, customers, suppliers and investors, and come home fully equipped to profit from the energy storage boom ahead.
DMA Conference
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Dates: October 1-6, 2011
Your customers are on a journey... be the destination. Your customers are searching, communicating, and connecting in brand new ways. To succeed, you must learn to engage them at every turn—becoming their guide, companion, and destination. Join thousands of the world's most successful marketers at the DMA Conference & Exhibition and discover how to improve your marketing, engage your customers, and reap the rewards.
Enterprise Cloud Summit
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 3-7, 2011
Enterprise Cloud Summit drives the adoption of on-demand computing for enterprises to harness the power of cloud computing. Part of TechWeb's family of global brands, Enterprise Cloud Summit is the industry’s only cloud computing event focused exclusively on what cloud computing means to the enterprise. Cloud Summit provides the forum for the most powerful cloud innovations and solutions the industry has to offer.
Future of IT Summit
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Dates: October 4-6, 2011
The Future of IT Summit is the only event in Mexico that offers a concise vision of the most critical IT trends that will affect you and your company over the next five years. An international team of Gartner Analysts will arm you with the latest research, analysis and best practices so that you can tackle the myriad of IT challenges that you face every day. The event is organized into five tracks with more than 25 content sessions presented by Gartner Analysts.
Future Trends
Location: South Beach, Florida
Dates: October 4-6, 2011
Future Trends scans the globe to deliver forward-thinking corporate leaders and trend-tracking experts to inspire change, innovation and growth. Trend trackers and trend setters of the world—get excited: Future Trends is back... and better than ever. The program has something for everyone—researchers, marketers, strategic planners, innovators and more. Future Trends will provide you with the tools to boost your business ahead.
Greenbuild
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Dates: October 4-7, 2011
Buildings play a critical role in protecting and improving the environment and the health of the people who occupy them. The Greenbuild conference and expo is an unparalleled opportunity to connect with other green building peers, industry experts, and influential leaders as they share insights on the green building movement and its diverse specialties. Greenbuild includes over 100 educational sessions featuring world renown speakers, LEED workshops, off-site educational sessions, and Green Building tours of local Boston sites.
Healthcare Deal Making Summit
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Dates: October 3-5, 2011
The healthcare market is facing its share of obstacles. Tight credit markets already have created situations where even well capitalized healthcare providers are forced to scramble to fund day-to-day expenses. At the Healthcare Deal Making Summit you'll meet decision makers from hospitals, surgical centers, private equity firms, investment banks, commercial lenders and other financiers at this timely summit.
IAB | MIXX Conference & Expo
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 3-4, 2011
The MIXX Conference and Expo is the preeminent event for marketing and agency professionals and the publishers and technology firms who help drive their efforts. MIXX brings together the industry's most prominent and influential speakers talking about the most pressing and innovative topics in interactive today. Further, the powerhouse list of marketers, agencies, publishers and industry professionals in attendance offers huge networking opportunities.
INTEROP
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 3-6, 2011
Part of the MediaLive International, family of global brands, Interop has led the revolution and evolution in IP networking for the past twenty years. Interop is dedicated to promoting and demonstrating the interoperability of the converged network, applications and devices to seamlessly exchange and use information to address the full range of business challenges facing IT organizations today and tomorrow. As the leading destination for technology buyers and sellers, Interop has fostered the growth and evolution of the IT industry.
JavaOne + Oracle Develop | USA
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: October 2-6, 2011
The world's most important developer conferences are creating the world's coolest neighborhood for the developer community. JavaOne + Oracle Develop. provides unparalleled education and practical hands-on sessions, engaging activities, exceptional entertainment, and food and drink in the Zone will be exclusively geared toward the developer community converging at JavaOne + Oracle Develop.
Mobile Marketing Forum | EMEA
Location: London, England
Dates: October 4-5, 2011
Regardless of your current level of activity or knowledge in mobile marketing, the Mobile Marketing Association’s (MMA) Mobile Marketing Forum is an event to attend this year. The agenda includes an introductory track as well as an advanced track to provide you with the tools you need to understand the mobile channel, whether beginner or expert. Join them as the industry’s leaders and experts discuss successes, what’s coming, what’s up next, what’s hot and how mobile will benefit marketing initiatives and campaigns.
Most Powerful Women Summit
Location: Laguna Niguel, California
Dates: October 3-5, 2011
The Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit is an extraordinary opportunity to spend three days with the world's most influential women leaders in business, along with key leaders in philanthropy, government, education, and the arts. The premiere gathering of its kind, the summit is by invitation only and features a unique format: no speeches, all lively panel discussions, on-stage interviews, and interactive breakout sessions.
Motivation Show
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: October 4-6, 2011
The Motivation Show has the world's largest collection of incentive and recognition ideas, with over 2,000 exhibitors of brand name merchandise and exotic travel destinations. Plus, workshops and seminars on effective incentive and recognition program planning. It's everything you need to stimulate sales, improve performance and reward employees for a job well done.
NAMIC Conference
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 4-5, 2011
Today’s bottom line depends on a deeper understanding of multi-cultural and multi-ethnic market drivers as they continue to become an undeniable economic force. The Annual NAMIC Conference, the industry’s single most important event specifically focused on the multi-cultural impact on telecommunications, is your chance to make the connection. Anyone that is responsible for the bottom-line will find the profit building ideas and consumer insights shared at this industry-wide gathering of experts invaluable.
New Digital Economics | Americas
Location: Palo Alto, California
Dates: October 4-5, 2011
The Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) ecosystem is becoming more complex as the business models of different players converge and collide. New Digital Economics is a premium strategy event focused on new growth opportunities and business models for CME. These key themes will be explored in each of the co-located events and participants will be able to share experiences in combined brainstorming sessions.
Oracle OpenWorld
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: October 2-6, 2011
Oracle OpenWorld, the world's largest gathering of Oracle customers, partners, developers, and technology enthusiasts, offers more opportunities than ever for learning, collaborating, and connecting with experts and peers. Oracle OpenWorld is the destination point of the year for Oracle customers and technologists who want to know what's new, what's next, and how to get the most from the products they have in place now.
Planet of the Apps | Europe
Location: London, England
Dates: October 4-7, 2011
Planet of the Apps Europe brings together the mobile application ecosystem in one location. It is a strategic conference, a dedicated developer masterclass and a technology showcase exhibition. The conference will feature the industry’s most respected stakeholders who will be looking closely at the opportunities and challenges brought to your business by the explosion of mobile apps. At Planet of the Apps you'll hear from an unrivaled speaker line up of regional and international brands.
Real Estate Private Equity Summit
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 19, 2011
The Real Estate Private Equity Summit series has turned into a flagship event for the industry assembling some of the largest institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, investment banks, and real estate investors. The event will examine in great detail the changing economic environment, PERE fund management performance, and profile the best practice strategies in private equity real estate markets.
SMOC | East
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 4-5, 2011
Social Media Optimization Conference (SMOC) offers organic and paid techniques for increasing engagement and revenue through social media. Traditional advertising and even Search Engine Marketing don’t deliver the bang they once did. More and more, people are getting news, entertainment and business resources from social media. At SMOC, you'll learn how to boost your visibility in search engines, increase linkability, and fuel your readers' desire to comment, consume and share through social media.
Symposium/ITxpo
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Dates: October 3-5, 2011
The Symposium/ITxpo features IT solutions and services exhibition is where you can interact with hundreds of leading technology companies in a low-hype, information-rich environment. You'll also be in the audience when some of the biggest-name CEOs in technology take to the stage to answer tough questions posed by Gartner analysts. The Analyst/User Roundtables are a great forum for hearing what your industry peers are experiencing on topics and issues similar to yours.
TechHome Mediterraneo Summit
Location: Lake Maggiore, Italy
Dates: October 3-5, 2011
The TechHome Mediterraneo Summit hosts owners and other senior executives from the largest and most progressive installation companies for three days of intensive learning, peer networking and high quality vendor contact. Armed with detailed profile information in advance, vendor sponsors connect with these VIPs in pre-set boardroom presentations and one-on-one meetings. This results in targeted, traceable contacts with high-value, highly qualified decision makers for maximum Return on Investment.
The Future of Media
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 5, 2011
The Future of Media edition and forum will be global in coverage and explore the possibilities, problems, and the shape of media in the near and distant future. It will feature articles, essays, and interviews by and with some of the most powerful, accomplished and imaginative figures in the world of content, advertising, technology and the communications industry, including scientists and futurists.
WebSearch University | Fall
Location: Washington, DC
Dates: October 3-4, 2011
WebSearch University enables Internet researchers to hone their skills and refresh their search competencies. The world of Web search changes so quickly and so drastically that keeping up is vitally important to information professionals determined to provide the best and most relevant information to their clients, organizations, and colleagues. Revisit how you use the Internet for research. Rethink your approach to search. WebSearch University’s two-day intensive environment is devoted to how information professionals can most effectively and efficiently apply Internet resources to their individual work situations.
WICT Leadership Forum
Location: Washington, DC
Dates: October 3-4, 2011
The WICT Forum has been refocused, recharged and remixed. At the core of the cable industry's Spring Cable Week, the WICT Forum is bolder, fresher and packed with more hard-hitting cable industry business. Both female and male mid-level managers, directors and senior executives at cable operators, programmers and related industries who are serious about shaping their leadership skills, committed to the industry and thrive in a creative learning environment.
Women Powering Technology Summit
Location: San Jose, California
Dates: October 2-4, 2011
The Women and Technology Summit will be an extraordinary event featuring dynamic keynotes, interactive roundtables, career and product expo, and more than 150 session speakers. At the Women and Technology Summit, session topics include topics such as: 360 degree leadership, new age leadership, negotiating the deal, redefining leadership, and leading for results. Join with them in the Silicon Valley for two days getting connected, updating your business & tech skills, and expanding your professional network.

October 2011

Android Open
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: October 9-11, 2011
Android Open is the first conference to cover the entire Android ecosystem. Whether you're a developer, IT pro, business decision-maker, or marketer, you'll find the latest and best information for maximizing the power of the Android platform. But this O'Reilly conference is not just about today's Android opportunity—it also spotlights tech, projects, and companies that point to Android's bright future.
ASTIA | Entrepreneur Program
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: October 10-15, 2011
Whether you are an investor or an entrepreneur, the ASTIA Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Program is the foremost fund-raising conference for women led companies. ASTIA provides an opportunity to engage with angel and venture investors; take advantage of alternative sources of funding; building defensible financial plans; and, developing a winning valuation and term sheet strategy.
BioPartnering | Europe
Location: London, England
Dates: October 9-11, 2011
BioPartnering Europe offers both in person and online business building opportunities for global decision-makers and leaders of biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and investment companies. BPE features thought-leader panels, face-to-face partnering sessions, and social networking events with 24/7 pre- and post-event networking through biopartnering.com. The event gives you the opportunity to present to hundreds of biotech companies with what you are looking for in a partnership.
BOLO
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Dates: October 9-11, 2011
Digital marketing is a core competency of the “have” agencies. You might not need to execute on all of it but you need to understand it and drive the strategy upon which decisions are made surrounding it. BOLO takes on the big task at hand: explaining why digital media leads the charge in SuperGlad agencies. It is not an afterthought. It is not dealt with using creative, media, traffic and account service employees who think traditionally first, then try to translate that thinking to a digital environment.
CTIA Enterprise & Applications
Location: San Diego, California
Dates: October 10-13, 2011
CTIA Enterprise & Applications conference focuses on integrating wireless data technologies into the enterprise and vertical business markets such as healthcare, government, automotive, retail etc. Additionally, the show reflects the explosive growth in wireless entertainment—encompassing everything from music downloads to digital cameras to interactive games. The conference the most well-attended mobile data convention in the industry that attracts over 15,000 attendees, 300 exhibitors and over 600 members of the media and analyst communities.
Digital Music Forum | West
Location: Los Angeles, California
Dates: October 6, 2011
The Digital Music Forum brings together decision-makers from record labels, music publishers, producers and distributors, technology companies, wireless companies, rights organizations, industry bodies, radio, advertising, attorneys, artists investors and venture capitalists to examine the role of digital technologies in the future of music. With 400+ attendees, DMF provides the ideal environment for industry thought leaders to share ideas, exchange information and build relationships and sponsors to reach this elite audience.
Families in Business Conference | Middle East
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Dates: October 10-11, 2012
Campden Conferences is proud is proud of their annual flagship European event, designed exclusively for business-owning and financial families from throughout the Middle East. This conference provides the ideal intimate, private setting for families, their single family office executives and industry experts to share how they are addressing the issues most vital to the continued success of their businesses, personal wealth management and families.
Investor Leadership Forum
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 6, 2011
Hosted by Argyle Executive Forum, the Investor Leadership Forum will convene 125 founders, senior portfolio managers, chief risk officers, as well as chief operating officers from the world’s leading investment management firms. The event facilitates discussions focused on the state of the global economy, the upcoming opportunities and challenges for the investor, as well as a review and critique of this most recent financial crisis the world experienced.
IPTV World Forum | Eastern Europe & EurAsia
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Dates: October 11-12, 2011
The IPTV World Series is a collection of market leading IPTV conferences and exhibitions that focus on the key marketing, business and technology challenges facing IPTV service providers. These events are characterized by their high levels of service provider involvement. They work hard to deliver the best conference programs featuring speakers who are directly involved in shaping and deploying IPTV services.
Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF)
Location: Mill Valley, California
Dates: October 6-16, 2011
Known as a filmmakers' festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival offers a high profile, prestigious and non-competitive environment perfect for celebrating the best in independent and world cinema. MVFF accepts short and feature length films and videos in the following categories: narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, children’s films and youth produced.
Mobile Commerce Forum
Location: Houston, Texas
Dates: October 10-12, 2011
At the Mobile Commerce Forum 50 leaders of the mobile commerce business will examine the current and projected growth rates for m-commerce, explain how to build mobile commerce web sites on any budget, and cover all the keys to success in mobile commerce operations—from design requirements to merchandising choices to marketing options for mobile commerce sites.
Storage Networking World | Fall
Location: Orlando, Florida
Dates: October 10-13, 2011
Storage Networking World—the world’s largest and foremost storage networking event—is where IT management and professionals learn, network and maximize their company’s storage capabilities. At SNW, you can choose from over 140 educational sessions and network with peers from around the globe—plus visit with top solutions providers in the world’s largest Expo and Solutions Center focused on storage. SNW's vast agenda makes it the most appealing and well-respected assembly of storage networking professionals in the world.
TechMentor Conferences
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates: October 10-14, 2011
TechMentor is the conference where IT pros go for tips, tricks and solutions to everyday problems. Through hands-on practical education and targeted instruction you will get the training you need to meet your current IT challenges head-on. Focus on Windows desktop administration and application delivery. TechMentor is where you'll hear from and connect with IT experts. Come with questions. Leave with answers.
The Customer Show | Australia
Location: Sydney, Australia
Dates: October 10-11, 2011
The Customer Show Australia is a dedicated customer management conference for all customer-facing industries. The Customer Show is dedicated customer management conference for all customer-facing industries. It is a two day strategic conference and a technology showcase exhibition. The conference features Senior Marketers from the largest brands in case studying customer management innovation and excellence.
Web 2.0 Expo
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 10-13, 2011
Web 2.0 Expo was launched to connect the builders of the web with the brightest minds, hottest ideas, and most valuable tools—and with each other. Web 2.0 Expo is for the builders of the next generation web: designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and venture capitalists, people who have experiences to share and a passion for learning—the hot new thing, lessons from failures, innovations and inspirations, and the practical applications of all of the above.

October 2011

BIO China | International Conference
Location: Shanghai, China
Dates: October 12-13, 2011
BIO China will bring together executives from biotechnology, pharmaceutical companies and investment firms from North America, Europe and Asia to meet and explore business opportunities with China's emerging biotech sector. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) brings to China more than 15 years of experience in organizing international conferences for the biotech industry, including the BIO International Convention, the world's largest annual biotech conference.
BladeSystems Insight
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Dates: October 14-15, 2011
BladeSystems Insight is the premier executive summit focused on the technologies that are re-defining performance, energy and space challenges, and IT investment strategies in today’s data center. This event brings together C-level and other IT data center executives who are extended a complimentary participation package to attend. Attending executives interact with a national audience of peers, industry thought leaders and best-of-breed solution providers focused on blade servers.
GIL | APAC
Location: Singapore
Dates: October 12-13, 2011
Frost & Sullivan's Global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership is focused on engaging, sharing, and inspiring a continuous flow of new ideas and fresh perspectives which leverage innovation as a resource to help shape a better future for the growth of our companies and our careers. If you and your company are serious about growth, and you’re interested in further developing your career, our GIL Global events are where you need to begin.
GoingGreen | Silicon Valley
Location: San Francisco, California
Dates: October 12-14, 2011
GoingGreen | Silicon Valley is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth. Green technology innovators are transforming the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, and resource recovery establishments. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities.
Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF)
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Dates: October 13-23, 2011
The Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival was established in 1981 and features more than 260 films, documentaries, shorts and animations, representing over 40 countries. The festival is dedicated to advancing understanding and cultural exchange among the peoples of Asia, the Pacific, and North America through the medium of film. HIFF is considered one of the world’s premiere film events ideally positioned two months before The Academy Awards.
HDWorld Conference
Location: New York, New York
Dates: October 12-13, 2011
As Media & Entertainment companies continue moving progressively into HDTV, there are numerous issues along the way. HDWorld addresses the challenges of integrating HD production, acquisition, origination and distribution systems loom large for media companies. The HD World Conference and Exposition explores these issues, including managing the transition of the television process from SDTV to HDTV, and improving the consumer experience as the end result.
IP&TV Forum | EurAsiaEastEurope
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Dates: October 11-12, 2011
The IP&TV Forum was developed as a direct response to the rapid growth in the marketplace, bringing together operators, technology partners and content providers to explore and define the IPTV evolution. Informa Telecoms & Media has been able to design an event focused on the central IPTV industry need; strengthening the links between operator, technology provider and content to deliver a compelling service proposition.
M&A East
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dates: October 11-12, 2011
M&A East, the ACG Middle Market Corporate Growth Conference, is the premiere East Coast conference attracting nearly 1,100 attendees who are corporate officers, national private equity firms, providers of capital and professionals involved in middle market corporate growth and M&A. Last year’s attendees were 15% corporate officers, 27% private equity funds, 30% investment bankers and other financing sources, and 28% M&A professionals.
New Orleans Film Festival (NOFF)
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Dates: October 14-20, 2011
The New Orleans Film Festival is a nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to providing all audiences access to a diversity of local, national, and international film and video. Founded in 1989, the NOFF presents year round film programming including the annual New Orleans Film Festival, French Film Festival, and monthly screenings and special events designed to benefit local film and video audiences, artists and professionals.
PRSA International Conference
Location: Orlando, Florida
Dates: October 15-18, 2011
The world of communications continues to grow at a rapid pace. New media, social media, word-of-mouth — countless fresh opportunities are providing new contexts for one-to-one communications and two-way engagement. News is less mediated by journalists and more challenging to monitor. PRSA International Conference has 100+ conference sessions and dynamic keynotes.
Plug-In Electric Vehicle Infrastructure | Europe
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Dates: October 11-12, 2011
The EV infrastructure market is simmering to a boil. This 2-day conference is perfectly timed to get the best of automakers, electric utilities and charging infrastructure developers to create win-win business models for EV economy. The Plug-In Electric Vehicle Infrastructure event will outline profitable business models and partnership solutions for a sustainable charging infrastructure that will increase EV adoption.
World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC)
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Dates: October 12-14, 2011
The World Energy Engineering Congress features a large, multi-track conference agenda, a full line-up of seminars on a variety of current topics and a comprehensive exposition of the market's most promising new technologies. The WEEC conference and expo target the complete spectrum of technologies and services of greatest importance to our delegates in attendance.
XChange | Tech Innovators
Location: Miami, Florida
Dates: October 12-14, 2011
XChange Tech Innovators, a unique channel event of the year, this 3-day event will bring together the latest 'Cutting-Edge' Technology Solutions along with the most sophisticated products and live displays in the industry. Over 130 Solution Providers will be in attendance focusing on diverse technologies. Highlights include: Educational Sessions led by SR. Editors and analysts of CRN and VARBusiness, Networking Opportunities and the VARBusiness Tech Innovators Award Ceremony.


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