Conference calendar

The CASE District VIII Annual Conference offers a variety of speaker sessions and workshops across topics in advancement services, alumni relations, development, communications and marketing, and professional development within nonprofit education organizations.

Join us in Bellevue for a new approach to learning and connecting with like-minded leaders. The packed program will feature innovative events to stimulate integrated, transdisciplinary, and collaborative work. Three days will be filled with insightful industry-specific sessions, notable speakers, outstanding case studies, and valuable in person networking.

Laser-focused on emerging trends and opportunities within advancement, the conference is designed to enhance your capabilities. This opportunity will provide the innovation, resources, and partnerships needed to develop effective advancement practices in an evolving education landscape.

Join 8,000+ professionals at the world’s largest developer and engineering expo and conference series.

Join 8,000+ professionals at the world’s largest developer and engineering expo and conference series.

Axe-con is the world’s largest digital accessibility conference that welcomes developers, designers, business users, and accessibility professionals of all experience levels to an accessibility conference focused on building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital experiences.

ConveyUX is committed to bringing content that helps UX professionals enhance their skills and have more impact. This year, we're proud to present insights on best practices by industry leaders from around the globe. ConveyUX features UX practitioners with a wide variety of backgrounds and ideas to share.

Join your peers at the #1 social media event for senior-level marketing professionals; learn from a mix of industry leaders who will share the proven social media strategies they use to grow their brands.

Social media is an important component of any communications strategy and is integral to connecting educational institutions with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and communities. Effective social communication requires strategy, creativity, and flexibility. Join us at the Social Media and Community conference to discuss the ever-evolving social media landscape, revitalizing strategy tactics, and how to leverage trends to establish lasting brand connections with audiences.

The Gartner Data & Analytics Summit addressed top challenges that data, analytics and AI professionals are facing and equips leaders to scale using data management, data architecture and governance best-practices. From maximizing business impact within budget constraints to aligning data and analytics strategies and AI adoption, attendees from the data and analytics summit walked away with the technical know-how but also with the strategic insight to drive meaningful change and organizational success.

This symposium brings together chief academic officers (CAOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) to strengthen collaboration with a focus on integrating emerging technologies, including AI, to advance academic planning, improve student success, and strengthen data-informed decision-making.

The relationship between the CAO and the CIO is critical to ensure timely, effective, and financially responsible attention to our institution’s most critical student success issues.

To better understand and support this relationship, AASCU and EDUCAUSE will bring CAOs and CIOs together to gain knowledge and skills to bridge the gap between academic goals and IT capabilities, foster a culture of teamwork and shared vision, and build capacity to support academic priorities. Participants will learn about future trends and technological advancements in higher education and hear from institutional leaders supporting innovation and transformation on their campus.

Featuring a variety of tracks that focus on the most important breakthroughs in technology, film, culture, and music, SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together.

For nearly 40 years, the Center on Disabilities, through the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, has provided an inclusive setting for researchers, practitioners, exhibitors, end users, speakers and other participants to share knowledge and best practices in the field of assistive technology. In 2019, the conference drew more than 5,000 people to Anaheim, CA. Known as a forum that showcases cutting edge technology and practical solutions that can be utilized to remove the barriers that prevent the full participation of persons with disabilities in educational, workplace and social settings, the conference is the largest of its kind in the world.

Get ready for an unforgettable experience at this year's Adobe Summit - the premier digital experience conference is returning with a bang! With the event now available in both in-person and virtual modes, there's no reason to miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn, network, and discover the latest trends and technologies in the digital world. Whether you attend in person or virtually, you'll gain valuable insights and knowledge to help you stay ahead in today's fast-paced digital landscape. So mark your calendars and join us at Adobe Summit for an unforgettable experience!

Adobe Summit is one of the biggest annual events of Adobe Inc. Discover latest industry trends, innovations from Adobe, thought leadership content from Adobe leaders and industry experts. Adobe Summit opens up a world of networking and learning that will help turn your ideas into reality.

From a newsstand in Harvard Square to a storefront in Albuquerque, N.M., to a burger joint in Bellevue, Wash., and beyond, Microsoft’s rise, fall, and rebound is one of the most colorful and tumultuous stories in business history.

GeekWire is hosting a special community event at 6:15 p.m. on March 20, 2025 at Town Hall Seattle, bringing together key leaders from Microsoft’s past and present to examine the impact of the Redmond technology giant. We’ll revisit defining moments, explore new challenges and get a glimpse into what lies ahead for one of the world’s most influential companies. In addition to the event, GeekWire is also running a multi-part editorial and podcast series chronicling Microsoft’s journey.

A big thanks to Accenture, presenting sponsor of Microsoft@50.

The biggest open-source event in North America, DrupalCon, is coming to Atlanta, Georgia. We can't wait to see you at this one-of-a-kind experience!

You’ll discover the latest tactics and strategies to improve your social marketing.

Social marketing is changing more and more each day. If this industry has taught us anything, it’s that you’ve got to embrace change to get ahead.

Join thousands of the world’s smartest marketers and influencers at the only marketing conference you need to attend—brought to you by Social Media Examiner!

You’ll walk away with real business-building ideas that you can put to work for your business or clients right away.

Experience it in beautiful San Diego, California when you attend the annual Social Media Marketing World!

DRIVE offers a focused learning and networking experience for education institutions and other nonprofit organizations who work with and use data and analytics to propel their programs.

DigiMarCon Pacific Northwest, the Premier Digital Marketing, Media and Advertising Conference in the Pacific Northwest region returns April 7th to 8th, 2025 to The Westin Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Washington. Join your peers in-person or online for 2 days jam packed with digital marketing best practices, latest trends, practical solutions, strategy and networking.

Be a part of DigiMarCon Pacific Northwest 2025 and discover how to thrive and succeed as a marketer in a rapidly evolving digital world. Top keynotes, case studies, strategy sessions, networking and more! See why people keep coming back year after year to this must-attend event! Register and secure your seat today.

BSides Seattle is a community-based conference for individuals in or interested in Information Security.
Founded in 2012, BSides Seattle continues to provide space for the open sharing of ideas, concepts and debates.

A place where security geeks of all ages, all levels of learning, all walks of life can bring their true selves and learn amazing things.

A global gathering to connect wo(men) in tech to mentors, peers & resources.

Stanford WebCamp is a multi-day event for community and by community to discuss the ins and outs of building websites and research tools.

Web design
UX design
Project management
Content strategy
Writing for the web
Web development

Explore online AI, data and metrics in higher education

Learn how to use analytics more effectively in your work on college and university campuses. Gain a better understanding of the varied ways analytics inform your work — and the best practices for success.

Sessions topics will include website analytics, AI, SEO, data reporting and more.

The much-anticipated and hotly-contested GeekWire Awards celebrate the top innovators, entrepreneurs and technology leaders in the Pacific Northwest. Hosted live from the Showbox SoDo in Seattle on April 30, this must-attend event features a seated dinner, entertainment, fun surprises and coveted awards handed out in more than a dozen categories.

Community nominations are open through February 21.

A limited number of half-table and full-table sponsorships are available. Secure a table sponsorship today and join the biggest tech awards celebration in the Northwest. Contact us at events@geekwire.com for more information.

A big thanks to Astound Business Solutions, presenting sponsor of the 2025 GeekWire Awards.

Learn the latest Product, UX, Design and Dev practices, increase your T-shaped skills and discover the techniques companies are using to empower teams to deliver.

Microsoft Build is an annual conference event held by Microsoft, aimed at software engineers and web developers using Windows, Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft technologies.

The 2025 Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Conference in Baltimore is the premier forum for connecting with higher education information security and privacy professionals. Join us May 19–21.

This is the one higher ed event that gives participants a chance to network and discuss information security and privacy trends and current issues with peers and solution providers.

Where digital analytics trailblazers and marketing professionals master marketing data to create an impact!

At the Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo™ conference CMOs and marketing leaders learned how to spark new ways of thinking, break through assumptions, and to question conventional wisdom about what they can — and cannot — do. They meet Gartner experts and marketing leader peers to fulfill their department’s purpose — driving growth.

Join us and hundreds of your peers for the marketing conference to hear and share the latest insights into emerging technologies, customer experience, marketing strategy and more.

Building a strong brand for your institution has never been more important. Balancing the reality of your campus with the overwhelming nature of being a marketer today, this conference will help participants identify, explain and integrate the key ingredients to creating, sustaining and measuring the impact of a successful brand strategy and market position. Join your colleagues to gain insights into how to start the process, bring your campus stakeholders with you, build the optimal organization, determine metrics that matter and develop inspiring creative work that supports your effort.

This conference is designed for professionals with mid-level responsibility.

The Accessibility Summer Camp is a FREE annual conference based in Wichita, KS with the goal of connecting professionals and educators with best practices in accessibility with individuals who have a desire to learn.

The mission of the Accessibility Summer Camp (ASC) is to provide accessibility training that empowers attendees to create quality, accessible learning environments and remove barriers for all individuals who have a desire to learn.

eduWeb is a community of higher education professionals and industry partners passionate about advancing their marketing, communications, and digital work from colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad.

​We have supported the community with conferences in major cities across the U.S. since 2006. In the landscape of higher education marketing events, the eduWeb Summit is consistently in the Top 10 industry events yearly.
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In 2023, the eduWeb Summit will celebrate its 18th year. The annual eduWeb Summit conference and trade show has grown to attract 800+ attendees from 15 countries and all 50 states.​

WPCampus is a non-profit three-day conference with sessions, networking, and social events. The event will cover various topics focused on the growth of higher education, accessibility, WordPress, and its people.

Learn about digital accessibility in higher education

Learn best practices, share stories with your peers and expand your knowledge on a wide range of accessibility topics.

Beginners and experts, non-technical and technical users, and everyone in-between benefit from attending.

With the energy of an incubator and the intel of an accelerator, INBOUND takes the best of our work — the culture, the innovation, the creativity — and propels it forward for the collective good.

It’s where careers take off, businesses begin to scale, and community changes us for the better.

Learn from 150+ expert speakers, reinvigorate your strategies, and get the tools to advance your future.

Content Marketing World is produced by the Content Marketing Institute and brings together marketing leaders, content creators, communications experts, agencies, and creative professionals from around the world.

Since 2012, CascadiaJS has been the premier JavaScript and web conference in the Pacific Northwest. Every year we bring together hundreds of developers to help them: level up their skills, grow their network, and have fun and make friends. We are a kind and inclusive community with thoughtful Code of Conduct and our goal is to elevate local voices and advocate for an Open Web.

The Digital Collegium Annual Conference (formerly known as the HighEdWeb Annual Conference) is the conference created by and for higher ed professionals across all departments and divisions. For developers, marketers, and programmers to managers, designers, writers, and all team members in-between. Our annual conference rotates between major regions in the United States so that we can equally serve our communities wherever they are located throughout the country.

LavaCon started in Hawaii (hence our name) to help organizations leverage state-of-the-art content technologies. However, LavaCon is more than just a conference. It’s a gathering place where content professionals network with peers and build relationships that will last for years to come.

SmashingConf New York 2025 is our amazing and friendly conference for designers and front-end developers. With topics like design systems, AI, Accessibility and UX research, we make sure you're inspired and get practical takeaways.

Please save the date now and plan to attend the 11th iteration of the largest open source / tech / web conference on the U.S. east coast.

The location will again be the Raleigh Convention Center (RCC) in downtown Raleigh, NC and the greater Research Triangle Park (RTP) region.

Contact us with questions at info@allthingsopen.org.

If you're a social media, marketing, or content professional that manages any of your university's social media channels, this event is your chance to meet and talk shop with your HESM community! Learn best practices in social media marketing from today’s leading colleges and universities.

The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ conference addressed the most significant challenges faced by CIOs and IT executives. Attendees joined Gartner experts and peers to explore new solutions and unearthed new insights to meet the moment, make the difference. As they prepared for the challenges and opportunities of the year ahead, attendees walked away with guidance to drive future technology innovations, successful business strategies, and critical execution.

From AI and audits to design systems and text strings, the Button program is filled with practical how-tos and actionable takeaways. Hear from content design experts on the front lines, connect with the community on Slack, and access on-demand recordings for a full year.

Join us to be inspired at every turn, meet other passionate creatives, and learn how to create whatever you can dream. And while nothing compares to being face to face, you can still attend online.

The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference connects the best thinkers in higher education technology.

This is THE event where professionals and technology providers from around the world gather to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges. It’s the largest gathering of your peers…people you can relate to, learn from, and stay connected to throughout the year.

With a 30+ year history, the AMA Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education is dedicated to connecting you with peers and solution providers to help solve today’s higher ed challenges.

It’s marketers like you who keep our higher education community growing and thriving. Our program of peer-reviewed content will help you enhance your marketing strategy, build strong brands, improve your reputation, achieve enrollment success and maintain financial strength.

Accessing Higher Ground focuses on the implementation and benefits of: accessible media, Universal Design and Assistive Technology in the university, business and public setting; legal and policy issues, including ADA and 508 compliance; and the creation of accessible media and information resources, including Web pages and library resources.

Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference for developers and IT professionals that focuses on Microsoft's technology. The event features announcements about new products and services, as well as opportunities for networking and learning.

Get inspired to innovate with AWS! Join us for five days of learning, networking activities, announcements, and interactive events. Have fun, level up your skills, and make new connections.