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AMA Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education

Digital marketing
Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024

Las Vegas, NV
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

Accessibility
Monday, Nov. 11, 2024Friday, Nov. 15, 2024

Denver, CO
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.

EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (Virtual)

Information technology
Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024

Virtual
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.

Microsoft Ignite

Information technology
Monday, Nov. 18, 2024Friday, Nov. 22, 2024

Chicago, IL
Join us at the next Microsoft Ignite event November 15–16, 2023, to catch up on the latest industry innovations.

AWS re:Invent

Infrastructure
Monday, Dec. 2, 2024Friday, Dec. 6, 2024

Las Vegas, NV
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.

Digital Summit

Digital marketing
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024

Portland, OR
The Most Innovative Digital Marketing Conference Series

GeekWire Gala

Networking
Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024
Seattle, WA
Make the GeekWire Gala your holiday party! Bring old friends, colleagues, significant or insignificant others, and kick off the holiday season in style on Wednesday, December 6.

In addition to a festive party with dancing, cocktails and karaoke, we’ll also recognize the region’s “Uncommon Thinkers,” groundbreaking innovators who are changing the way we work, live and play. A big thanks to Greater Seattle Partners for their support of the new awards program.

The Gala — taking place at the historic Showbox Market (1426 1st Ave.) near Pike Place Market — is a 21+ event.

CASE District VIII Annual Conference

Marketing and communications
Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025Friday, Jan. 31, 2025

Bellevue, WA
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.

Developer Week (In Person)

Web development
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025

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

Developer Week (Virtual)

Web development
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025

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

axe-con

Accessibility
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025

Virtual
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

User experience
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025

Seattle, WA
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.

Social Media Strategies Summit

Social media
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025

Virtual
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.

CASE Social Media and Community

Social media
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025Friday, Feb. 28, 2025

New Orleans, LA
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.

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit

Analytics
Monday, Mar. 3, 2025Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2025

Orlando, FL
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.

SxSW

Networking
Friday, Mar. 7, 2025Saturday, Mar. 15, 2025

Austin, TX
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.

CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

Accessibility
Monday, Mar. 10, 2025Friday, Mar. 14, 2025

Anaheim, CA
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.

Adobe Summit

Design
Monday, Mar. 17, 2025Thursday, Mar. 20, 2025

Las Vegas, NV and Virtual
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.

DrupalCon

Web development
Monday, Mar. 24, 2025Thursday, Mar. 27, 2025

Atlanta, GA
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!

Social Media Marketing World

Social media
Sunday, Mar. 30, 2025Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2025

San Diego, CA
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!

CASE DRIVE 2025

Analytics
Monday, Mar. 31, 2025Wednesday, Apr. 2, 2025

New Orleans, LA
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.

Wo(men) in Tech Regatta – Seattle

Networking
Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2025Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2025

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

Stanford WebCamp

Web development
Thursday, Apr. 24, 2025Friday, Apr. 25, 2025

Stanford, CA
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

Digital Collegium Analytics & AI Summit

Analytics
Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2025
Virtual
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.

UXDX

User experience
Monday, May 12, 2025Wednesday, May 14, 2025

New York, NY and Virtual
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.

Marketing Analytics Summit

Analytics
Monday, Jun. 2, 2025Thursday, Jun. 5, 2025

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

Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo™

Digital marketing
Monday, Jun. 2, 2025Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2025

Denver, CO
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.

CASE Annual Conference on Marketing and Branding

Marketing and communications
Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2025Friday, Jun. 6, 2025

Los Angeles, CA
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.

eduWeb Summit

Digital marketing
Tuesday, Jul. 15, 2025Thursday, Jul. 17, 2025

Portland, ME
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.

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.​

Digital Collegium Accessibility Summit

Accessibility
Tuesday, Jul. 29, 2025
Virtual
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.

Inbound

Digital marketing
Wednesday, Sep. 3, 2025Friday, Sep. 5, 2025

San Francisco, CA
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.

Digital Collegium Annual Conference

Digital marketing
Sunday, Sep. 28, 2025Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025

Online and Grand Rapids, Michigan
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 Content Strategy Conference

Content strategy
Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

Atlanta, GA
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.

All Things Open

Web development
Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025

Raleigh, NC
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.

Social Media Strategies Summit – Higher Education

Social media
Monday, Oct. 20, 2025Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025

Virtual
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.