10 Web 2.0 Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss

By Eric Brown May 21, 2008

It can be a real pain trying to keep up with all the upcoming conferences that happen every year. With web 2.0 being the subject of late, there are a lot of conferences and events designed specifically around it. What follows is a list of some of the top web 2.0 conferences happening this summer. Have a browse and see if anything tickles your fancy. Then think about how you can convince your boss to send you.

There are always tons of conferences around the world, some costly, some not, some good, some bad. Here is a list of upcoming web 2.0 conferences you shouldn’t miss. These are some of the powerhouse conferences of the business conference circuit and are a must for businesses large and small.

10 Web 2.0 Conferences This Summer

1. Internet Week New York
June 3 – 10, 2008: Internet Week New York is a week-long schedule of events. It highlights the Internet industry in New York, focusing on local and regional companies and organizations that are leading the way on the web.

2. European Directory Marketplace 2008
June 9, 2008: This year’s European Directory Marketplace 2008 (EDM08) conference, Search in the Mobile Era, will be held in London. The focus of this year’s conference is mobile marketing — in particular mobile search marketing.

3. Graphing Social Patterns East
June 9-11, 2008: Graphing Social Patterns East is a conference directed at executives, entrepreneurs, marketers and application developers who want to flex their muscles with the hottest trends on the Internet.

Here you will learn the value of social networking and social marketing in a variety of forms. Topics include techniques for building viral applications, how to reach an audience, marketing and advertising strategies for networked environments, building trust in a community, what’s next on the horizon for Facebook and MySpace, monetizing techniques for turning traffic into revenue streams, protecting privacy and security while still maintaining an open social network, and more.

4. Enterprise 2.0
June 9-12, 2008: Enterprise 2.0 is the largest gathering for people ready to reinvent the way work is done. This is all about wikis, inter-company blogs and social networks, mash-up and other enterprise 2.0 technologies. Whether you are exploring your options for bringing social tools and 2.0 technologies or working to convince you’re boss of the value of things like team workspaces, unified communications, enterprise search, and software as a service, Enterprise 2.0 will guide your ideas in the right direction

5. Social Gaming Summit
June 13, 2008: Join online gamers and gaming socialites at the Social Gaming Summit. The Social Gaming Summit is a one day conference focused on the idea of social networking in MMO games exploding online. Games such as SecondLife and World of Warcraft sport active accounts that number in the 10’s of millions…and game developers continue to spend increasing amounts of energy figuring out how to leverage and apply the growth in social networking to the games they are developing. This is one you don’t want to miss.

6. WidgetWebExpo
June 16 – 17, 2008: WidgetWebExpo will look at one of the key emerging online trends: how to utilize the power of widgets to carry your brand to the world. Widgets offer huge potential as carriers of marketing, brand and advertising messages into social networks. This conference will provide you with a thorough understanding of the opportunities and how to leverage them.