Conference News: What I learned this week – July 20, 2018
CIOs into the Amazon: This fall Landmark Ventures will not hold its CIO West conference as a standalone event. Instead, the Landmark Ventures team will host a series of networking dinners/events taking place during AWS re:Invent 2018 (26 – 30 November in Las Vegas), rather than a full conference as in previous years.
Can you Hear Me Now? The CDX Brand Summit Series is pleased to announce the launch of SONIC! Hosted in partnership with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Digital Ventures in New York City, SONIC! will explore how current and emerging voice and audio technologies, products, platforms, and applications are transforming the customer experience. Taking place from 4 – 5 September, the conference will be an executive-level, peer-based event with very limited capacity.
Speaking Opportunity: RSA Conference 2019 (4 – 8 March; San Francisco) has opened its Call for Speakers. They will use a two-part submission process this year. The main Call for Speakers closes Wednesday, 1 August (11:59 PM Pacific Time). Speakers who would like to be considered exclusively for one of the two Hackers & Threats tracks, must submit by Saturday, 1 September (11:59 PM Pacific Time). Hackers and Threats sessions include discussions about the growing underground economy, advanced threats, APTs, new classes of vulnerabilities, exploitation techniques, reverse engineering and how to combat these problems. Hackers & Threats Advanced is technically advanced and will include live demos and code dissection.
Lunchtime Learning: The annual EG conference brings together more than 500 members of the creative community, to hear “inventors and educators, artists and designers, writers and thinkers, scientists and engineers, musicians, magicians, icons, iconoclasts, young and old” share examples of how they have made their passion projects and ideas into something real. To be educated and inspired, check out some of the previous talks here.
Coming up next week: The inaugural Stareable Fest kicks off 20 July in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood. Described as a “three-day celebration of excellence in independent television,” Stareable is half industry marketplace and half creator convention, featuring experts from HBO, PBS, and Emmy-winning web series creators. The Corporate Events Marketing Association (CEMA) Summit runs 22-24 July in Los Angeles, providing education for professionals in the event marketing industry. On 24 July, Google will produce Cloud Next in San Francisco. Designed for anyone with a stake in developing an accessible and scalable cloud, this program features inventor demonstrations, codelabs, breakouts, bootcamps, keynotes, and leadership panels. Overseas, RSA Conference will run its APAC cybersecurity event in Singapore from 25-27 July.