Conference News: What I learned this week – November 15, 2019
Virtually not Happening: The VRTL Media Summit, which was founded a few years ago by Ned Sherman Chairman and Founder of Digital Media Wire and Sunny Dhillon, founder and partner of Signia Ventures, will not take place in 2019. Previously held in November, the event considered how innovative content is produced, funded, consumed, and marketed – through the lenses of AR/VR, AI (voice/vision), blockchain applications, and digitally native brands. Digital Media Wire will be including more AR/VR content in their other events such as Digital Entertainment World, LA Games and Future of Television. The summit may return in 2020 and if so, we will be sure to cover it here.
Provoking Change: The team behind the Holmes Report and its events announced that in 2020, the Innovation Summit will rebrand under Holmes Report’s flagship brand PRovoke. The Innovation Summit will now become PRovoke: The North America PR Summit, which will take place on February 12, 2020 at the Langham Hotel in Chicago. PRovoke20 & Global SABRE Awards will continue to take place in October 2020.
Speaking Opportunity: IoT Innovation North America is a conference specifically focused on the latest, cutting edge, innovative IoT projects and technology on the market. When the event happens in 2020 (13 – 14 May) in Chicago, the agenda will cover advanced IoT technologies using artificial intelligence, 5G networks, Blockchain, advanced IoT sensor technology, fiber optics, Big Data, The Cloud, Edge Computing, enhanced security, and advanced technologies that are part of our connected world. If you have a speaker suggestion for this conference, submit via the guidelines found here by 18 December.
Lunchtime Learning: Each October,Progress Connect gathers 300 industry and investment leaders, market visionaries and influential CEOs to the Greater Boston Area to discuss issues facing the tech and media industries and to identify the biggest opportunities for growth. For an insight into these topics watch the 2019 sessions, including the Co-Founder of Draft Kings describe The Role of Data and Analytics in Building Winning Organizations, the CEO & Chief Diversity Officer, Nielsen talk about Leading through Personal Transformation and lively panels on Privacy in a Public World and Investor Insights: Early, Late and Everything in Between.
Coming Up Next Week: It’s crunch time for conferences! Techonomy kicks off Sunday in Half Moon Bay, and features big names – like Marissa Mayer, John Chambers – speaking to their latest ventures. This year’s Techonomy theme is “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” At Fortune Global Forum (18-19 November), senior leaders head to Paris to hear from peers on that event’s theme, “Action 2020: Reinventing for a New Decade.” Automobility LA, which continues to shift from a strictly automotive event to one that highlights the broader future of transportation and the technologies that are making it possible, gets underway 18 October. Salesforce’s behemoth Dreamforce takes over San Francisco 19-22 November, with its characteristic star-studded keynotes, thousands of sessions, and huge expo. And at IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Forum East (21-23 November; Arlington, VA), attendees in STEM fields can develop and improve leadership skills while also learning more about emerging technologies.