I walk astir of my days sitting successful beforehand of a screen, buried successful a Google Doc. (You astir apt do too.)

And portion I bask heavy work, a fewer times a twelvemonth I get the impulse to permission my table and spell socialize with different quality beings—ideally connected my employer’s dime 😉

Conferences are a large excuse to bent retired with different contented marketers, speech shop, larn immoderate caller tricks, and unreal that we’re each really excited about generative AI.

Without further ado, present are the biggest and champion contented selling conferences happening passim the remainder of 2024.

Dates: May 5–7
Prices: from $795
Website: https://cex.events/
Location: Cleveland, OH
Speakers: B.J. Novak, Ann Handley, Alexis Grant, Justin Welsh, Mike King

CEX is designed with contented entrepreneurs successful caput (“contenpreneurs”? Did I conscionable coin an awesome caller word?)—people that attraction arsenic overmuch astir the concern of contented arsenic they bash the craft.

In summation to seasoned contented marketers similar Ann Handley and Joe Pulizi waxing lyrical astir modern contented strategy, you’ll find radical similar Justin Welsh and Alexis Grant exploring the practicalities of quitting your occupation and becoming a full-time contented creator.

Here’s a trailer for past year’s event:

Sessions see titles like:

• Unlocking the Power of Book Publishing: From Content to Revenue
• Quitting A $200k Corporate Job to Become A Solo Content Entrepreneur
• Why You Should Prioritize Long-Form Content

(And yes—Ryan from The Office is giving the keynote.)

Dates: Jun 3–4
Location: Seattle, WA
Speakers: Wil Reyolds, Bernard Huang, Britney Muller, Lily Ray
Prices: from $1,699
Website: https://moz.com/mozcon

Software institution Moz is champion known successful the SEO industry, but its league is fashionable with marketers of each stripes. Amidst a lineup of 25 speakers determination are plentifulness of contented marketers speaking, similar Andy Crestodina, Ross Simmonds, and Chima Mmeje.

Check retired this teaser from past year’s event:

This year’s talks see topics like:

• Trust and Quality successful the New Era of Content Discovery
• The Power of Emotion: How To Create Content That (Actually) Converts
• “E” for Engaging: Why The Future of SEO Content Needs To Be Engaging

Dates: Sep 18–20
Location: Boston, MA
Speakers: TBC
Prices: from $1,199
Website: https://www.inbound.com/

Hosted by contented selling OG HubSpot, INBOUND offers hundreds of talks, heavy dives, fireside chats, and meetups connected topics ranging from marque strategy to AI.

Here’s the recap video:

I’ve attended my just stock of INBOUNDs implicit the years (and adjacent had a brew with co-founder Dharmesh Shah), and ever bask the sheer prime of events on offer.

Keynotes are a highlight, and this year’s header talker has a pugnacious enactment to follow: Barack Obama closed retired the league last year.

Dates: Oct 22–23
Location: San Diego, CA
Speakers: TBC
Prices: from $1,199
Website: https://www.contentmarketingworld.com/

Arguably the content selling conference, Content Marketing World has been pumping retired contented talks and inspiration for fourteen years solid.

Here’s past year’s recap:

The 2024 docket is successful the works, but past year’s league explored each conceivable facet of contented marketing, from B2C marque gathering done to the quirks of contented for authorities organizations, with league titles like:

• Government Masterclass: A Content Marketing Strategy to Build Public Trust 
• A Beloved Brand: Evolving Zillow’s Creative Content Strategy 
• Evidence-Based SEO Strategies: Busting “SEO Best Practices” and Other Marketing Myths

Dates: Oct 24–25
Location: Singapore
Speakers: Andy Chadwick, Nik Ranger, Charlotte Ang, Marcus Ho, Victor Karpenko, Amanda King, James Norquay, Sam Oh, Patrick Stox, Tim Soulo (and me!)
Prices: TBC
Website: https://ahrefs.com/events/evolve2024-singapore

That’s right—Ahrefs is hosting a conference! Join 500 integer marketers for a 2-day gathering successful Singapore.

We person 20 apical speakers from astir the world, expert-led workshops connected everything from method SEO to contented strategy, and tons of opportunities to hitch shoulders with contented pros, large brands, and the full Ahrefs crew.

I visited Singapore for the archetypal clip past twelvemonth and it is really worth the trip—I urge visiting the Supertree Grove, eating astatine the hawker markets successful Chinatown, and hitting the formation astatine Sentosa.

If you request persuading, here’s SEO pro JH Scherck connected the Ahrefs podcast making the lawsuit for league travel:

And to apical things off, here’s a speedy walkthrough of the league venue:

Dates: Oct 27–30
Location: Portland, OR
Speakers: Relly Annett-Baker, Fawn Damitio, Scott Abel, Jennifer Lee
Prices: from $1,850
Website: https://lavacon.org/

LavaCon is simply a contented league with a precise method focus, with implicit 70 sessions dedicated to helping companies lick “content-related concern problems, summation revenue, and alteration accumulation costs”.

In practice, that means speakers from NIKE, Google, Meta, Cisco, and Verizon, and topics like:

• Operationalizing Generative AI,
• Taxonomies successful the Age of AI: Are they inactive Relevant?, and
• Out of Many, One: Building a Semantic Layer to Tear Down Silos

Here’s the recap video for past year’s conference:

Dates: Nov 8
Location: London
Speakers: Nick Parker, Tasmin Lofthouse, Dan Nelken, Taja Myer
Prices: from £454.80
Website: https://www.copywritingconference.com/

CopyCon is simply a single-day league successful London, hosted by ProCopywriters (a rank assemblage for copywriters—I was a subordinate once, galore years ago).

Intended for copywriters, creatives, and contented strategists, the docket focuses heavy connected the qualitative aspects of contented that often spell overlooked—creative processes, code of voice, and creating affectional connections done copy.

It’s a fewer years old, but this teaser video shares a consciousness of the topics on offer:

This year’s talks see sessions like:

• The Mind-Blowing Magic of Tone of Voice,
• The Power of AI Tools arsenic a Content Designer, and the beautifully titled
• Your Inner Critic is simply a Ding-Dong.

(Because yes, your interior professional truly is simply a ding-dong.)

Final thoughts

These are each content-specific conferences, but determination are a ton of content-adjacent events happening passim the year. Honourable mentions spell to DigiMarCon UK 2024 (Aug 29–30, London, UK), Web Summit (Nov 11–14, Lisbon, Portugal), and B2B Forum (Nov 12–14, Boston, MA).

I’ve focused this database solely connected in-person events, but determination are besides online-only conferences available, similar ContentTECH Summit (May 15–16).

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