Ypulse Monthly Events Roundup: PSFK Conference New York, Connected Communities: Thriving Youth & More

Today we’re bringing you our monthly roundup of cool youth media and marketing events you or colleagues from your company may want to attend. If your company hosts an event relevant to the youth media or marketing space that you’d like us to highlight, email me…

February Event Updates
Ed. Note: For more upcoming events check the last roundup.

February

OMMA Behavioral
Date: February 25
Location: New York, NY
Cost: $595 (Members) - $795 (On-site)
Description: This event brings together brand marketers and agency professionals to discuss the latest trends on online behavioral targeting advertising, content production, syndication and delivery. Top advertisers, agencies, and producers discuss and debate the shape of one of the fastest growing delivery platforms of the year. The conference includes keynotes, research presentations, and case studies- all covering and evaluating emerging video solutions. More

sex::tech
Date: February 26-27
Location: San Francisco, CA
Cost: $25 (student) -$250
Description: The Internet and mobile technologies have strengthened youth networks, provided new avenues for expression, and increased youth access to tools and information designed to improve their sexual health. Sex::Tech explores available tools and methods for reaching youth with culturally appropriate STD/HIV prevention and sex education interventions. Technology developers, accidental techies, educators, researchers, youth, public health professionals, activists are all welcome. It’s time to show what you know and learn something new. More

March

Intelligence Group’s Tween Trend Schools
Date: March 3
Location: New York, NY
Cost: For cost contact Noelle Weaver at nweaver@intelg.com .
Description: Perhaps the most significant social movement shaping the next decade will be the rise of Gen Z, a tech-fluid, un-bordered generation that will challenge convention and define youth culture going forward. Tween Trend School focuses exclusively on what marketers need to know about how tweens live, think and act today. More

The Game Developers Conference 2010
Date: March 9 - 13
Location: San Francisco, CA
Cost:$75 (On-site Student) - $2,000 (On-site all access)
Description: The Game Developers Conference 2010 takes place from March 9th to 13th at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, and includes two days of Summits and tutorials alongside three days of Main Conference content. The organizers have added Rob Pardo on Blizzard’s design philosophy, the Smithsonian Institute on embracing games, Chair’s Donald Mustard on creating XBLA hit Shadow Complex, and sessions on OnLive’s streaming tech and Sony’s PS3 motion controller. More

2010 Media Summit
Date: March 10 - 11
Location: New York, NY
Cost: $875
Description: The 2010, Media Summit New York is the Premier International Conference on Media, Broadband, Advertising, Television, Publishing, Cable, Mobile, Radio, Magazines, News & Print Media and Marketing. More

SXSW Interactive
Date:March 12-21
Cost: $395-550 [Interactive Badge]
Location: Austin, Texas
Description: SXSW Interactive features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders and an unbeatable line up of special programs showcasing the best new websites, video games and startup ideas the community has to offer. Join us March 2010 for the panels, the parties, the 13th Annual Web Awards, the ScreenBurn at SXSW Arcade, the Film and Interactive Trade Show and Exhibition, Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW and, of course, the inspirational experience that only SXSW can deliver. More

2010 Custom Content Conference
Date: March 24-26
Location: Nashville, TN
Cost: $595 - $795
Description: Use it or Lose It—Taking Advantage of Content in a Custom Media Age. The media landscape has permanently changed. Is it wreaking havoc in your world or creating new opportunities? Explore all that and more at the 2010 Custom Content Conference, March 24-26 in Nashville. Hear from client innovators and print and digital media experts on topics that matter to you, including best practices and cutting-edge brand strategies that you can apply immediately to improve your custom media model. Be a part of the discussion as we tackle the biggest issues the custom media industry faces today. More

Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Date: March 23- 26
Location: Bologna, Italy
Cost: 30 (2 day) - 60 (4 day)
Description: The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the most important international event dedicated to the children’s publishing and multimedia industry. In its 47th edition, the Fair offers more than 20.000 square meters of exhibition space with a simple, easy-to-understand layout. More

April

Publisher Weekly presents Beyond Twilight: What’s Hot in the Teen Market… in Publishing and Hollywood
Date: April 6
Location: New York, NY
Cost: $49.95
Description: Advances may be declining in other parts of the industry, but publishers continue to lay out out six figures and above for YA titles and series. And the market for teen books is white-hot in Hollywood, too. Our panel of agents and film scouts gives the inside scoop on where the market stands today, and where it might be heading in the months ahead. More

PSFK Conference New York 2010
Date: April 9
Location: New York, NY
Cost: $350
Description: For the fourth year, PSFK returns to Manhattan to host one of the most inspirational events available for creative professionals today. PSFK Conference New York will bring together a large crowd of likeminds to learn and share new ideas that will help us make tomorrow better. More

The 99 Percent
Date: April 15 - 16
Location: New York, NY
Cost: Sold Out
Description: At 99%, Behance’s think tank, we focus on what happens after inspiration—researching the forces that truly push ideas forward. Our profiles of proven idea makers, action-oriented tips, best-practices sessions, and annual conference are all designed to help you transform ideas from vision to reality. More

FutureMidwest
Date: April 16 - 17
Location: Royal Oak, MI
Cost: $100 (student) - $750 (corporate/group)
Description: FutureMidwest is the region’s largest two-day technology and knowledge conference taking place in Royal Oak, Mich. April 16 – 17, 2010. Founded by Adrian Pittman, Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson , FutureMidwest is the fusion of two successful conferences held in Michigan in 2009 – the Module Midwest Digital Conference and TechNow. More

May

Digital Hollywood
Date: May 3 - 6
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Cost: $350 (One Day Digital Hollywood Track) - $685 (All Event Digital Hollywood)
Description: Digital Hollywood debuted in 1990 and has from its start been among the leading trade conferences in its field with over 15,000 top executives in the film, television, music, home video, cable, telecommunications and computer industries attending the various events each year. More

Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup 2010
Date: May 24-25
Location: San Francisco, CA
Cost: Registration now open: $845 (Early Adopter rate available until April 2, 2010) – $945. Non-profit rates also available!
Description: Where top brand, corporate and social marketers, media professionals, educators and non-profit organizations gather to share best practices, research and latest strategies on marketing to youth with technology. More

June

The American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
Date: June 24 -  29
Location:Washington, D.C.
Description: The Standards for the 21st-Century Learner promote inquiry learning, so wouldn’t it be a powerful strategy to have Web sites to entice your teachers to collaboratively develop inquiry-based curriculum? Join AASL’s Best Websites for Teaching and Learning Committee at this interactive session about innovative, authoritative curriculum websites. More

Social Developer Summit
Date: June 29
Location: San Francisco, CA
Cost: $350 (Early Bird) - $400
Description: Whether it’s social games, social news, social discovery, social search, or other forms of social solutions, developers today are facing new hurdles in building instantly scalable products. As new technologies emerge to address the challenges faced by social application developers, it’s increasingly important to come together for knowledge sharing purposes.

July

Comic-Con
Date: July 22 - 25
Location: San Diego, CA
Cost: [4-day memberships Sold Out] $35 [Single Day Thursday]
Description: Comic-Con already has an impressive lineup of special guests who have agreed to appear at the 2010 event. Our special guest lineup is an incredibly diverse one, consisting of some of the hottest creators in the world of comics, ranging from the mainstream to the alternative, international, and syndicated branches of the industry. We’re also, of course, featuring Golden and Silver Age creators, sf/fantasy writers and artists, and longtime Comic-Con friends. More

October

CTAM [Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing] Summit ‘10
Date: October 17 -19
Location: New Orleans, LA
Cost: N/A
Description: Planned by industry leaders, the CTAM Summit is the place to exchange ideas and think differently about marketing and technology based products.  The Summit delivers visionary insights from the industry’s leading strategic thinkers with actionable take-aways to impact your business strategy. More

November

In Focus: The Essentials for 21st-Century Learning
Date: November 5 - 6
Location: Portland, OR
Cost: N/A
Description: In this dynamic age, students have unprecedented access to diverse, independent and immediate information resources. This may be the first time in history our students are as familiar with modern research tools as we are, but they still lack the essential skills necessary to responsibly and effectively navigate the educational environment. More

Connected Communities: Thriving Youth
Date: November 18 - 20
Location: Houston, TX
Cost: N/A
Description: An international conference linking schools, communities and families, hosted by Search Institute. Whether you joined us in Cincinnati or weren’t able to attend, it’s time to start looking forward to the 2010 conference in Houston! Join us next November for Connected Communities: Thriving Youth. It’s going to be bigger and better than ever before, so don’t miss it! More

December

MediaBistro’s Social Gaming Summit
Date: December 1 - 2
Location: New York, NY
Cost: N/A
Description: Explore the intersection of games and the social web. More

January

2011 International Consumer Electronics Show
Date: January 6 - 9
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Cost: N/A
Description: The CES showcases the latest innovations in digital imaging, electronic gaming, wireless communications, digital video, high-performance audio, home networking and entertainment, mobile electronics, broadband and the Internet. More

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