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…

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

Featured Events (These are events being held by 2010 Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup partners.)

Kids@Play & Higher Ed Tech Summits at CES
Date: January 6, 2011
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Cost: N/A
Description for Kids@Play: Kids@Play explores the world of kids and technology. Their lives are infused with technology, from their first electronic picture books through their first Facebook profile. The summit showcases exhibitors that shape how kids are growing up digitally and features panel discussions on how children are exploring the way they entertain themselves, their 24/7 communications, and the way technology pervades their schoolwork and “real” world explorations. Speakers across multiple industries and disciplines will examine the impact of being digital with demos, discussion, and research. Participating companies in past years have included Electronic Arts, Mattel, PBS Kids Play, and Symantec. More

Description for Higher Ed Tech Summit Today’s college students are robust consumers of Information Age technologies. With a single keystroke they access information that would take hours to locate in a brick-and-mortar library, if it could be found at all. They attend classes, participate in seminars and discussion groups, and submit their work remotely, sometimes from across the country and sometimes from halfway around the world. They load their dorm rooms with the latest gadgets and cram their cell phones with the latest apps. The Higher Ed Tech Summit will shine a spotlight on the key issues of high-tech higher education. More

Additional Events

July

Kickstarter Film Festival
Date: July 9
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Cost: $10 [Minimum pledge]
Description: Kickstarter, an idea aggregator that provides ideators and interested patrons alike with ‘a new way to fund and follow creativity’ – will collaborate with Rooftop Films to host the first Kickstarter Film Festival on the rooftop of the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn this Friday, July 9th. Honoring Kickstarter’s role in facilitating creative ideas coming to life, the festival will feature 90 plus minutes of footage from a dozen Kickstarter projects, plus live music and Kickstarter food projects as vendors. More [via PSKF}

Do Something! Awards
Date: July 19
Location: Los Angeles [But aired on VH1]
Cost: N/A
Description: The Do Something Awards are about to rock social change. The Awards honor the best young world-changers, 25 and under, that are making the world a better place. They truly represent the pivotal doers in their field, cause or issue. And this year, they are getting the credit they deserve! More

Comic-Con 2010
Date: July 21–25
Location: San Diego, CA
Cost: Sold Out
Description: With an Exhibit Hall that spans over 460,000 square feet, Comic-Con has become the one show to attend. Add the major media attention the show receives and the largest number of attendees of any convention in the country, and you have a major opportunity to reach the biggest possible audience for your product or art. More

August

BlogHer Business
Date: August 5 – 7
Location: New York, NY
Cost: $599
Description: Now in its fourth year, the BlogHer Business Conference is an annual “crash course” on best practices for reaching the most influential and powerful consumers — women online — in the quickly evolving social media world. Attendees find themselves on fertile ground for innovative ideas, interacting with a mix of social media experts, business bloggers, and brand marketers who have experience building campaigns and working in social media environments. More

August

Action Sports Conference
Date: August 3
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Cost: $350 [Pre-Registration] – $399
Description: group Y is pleased to introduce the second annual Action Sports Conference. Powered by the leading action sports networking and education organization, this unique conference will bring together over 300 attendees to explore multiple aspects of action sports branding and marketing via engaging keynote addresses, interactive roundtables and educational panels. Attendees will not only interact intimately with likeminded action sports and key brand executives, but will do so surrounded by the unparalleled atmosphere provided by the US Open of Surfing. More

September

Smartphone Games Summit
Date: September 24
Location: San Francisco, CA
Cost: $350 – $500
Description: The Smartphone Games Summit is a single day conference focused on the emerging smartphone games space. As new developments emerge such as the iPhone Game Center, is it game over for a number of gaming companies, or does it open an even larger opportunity? How do new technologies like the iPad change the game? The conference will bring together leading developers, investors, and executives from around the globe to share their collective wisdom on what’s working today and where this exciting industry is heading. More

October

Emerging Media Woot! Hawaii 2010
Date: Oct. 4 – 7
Location: Hawaii, HI
Cost: $1,879 [Pre-Registration] – $2,856.00
Description: Woot! Conferences are developed by in-house and agency professionals from companies like Microsoft, Yahoo!, MySpace, Logitech, Real Networks, SEOmoz, Demand Media, and several speakers from Universities all over the globe. Topics are geared towards individuals looking for cutting edge technologies in the sphere of web, gaming, mobile, etc. Complete with panel sessions, networking activities and dinners where presenters and attendees can converse in a more intimate setting. More

CalSAC’s Spotlight on Afterschool Conference
Date: October 14 – 16
Location: Sacramento, CA
Cost: $380 [Early Bird] – $425
Description: For over 25 years, the California School-Age Consortium has offered out-of-school time professionals a unique opportunity to learn, grow, and be supported at our annual CalSAC Spotlight on Afterschool Conference. Working with children and youth after the school bell rings takes on many forms (afterschool, school-age child care, latchkey, parks and recreation, etc) and this is the conference for you! Come build an OST community and continue to move our field forward together at the CalSAC Spotlight on Afterschool Conference. More

Future Trends 2010
Date: October 18 – 20
Location: Miami, FL
Description: Future Trends is the annual gathering of futurists, content experts, corporate visionaries, trendsetters, market researchers, product developers, innovation practitioners, insights professionals and revolutionaries to discover and uncover the trends that matter most to you, your business and society. More

November

YALSA’s Young Adult Literature Symposium 2010
Date: November 5-7
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Cost: N/A
Description: Last November, more than 600 librarians, educators and fans of young adult literature gathered in Nashville for How We Read Now, YALSA’s first Young Adult Literature Symposium. Over the course of three days, they attended receptions, educational sessions, paper presentations on the dynamic and growing field of young adult literature and enjoyed one-on-one interactions with popular young adult authors. The symposium is sponsored in part by the William C. Morris Endowment. More

December

eBook Summit
Date: December 15, 2010
Location: New York, NY
Cost: N/A
Description: eBook Summit will take a closer look at the changing digital publishing industry, from the perspectives of content creators and publishers. More

January

The Sports Licensing & Tailgate Show
Date: January 17–19
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Cost: Trade only. Non-qualified Buyers $500
Description:More than 250 million fans cheer passionately for teams and athletes in one or more sports throughout the year. Fans show their team spirit, loyalty and camaraderie with their wallets purchasing everything from official jerseys and caps to keepsake heirlooms…and gathering by the millions to eat, drink and swap stories at tailgating events. More

The 25th Annual Careers Conference
Date: January 24-26
Location: Madison, WI
Cost: $100 [Early Bird] – $337
Description: The 24th annual Careers Conference, sponsored by the Center on Education and Work at University of Wisconsin-Madison, is designed to serve everyone and anyone who is involved with career development and education for work. This national conference presents learning opportunities at all levels, from a basic introduction for those starting out… to the very latest practices, strategies, and resources for those who are advanced in the field. More

The Toy Fair
Date: January 25-27
Location: London, UK
Cost: N/A
Description: No other event brings together so many manufacturers and retailers – from small innovative companies to the big chain outlets – all under one roof to do one thing: successful business. Toy Fair offers just under 19,000 square metres of space devoted to the toy, game and hobby business and is the only dedicated toy trade event in the UK. In 2010 it attracted 180 innovative exhibitors who came to meet buyers from the UK and abroad at the Grand and West Halls at Olympia. More

February

Toy Fair [U.S.]
Location: New York, NY
Date: February 13-16
Cost: N/A
Description: Toy Fair is the largest international toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere where the newest and hottest products in the children’s entertainment marketplace are exhibited. It is the premier meeting place for manufacturers, retailers, importers, licensors and reps from around the world. More

Game Developers Conference
Date: March 9-13
Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: The GDC attracts over 17,000 industry professionals, and is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry. The GDC is also the home of the annual Independent Games Festival (IGF), the first and largest competition for independent games, as well as the Game Developers Choice Awards presented by Gamasutra.com. More

March

SXSW Interactive
Date: March 11-15
Location: Austin, TX
Cost: $450-$550 [depending on when you register]
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

April

WonderCon
Date: April 1-3
Location: San Francisco, CA
Cost: N/A
Description: One of the country’s most popular comics conventions, WonderCon, returns to San Francisco’s Moscone Center South just in time for spring break in 2010! Mark April 2 through 4 on your calendar, as once again WonderCon brings some of the biggest stars in the world of comics back to the Bay area. More

The 22nd Annual National Service-Learning Conference
Date: April 6-9
Location: Atlanta, GA
Cost: $315 [Early Bird] – $445
Description: The conference is the largest gathering of youth and practitioners involved in service-learning, drawing approximately 2,500 attendees from across the United States and many other countries each year. Through three days of general sessions, thought leader series, service-learning projects, and networking, the conference engages participants in local, national, and global issues that service-learning addresses. More

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