Christmas is nearly here! Add some great upcoming marketing conferences and events to your schedule before it’s too late. Here’s October’s Marketing.com.au Australian marketing, business and advertising event round up.
We also have our dedicated Australian Marketing Conferences and Events Calendar, where we’ll list other events as soon as we find them. If there’s an event, conference or Meetup we’ve missed submit it here free.
Strategic Communication Masterclass
October 1, QLD
Learn how to plan and implement communication initiatives grounded in business thinking that deliver real business results. In today’s dynamic and challenging communication environment, it’s more important than ever to plan and implement communication initiatives grounded in business thinking that add greater value to stakeholders and deliver business results.
Spotlight on Paid Social Media – Brisbane
October 2, QLD
Social media is a key channel in many marketing plans and it experiences perhaps the highest rate of change of them all. How are you adjusting your social media strategy to accommodate changes across these platforms? At this event, we explore the latest in social media advertising. You’ll find out how to get the most from your ad budget, how to best leverage the targeting capabilities of these platforms and what creative is getting the most cut through.
Sub-Editing and Proofreading One-Day Short Course
October 2, NSW
Who can benefit from this sub-editing and proofreading workshop? This subbing course will help anyone improve their editing skills, regardless of whether they’re new to editing or are an experienced editor who wants a refresher. People who usually attend are often involved in: communications publishing journalism marketing public relations (PR) blogging. Taught by a former Sydney Morning Herald editor.
Commercial Acumen for Digital Sales – IAB Workshop
October 8, SYD
The IAB is running a commercial acumen workshop for sales people within publisher and ad tech organisations. The basics of business seem simple: sales minus costs equals profit. However, in the 21st Century businesses are constantly creating innovative, fascinating ways of making money. In this IAB session, we will investigate the fascinating business strategies of companies in advertising and beyond.
Intentional content: Pleasing humans and the Google Gods with Kate Toon
October 8, VIC
These days the Google gods aren’t satisfied with basic blog posts. They want intelligent, engaging, well written, problem-solving content that matches the searchers intent. And guess what, humans want this too.
Click Engage Convert
October 10 – October 11, VIC
Australia’s premier social media & digital marketing conference. If your goal is to build brand awareness, generate engagement, drive traffic, gain more leads, increase sales or improve customer loyalty, then join us for Click Engage Convert! Click Engage Convert will demonstrate how you can deploy the latest best-practice digital marketing and social media strategies, tips and tools that will allow you to turn your digital marketing into a reliable and predictable revenue generating machine.
Modern Marketing Summit
October 10, SYD
Get ready to hear the best brand and agency marketers discussing the hottest industry topics – all on one stage and all focused on programmatic. In a single day, MMS Sydney will change the way you think about modern marketing and programmatic innovations while uncovering new trends, technologies, and case studies to propel your strategy further.
Leading The Product – Melbourne 2019
October 17, VIC
Leading the Product is Australia’s leading one-day Product Management conference for Product folks of all types. Whether you’re a Product Manager, Product Owner, Product Marketer, Product Strategist or simply curious, this conference has been specifically designed by Product Managers to bring together our community.
StartCon 2019
October 22 – October 23, NSW
For startups, entrepreneurs, investors, marketers, and corporate innovation teams. Australia’s largest startup and growth conference is the cornerstone event for the community. Now in it’s 10th year, StartCon has gone from strength to strength, selling out nine years in row and delivering exceptional value. Get actionable insights from the world’s best to help accelerate your company through highly-measurable growth and marketing tactics.
Something Digital 2019
October 24, QLD
The day is designed to celebrate our digital ecosystem and help organisations in Brisbane and SE QLD to strengthen their digital capabilities across various business areas including marketing, business analytics, technology, leadership, customer design and operations. Built as a collaborative initiative, the content is curated to challenge and support the entire digital ecosystem from startups and small businesses to government & enterprise.
League of Extraordinary Women – PR Pass: All Access
October 24, VIC
This is an ALL-ACCESS opportunity for 75 women entrepreneurs to develop meaningful relationships with 10 editors, journalists and writers from the leading publications in business, entrepreneurship and tech. We’ll have a line-up of stellar experts in Australian & Global media in attendance including Business Insider, Forge Magazine and more.
Ethical Enterprise Conference 2019
October 28, VIC
Collaboration for Change Effective action requires collaborative partnerships across civil society, industry and government. We’ll explore the power of connecting communities, people and businesses, building new alliances with civil society and governments to address the challenges we face.
Writing for the Web Short Course in Melbourne
October 29, VIC
Learn how to write compelling online content Taught by a former Age and Sydney Morning Herald editor and journalist, this fun and practical course covers: how to write short, sharp and snappy sentences creating great headlines and intros structuring articles to make them flow better and much more.
MeasureUp 2019
October 29, NSW
As digital advertising investment has increased to represent over half of the total ad market in Australia in FY 2018, accurately measuring its impact is more important than ever. The MeasureUp conference, the only measurement focussed conference in Australia, will look at the latest ways to assess digital ad effectiveness.
Writing for the Web One-Day Short Course – Melbourne
October 29, VIC
Learn how to write compelling online copy. Taught by a former Sydney Morning Herald editor and journalist, this fun and practical course covers: – how to write short, sharp and snappy sentences – creating great headlines and intros – formatting to improve readability – using links and subheads properly – search engine optimisation (SEO) tips – improving email newsletters/EDMs – writing for social media – usability and accessibility tips – and much more!
NORA Network Solution Partner Excellence Awards
October 30, NSW
The NORA Solution Partner Excellence Awards celebrate the behind-the-scenes heroes of Australian retail. We are excited to bring the Solution Partner community together once again for this celebratory networking event. The inaugural 2018 awards attracted over 220 nominations from Solution Partner businesses and over 2,100 retailers voted in a show of support for their favourite Solution Partners.
Social Media Marketing Bootcamp: Get Your Campaign Into Shape
October 31, SYD
This is a very practical one-day bootcamp to support entrepreneurs, business owners and marketing managers run effective marketing campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Where to Next?
If you didn’t find what you were looking for above, head on over to our Australian Marketing Conferences and Events on the Marketing.com.au calendar to see other upcoming events in the next few months.
If you have an event to share with us, all you need to do is submit your event here.
Pamela Alison Meagher
Pamela's industry leadership includes mentoring for the Australian Marketing Institute and Swinburne University. In addition, she has contributed as an SEO Meetup Organiser, Australian Marketing Institute Award Judge, and Australian Web Awards Judge.
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