SMX Next: Actionable training for search marketers
2024-10-13 - 2024-10-14 | Online
Search marketing is ever-changing. Algorithm updates and SERP feature changes are making organic search harder. Generative AI is shaking up all aspects of the industry (and beyond). Not to mention the upheaval that’s come by transitioning to Google Analytics 4. It’s… a lot.
Programmed by the Search Engine Land experts, the entire program — featuring exclusive keynotes, tactic-rich sessions, and insightful live Q&A (Overtime!) — is designed to help you make sense of these and more changes, so you can continue to create successful, future-forward strategies and campaigns that deliver ROI.

At SMX Next, you’ll learn fresh insights, emerging opportunities, and actionable tactics to tackle the challenges of today head-on… and prepare for what’s coming next.
For nearly two decades, 150,000+ marketers from around the planet have trusted SMX to deliver actionable, brand-safe tactics that generate quality traffic, leads, conversions, and sales. Now, it’s your turn.

Career Guidance: Build Your Brand, Land Your Role!
2024-10-15 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-15 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online
While the fundamentals of finding a job remain the same, the way you market yourself and how we as recruiters discover you has changed. Join Lizzie Quinn & Sophie Kelly as they share practical advice on how to stand out from the crowd when looking to land your next role.
We’ll look at this through the lens of a recruitment professional so that you understand what we want to see to set you apart from the competition, how you can best demonstrate your skills and experience and how to effectively communicate these during an interview.
Topics covered:

CV Writing
Cover letter tips
LinkedIn branding & personal branding
Finding and applying for roles
Interviewing techniques

What you will learn:

How to market yourself so that hiring managers and recruiters can find you
How to communicate your experience and skills effectively on paper and in interviews

Global Digital Excellence Awards 2024
2024-10-16 | Online
Setting the benchmark in the digital industry, the Global Digital Excellence Awards celebrate outstanding digital websites, campaigns, tools, and teams from across the globe. The awards aren’t about the size of your campaign or agency, they simply recognize and celebrate stand-out innovation and creativity.
The accolades are awarded for creative thinking in the production of websites, innovative use of data and technical implementation across campaigns, pioneering research tools, game-changing technologies and teams who are developing to ensure growth and profitability.
The awards are judged by leading industry experts from around the world. Judging is ethical, transparent, and fair with all entrants receiving feedback on their submissions.

Guru 2024
2024-10-16 - 2024-10-17 | Online
Welcome to an email marketing conference designed to help exceed your current strategies with actionable advice you can deploy same-day, informed by a deep pool of real-time user data. The GURU Conference is designed to share the very latest digital trends, email best practices and emerging tools you’ll need to step up your email marketing performance TODAY. Join us for two days of virtual sessions from industry experts that will take your email marketing programs to the next level.

2024 AMI Marketing Excellence Awards Gala
2024-10-17 | Federation Square
You’re invited to an unforgettable night of celebration and networking at the prestigious AMI Marketing Excellence Gala Awards. Join us on Thursday, 17 October 2024, at the stunning Zinc at Federation Square, Melbourne.

Celebrate Excellence: Applaud the biggest names and the best campaigns in the marketing industry as we honour Australia’s most outstanding achievements.
Learn and Network: Immerse yourself in award-winning campaigns and gain valuable insights from dynamic discussions. Forge connections with industry leaders, peers, and colleagues.
Inspiration and Connection: Our event experience is designed to inspire and foster new professional relationships

Content Marketing World 2024
2024-10-21 - 2024-10-23 | Online
Learn from 150+ expert speakers, reinvigorate your strategies, and get the tools to advance your future.
Now in its 14th year, Content Marketing World is produced by the Content Marketing Institute and brings together marketing leaders, content creators, communications experts, agencies, and creative professionals from around the world.

2024 ANA Masters of Marketing Conference
2024-10-21 - 2024-10-25 | Online
The 2024 ANA Masters of Marketing Conference is where marketing visionaries and leaders converge to shape the industry’s future. Be part of the transformation.
The 2024 ANA Masters of Marketing Conference will define the future of marketing by transforming it into a collaborative, impactful, and continuous engagement event that aligns the entire marketing ecosystem. It will feature world-class speakers, innovative workshops, and strategic discussions that address the industry’s most pressing challenges and opportunities.
Confirmed Speakers

Gulen Bengi, Global Chief Growth Officer Mars Snacking & Lead Chief Marketing Officer, Mars, Inc
Asmita Dubey, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer, L’Oréal Groupe
Diana Haussling, Senior Vice President – General Manager (SVP – GM), Consumer Experience & Growth, Colgate Palmolive Company
Remi Kent. CMO, Progressive Insurance
Marian Lee, Chief Marketing Officer, Netflix
Antonio Lucio, Chief Marketing and Corporate Affairs Officer, HP, Inc.
Shelly Palmer, CEO, The Palmer Group
Mark Penn, Chairman and CEO, Stagwell
Marc S. Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer, The Procter & Gamble Company
Sumit Virmani, EVP and Global Chief Marketing Officer, Infosys

Demand 2024
2024-10-23 | Online
Back at it again for the 4th year going. Join 10,000 Marketers and Leaders. Live Sessions. Workshops. Innovative Tactics.

There’s a lot more than just networking. We’re bringing together the best minds in the marketing game to share their how-to’s and best tools. You’ll gain actionable insights to solve your day to day pain points with short and digestible sessions.

What You’ll learn

Experimenting with new channels
Running more effective campaigns
Building demand gen strategies
Marketing in a down economy
Evaluating new marketing

Masterclass: Storytelling For Business
2024-10-24 | Online
Human beings are wired to listen and learn via stories. Despite this, the world of business has sidelined the power of storytelling and relied too heavily on data and logic.
A half day hands-on workshop-style program that’s designed to give you practical tools to help communicate your ideas to colleagues, stakeholders or customers.
Topics Covered

Theory – what is a story? Story telling vs business communication.
Story Telling Frameworks – Simple but powerful story telling frameworks including 4P’s and SCQA that translate a raw business idea into story format.
Tips and tricks – how to put flesh on the bones of the story so that that it will engage the audience and encourage them to take action.

Key Learnings

A portfolio of tools and techniques to add power to your next presentation, keynote or briefing document.
Confidence to share your story and encourage your audience to take action.
Practical application – your own live business message translated into story format.

2024 iMedia B2B eCommerce Summit
2024-10-28 - 2024-10-30 | Sheraton Grand Mirage, Gold Coast, QLD
iMedia Summits serve as a catalyst for leadership development, industry evolution, and the cultivation of innovative relationships that propel business and industry to a higher standard. Review the criteria regarding the requirements for attending and submit a request to join us at this summit as an invited ‘Merchant’ or via an approved ‘Networker’ pass.

WordCamp Sydney 2024
2024-11-02 - 2024-11-03 | UTS
WordCamp Sydney is a volunteer-run and not-for-profit two-day conference for designers, developers, marketers, business owners, and anyone using WordPress or any website.
What can I do at WordCamp Sydney?
WordCamp Sydney features two action-packed days of talks from industry experts and community members sharing their knowledge. There are no sales pitches, just educational content.
There will be content for everyone regardless of your WordPress knowledge or skill level.
You can also network with hundreds of other WordPress enthusiasts and visit our sponsors to learn about their products and services.

AI for Marketers Summit
2024-11-12 | Online
The only event featuring a full roster of senior brand leaders sharing their marketing AI knowledge.

Hear from senior executives from cross-industry brands share how they’re investing in AI and how it’s transforming their marketing strategies.

Gain practical knowledge and skills immediately applicable to your work, and get expert feedback to help refine your strategies.

Determine how and when to capitalize on AI through hands-on workshops that identify real problems and potential use cases for AI in your work.

Understand the areas marketing AI has the biggest impact on brands, including content generation, marketing operations, brand building, customer experience, and more.

Learn the ins and outs of generative AI, ChatGPT, and the essential tools to seamlessly integrate AI into your existing marketing strategy.

Discover how AI can help you save time and reduce costs by automating routine tasks and freeing your time for more strategic thinking.

B2B Forum 2024
2024-11-12 - 2024-11-14 | Online
B2B Forum is the ultimate destination for marketers to discover how to drive growth, elevate brand reputation, prove ROI, and stay ahead of the ever-changing marketing curve.
For over 15 years, marketers have joined us to develop careers, expand networks, dream up new ideas, and celebrate the magic of marketing. Are you ready to experience the magic?

DDD Perth 2024
2024-11-16 | Perth, WA, Australia
DDD Perth is Perth’s largest community run conference for the tech community. Our goal is to create an approachable event that appeals to the whole community, especially people that don’t normally get to attend or speak at conferences. The conference is run on a Saturday, and strives to be inclusive of everyone in the Perth tech community.
DDD Perth started out its life as part of the Developer! Developer! Developer! series of events and while our heritage is as a developer-focussed conference, DDD Perth is not just for developers, but for all professionals in the software industry. These days we don’t expand DDD – it’s not an acronym for us anymore, but if people insist then we might say Designer, Developer and Data Scientist, or is it DevOps, Data architect, distributed tester?

Pubtech2024
2024-11-18 - 2024-11-22 | Online
Discover the future of digital publishing at our virtual event! Join us as we delve into the latest technological trends shaping the digital publishing landscape. From cutting-edge AI tools to innovative content distribution strategies, this event is a must-attend for industry professionals and enthusiasts alike.

Engage with top experts as they unravel insights on data-driven content optimization strategies, AI-assisted SEO techniques, latest advertising and monetization models, and more. Uncover opportunities to elevate your digital publishing efforts, network with like-minded peers, and stay ahead in this dynamic realm.

How to Master AI for Marketing
2024-11-22 | Online
Get ready for 2025 with this exclusive webinar designed to help you master AI tools and stay ahead of the competition. Learn how to effectively use AI to transform your marketing strategy, increase ROI, and position yourself as a leader in an evolving digital landscape.
In this exclusive one-hour webinar, discover how to leverage AI tools to stay relevant and lead your marketing efforts in 2025. We’ll explore the most powerful AI-driven strategies to boost your ROI and elevate your marketing campaigns. Whether you’re a seasoned marketer or a rising leader, you’ll gain practical, actionable insights to dominate the industry in the coming year.
Topics covered:

Understanding AI’s Role in Marketing. A brief look at why AI is crucial for staying competitive in the upcoming year.
Mastering ChatGPT for Marketing. How to use the most important tool (ChatGPT) to generate strategy, content, improve customer engagement, and increase campaign efficiency.
Key AI Tools for Amplification. A quick overview of other powerful AI tools marketers should add to their toolkit to stay ahead.
Practical Steps for Immediate Implementation. How attendees can start using these tools immediately to make an impact.

What you will learn:

How to Use AI to Stay Relevant in 2025. Gain a clear understanding of AI’s role in the future of marketing and why it’s essential for staying competitive.
Practical Skills with ChatGPT. Learn how to effectively use ChatGPT for content creation, campaign efficiency, and personalised customer engagement.
Explore Other Powerful AI Tools. Get introduced to additional AI tools that can enhance your marketing and amplify your results.
Immediate Application. Leave the session with actionable steps you can take to integrate AI tools into your current marketing strategy.

About the presenters
Justin Kabbani
Justin Kabbani is Australia’s leading AI coach and keynote speaker. With a 20-year career in advertising and marketing, previously as the Co-founder and Managing Director of creative agency Hardhat, Justin has spent the last two years helping businesses implement AI to drive real, tangible results. He is the founder of the AI Marketing Summit and the AI-Powered Marketer program, which has educated hundreds of marketers on how to implement AI. Justin is hyper-focused on ensuring that marketers leave every engagement with practical skills they can immediately apply, empowering them to grow their business and advance their careers in this incredible once-in-a-generation opportunity of technological change.

AI and Adland - what are the implications and Impacts?
2024-11-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Online
The intersection of Generative AI and human creativity represents a crucial turning point for advertising agencies, highlighted by recent developments in academic research and practitioner application.
This research, completed by Swinburne University of Technology in collaboration with The General Store, explores the synergy between AI and human creativity through interviews with senior advertising executives.
This webinar enables ad agencies, in house teams, and wider marketing functions to compare their own respective insights and experiences with those from a wider industry review.
AI’s influence on advertising extends across various dimensions, with the potential to boost efficiency, personalisation, and targeting. Indeed, AI can streamline a range of advertising functions, including consumer insights, media planning, ad buying, content creation, and performance evaluation. In the context of advertising, AI technologies are primarily deployed to enhance the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, accurately target specific audiences, and improve decision-making processes.

Web Directions Developer Summit 2024
2024-11-27 | Sydney
Web Directions Developer Summit covers cutting edge technologies and practices current in front end engineering–from the back, to the front, of the front end. Developer Summit will be focussed on front end engineering.

Web Directions Next 2024
2024-11-29 | Sydney
What’s next in the world of digital design, product and strategy?
Imagine a super concentrated day of our most engaging keynotes and talks. Opportunities to connect meaningfully with others who get excited about this stuff as much as you do.
That’s Next which will help you chart what’s next in product, design and strategy, and we’ll be unveiling more detail soon.

Effective Director Course
2024-12-03 - 2024-12-12 | Online
Exploring the role of the company director and the board’s vital contribution towards organisational culture and sustainable governance, this course draws on theory, practice, and the collective knowledge of the participants to simulate the boardroom experience.
This course is designed to consolidate your understanding of the role of the director and the board. The course modules are delivered part time over 3 weeks and explore the duties of directors with a focus on the soft skills required to be an effective director in the boardroom environment. You will meet and network with peers across sectors and each module is facilitated by an experienced trainer with director experience.
The course is designed for:

Aspiring or newly appointed directors
Executives seeking director transition pathways
Directors wanting to refine their skills
Senior executives reporting into a board

The course is uniquely based around one hypothetical case study to support your practical learning.
After attending the course, you will:

Walk away with practical tools and tips on how to be an effective director
Explore the frameworks and the theory behind best practice director communication
Learn about executive engagement and how a board operates and makes decisions
Be involved in a boardroom simulation and practice your director questioning skills
Understand how a director and board acquires information, including board packs, which provide the basis for sound decision-making
Learn how to use a board portal and take notes

Conclude the course by meeting an experienced non-executive director and a recruiter to hear about current trends in director recruitment and appointment and gain valuable personal insights on how to thrive as a director in the boardroom.
The course materials will be provided for pre-reading 2 weeks prior to the start of your course. Assessment consists of reflective written responses to each of modules 1 to 3.
How the course will be delivered?
This course will run virtually over 2 weeks in short weekly sessions.
Dates of course modules:

Module 1: High Performing Boards — Part I, 3 December, 1:00pm – 4:30pm AEDT
Module 1: High Performing Boards — Part II, 4 December, 1:00pm – 4:30pm AEDT
Module 2: Director dynamics — Part I, 5 December, 1:00pm – 4:30pm AEDT
Module 2: Director dynamics — Part II, 10 December, 1:00pm – 4:30pm AEDT
Module 3: Board meeting simulation, 11 December, 1:00pm – 4:30pm AEDT
Module 4: Acquiring a non-executive director role, 12 December, 1:00pm – 4:30pm AEDT

If you successfully complete the course and assessment tasks, you will graduate and become a part of the Effective Director Course Alumni and qualify for membership of Governance Institute of Australia and receive Cert (EDC) post-nominals .

SEOCon Forum Bali 2024
2024-12-04 - 2024-12-06 | Bali
Start your SEO journey and unlock the potential to realize your first eight figures without learning from scratch. Indeed, learn from the masters. Surround yourself with other accomplished SEO experts; be accorded tried-and-true strategies, key insights, and practical advice to phase up your progress.
Save yourself from setbacks and ensure maximum results by learning from the mistakes and successes of other people.

There comes a time when even the most seasoned marketer has felt left behind. It’s a natural part of the ever-evolving journey, but you don’t have to go it alone. A marketer’s community will present you with all the resources, knowledge, and support you need to move forward. Remember, all face these challenges; it is only a matter of intent and how you take action towards moving forward. One would predict getting together with others who have the same problems talk about ways of improvement. Look at it this way, ‘You’re not alone in that boat.’ There are countless other marketers faced by the same problems. Let’s come together; let us tell all of our experiences, learn from each other’s mistakes, and let us celebrate each other’s success.

Driving Inclusive Marketing Excellence - Virtual
2024-12-05 | Online
Despite multicultural consumers making up 40 percent of the U.S. population, only 5.2 percent of advertising spend target this segment. Today’s business imperative requires a multicultural mindset across the organization starting with the office of the CEO to the frontline sales team. Marketers need to be inspired to be the quarterback of profitable growth by tapping into the power of a shifting demographic landscape.
This virtual workshop taps into both the art and the science of great multicultural and inclusive marketing. The content and the delivery will take marketers first into a journey of self-discovery, then reflection and real-world application across creative, media, and marketing performance for inclusive marketing.
This virtual workshop arms marketers with insights, knowledge, and skills to not only build successful multicultural marketing campaigns but to tap into the power of data, technology, and leadership across functions to drive success. Led by an expert global marketing leader, this high-impact workshop draws on the artistic aesthetics of connecting to consumers through culture, as well as the scientific rigor of metrics and measuring impact, to refine and enhance their multicultural and inclusive marketing efforts. Through robust frameworks, anthropological narratives, case studies, stories from current marketing executives, visual thinking strategies, and technology immersion, participants will be armed with tools and resources to galvanize their marketing strategies and drive sustainable and profitable growth in a multicultural America.
Target Audience
This virtual workshop is for teams or individuals involved in the development of marketing strategies, working closely with their creative and media agencies, focusing on engaging and activating multicultural audiences, through authenticity, transparency, and rigorous measurement. It can serve as a great introduction for those new to the multicultural marketing process or a welcome refresher for seasoned professionals.
It is particularly relevant for Brand and Performance Marketing teams; Marketing Research or MarTech teams may also benefit. Relevant for B2C, B2B and hybrid marketers, the content can be tailored to accommodate any career level.

DDD Brisbane 2024
2024-12-07 | Brisbane, QLD, Australia
DDD Brisbane is a non profit community event run by developers for developers. Anyone can submit a session to the event and delegates then vote on the sessions they want to see.

The Design + AI Summit 2024
2024-12-09 - 2024-12-10
Every revolution offers both risk and opportunity—and we are just at the beginning of an AI revolution that will affect every aspect of graphic design, writing, art, social media, publishing, and communication. As the saying goes: luck favors the prepared.
AI is a tool you need to master, not a threat. AI won’t replace your job, but someone who knows AI better than you might!
That’s why we created The Design + AI Summit, the essential HOW-TO event to help designers leverage the power of AI to create quality work more efficiently, being held online December 9–10, 2024.
With 12 great sessions from internationally renowned experts, you will take away practical techniques to help you master a wide range of Generative AI tools.
If you want to discover how you can thrive with AI tools, you can’t afford to miss this event!

Social Media Strategies Summit: Public Agencies & Government 2024
2024-12-11 - 2024-12-12 | Online
Two jam-packed days tailored to your role in public service. Don’t miss this government social media conference!
We bring over 10 years of experience in social media education. That means you can count on a vetted, specially curated series of sessions and seasoned, experienced speakers to tackle topics that have the biggest impact on your agency or office’s social media strategy.

Social Media Strategies Summit: Government Social Media Conference 2024
2024-12-11 - 2024-12-12 | Online
Join us live on December 11 & 12, and revisit any sessions you missed for up to 6 months! Our program includes 30-minute sessions and panels and a live chat stream, followed by 15 minutes of live speaker Q&A with the audience.

Marketing Essentials 1 Day Training in Sydney
2024-12-20 | NSW, NSW
This Marketing Essentials training will help you understand marketing concepts and how they link to the growth strategy of the business. They will also give you a solid grounding in market analysis and how marketing influences customers.

2025 B2B Digital Marketing Predictions & Resolutions With Professor Lou Cohen
2025-01-08 | Online
It’s 2025… and a new year brings new opportunities, new fears, and new hope. As B2B Marketers, what lies ahead for us in 2025? Join EY’s Americas Digital Marketing & Demand Generation Leader, Lou Cohen, aka NYU & Baruch College’s Professor Cohen, as he shares insights he’s gathered from Marketing leaders about what we should expect to encounter in 2025. We’ll also look back on Lou’s 2024 predictions to see what he got right or wrong. You won’t want to miss out on these 2025 predictions about what’s to come, his views on the concerns we share, and resolutions we can take with us to ensure a successful 2025.

Mastering Short-Form Video Content
2025-01-08 | Online
In today’s social media landscape, short-form video content is taking the reigns. If you aren’t in the game, now is the time to level up your video presence. When you only have a few seconds to capture your audience, your short-form video strategy can make or break whether you get their attention or not.
This 1-day bootcamp will help you boost your confidence in creating short-form video content efficiently and effectively. Learn about best practices for content creation, the impact of different types of short-form video, and how to strategically repurpose video content you already have.
