Conference Startups: Grassroots Innovation Rocking the Event World

Like the web, startups are transforming the world of conferences, and the action is in local and niche events.  We'll explore how you can produce a world-class event that attracts a national audience by tapping into engaged niche audiences and regional passions. New technology in ticketing, marketing, and communicating makes it possible to produce an world-class event on a minor-league budget.  By tapping into the lessons learned from producing open source 'camps', conference startups are more engaging, more authentic, and more community focused.

With a focus on audience engagement, inspiring passions and building bonds between attendees, these startup conferences are creating a holistic conference approach onstage and offstage before and after the event.

These panelists are launching the next generation SXSW's right now and you can too.  BoCo, Big Omaha, Mom 2.0 Summit, TribeCon and the TEDx conferences are some of the new conferences on the new must-attend circuit.  Learn how SXSW is actually incubating and inspiring this new generation of events and how you can produce the next startup conference hit.

LEVEL: Intermediate