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Week of Aug 02 – Aug 08, 2021
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Monday, Aug 02 - 2021 2021 Florida Brewers Conference Date & Time: Aug 02 09:00 AM – Aug 04 06:00 PM (EDT) Ticket…
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Top 25 Global Conferences – Q1-2021
Top 25 Global Conferences – Q1-2021
This article lists our selection of the 25 Best Online Conferences and Business/Tech Events anywhere in the world for…
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Top Online-Events to Attend in the US
Top Online-Events to Attend in the US
Week of Apr 27 - May 03, 2020 Another week of #socialdistancing, so we made another list of virtual events and online…
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Geert DeBecker posted thisI visit hundreds conference pages every month for EventBrowse.com. Here's a pattern I've started flagging hard: The ticket page goes live before the speaker page does. Not "speakers TBA, full lineup coming soon." That's fine — that's how big shows work. I mean: ticket tiers, early-bird pricing, $1,495 super-early, $2,495 standard, $3,495 at the door — and a speaker section that says "world-class lineup of industry leaders." No names. Sometimes a single logo grid of "past speakers" from a different event the same producer ran two years ago. A few things this tells me as a curator: The producer isn't confident they can land the lineup they're implying. If they were, the names would be on the page — even three confirmed names is enough to anchor the rest. The pricing was set before the programming was. Which means the math is "what can we charge?" not "what is the room worth?" Those are different businesses. The buyer they want is the one who says yes before checking who's speaking. That buyer exists, but that buyer is not the senior practitioner most B2B conferences claim they're for. I don't list these on EventBrowse. Not because the event will be bad — some of them will be absolutely fine. But because the page itself is telling you the producer hasn't earned the price yet. If you're evaluating a conference and the ticket page is sharper than the speaker page, that's the signal. Not "they're still finalising." It's "they're hoping you don't ask."
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Geert DeBecker shared thisBoris Cherny takes the stage in San Francisco today with the most contested product thesis in developer tools right now: That AI coding assistants are not autocomplete on steroids — they're a new interface to the codebase. And the companies that win the category will be the ones that stopped optimising for "more suggestions, faster" and started optimising for "the agent understands the project." The bear case is that all AI coding tools converge — same models, same training data, same UX, eventually a feature inside the IDE you already use. The bull case is the one Cherny has been quietly building Claude Code around: that the work isn't in the model, it's in everything around the model. How the agent reads a repo. How it remembers what you decided last week. How it argues with you when you're about to ship the wrong thing. If he's right, Claude Code is a category-defining product and most of the competition is solving the wrong problem. If he's wrong, the category compresses into "which IDE has the best built-in autocomplete this quarter." Either way, today's the day the argument gets made in public, in his city, in front of the developers who'll decide which version is true. 📍 Anthropic Code with Claude SF 2026 — May 6, San Francisco (FREE) Full event details: https://lnkd.in/eCFX-MJz
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Geert DeBecker shared thisFive conferences made the EventBrowse.com homepage this week. Five different industries. One quiet pattern. IBM Think in Boston. OMR Festival in Hamburg. CoinDesk Consensus in Miami Beach. Salesforce Tableau Conference in San Diego. Anthropic's Code with Claude in San Francisco. Read the agendas one after another and you'll notice none of them is really about its category anymore. IBM Think isn't a hybrid cloud show — it's an enterprise AI show with a hybrid cloud venue. Tableau Conference isn't a BI show — it's Salesforce making its case for the semantic layer underneath enterprise AI. Consensus isn't a crypto show — it's a financial-rails show wearing crypto branding, the year stablecoins went mainstream. OMR isn't a marketing festival — it's the European answer to "what does B2B media look like when the audience already knows your product." Code with Claude isn't a workshop — it's Anthropic recruiting the developers who'll define the next category. Five events. Five cities. The same underlying motion: every category is being repositioned around AI, and the conferences are where the new positioning gets stress-tested in front of the people who have to buy it. The week to watch what's getting said out loud → https://lnkd.in/ek2t9W4z
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Geert DeBecker posted thisI review roughly 500 conference pages a month. There's one habit organisers think makes them look bigger. It does the opposite: The "Featured Keynote" label, applied to all 47 speakers. You've seen these pages. Every speaker — the actual headliner, the panel moderator, the breakout session lead, the sponsored fireside guest — gets the same gold "Featured Keynote" badge slapped on their photo. The CEO of a Fortune 100 and the founder of a Series A startup are presented as equals. The two-hour mainstage opener and the 30-minute breakout in Hall C are both "keynotes." Here's what that costs the event: When everyone's a keynote, no one is. Buyers can't tell which speakers are actually anchoring the agenda. The signal that helps a busy executive decide "yes, this is worth a flight" gets buried under marketing inflation. A keynote is a structural role. Mainstage. Single-track moment. The session the rest of the agenda is built around. Most events have two or three. A few have five. Almost none have forty-seven. The events that get this right tell you exactly who their keynotes are — and use different language for everyone else. "Speakers." "Panelists." "Session leads." Words that mean things. If your conference page can't distinguish between a marquee keynote and a 25-minute breakout, you're not marketing harder. You're marketing weaker.
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Geert DeBecker shared thisMichael Saylor just took the stage at Bitcoin 2026. The keynote anyone serious about institutional Bitcoin will be replaying: 🎤 Michael Saylor — Founder & Executive Chairman, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) — on the corporate treasury playbook that turned a software company into the world's largest corporate holder of BTC. The reason this one matters: Saylor's not on stage alone. Jack Dorsey is there. So is the Acting US Attorney General. When the DOJ shares a stage with Saylor and Dorsey, the conversation has changed. This is what mainstream looks like.
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Geert DeBecker shared thisFive events anchor the EventBrowse homepage this week. They look like five different industries. They're not. The financial system is being rebuilt — and the people doing the rebuilding are no longer the same people who built it. Bitcoin 2026 brings the US Acting Attorney General onto a stage with Michael Saylor and Jack Dorsey. Stripe Sessions puts Jensen Huang in a fireside with Patrick Collison. TOKEN2049 Dubai gathers crypto's most influential operators in the world's most crypto-friendly jurisdiction. POSSIBLE Miami debates how marketing gets rebuilt for an AI-native consumer economy. Milken Institute anchors the week with the architects of global capital. Five events. Five cities. One pattern. The institutions that defined twentieth-century finance — banks, regulators, marketing agencies, payment networks — are sharing the stage with the people who are quietly replacing them. Sometimes literally on the same panel. That's the story of this week. Not crypto vs. tradfi. Not AI vs. marketing. Convergence — and the realisation, on both sides, that there's no version of the next decade where they don't have to figure each other out. Full weekly selection on EventBrowse.com — link in comments.
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Geert DeBecker posted thisI review roughly 500 conference pages a month. Here's the thing I roll my eyes at every single week: Event landing pages that launch with zero speakers. You know the ones. Big topic ("AI for the Enterprise!"), confident tagline ("Where the future gets built!"), a countdown timer, a ticket price between $1,200 and $2,400 — and a "Speakers" tab that either doesn't exist or says "Coming Soon." I've started calling them me-too conferences. Somebody saw Money20/20 or Web Summit do well and thought: we should run one of those. They booked a venue. They built a landing page. They started selling tickets. And they'll figure out the speakers closer to the date. What they're actually selling isn't content. It's the idea of a conference. The landing page is the product. Three tells that an event is in this category: → No speakers announced three months out → When speakers do appear, they're mostly the sponsors' internal staff plus one recognizable name → The agenda is vague topic headings ("The Future of X") rather than specific talks This matters because attending a real conference costs someone a flight, three nights of hotel, two days out of office, and $1,500-$3,000 in tickets. A me-too conference costs them all of that too. The price is the same; the value isn't. The events that are actually worth your time announce speakers early, publish specific session titles, and stake their reputation on the lineup. If you're budgeting for conferences this year: check the speakers tab first. Then check whether the talks have actual titles. Then decide. What's a conference you've been burned by — and what was the tell you wish you'd spotted? #Conferences #EventBrowse #B2B
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Geert DeBecker shared thisNext week, the B2B marketing world will adopt new vocabulary for an argument it's been having for three years. Forrester B2B Summit North America 2026 starts on Sunday in Phoenix. The keynote I'll be watching most closely is: 🎤 Dave Frankland — VP, Research Director at Forrester — "GTM Singularity" His thesis, laid out in a recent Forrester blog and a DRUM interview two weeks ago: the old B2B go-to-market playbook is breaking because buyers make decisions before vendors know they're in the game. AI-powered search, AI agents, expanded buying networks — Forrester's own research suggests that more than half the time, buyers enter the process with a preferred vendor, and that preferred vendor wins. The uncomfortable part of his argument: the industry has spent a decade saying it wants to unify brand and demand while quietly organizing around the opposite assumption. Brand in one lane, demand in another, each with its own budget and scorecard. Frankland's claim is that the market has stopped tolerating that divide. Why this keynote matters beyond the room: Forrester sets the vocabulary the B2B world argues with for the next 12 months. If "GTM Singularity" lands, every CMO, RevOps leader, and CRO in the US will be using some version of that phrase by summer. My bet: the phrase isn't the thing worth watching. The research numbers behind it are. Forrester keynotes reliably drop a few statistics that reframe how practitioners argue about their work. Those are what I'll be listening for. Is the brand-demand divide actually dead at your company — or are we still pretending? #B2BMarketing #RevOps #Forrester #EventBrowse
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Geert DeBecker shared thisFive conferences made the EventBrowse homepage this week. The through-line between them is the one most people will miss: Black Hat Asia 2026 (Singapore) — the offensive security research that surfaces here sets the defensive agenda for the rest of the year. If you work in enterprise security, this is where next year's threat models are being written. Money20/20 Asia (Bangkok) — Asia is quietly pulling ahead of the US on real-time payments, embedded finance, and super-app monetization. Money20/20 Asia is where you see that gap most clearly. EmTech AI (Cambridge, MA) — of all the AI conferences this year, this is the one that consistently separates signal from marketing. MIT Technology Review's editorial lens matters. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit London — the regional summits now draw bigger crowds than re:Invent did pre-pandemic. London is the one that best reflects the European enterprise buying mood. Google Cloud Next '26 Next (Las Vegas) — the AI-plus-cloud story is being rewritten by the hyperscalers in real time. Next is where Google tells its version of it this year. Five events, three continents, one through-line: the infrastructure decisions being made this week — security, payments, AI, cloud — are the ones enterprises will live with for the next three years. Which of these would you prioritize if you only had budget for one? #Conferences #Tech #EventBrowse
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Geert DeBecker liked thisGeert DeBecker liked thisEliseAI is joining Andreessen Horowitz in Boston for TECH WEEK by a16z on May 27. My co-founder Stoyan (Tony) Stoyanov and Justin Kahl from a16z will get into what it actually takes to go ten layers deep into the $3 trillion housing industry: proprietary models built for the workflows generic LLMs can’t handle, small teams that own problems end-to-end, and engineers who develop products directly alongside customers. If you want to build things with material impact, this one’s for you. https://lnkd.in/e9Htpf9i
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Geert DeBecker liked thisGeert DeBecker liked thisOne year ago, GamesBeat became independent with support from across the industry. Leaders from gaming and tech reached out to show their support, including Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime, and NVIDIA. We took these messages, along with thousands of others, with immense pride, and humility. They captured what GamesBeat set out to do from day one: cover the industry while building a true sense of community. One year later, that mission has not changed. If anything, it has only grown stronger. Take a look back at where it started and how far we have come. Join us at our next major event: GamesBeat Summit 26 in Los Angeles. Final days left for our special BOGO deal in celebration of our anniversary. https://lnkd.in/gNf4DuyT
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Geert DeBecker liked thisGeert DeBecker liked thisWe've officially closed our Wisdom Ventures Fund II, $77.7M we will continue to deploy in backing visionary leaders building companies to advance tech-enabled wellbeing at scale. Thank you, The Wall Street Journal for the great coverage! We don't take it lightly. WSJ Coverage: https://lnkd.in/gUNw3sfX Our Press Release: https://lnkd.in/gZ8UxADn I couldn't dream up a better team to be working with. I'm inspired, challenged, and moved by you all daily: Soren Gordhamer, Bradley Horowitz, Vivek Murthy, Ruchika Sikri, Yung Pueblo, Jack Kornfield and Zoe Rogers. Needless to say, none of this would matter without our steadfast LPs and passionate founders. Please check out our portfolio as listed on our www.wisdom.ventures website for details on what they are building and how they are changing the world for the better. And we know the best is yet to come. Onward!
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Geert DeBecker liked thisGeert DeBecker liked thisWhat a week! Mon I left a weeks stay at the incomparable Namaste Oasis in Nosara Costa Rica, owned by Chris Cornell from Manhead . Tues I shared the stage at Pollstar Live with Joshua Litwack, CFA of Quantizr Tobi Parks of Tour Tech and Matt Yasecko of ROAM at Pollstar Live. Yesterday I testified before the California Assembly in support of AB 1720 alongside Assembly Member Matt Haney and Joe Rinaldi of Music Box SD and ended the day co-hosting Dave Brooks Decibel & Dockets podcast (should be out later today) discussing the Live Nation Entertainment verdict. My testimony is below, as well as a link to see Chris’s beautiful property in Nosara. https://namasteoasis.com/ My name is Randy Nichols, I serve on the board of the NITO and I am here in strong support of AB 1720. A jury confirmed yesterday: Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly. The real competition to that monopoly is not StubHub , Vivid Seats or other scalper marketplaces. It is AXS , DICE , See Tickets , Eventbrite , and other primary ticketing platforms fighting for the right to sell that first ticket. Scalper marketplaces have no box office software, no access controls, and no tools to facilitate an initial ticket sale. They are platforms built for industrial-scale arbitrage, profiting from the gap between an artist's intentional pricing and what the market will bear. Artists subsidize ticket prices by design to keep shows accessible and build lifetime fan relationships. Scalpers exist to capture that gap as fast as possible and exit. If Live Nation and Ticketmaster are broken up into ten different companies tomorrow, the scalper ecosystem is completely unchanged. Scalpers have successfully used the monopoly as cover to deflect from their own harmful practices. Every dollar a fan overpays to a scalper is a dollar that never reaches the artist, the crew, or the venue. Ticket scalping is a private equity-backed, ten-billion-dollar-a-year industry operating with professional financing, proprietary bots, and virtual credit card generators, all tools showcased openly at industry conferences that portray themselves as protecting the consumer. These marketplaces are not fan to fan resale platforms. They have become unregulated equities platforms with everything from hedge fund investors to short sellers. One example is StubHub's CEO, Eric Baker, who simultaneously runs Andro Capital, a ticket investment hedge fund with a registered Cayman Islands feeder fund channeling hundreds of millions into ticket speculation. Also, look to Coachella last weekend where there was a short squeeze that left many fans without tickets when brokers couldn’t cover their shorts. This is a financial infrastructure built to extract value from artists and fans and buy private jets and yachts for scalpers and their investors. A jury confirmed the monopoly. Now confirm that scalpers are harming fans and not a consumer that needs protection. I urge your support.
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Geert DeBecker liked thisGeert DeBecker liked thisNew HBR research confirms something manufacturing leaders need to hear: getting women into the room isn't the same as giving them an equal shot at what comes next. I wrote about what this means for our industry, and what we should consider measuring. #WomensLeadership Manufacturers Alliance
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Geert DeBecker liked thisGeert DeBecker liked thisNews! Bring the Stedelijk to your own living room 📺 We have joined forces with leading technology company Samsung Electronics to make several artworks from our collection accessible via Samsung smart TVs. Samsung is known for its innovative applications for consumers. Under the motto ‘TV off, art on’, owners of a Samsung Frame TV can discover 30 works of modern art from the Stedelijk via their Samsung Art Store subscription. It is possible to enjoy works by Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Breitner, Jan and Charley Toorop, Malevich, Kandinsky, Matisse and others from the museum’s collection, right from the living room. Full press release: https://lnkd.in/ezqMbXgz Image: 'The Parakeet and the Mermaid' (1952-1953) by Henri Matisse on The Frame Pro © Succession Henri Matisse, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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Geert DeBecker liked thisHow do you write your content so AIs can find your product and recommend it? We are all still figuring this out. The core of marketing now is Narrative Architecture. Not SEO keyword stuffing or old school influencer content marketing. It’s actually a lot more like old school pre-web browser PR.Geert DeBecker liked thisI tracked which brands show up in ChatGPT answers and which ones don't, and what I found should change how you think about search entirely. Google's top ten results used to account for 76% of ChatGPT citations. That number has dropped to 38%, and 90% of the pages AI cites now rank 21 or lower on Google. In this video, I break down the 5 patterns we found across 4,308 prompts and 1,161 citations, covering everything from site structure and content freshness to entity association and platform differences across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Meta AI. If you're investing in SEO and assuming it carries over into AI search automatically, it does not. Here's what actually works.
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Geert DeBecker liked thisGeert DeBecker liked thisMy 9-month-old daughter led an interview with me and my co-founder today. She simply pounded cheerios as she stared deep into the candidate's soul. I've created a monster.
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