PubCon, the premier search and social media conference and expo,
holds multi-track events in various United States and European cities,
always including a November conference at the Las Vegas Convention
Center in sunny
Las Vegas, Nevada.
PubCon, supported by the industry's leading businesses,
speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors involved in social media, Internet marketing,
search engines, and online advertising, will offer a week-long look at the
future of technology presented by many of the world's top speakers.
PubCon conferences are some of the biggest and boldest gathering
of search and social media innovators ever assembled, offering an
unrivaled highly-productive conference experience at cost-effective rates,
and with the leading technology and online marketing visionaries who
take part in PubCon, every attendee comes away with
valuable new ideas and solutions for their businesses.
PubCon truly starts where other search and social media conferences end,
and during our Las Vegas conference in November a rare vision for the future
will be presented by a virtual who's who of technology. Join thousands of
leading search and social media professionals for a PubCon conference,
and learn more about the event with the information on this page, including
the following PubCon video.
Some of the key players shaping the future of the Web and in particular
social media have come to PubCon over the years to tell their stories and
share their visions with our attendees.
All of our keynote speakers will bring their inspiring and groundbreaking
search and social media insight to PubCon. Look for
announcements about very special keynote speakers for upcoming PubCon
conferences.
Many of these top speakers consider
PubCon to be their favorite event, and their enthusiasm for PubCon will be
apparent as attendees will be treated to insights and research that just
won't be shared at any other conference but PubCon.
We feel that it's important for PubCon attendees to gain valuable "take-aways"
from sessions, and that's why we provide every full conference pass
holder with a CD containing the conference presentation files, mailed
out immediately after the conclusion of PubCon, as a way to say thank
you and to
help you keep implementing the plans and insight presented in our sessions
throughout the year and long into the future.
At PubCon Twitter and other
social media
services will play a larger role than ever.
All aspects of successfully using Twitter and location-aware services
such as FourSquare and Gowalla will be covered by marketing, social media,
search and programming experts, with multiple tracks featuring sessions
such as "Killer Twitter Apps, Services, and API Trends," "Experts
on PR and Twitter," and other unique offerings such as "Twitter Landscape
- Hot Trends and Topics," that promise to take social media insight
to new heights.
"PubCon is going to be so well-documented on Twitter," Google head of
Web spam Matt Cutts
said at our PubCon South event in Austin, Texas. His prediction came true
as discussion about PubCon using the #PubCon hash tag became Twitter's most
popular term for a period during that conference, and conference-goers enjoyed
tweeting questions to speakers and fellow audience members during many sessions,
a trend that has continued to an even greater extent during recent
PubCon conferences.
PubCon features many search and social media exhibitors
and
sponsors, with additional information available on the
PubCon Sponsors and
PubCon
Exhibitors pages.
Prospective sponsors and exhibitors, please
click here to request
more information.
Space is limited and exhibition and sponsorship packages are on a first-come-first
serve basis for upcoming PubCon events.
PubCon often serves as a launching ground for major new products and
services
from some of the largest Internet firms, such as Google's PubCon launch
of its Friend Connect API initiative and similar product announcement from
Microsoft, Twitter and other firms.
PubCon is the place to be when exciting new technologies are
launched.
If you are new to PubCon,
we have several helpful guides and collections of tips available to make
your experience smooth and efficient.
If you'd like to come to PubCon but are looking for ways
to make it happen at your company, we show both the educational and monetary
value of PubCon in "Top
Tips to Get Your Boss to Send You to a Conference," by PubCon founder
Brett Tabke, who takes a light-hearted look at why it is worthwhile to make
an effort to attend.
PubCon has always been the premier search and social media
conference, at a surprisingly affordable price, and Tabke explains how we
manage to do it in his "Keeping
Conferences Affordable and Fun" guide.
If you're already registered for PubCon and planning how
to best
organize your time during the busy November week, have a look at "Conference
Survivor - Sports and Games: (PubCon fun)," a look at some of the creative
ways you can get more from the PubCon experience.
If you'd like to know what PubCon holds
in store, look no further than our
PubCon History Archives,
and check out our PubCon photo-retrospective piece called "You
Never Know Who You'll Run Into At PubCon," highlighting some of the
celebrities who have attended PubCon.
Each year a number of PubCon conference-goers write handy
blog posts with their own tips and advice for getting the most out of the
event, and some offerings are listed here:
Dr. Peter J. Meyers, or "Dr. Pete," president of User
Effect has offered his "Seven
Tips For Surviving PubCon" on the SEOmoz blog.
Jeff Tirey has written a "PubCon
Survival Guide" for the beginner, including a
second
part. A large collection of
media coverage from
last year's PubCon Las Vegas can also help show how successfully PubCon
works.
What you can do to prepare for PubCon:
Webmasters: Talk to
the companies you already work with and arrange meetings while at PubCon. There is nothing like a face-to-face meeting to generate
new leads, work new angles, and iron out any problems.
Affiliates: Talk to
those running your current programs and ask if they are attending PubCon.
Let them know that you are coming to PubCon, and ask to arrange time
to talk.
Search Engine Marketers:
PubCon will offer a rare chance to talk to representatives
from the major search and social media firms, and to your clients.
Program managers: One-on-one
customer support and client maintenance is a rare opportunity. Call
your existing clients and invite them to PubCon.
Bring Your Friends:
Be a hero. Invite them. After all, it is PubCon.
If you'd like to share your enthusiasm for the
upcoming PubCon show, try our PubCon Web banner
images available to include on your website, social media pages or blogs.
Our PubCon
Rewards Affiliate Program has been designed to thank our partners who
help promote PubCon, by offering special discounts.
To help you pick from so many tracks at PubCon, comprising
as many as 100 or more session choices, we encourage you to take advantage
of our online "Build
Your Show Itinerary" feature, which Tabke explains in detail in
his "PubCon
Conference Itinerary Builder" piece.
To go along with PubCon's full slate of
specialized session tracks, an intensive educational
search and social media training program,
and top-notch keynote speakers, we
offer an
unrivaled slate of after-hours parties, TweetUps and networking events.
In addition to our huge lineup of daytime conference
events, the PubCon party scene also makes our events an
ultra-marathon of nightlife, with a party lineup that always grows as PubCon draws near.
Put on your running shoes, or at least your party shoes,
and plan your PubCon nighttime events using our handy events guide
published before upcoming conferences, featuring times and locations for
networking events.
In addition to PubCon's Ironman schedule of
after-hours parties, PubCon features the famous
PubCon Classic, an
informal networking event giving attendees a chance to rub elbows with friends
both new and old in a relaxed environment.
Expanding PubCon beyond the cutting-edge keynotes, training
programs and PubCon Classic Networking Event sessions is PubCon's annual
classic party, a tradition dating back to the very first PubCon. This
traditional
event gives PubCon attendees a great opportunity to network with new friends
and business contacts in a relaxed, informal environment set in a Las Vegas
pub-like environment.
As the official hotels for PubCon are
announced, plans for great places to meet and network with fellow attendees 24
hours a day will become available on the PubCon blog.
PubCon also holds day-long two-track slates of intensive
educational search and social media training programs during PubCon
conferences and as stand-alone events.
The PubCon
Masters Group training program usually takes place the day before the full
conference officially begins, with two
simultaneous tracks of in-depth sessions led by some of the industry's most
respected search and social media professionals.
Due to the intimate nature of this training, the size
of the class will be limited.
This intensive full day of expert-led training is available
for a special standalone low price. There are also additional discounts
available with a full PubCon conference registration. Please see the
registration page for more
information on pricing.
Please note that this event sold out
during all recent PubCon conferences, so register early to ensure a spot.
PubCon typically offers a Networking
Lunch Program hosted by a variety of top speakers leading
conversations
about more than 20 social media and Internet marketing subjects.
Our networking lunches give you the opportunity to get
close to some of PubCon's top speakers and spend time discussing the industry
topics they know the best, all in a relaxed shared environment around a
lunch table.
Meet your favorite new media and optimization authors and have them
sign copies
of their books at a PubCon author book signing booth in
the exhibition hall, tentatively scheduled to take place during the
upcoming PubCon conferences.
Get up close with many of the outstanding authors who speak at
PubCon.
Last year more than 30 authors signed books at the busy PubCon book
signing booth, and for upcoming PubCon conferences even more are expected.
Look for a detailing schedule of book signings before future PubCon
shows.
We expect to once again team up with a number of search and social
media firms to offer special cross-promotional PubCon
registration rates. These special deals have sold out quickly during past
events, so keep posted to be notified when they become available by
subscribing to the PubCon
blog.
PubCon has teamed up with numerous luxury hotels throughout the
years, and we announce special hotel
partnership pricing before each conference. Look for the latest information
to be posted on
the PubCon hotel information page.
Keep posted to the PubCon blog for detailed information. After the
official announcement is made, look for the latest information to be
posted on the PubCon hotel
information page.
PubCon is often able to offer conference attendees discount
airfares with certain airlines, and we will announce any such discounts
for upcoming PubCon conferences on our blog.
PubCon regularly offers attendees discount car rental rates for those
who prefer driving to taxis, usually available up until the conference
begins. Announcements about special car rental rates for upcoming PubCon
events are posted to the PubCon blog before each event.
Use the Las Vegas Monorail to get to and from PubCon at the Las Vegas Convention Center without the hassles of traffic and wasted
time. Information about monorail tickets for PubCon Las Vegas is
available here.
Whether you’re in Las Vegas attending PubCon or traveling
the Strip for any of the after-hours PubCon events throughout the week,
the Monorail is quick and convenient, with trains arriving every few minutes.
The Las Vegas Monorail is fun to ride and at just 15 minutes
or less away from any Las Vegas Boulevard Strip hotel (PDF
Monorail Map) with a monorail stop, often even quicker than a cab ride.
The Las Vegas Convention Center stop is directly in front
of the convention center where PubCon is located. An interactive route map
is available on the Las Vegas Monorail
Web site.
Hop on for a one-way trip or pick up an unlimited seven-day
special pass for the freedom to travel at your leisure throughout PubCon.
Taxi cabs are another convenient way to get around Las
Vegas during PubCon, with
lines of taxi cabs and minivans regularly lined up at the front entrances
to the Las Vegas Convention Center where PubCon is held, and at all the
major hotels and casinos in Las Vegas.
The phone numbers of several of the major taxi cab companies
in Las Vegas are listed here for your convenience:
Lucky Cab Co - www.luckylimolv.com - (702) 732-4400
Desert Cab On Demand - www.desertcabinc.com - (702)
386-9102
Taxi cabs in Las Vegas are licensed by the State of Nevada
under the authority of the Nevada Taxicab Authority, which maintains a list
of all city taxi cab companies and rate information on it's
official Web site.
The Las Vegas Convention Center is located at 3150 Paradise
Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109. (map)
The
PubCon Video Blog showcases past, present and potential future PubCon
speakers in interviews by WebmasterWorld video content producer
Vanessa Zamora
and PubCon founder Brett Tabke.
Watch PubCon-produced video interviews with many of the
"Who's Who" of top search and social media marketers, webmasters and technology
innovators, and learn as they speak on a wide range of the Internet-related
subjects that are the trademark of PubCon conferences, including
many from our previous conferences.
Users of
Foursquare and Gowalla can also keep track of PubCon attendees who use
these location-based services. See our
PubCon social media contact
page for more information.
With more than a decade of success, the history of PubCon is
virtually the story of search and social media itself. Explore
PubCon's complete history archives, and watch some of our special tenth anniversary fun in
the following PubCon video.
Full
of energy and excitement,
PubCon conferences are jam-packed with leading-edge sessions and
one-of-a-kind presentations.
Whether you are a newbie or an anchored old school pro,
there are big discoveries in store at PubCon.
Search engine and social media marketers,
optimizers, marketing executives, webmasters, affiliate managers, program
and channel managers, purchasing agents and affiliates are just some of
the people who will make up the crowds at PubCon.
Register online early and save. Early sign-up
periods may vary, so please check the
registration page for the latest
updates. Exhibitors are
given discount coupons to hand out, so feel free to check with them for
further savings. There are also
additional discounts
for WebmasterWorld supporters
and for groups of four or more people.
High Level of Content
: Each PubCon
track or
sub-conference is focused on a specific aspect of marketing featuring
topics that are important to your marketing and traffic-acquisition
strategies. We focus on some of the hottest trends and topics by asking
speakers to prepare part of their presentation just prior to PubCon,
resulting in discussions that cover the very latest trends.
Networking : The WebmasterWorld
community started PubCon in an
English
Pub where attendees got together to learn from and interact with
others in their market space. Networking is readily available at breakfast,
lunch, during session breaks, and well into the night at PubCon's many
cocktail hours and parties.
Prime-Time Speakers
: PubCon attendees will hear and talk with the early adopting
who's who of Internet
marketing, at the conference widely recognized as the speakers
conference, where speakers come to learn as well as to share their vast
knowledge.
Post-Conference Networking Resources
: PubCon attendees receive a bound printed manual of the show, and a
full CD of all PubCon presentation PowerPoints is mailed to all full
conference attendees.
Takeaways : PubCon presentations
always end with at least one specific takeaway that you can apply to
your business' own projects.
Test Yourself : By spending
time with others in your field at PubCon Las Vegas 2011, you'll get
an accurate idea of how your skill set stacks up, and gain valuable
insight into which areas of your work you may need to focus on for continued
growth and success.
Value : We realize how
much you have invested in attending a conference. PubCon strives to
provide the
best
value available in search and social media marketing conferences
today, offering direct value in the form of education, new contacts,
professional relationships, vendors and partnerships.
Vendors : Use PubCon
as an opportunity to talk with
vendors
about their services that you use or may wish to try, in the PubCon
exhibit hall.
Professional : PubCon
is in it's
tenth year,
with event
management roots running over 20 years. From registration to at-the-show
services, PubCon engages in a professional yet personal touch that stands
out in an oftentimes crowded field.
Your Clients, customers,
and especially your competitors will attend. 'Nuff said.
and social media innovators ever assembled, offering an
unrivaled highly-productive conference experience at cost-effective rates,
and with the leading technology and online marketing visionaries who
take part in PubCon, every attendee comes away with
valuable new ideas and solutions for their
businesses.
sponsors, with additional information available on the
from some of the largest Internet firms, such as Google's PubCon launch
of its Friend Connect API initiative and similar product announcement from
Microsoft, Twitter and other firms.
organize your time during the busy November week, have a look at "
networking events.
features the famous
conversations
about more than 20 social media and Internet marketing subjects.
of their books at a PubCon author book signing booth in
the exhibition hall, tentatively scheduled to take place during the
upcoming PubCon conferences.
years, and we announce special hotel
partnership pricing before each conference. Look for the latest information
to be posted on
the 
lines of taxi cabs and minivans regularly lined up at the front entrances
to the Las Vegas Convention Center where PubCon is held, and at all the
major hotels and casinos in Las Vegas.
a
plain taxi cab when booked among a group of PubCon friends.
speakers in interviews by WebmasterWorld video content producer
PubCon conferences are jam-packed with leading-edge sessions and
one-of-a-kind presentations.
