Welcome to our comprehensive guide to all upcoming PR and Marketing events and conferences! We’re bringing you all of the must-attend events for 2022.
EDIT: We've released an updated (and interactive!) comprehensive marketing and comms conference calendar for 2023! See here: 2023 Marketing and Comms Conference Calendar
An opportunity to connect with people, showcase your brand, and launch your newest product.
Date: January 5- 8, 2022
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Adweek gives an inside glimpse into the benefits of monetization and emerging platforms with huge growth through leaders in the top marketing, media and tech executives.
Date: January 11- 13, 2022
Location: TBD
This event at Sundance Film Festival is a space to bring together brands, directors, production and media companies and content studies. Attendees will get an opportunity to connect and share ideas and experiences.
Date: January 19- 22, 2022
Location: Park City, Utah
AdExchanger’s Industry Preview
A one day conference by invitation only for senior executives in the digital marketing and media industries on what is to come in the year ahead.
Date: January 25, 2022
Location: New York, New York
International Conference on Online Reputation Management, Monitoring, and Marketing
A conference to bring together scientists, researchers, and scholars to share their research and experience on Online Reputation Management, Monitoring and Marketing.
Date: January 28- 29, 2022
Location: New York, New York
International Conference on Online Marketing Strategies
A conference to bring together scientists, researchers, and scholars to share their research and experience on Online Marketing Strategies to help people learn and grow more in the field.
Date: January 28- 29, 2022
Location: New York, New York
INDEX Communications & Marketing Conference
Two days of conversation, panels, connecting with INDEX colleagues.
Date: February 10- 11, 2022
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Fourth annual summit to help people learn from disruptive and legendary brands all through their own lens.
Date: February 22- 24, 2022
Location: TBD
The PRCA Future Leaders Program
A program aimed at PR and communications professionals who are interested in leadership positions to learn the skills on how to be a great leader in this business.
Date: February 22 - March 24, 2022 (different sessions spread over 5 weeks)
February 22, 2022: Lindsay Patterson, “You as a leader, today, tomorrow and 5 years from now”
March 2, 2022: Emma Ewing, “Leading the way with feedback: providing confident critical and positive feedback to get better results, improve motivation, and develop your team”
March 10, 2022: Jane Fordham, “Emotional Intelligence as a Leadership Superpower”
March 16, 2022: Barbara Phillips, “Personal Branding with a Global Mindset”
March 22, 2022: Rod Cartwright, “Mastering the Art of Leadership Communication in the New Abnormal”
March 24, 2022: Jayne Constantinis, “Virtually Brilliant Leadership Communication”
Location: Virtual
Social Media Strategies Summit
Made for senior-level marketing professionals to gain an inside look at successful social media and digital marketing strategies, and to learn all things social media.
Date: February 23- 24, 2022
Location: Virtual
A marketing conference for sales practitioners and marketing professionals to network and gain insight on the best strategies for B2B marketing.
Date: February 28 - March 1- 2, 2022
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
International Public Relations Research Conference
A non-profit to support PR research to increase understanding in the field, build relationships, and advance development.
Date: March 3- 5, 2022
Location: Orlando, Florida
International Conference on Communications Management and Public Relations
A conference to bring together scientists, researchers, and scholars to share their research and experience on Communications Management and Public Relations.
Date: March 11- 12, 2022
Location: Miami, Florida
A conference full of conversations surrounding diverse topics and people coming together to share breakthroughs in technology, film, culture, and music. Discusses key elements of a PR campaign and helps creative people achieve their goals.
Date: March 11- 20, 2022
Location: Austin, Texas
Social Media Marketing World 2022
This conference is a way to network with others in the marketing space and learn about ways to improve your social marketing.
Date: March 14- 16, 2022
Location: San Diego, California
This conference discusses content and technology, which is extremely relevant in the PR world, and is geared towards senior-level professionals to discuss strategies for content and making digital experiences easier for media consumption.
Date: March 22- 23, 2022
Location: San Diego, California
Listen and learn from the industry’s top leading brand marketers and ad buyers on the best practices, along with the challenges they’ve faced when building a media marketing strategy.
Date: March 22- 24, 2022
Location: Location TBD
A two day conference geared towards both PR and corporate communications academics and practitioners. Research is presented and ideas are shared to help grow and network with those in the industries.
Date: March 24- 25, 2022
Location: Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies (Washington, DC)
Bringing the marketing and advertising community together for leadership conferences, networking, and celebration for brand excellence.
Date: March 28- 31, 2022
Location: London, England
This conference will celebrate the ANA Growth Agenda’s focus on brand management, purpose, creativity and media. Brands will speak about how they used their marketing skills to better serve the community and their customers.
Date: April 11- 13, 2022
Location: Carlsbad, California
A digital, marketing, media, and advertising conference and exhibition that provides insight, strategies, successful campaigns, and speakers to then take with you and learn. This program is meant to help people develop their audience by building traffic, creating brand awareness, improving customer service, and more!
Date: April 21- 22, 2022
Location: New York, New York
ANA Content Marketing Conference
This conference focuses on the best strategies, resources and practices for content marketing to deepen customer relationships and increase results.
Date: April 27- 29, 2022
Location: Orlando, Florida
Adweek Social Media Week North America
Serving as a meeting point for the social media marketing industry as a way to bring everyone together to learn and grow.
Date: May 2022 (tentative)
Location: TBD
Confab: The Content Strategy Conference
Confab’s conference brings strategy to life and is a place for smart and curious people to share more about making content useful for all.
DatE: May 9- 12, 2022
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
AMEC Global Summit on Measurement
This summit highlights the best practices of communication measurement, evaluation, and analysis from across the globe with insights from multiple speakers.
Date: May 23- 25, 2022
Location: Vienna, Austria
Bringing the marketing and advertising community together for leadership conferences, networking, and celebration for brand excellence.
Date: May 30 - June 2, 2022
Location: Tokyo, Japan
A digital, marketing, media, and advertising conference and exhibition that provides insight, strategies, successful campaigns, and speakers to then take with you and learn. This program is meant to help people develop their audience by building traffic, creating brand awareness, improving customer service, and more!
Date: June 2- 3, 2022
Location: San Francisco, California
A digital, marketing, media, and advertising conference and exhibition that provides insight, strategies, successful campaigns, and speakers to then take with you and learn. This program is meant to help people develop their audience by building traffic, creating brand awareness, improving customer service, and more!
Date: June 9- 10, 2022
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Annual conference geared towards keeping attendees up to date and ahead of what is happening in the social media world.
Date: June 15- 16, 2022
Location: Lima, Ohio
Cannes Lions- International Festival of Creativity
A festival and convention into one event! Attendees will make connections, learn from different seminars and workshops and boost creativity.
Date: June 20- 24, 2022
Location: Cannes, France
A conference that focuses on professional development for communication professionals, specifically in public relations to network, speak, and listen in/talk on panels. This years theme is “Communication Can.”
Date: June 26- 29, 2022
Location: New York, New York
Brings in speakers from the digital marketing industry to provide attendees with strategies and insight for digital marketing campaigns.
Date: July 7- 8, 2022
Location: Live and on-demand
A digital, marketing, media, and advertising conference and exhibition that provides insight, strategies, successful campaigns, and speakers to then take with you and learn. This program is meant to help people develop their audience by building traffic, creating brand awareness, improving customer service, and more!
Date: July 11- 12, 2022
Location: Los Angeles, California
Three days of presentations and insights from industry leaders in SEO, search marketing, mobile, conversion optimization, local search, etc.
Date: July 11- 13, 2022
Location: Seattle, Washington
Keynote speakers, breakout sessions, social and networking opportunities are all included in this four day conference.
Date: August 7- 10, 2022
Location: Orlando, Florida
Your team will get exclusive access to insights from industry leaders, networking opportunities, Masterclasses and more.
Date: September 12- 16, 2022 (tentative)
Location: TBD
The place where you can learn and network from the best in the content marketing industry.
Date: September 13- 16, 2022
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Adweek Social Media Week London
Serving as a meeting point for the social media marketing industry as a way to bring everyone together to learn and grow.
Date: October 2022 (tentative)
Location: London, England
Marketing leaders will share strategies, ideas, and innovations to help your organization.
Date: November 2022 (tentative)
Location: TBD
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