Content strategy is a broad field with touchpoints to a lot of different areas, such as (content) marketing, product management, UX, information architecture, etc. To keep up-to-date with new thoughts and developments in all related areas and to share one’s own knowledge, visiting and speaking at conferences should be an important part of a content strategist’s work life. Here is a selection of relevant conferences.
Content strategy-related events
- COSCamp, Austria: barcamp covering various content strategy-related topics, organised by FH Joanneum
- Content Strategy Camp, Germany: barcamp for everyone and everything related to digital content
- Confab, US and online: connects the dots between different fields of practice related to digital content
- LavaCon, US: conference for networking and building relationships between industry professionals and talks about content strategy trend-topics
Content marketing-related conferences
- CMCX, Germany: around content marketing tech-trends, B2B marketing, influencer marketing
- Digital Marketing World Forum, worldwide: various conferences and expos about the future of digital marketing technologies
- MozCon, US: foucssing on search marketing
- OMR, Germany: the festival features international speakers from the digital business / marketing world covering a variety of topics
- Rheinwerk Online Marketing Konferenz, online: about new strategies and techniques related to online marketing topics
- OMKB, Germany: about digital marketing and technology
- DigiMarCon, worldwide: a series of digital marketing conferences around the world
- OXD Online Expert Days, Austria: combining OMX for online marketing and SEOkomm for search engine marketing
- Campixx, Germany: conference festival about SEO and content marketing
- Content Day, Austria: about trends and news in content marketing (currently pausing)
UX-related conferences
- 24 hours of UX, online: engage with a global community on UX topics
- World Usability Congress, worldwide: for UX experts and strategists to share real-world UX challenges
- IXDC, China: international experience design conference about innovation, systems and business
- UX Nordic, Denmark and online: for networking, harvesting ideas and boosting UX skills
- UXDG UX Design Summit, online: about innovation and new challenges in UX design
- UXCon Vienna, Austria: international conference for UX research and UX design
- Design Matters, Denmark and online: conference by designers for designers
Product management-related conferences
- IAC Information Architecture Conference, US: about the role of information architecture in relation to various fields
- EIA European Conference on Information Architecture and UX Design, The Netherlands: exchanging ideas for inclusive, impact-driven and sustainable solutions
- UXUD, worldwide: conference to break down barriers between product, UX, design and development
- ProductCon, worldwide: product management conference organised by Product School
- Mind the Product, worldwide and online: global and regional conferences for product managers and content strategists