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WordCamp San Francisco is the official annual conference of the WordPress open source project.

WordCamp SF 2010 brought together 700+ WordPress users and developers from around the world. In 2011 we're expanding the programming for publishers, bloggers, and developers.

In the weeks ahead, we'll be soliciting speakers, sponsors, and...

Now in its 2nd year, The PR Summit assembles top media influencers for one day of intense panel discussions, keynotes, break-out sessions and networking. You'll find media professionals, entrepreneurs, marketers, public relations practitioners driving the next generation of PR.

This conference will explore how business and public relations...

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) showcases the latest innovations and the newest technologies in iOS and Mac OS X. Over 1,000 Apple engineers guide you through five exciting days of in-depth technical sessions and hands-on labs that demonstrate how to harness the incredible power of the world’s most advanced operating systems into...

Now in its seventh year, SemTech 2011 is the world’s largest educational conference for the community of executives, technologists, researchers, investors and customers who are involved with semantic technologies.

SemTech 2011 features five days of presentations, panels, tutorials, announcements, new company/product launches, and conversations. ...

TEDxSF seeks to develop and leverage the TED experience at a regional level, bringing together innovators and inspirational speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field.

Maker Faire is the World’s Largest DIY Festival - a two-day, family-friendly event to MAKE, create, learn, invent, CRAFT, recycle, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology. aker Faire is the premier event for grassroots American innovation. As the World's Largest DIY Festival,...

Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of deep technical content, focused on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.

The SF MusicTech Summit brings together 800+ visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem...

Join 600 entrepreneurs for a full day conference that covers: finding co-founders, how to launch and get press and traction, how to improve your pitch to investors and more.

Speakers include Guy Kawasaki, Naval Ravikant, Loic Le Leur, Robert Scoble, Adeo Ressi, Tim Young, Jeff Clavier, George Zachary, Rebecca Lynn.

The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on “user-centric identity” and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with. We also work on trying to address social and legal issues that...

25 cloud startups. 350 cloud buyers.

Under the Radar is Silicon Valley's most effective innovation showcase and business development conference. Technology buyers from MTV, Virgin, Microsoft, Google, ING, Zynga, Salesforce.com and more attend to meet with startups we chose to present.

We select a handful of the industry's most...

Calling all Developers and Entrepreneurs!

APPNATION is all about helping you grow.

Its expert workshops distribution, discover-ability, monetization, meeting new partners, wooing investors, and developing clients.

We created this show to help you build a great business in this exciting new marketplace. And we have a range of affordable demo...

The OpenStack Conference/Design Summit planning is well underway with the Program Committee and I wanted to share our latest high level agenda with the community for feedback. The plan is to update this proposal over the next two weeks before starting a call for topics and speakers. Please send your comments directly to me so I can pass them along...

This April, the editors of VentureBeat will convene the top 180 mobile executives, investors and policymakers for an exclusive discussion that will shape the future of the mobile industry. At a time of explosive growth in the adoption of mobile technology, VentureBeat Summit participants will address five key business and policy challenges that...

Girls in Tech presents 'A Fireside Chat with Dennis Crowley'

The O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference continues to explore what's at stake at the intersection of location, mobile, and social. The premier conference for all things location-aware, Where 2.0 brings together CTOs, developers, technologists, researchers, geographers, business developers, entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders to shed light on...

As THE event for digital marketers, ad:tech features the industry's most entrepreneurial and innovative marketers. By attending, you'll have the opportunity to network and learn from experts on what's hot in social media, mobile, viral, cross-channel, application-based and geo-location marketing. You can also walk the ad:tech Expo...

The Data 2.0 Conference connects over 50 speakers, company and startup demos and 500+ participants around in the new data economy. From Google Fusion Tables and SimpleGeo, to Socrata and Rapleaf, Data 2.0 organizes the top data innovators.

Register here: http://data2con.com/register/
Get 25% off by registering before March 25.
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Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is back for another great year of sessions, speakers, and networking opportunities.

Registration is now open! Use discount code websf11fb20 to save 20% on all conference passes or code websf11fbe for a free Expo Hall Only pass.

ICANN oversees the domain name system and has three public meetings a year in different regions. The meetings last five days and mostly comprise discussion of the rules surrounding the provision of domain names.

The San Francisco meeting is likely to be dominated by the issue of new “generic top level domains” i.e. new Internet extensions like...

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