While cred is tracking event updates related to COVID-19 in real-time, we’re also tracking the rise of virtual thought leadership with new podcasts, webinars, and virtual opportunities coming to life every day.

Some events are being postponed or canceled, but we’re seeing a growing trend around in-person conferences being converted to virtual conferences. Since our event management team knows first hand exactly how much effort and work goes into planning an event, we’re in awe of the tact, versatility, and creativity of our incredible network of event organizers who have swiftly switched in-person events to virtual events.

In this edition of our credTen series, we’re highlighting the 10 top events that switched to virtual formats due to COVID-19 (many of which we have clients speaking at!).

*Note: All event dates, formats, and prices are current as of 5/11/2020.

#SMWONE
May 5-28
Social Media Week Los Angeles and Social Media Week New York merged into #SMWONE, a 4-week digital marketing conference series. The event series is expected to reach 10,000 participants through 100 hours of live streamed content across 10 different tracks to discuss the future of the industry. Speakers include CMO of Vimeo, Head of Brand Strategy of Reddit, and Head of Entertainment and Brand Marketing at Postmates.
Ticket Price: $399

Photo courtesy of Facebook. — Photo courtesy of Social Media Week.

TNW Couch Conferences
May 12-14 | The Global Boardroom
May 29 | ReBrand
June 11 | Sprint
June 18 | Checkout
June 25 | Ecosystems
July 2 | Transform
Europe’s leading tech festival TNW was postponed from June to October, but the TNW team launched an online event series called TNW Couch Conferences to take place throughout the summer focusing on COVID-related content. This series spans six separate events focusing on different industries such as marketing, retail, product with speakers such as the CEO of Headspace, CMO of Booking.com, and Co-Founder of Basecamp. Couch Conferences will also feature hands-on workshops, live interviews, and audience Q&As to maximize connection between speakers and attendees.
Ticket Price: First 1,000 tickets are free for each event. After that, tickets cost $64

DeveloperWeek Global
June 16-17
Thousands of developers, engineers, and technical leaders will gather online from across the globe for 100+ keynote and technical talks plus a developer technology virtual pitch contest and virtual hackathon. Content spans seven tracks and will touch on topics such as how to grow into an engineering manager, how to build and manage remote teams and global projects, and what microservices architecture is.
Ticket Price: Ranges from free tickets to all-access passes for $395

Grow Virtual
June 22-26
The team behind Grow NY switched locations for their June 2020 events—from New York City to Zoom. Grow Virtual will celebrate the resourcefulness and creativity of today’s top D2C brands through a mini-series of virtual stories, interviews, and actionable advice for retailers. The 1000+ attendees will hear from founders and marketers from companies like Rothy’s, Birchbox, and THINX.
Ticket Price: Apply to attend here

Collision
June 23-25
Deemed by Bloomberg as “one of the world’s biggest tech conferences,” Collision was one of the first large tech conferences that converted to a fully online format. While this year’s event is known as “Collision From Home,” the lineup of speakers is equally as impressive as past years when the event took place in Toronto. Online attendees will hear from celebrities like Shaquille O'Neal and Arianna Huffington alongside c-level executives from Spotify, Netflix, Facebook, and YouTube. The Collision team is still confident that the virtual event will attract 30,000 online attendees for three reasons: incredible speakers, valuable networking, and proprietary software.
Ticket Price: $122 including taxes

Yellow Co
June 26
Yellow Co moved their NY Conference to an online experience of virtual panels and live chats for women to discuss how it looks to create meaningful work in the world. If attendees are unable to join live, they will receive the conference video recordings to watch later as well as a “digital do-good goodie bag.” They are also offering a special BOGO deal to help honor those who are financially struggling right now.
Ticket Price: Ranges from $39 - $127

Techonomy East
June TBD
While the dates have not been shared yet, Techonomy will host a free online interactive conference in June. This invite-only event originally scheduled to take place in May in New York City usually draws about 200 mid-career to senior-level executives from enterprise, startups, academic and nonprofit organizations but is now open to the public for free! Speakers will discuss how tech is changing everything. The timely theme of “Reset + Restore” focuses on how technology is impacting us and can help restore us.
Ticket Price: Free

Fortune Brainstorm Health
July 7-8
A virtual health conference focusing on learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic and how to reinvent health care and well-being. While the main event focused on the theme “The New Paradigm” takes place July 7-8, registrants are also invited to join four small-group interactive conversations, scheduled one per week throughout the month of June, and two small-group wrap-up conversations following the July conference.
Ticket Price: $495

Ascent Conference
August 26-27
With a mission to help SaaS leaders grow faster, this virtual conference will bring together 6,000 attendees from the SaaS and Venture communities for interactive talks, roundtables, and workshops. Speakers like the CEO of Indiegogo, CMO of Bloomberg, and CEO of Crunchbase will discuss sales, marketing, growth, and fundraising tactics.
Ticket Price: Ranges from $97.85 - $1,539.85

Grace Hopper Celebration
September 29-October 2
Grace Hopper Celebration will be celebrating its 20th year in a very memorable way—virtually! GHC is the largest gathering of women technologists with 20 content tracks that cover topics of interest to technical women such as data science, product management, and software engineering.
Ticket Price: TBD - registration opens this summer!

Interested in moving your in-person event to an online format? Check out our blog post on how to host an effective virtual event or contact us at hello@credpr.com.