You may not have heard of US-based security analyst Jim Nitterauer, but if your boss is resisting your request to participate in a business conference, he is here for you.
In a 2017 Tripwire article, Mr. Nitterauer listed the most common objections to attending conferences - which included cost and ROI - as well as eight key benefits. In summary, by attending you are likely to build and fortify relationships, learn, face challenges, participate in group research and move closer to taking the podium on behalf of your company.
Those invaluable opportunities, and many others that are more inspirational-based. beckon in this month's global creative calendar brought to you by the Darnell Works Agency.
Also, follow these links for the Creative Week (running 6-10 May) and Creative Tech Week (running 8-19 May) happening in NYC.
May Events
. 24 Apr. – 5 May | Tribeca Film Festival, NYC
. 25 Apr. – 5 May | New Orleans Jazz Fest
. 29 Apr. – 1 May | FITC Toronto
. 29 Apr. – 1 May | Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo 2019, San Diego
. 30 Apr. – 3 May | FMX 2019, Stuttgart
. 30 Apr. – 5 May | Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
. 1-4 | Data & Programmatic Insider Summit, Captiva
. 2 | Brand Film Festival, NYC
. 2-5 | Frieze New York, NYC
. 2-5 | MUTEK San Francisco
. 2-5 | SunFest Palm Beach
. 2-4 | Uenoland, Brooklyn
. 3 | Women’s Business Symposium Southern California, Huntington Beach
. 4 | Sarofsky Labs: Producing for Motion, Chicago
. 6-10 | Creative Week, NYC
. 7-10 | How Design Live + The Dieline Conference, Chicago
. 7 | LA Games Conference, Hollywood
. 8-10 | Adobe 99U Conference, NYC
. 8 | CDO Summit NYC, NYC
. 8-19 | Creative Tech Week, NYC
. 8-12 | Pictoplasma Conference, Berlin
. 8-10 | Awwwards Digital Thinkers Conference, San Francisco
. 9-10 | The Next Web Europe, Amsterdam
. 10-22 | NYCxDESIGN
. 14-16 | Experiential Marketing Summit, Las Vegas
. 14-25 | Festival de Cannes
. 14-16 | Front End of Innovation, Boston
. 16 | AICP Post Awards, Chicago
. 16 | Le Book Connections, Geneva
. 17-19 | Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas
. 18-19 | Design Festa, Tokyo
. 19-21 | FT Business of Luxury Summit, London
. 20-23 | Collision, Toronto
. 20-22 | Glossy Summit, Miami
. 21-23 | D&AD Festival, London
. 21-22 | ITMSA Marketing Leadership Forum, Napa
. 22 | BizBash Live, Ft. Lauderdale
. 22-24 | C2 Creativity + Commerce, Montreal
. 23-24 | Youth Marketing Australia Conference, Melbourne
. 23-25 | Semi Permanent Sydney
. 24 May – 15 June | Vivid Sydney
. 25 | Vines + Vibes, Rutherford
. 28-29 | DesignThinkers, Vancouver
. 29-31 | Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit, Austin
. 30 | CiclopeLatino, Mexico City
. 30 May – 1 June | Motion Design Education Summit, Wellington
. 30 May – 2 June | Cine Gear Expo, Hollywood
. 30 | SHOOT Magazine New Directors Showcase, NYC
. 30 May – 2 June | The Overlook Film Festival, New Orleans
. 31 May – 2 June | Governors Ball Music Festival, NYC
