Three Web Design and Web Development Conferences not to Miss in Spring 2021

DigiMarCon: April 28-29

Cost: ~ £141 ($197)

Link: digimarconathome.com

For: Anyone who has a marketing-heavy offering or is looking to improve their capability in the area.

DigiMarCon is big with a broad focus across all of web marketing and many fellow attendees looking for new ways to get their businesses and products ‘out there’ online. For those with a well-developed marketing offering who can handle decent scale, this can be a goldmine of fresh leads from around the world.

It’s also a great place to improve your company’s own marketing, find some effective third-party help or reinforce your offerings across the online marketing spectrum.

You may well be worried that there won’t be enough material that is relevant to you. However, there are enough different events and speakers that you will be able to get your money’s worth by filling your time with relevant education and networking opportunities.

Be prepared for an event that’s big, busy and loud! If this kind of thing appeals to you, that’s great. If not, the slightly smaller and more web-dev-focused Canvas convention may be a better choice.

Look out for:

Rand Fishkin – Founder of Moz & SparkToro

Andy Crestodina – Cofounder of Orbit Media Studios

Joe Nguyen – Senior Vice President of Comscore

David Fallarme – Head of Marketing at HubSpot Asia

Collision: April 20-22

Cost: ~ £88 ($122)

Link: collisionconf.com

For: Heavy networkers and those wanting to stay on the cutting edge

Collision is another big, yet surprisingly cheap convention. It’s one of the world’s biggest tech conferences. Importantly, it focuses on bringing people together to network effectively and create business opportunities, as well as learn.

There’s even a matchmaker-like app designed to bring attendees together with others who they may be able to make valuable connections with. As a company focused on getting leads for our clients (and ourselves), we’re extremely excited about this! With more than 40,000 attendees expected, you should find someone you can sync with.

It’s not just a networking event though. There are tons of masterclasses and workshops to improve your core and peripheral skills, as well as speeches from the creators and directors of some of the biggest websites and tech businesses on the planet. It’s a broad, multi-industry event, which could be a downer for people looking to network within their own sphere. On the other hand, having a networking app guiding you among some of the most powerful tech-heads on the planet can be valuable in terms of learning and leads.

Although the main event in April is huge and multi-practice, there are smaller national and industry-focused events throughout the year. One interesting one is the Collision Web Summit in Lisbon on November 1-4.

Look out for:

Biz Sone - Co-founder of Twitter

Michelle Zatlyn – Co-founder of Cloudflare

Aaron Levie – Co-founder of Box

Ali Ghodsi – CEO of Databricks