Top Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2025 and 2026

Whether you’re an agency marketer or you’re looking to grow your own business, hearing from some of the top marketing experts can only be beneficial.

The good news is that there are plenty of high-quality marketing conferences taking place in 2025 and into 2026.

Why You Should Attend A Marketing Conference

There are lots of excellent online resources to improve your marketing knowledge and skills. But marketing conferences offer unique benefits.

Even in 2025, nothing beats in-person conferences when it comes to networking. These events are your chance to meet like-minded professionals, learn from them and forge lasting connections.

Additionally, conferences offer a real breadth of perspectives. A course might have been put together by one expert, or a small team. But conferences provide insight from a whole range of marketing leaders on the very latest trends in the field.

Wherever you live, there’s a marketing conference for you in 2025 or 2026, with events planned across the globe and virtually. I’ve compiled a list of some key dates.

Top Marketing Conferences in 2025 and 2026

Spotlight by Semrush

Semrush will once again host the Spotlight Conference in 2025. It’s always a highlight of the marketing calendar.

This year, Semrush is returning to Amsterdam. The conference will be held on October 29.

A lot gets packed into a single-day event. There will be 60+ speakers from the likes of Duolingo, Kickstarter, and VEED, as well as 150+ mastermind sessions.

Attendees take in a talk at the 2024 Spotlight by Semrush conference.

A standard conference pass costs €290 (~$337), while an all-access pass is €490 (~$569). A VIP package is available for €799 (~$928). 

There's also a Semrush Bootcamp add-on pass available for €249 (~$289), which gains you access to a full-day workshop on October 28. That comes with access to $1,200+ worth of SEO tools. 

Various promotions and discounts have been running in the lead-up to the event. The final one, Bring a Buddy, ends October 10.

Digital Marketing World Forum

The Digital Marketing World Forum is actually a series of events held in locations around the world. But it comes to the US from October 13-14 in New York City. 

The conference will be divided into six tracks:

• AI and Automation
• Content, Video and Digital Brand Strategy
• Data, Email, CRM and Insights
• Omnichannel Marketing, Customer Experience and Personalization
• Search, Media and Advertising
• Social Media, Influencer and Community Marketing

Speakers include Gerald Murphy, who heads up Search, AI, and Consumer Behavior at Semrush. There will also be speakers and panelists from Google, Forbes, ESPN, the NBA, and other major brands.

A two-day all-access pass costs $809. Single-day passes are available for $765. 

After New York, the next Digital Marketing World Forum event is in Amsterdam from November 25-26.

Product Marketing Summit Boston

The Product Marketing Alliance hosts a series of global events throughout the year. One of the upcoming US dates to watch out for is the Boston edition from October 29-30. 

A strong slate of speakers is lined up, including the VP of Product Marketing from JPMorgan Chase, and the Director of Product GTM, AI & Core Infrastructure at Oracle. 

A regular ticket costs $1295. A Pro+ membership that grants full access, exclusive content, a mentorship program, and 22+ certifications is available for $1,999 —  and you can also attend virtually for $299.

Other summits include Sydney in October, Toronto and Chicago in November, and London in December. 

DigiMarCon

A major player in the world of marketing conferences, DigiMarCon is putting on more than 40 events around the world over the course of 2025.

The majority will take place in various locations throughout the USA, but there are also conferences in South Africa, the UK, Ireland, the UAE, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Spain and The Netherlands.

DigiMarCon World is billed as “the premier digital marketing, media and advertising conference and exhibition in the world”. It takes place from November 5-7 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

There’s an impressive list of previous DigiMarCon attendees, including Google, Amazon, and Apple.

Previous DigiMarCon attendees

Early Bird prices have now ended for the Las Vegas event, but you can still pick up tickets at the standard rate. Alternatively, you can also attend DigiMarCon online.

Topics will include AI, growth hacking, influencer marketing, social commerce and more. 

Reuters Events: Strategic Marketing 2025

The Reuters Strategic Marketing Conference will be held in New York on November 3.

Unlike other events on this list, the Reuters conference is not open to everyone. It's exclusively for directors and C-suite executives — making it a valuable networking opportunity if you meet the criteria.

70% of attendees lead the marketing departments at major businesses. Speakers include the Chief Marketing Officer at Unicef, the Senior Vice President at TNT Sports, and the VP of Product and Retention at Etsy.

B2B Marketing Expo

Marketing comes in many shapes and sizes, and the B2B Marketing Expo focuses specifically on business-to-business marketing. It will be held in London from November 19-20.

Like many of the 2025 conferences, it will address AI and its implications for the marketing industry. Speakers will also be discussing the evolution of the B2B marketing space, and the best ways to get creative.

A speaker at a previous edition of the B2B Marketing Expo.

More than 5,000 attendees are expected, along with over 100 exhibitors and 120 expert speakers.

A free general admission ballot, which grants access to all the breakout theaters and exhibitor stands, has now closed. But there are three tiers of paid rates, which currently start from £99 (~$132) plus tax at an Early Bird rate. 

Gartner Marketing Symposium

Looking to 2026, the Gartner Marketing Symposium is a conference to look out for. It's confirmed dates of June 8-10 in Denver, Colorado.

More than 2000 CMOs and marketing leaders are expected to attend. Along with external speakers, 45+ Gartner experts will share their perspectives across 95+ sessions.

It's among the pricier conferences on this list, with a standard price of $5,075. There's a public sector price of $4,250, as well as group rate discounts. 

Speakers will be confirmed in due course. Last year's event featured keynote addresses from a diverse range of guests, including Rahaf Harfoush and Matthew Luhn.

Inbound

Run by marketing specialists Hubspot, Inbound is one of the most anticipated events of the year. The 2025 edition was held in San Francisco from September 3-5.

And it's already time to start looking ahead to next year. The conference will head to Boston from September 16-18, 2026.

The conference attracts more than 12,000 attendees, with a further 90,000 people watching the live stream. 2025 speakers included Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder of Hubspot, and comedian and actress Amy Poehler.

A previous Inbound conference.

Tickets go on sale on December 1. You can join the waitlist now.

Festival of Marketing

Run by Marketing Week, the Festival of Marketing is another major event that has already confirmed it will go ahead next year. It will be in London in October 2026, with the exact date TBC.

Speakers last year included Antonia Wade, Global Chief Marketing Officer at PwC, Javier Meza, Chief Marketing Officer at Coca-Cola Europe, and Martin Nance, Chief Marketing Officer at the Minnesota Vikings.

You can fill out a form to register your interest.

Top Virtual Marketing Conferences 2025

Travelling won’t be convenient for everyone. And one positive lasting legacy of the pandemic is a thriving remote marketing conference scene, both in terms of dedicated events and virtual access options to physical conferences. Here are some online-only events I have picked out:

The MarTech Conference

The MarTech Conference is a twice-yearly online conference that's completely free to attend. It's aimed at marketing technology professionals, practitioners, and thought leaders. 

The spring event took place on March 25-26. But you can catch the next conference, which is scheduled for November 4.

Registration is now open. An interesting panel of speakers includes Jiaxi Zhu, the Head of Analytics at Google, with AI in MarTech a recurring theme of the scheduled sessions.

Social Media Strategies Summit

If you're looking for a specialized social media marketing conference, then the Social Media Strategies Summit could be for you. It's being held entirely online from October 23-24.

Speakers include Shahbaz Khan (Head of Social Strategy and Emerging Platforms for the NFL) and Chin Wu (Director of North America Brand Campaigns & Consumer Marketing for Lenovo). They'll be joined by Sonali Karmarkar, Head of Content and Community at YouTube Shopping.

The last round of Early Bird pricing ended in late September, but you can purhcase a Last Chance ticket for $649. Virtual "at-the-door" entry, starting from a week before the event, costs $749. 

There are also additional pre-conference workshops on October 22. These are available as an add-on for $199 each.

DigiMarCon

With such a wide range of events throughout the year, DigiMarCon is one of the best when it comes to catering for everyone. That includes a range of virtual conferences, all of which are broadcast live before then being made available on-demand.

Events pitched at different regions run throughout the year, before the worldwide DigiMarCon At Home from November 5-7.

Virtual tickets are also available to most of DigiMarCon’s in-person conferences.

Get Ahead Of The Game By Attending Marketing Conferences

Marketing conferences are brilliant for honing your skills, knowledge and network.

Check back in with this list to keep up to date with all the latest events and details.

And for now:

• Take advantage of Semrush’s excellent online resources. If you’re looking to grow as a marketer or business owner, there’s nowhere better to start than having a powerful array of tools at your fingertips. Our full review of Semrush explains what the platform has to offer.
• Check out our comprehensive list of SEO conferences this year.
• Browse our list of dedicated AI conferences.