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"It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable\u2019s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section.\nNot on this list? Contact us and let\u2019s establish a media partnership. :)\n\nMarch 23-27, 2009, New York City: Go behind the search box at this year\u2019s Search Engine Strategies New York Conference &amp; Expo. Get the lowdown on what works and what's out as you learn the latest SEM, SEO, and PPC tactics. SES New York is the ultimate SEO/SEM event, with more than 6,000 delegates expected to attend this March. Don't miss this once-a-year opportunity to make the right connections and learn from the leading experts.\n\n\nMarch 24, 2009, Toronto, Canada: The Bold and the Blogging will focus on micro-blogging and have an emphasis on tools such as Twitter and Yammer and how they are being used as both internal and external communications tools. Social Media has finally hit that point of maturity where there are proven businesses cases that can show advertisers and marketers an ROI. Some companies use these tools for customer service, some to promote new products or service and others such as Dell have turned 2,475 followers on Twitter into $1 million in revenue.\n\n\nMarch 24-26, 2009, San Francisco, CA: The Business of Community Networking is a best practice conference to create social networks and measure ROI of online marketing. Help your business interact, network and exchange knowledge using social media, reach new customers and make your performance soar. For $200 off the current price, use promo code DZR892 when registering.\n\n\nMarch 26, 2009, New York City: Pontiflex is the industry\u2019s first open and transparent Cost-per-Lead market. Join us for the first ever summit devoted to performance marketing. Analysts from J.P. Morgan and IDC will present their latest industry research. Marketers from Kimberly-Clark, UNICEF, The RedPlum Network and LeapFrog Interactive will discuss the latest trends in performance marketing.  For more information, head on over to www.pontiflex.com/cplsummit. Type in (Mashable) next to your first name. The first ten sign-ups from Mashable.com will receive free invites for this invitation-only event.\n\nMarch 31, 2009, Bern, Switzerland: As part of its six-month talent search to identify, mentor and promote Europe\u2019s top startups, Innovate!Europe is hosting a Going Global workshop which will be followed by an invite-only networking meet-up co-hosted by Orrick and Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency CTI. If you are a European entrepreneur looking to improve your skills and expand your global reach, we encourage you to apply to participate in Innovate!Europe. There is no cost to participate in the Going Global workshop, where you will sharpen your market position and strengthen your presentation skills with the help of renowned analysts who've heard and honed thousands of company pitches. Other workshops and meet-ups are scheduled for Dublin, London, Paris, Berlin and other European cities in 2009. Apply today to receive invaluable learning and guidance to help move your startup from the local market to the global stage. Visit http://www.innovate-events.com to learn more.\n\n\nMarch 31-April 3, 2009: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco brings together the designers, developers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketing professionals, product managers, and business strategists \u2013 from start-ups to enterprises \u2013 that are building the next-generation web. Along with a dynamic Expo Hall and plenty of networking opportunities, five main conference tracks discuss a spectrum of topics from business strategy to web design, user experience, developer hacks, community building, security, mobile, web ops, and more. Register today \u2013 use code websf09btd18 save $100 or get a free Expo Pass at www.web2expo.com/sf.\n\n\nApril 1, 2009, Philadelphia: NextWeb's Philadelphia mixer/networking event provides a foundation for entrepreneurs and professionals from all fields to come together, network, and discuss all elements of Social Media, Networking, etc. Please join us and enjoy appetizers and drink specials. RSVP at http://nextwebphilly.eventbrite.com.\n\n\nApril 1-2, 2009, New York City: The Bootstrapper Venture Summit II (BVS II) is an exclusive conference featuring compelling talks by some of the top entrepreneurs in the world and pitches by up-and-coming companies. It is by application only and is only open to approved  entrepreneurs and investors.\nThe first day of the conference will focus on Digital Media &amp; Technology and the second day is planned as an International Capital Networking day where we will be bringing in companies spanning various industries from around the world.\n\n\nApril 1-3, 2009, Napa, CA: Despite years of print content, publishers are still having trouble defining themselves online. The theme at the Mequoda Summit this year is \"How to Make Money Online in a Web 2.0 World\" and focuses its efforts on teaching publishers that are still stuck in the 1.0 phase, how to compete with their fierce 2.0 competition. Sessions cover SEO strategy, website strategy, editorial strategy, product strategy, business strategy, advertising strategy, email strategy, organizational strategy and reporting strategy. There will also be an extensive SEO workshop. To get a $100 discount on this event, send an email titled \"Mashable Reader Discount\" to customercare [at] mequoda [dot] com or call Amanda MacArthur at 866-713-1005.\n\n\nApril 4-5, 2009, Silicon Valley, CA: The Wild Pockets Bay Area Game Jam event is two days of intense creativity where teams of game developers compete to create the best games while using the new, free Wild Pockets 3D platform and game engine.   24 hours after you start, you and your team will have the chance to submit your game and have it judged by a panel of industry experts.  The game jam will also feature industry speakers, recruiters from top companies, tips and tricks for creating and monetizing your games, super cool prizes for the winning teams, giveaways, networking, PR coverage and much more!!  Winning games will be featured and distributed on Crispy Gamer alongside cash and other cool prizes.  Check out http://wildpockets-mashable.eventbrite.com/ for details and registration!  And best of all \u2013 it\u2019s a completely free event.\n\n\nApril 16, 2009, Los Angeles, CA: Are you ready for the shift to social media?  This session, hosted by Sally Falkow with guest speaker Paul Gillin, focuses on social media campaign researching and planning including how to identify important influencers, evangelists and detractors, pinpoint relevant communities and create a strong online reputation. An in-depth white paper accompanies this webinar. Other sessions include guest speakers John Blossom, Rebecca Lieb and Katie Delahaye Paine. Session costs are $125 each or $425 for all four sessions. Archived versions are available. Visit us at Social Media Roadmap and use the code mw10 for a 10% discount.\n\nApril 21-23, 2009, San Francisco: There's little room in this economy for marketing missteps. Get it right with SMX@ad:tech, featuring case studies, a media boot camp, training courses, takeaway tips and more! The opening keynote features Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia.org. Use code: BRSFZ5 to save 20%: www.ad-tech.com/sf\n\n\nApril 25-28, 2009, Toronto, Canada: FITC Toronto 2009 celebrates what it means to live, think and play outside the lines with a three-day event focused on the art and craft of Interactive design, April 25 - 28, 2009, at the Toronto Hilton in Toronto, Canada.  Now in its 8th year, FITC Toronto is one of the largest and longest running events for the design and technology community. This year's speakers   include: David Carson, Joshua Davis, Joshua Hirsch, and MK12.  The event is open to Flash and FLEX designers and developers, animators, programmers, motion graphic artists, creative directors, account managers, and anyone interested in Interactive design and technology. A 20% discount can be had with code MASHABLE.\n\nApril 26-28, 2009, San Francisco, CA: The Nonprofit Technology Conference is THE place to engage around the technology issues that face the nonprofit sector. Nearly 1200 people will come together from across the country and around the world to connect with our peers, learn from our heroes, and change the world.  It's true that our sector will face remarkable challenges in the coming year. Joining us for the 2009 NTC will put you among those poised not only to meet those challenges, but to rise above them. Can you afford not to be there?  Mashable readers can get the NTEN rate ($200 off) when using code Mash09NTC to register!\n\nApril 27-29, 2009, West Hollywood, CA: Mashable is proud to be an affiliate partner of the upcoming OnHollywood event, where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries.  Register now to take advantage of the exclusive 50%-off discount for Mashable readers.\n\n\nToday to April 28, 2009, EVERYWHERE:  Social Actions' Change the Web Challenge invites developers to create innovative web applications and widgets that help people find and share opportunities to make a difference on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit every day. Winners will share $10,000 in prizes and will be announced at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference on April 28, 2009. For more information, and a full schedule of real-world and virtual events, visit: socialactions.com/changetheweb.\n\n\nApril 28-29, 2009, San Francisco: The Inbound Marketing Summit is a marketing conference organized by Chris Brogan, David Meerman Scott and Paul Gillin.  The Inbound Marketing Summit brings together experts in the field of new media marketing to share the latest strategies, tools, and best practices to utilize new marketing methods to grow your business.  Speakers include: Tim O\u2019Reilly, Charlene Li, Loic LeMeur, Tim Ferriss, Jason Falls, Brian Solis, and many more.  For more details please visit our website (and use code MASH200 for a $200 discount!)\n\nApril 28-29, 2009, Amsterdam: a4uexpo will be the first Pan European Affiliate Marketing Conference &amp; Exhibition, designed to bring together everyone working in and around the European Affiliate Marketing industry. The action-packed two-day event will provide a professional environment in which Affiliates, Merchants, Agencies, Networks and Suppliers can come together, share knowledge, meet colleagues and debate the market's very existence and future development. a4uexpo Europe is perfect platform for business-dealing, networking, celebration and fun. A 10% discount for Mashable members can be had if you register with code Mashable09.\n\nApril 28, 2009, New York City: The second Mashable NextUp NYC at the 92YTribeca will bring together the local startup community, from startups in their infancy to those that are now successful small to medium businesses. The night will comprise of networking, a presentations session from local startups and a panel with successful New York founded startups.  Panelists include Philip James of Snooth, Avner Ronen of Boxee, Michael Galpert of Aviary, Scott Belsky of Behance, and our very own Adam Ostrow of Mashable.  Find out more (and get ticket details) at Mashable's Lessons from the Local Internet Startup Community.\n\n\nApril 29, 2009, New York City: BlogWell will present unprecedented insight on social media and corporate blogging from Nokia, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Tyson Foods, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, General Electric, Johnson &amp; Johnson, and more. Discussions include measuring ROI, managing teams, legal issues, working with agencies, and creating great content. Mashable readers can get 10% off by using code thanksmashable when registering.\n\nApril 30-May 1, 2009, London: FOWD London is back for 2009! Join the industry's leading, most talented designers, developers and artists for some inspiration and practical advice.The goal of this show is to unite, inspire and equip web designers around the world. We want you to walk away from FOWD knowing that you're not alone in your battle to create beautiful, usable and accessible websites and apps. The conference on the 30th April includes some great names including: Jim Coudal, Molly Holzschlag, Folkert Gorter, Mark Boulton, Meagan Fisher.  You also have the chance to attend a day of workshops on the 1st May which is the ideal opportunity to learn some new skills in an intimate classroom environment. Find out more.\n\n\nMay 1, 2009, Philadelphia, PA: The Mashable team is excited for our first ever event in Philadelphia. Mashable Mixer Philly will be a great opportunity to meet with Adam Hirsch (COO), Adam Ostrow (Editor-in-Chief), Sharon Feder (Features Editor), Brett Petersel (East Coast Events Director) and the local social media community. Thanks to IndyHall for partnering with us to help make the night one to remember. Location and ticketing to be announced shortly.\n\nMay 5-6, 2009, Hamburg, Germany: If you're shaping the interactive trends in Europe, Next09 is your event. With this year's topic of \"Share Economy,\" the next conference is both the meeting place for Europeans and international attendees to connect and share insights, as well as get access to the German market. The programme includes some great names like Brian Solis and Steve Rubel, as well as speakers from companies like Amazon, BMW, Coca-Cola and Google.\nUse our promotional code mashable435 to get 20% off when registering.\n\n\nMay 7, 2009, Seattle, WA: The Seattle 2.0 Awards recognizes the amazing accomplishments of the best from over 300 Seattle-based technology startups \u2013 the second biggest startup cluster in the US \u2013 and the exceptional people who are behind their heroic efforts. Nominate your favorites until March 25 and make sure you and your colleagues vote for the finalists between March 30 and April 28, and then attend the awards ceremony on May 7 in the biggest gathering of CEOs, Founders and Investors in Seattle.\n\n\nMay 7, 2009, Sanford, CA: Do you have the world\u2019s next big idea? Here\u2019s your chance to PITCH. Women 2.0\u2019s third-annual Startup Competition will provide your alpha, beta, or prototype-stage startup with exposure to early stage investors. The judging panel includes investors and experienced startup executives who will provide valuable written feedback on your business.\nHUNDREDS of submissions will receive valuable feedback from the judging panel of investors and experienced startup executives. FIVE startups will be chosen to pitch live on Pitch Night: May 7th, 2009. ONE winning startup gets a meeting with legendary investor Michael Moritz from Sequoia Capital in addition to free office space, legal services, marketing support, PR support, and more \u2013 everything you need to win with your new idea.\nHow to submit: See details on the PITCH 2009 web page for details on the 3-step submissions process.  You have a firm deadline of April 10th for your submission. At least ONE of the founding members needs to be female to qualify. Submissions are accepted GLOBALLY but if selected finalists must be present on May 7th in San Francisco.\n\n\nMay 11-14, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario: Attend the Advanced Learning Institute\u2019s \"8th Forum on Social Media for Government: How To Engage Your Employees And Citizens By Using The Latest Web 2.0 Technologies To Drive Communication Results\" to learn how to capture the power of social media in your organization, along with helpful tools, tips and techniques to get started.\nHear from leading experts at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, National Aboriginal Health Organization, City of Ottawa, ON, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canadian Embassy, Ontario Ministry of Government Services, and more, how to engage your employees and citizens by using social media.  $200 off for Mashable members can be had by mentioning mashable.\n\nMay 11-14, 2009, Washington DC: Attend the \"Advanced Learning Institute\u2019s 25th Forum on Internal Branding: How Branding And Communications Drive Employee Engagement And Improve Your Organization's Bottom Line\" to learn how to create brand champions and advance your organizational goals.\nHear from leading experts NASA, Dean Foods Company, ServiceMaster, Kaiser Permanente, Royal Mail, Federal Aviation Administration, REM Medical Corp., The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Watson Wyatt Worldwide, and more, how to integrate social media strategies and technology into your marketing and communications programs to build customer and employee relationships and drive bottom-line results.\nMention \u201CMashable\u201D when registering to save $200.\n\n\nMay 14, 2009, Atlanta, GA: Mashable and Regator are proud to announce the first ever Mashable event in Atlanta: we have a special evening planned so we look forward to meeting the Atlanta social media community. Mashable team members in attendance will include Adam Hirsch (COO), Adam Ostrow (Editor-in-Chief), Sharon Feder (Features Editor) and Brett Petersel (East Coast Events Director). Location and ticketing to be announced shortly.\n\nMay 18, 2009, San Francisco, CA: The SanFran MusicTech Summit is an all day event with a cocktail party thereafter and features the leading Bay Area developers, musicians, entrepreneurs, investors, press, service providers, and organizations in the music/technology space, at the convergence of culture and commerce. There will be panels, conversations, and schmoozing on the evolving music/technology ecosystem, in an elegant and conducive to dealmaking environment. Pete Cashmore calls this event \u201CThe BEST Music and Technology Conference.\u201D Speakers will come from Pandora, YouTube, Rhapsody, The Washington Post, The Future of Music Coalition, SoundExchange, Cisco, and many, many more.  Get 10% off if you use the discount code mashable when you register.\n\nMay 19-20, 2009, New York City: In turbulent economic times, it is critically important to understand what opportunities exist to make our businesses run better.  The Web 3.0 Conference will explore how companies are using a new generation of tools and technologies today, and should be using them tomorrow, for significant bottom line impact in areas like marketing, corporate information management, customer service, and personal productivity.  Join us at the Web 3.0 conference to hear from and meet the people that are bringing you this exciting new world and to learn how these technologies can impact your organizations today.  A 15% discount is offered to Mashable readers with code XW3MASH.\n\nMay 19-21, 2009, San Jose, CA: The earth isn't flat, and maps don't live in the glove compartment anymore. The O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference will pinpoint how far location technology has reached, explore the boundaries of geospace, and point the way into the location frontier. Now in its fifth year, the Where 2.0 Conference is where the grassroots and leading-edge developers building location-aware technology intersect with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps, platforms, and hardware to gain a competitive edge. In the O'Reilly conference tradition, Where 2.0 presents leading trends rather than chasing them.  Join us as we delve into the emerging technologies surrounding the geospatial industry. Register by March 31 and save up to $300 - https://en.oreilly.com/where2009/public/register. Mashable readers save an additional 15% using code whr09msh.\n\nMay 21, 2009, Los Angeles, CA: Put your social media plan in motion.  This session, hosted by Sally Falkow with guest Rebecca Lieb, focuses on choosing your social media campaign tactics including how to develop your content strategy, leverage universal search, and how to choose the best tools from blogging, to video, images, RSS feeds and social networks. An in-depth white paper accompanies this webinar. Other sessions include guest speakers John Blossom, Paul Gillin and Katie Delahaye Paine. Session costs are $125 each or $425 for all four sessions, but with code mw10, you can get a 10% discount. Archived versions are available. Visit us at Social Media Roadmap.\n\n\nMay 27-June 3, 2009, England: The Carsonified team is taking the 'Future of Web Apps' (FOWA) on tour and we'll be visiting Edinburgh (5/27), Leeds (5/28), Cambridge (6/2) and Bristol (6/3). It's a brand new half day conference, with a morning of free cloud computing workshops and an afternoon of talks from some of the industry's most well respected professionals. We'll be focusing on good solid technical content... talks that will give you some good take away points and an insight into various aspects of the industry. There will also be a chance for some speed networking - the perfect opportunity to connect with local businesses and professionals.  Oh, and of course there will be drinks at the end of the day! Thirty early bird passes  are available at \u00A339, and when these run out, prices will be rising to \u00A359.\n\nJune 1-2, 2009, New York City: Two years ago, the first Conversational Marketing Summit made the case for a new kind of engagement with audiences. Now we have real cases to study. Join us for a chance to look back at what the creative pioneers have learned and turn that experience into great ideas for the next stage of Conversational Marketing. Mashable readers get a $200 discount with code CMSMASH \u2014 but hurry, because the code is valid until 4/6/09.\n\nJune 1-2, 2009, Airport City, Israel: Nowadays, affiliates constantly look into new market niches. The days affiliates were focusing on a single market niche are over. Affilicon covers the entire market and not any specific niche. The conferences are targeting new affiliates, experienced affiliates, and super affiliates as well as the respective affiliates programs (vendors). Affiliates who look into what is the latest and greatest in the market, new market niches and vendors who look into extending their affiliation network will find Affilicon events as the place to be. With extensive educational program (3 tracks in some locations), large exhibition attended by global vendors, lot of fun and sightseeing, Affilicon delivers a clear return on investment.  Mashable readers get 10% off with code AU555MASH.\n\nJune 3, 2009, New York City: The third Mashable NextUp NYC will focus on what is new, what\u2019s hot and the how to of Social Media Marketing, and will also be held at the 92YTribeca. Every successful site, whether you are a small business or a major corporation should have a social media component by now\u2026 If you don\u2019t, you are far behind, if you do, are you using it properly? The night will comprise of networking, presentations and keynotes on the topic by Steve Rubel and Mashable\u2019s Founder and CEO, Pete Cashmore.\n\n\nJune 8-10, 2009, Orlando, FL: The Gartner Portals, Content &amp; Collaboration Summit is the productivity-minded event focused on finding better ways to deliver resources, streamline content delivery and storage, and bring people together for greater efficiency. Go to gartner.com/us/pccspring or call 1 866 405 2511 and reference priority code PCCMASH.\n\nJune 10, 2009, Mountain View, CA: The Online Community Unconference is a gathering of online community practitioners - managers, developers, business people, tool providers, investors - to discuss experience and strategies in the development and growth of online communities. Those involved in online community development (and social software in general) share many common challenges: community management, tools, marketing, business models, legal issues. As we have found with our past events, the best source of information on all of these challenges is other knowledgeable practitioners. Register with code mashable to get $#20 off.\n\nJune 20-22, 2009, San Jose, CA: O'Reilly Velocity 2009, the Web Operations and Performance Conference dedicated to helping people build a better Internet, is the essential conference for web developers who build Internet infrastructure, enterprise websites, or need to bootstrap a startup to scale for a global audience. Last year more than 600 of the web's leading developers attended Velocity to learn \u2014 straight from the experts \u2014 how to build large scale websites that were fast, scalable, efficient, and always available. Register Now &amp; save an additional 15% using discount code vel09msh at https://en.oreilly.com/velocity2009/public/register\n\n\nJuly 24-26, 2009, Napa and Sonoma, CA: Did you know blogging is changing the wine industry as we know it?  Love wine?  Love blogging?  Join as fellow wine bloggers, new media innovators in the wine industry, and wine industry leaders converge on California wine country on July 24-26 for the premier conference for new media and the wine industry.  This three day symposium brings you a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss the intersection of wine with the world of new media including blogging, social media, and more. We hope to see you there - it's going to be a fantastic wine country experience! Get a discount by entering MASH when you register!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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