This issue’s Creator Economy calendar spans nine events from October 19 through November 12, 2026, with stops in London, Orlando, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Halifax, Houston, Westlake Village, Lisbon, and Miami Beach. The slate covers affiliate marketing, brand CMO strategy, entertainment IP dealmaking, AI-focused media buying, Atlantic Canada social media marketing, Black professional development in technology, beauty and wellness strategy, and global technology and creative-software programming. Primary audiences include affiliate marketers, brand CMOs, entertainment executives, media buyers, social media marketers, Black technology professionals, beauty and wellness executives, and startup and creative professionals.
PI LIVE Europe, produced by Hello Partner and billed as the Festival of Partnerships, convenes across a three-venue campus in London for its affiliate, retail media, and partnership marketing community. The festival runs specialist summits, expert clinics, Hosted Meetings, and interactive Build Lab workshops across the Direction, Well, and Action stages at Old Billingsgate, with dedicated Summit stages at The Steel Yard and additional networking at the Partner’s Arms. Programming addresses affiliate and publisher models, AI-driven attribution, retail media, social commerce, fintech, and creator partnerships through a Retail Media and Creator Street track. Organizers report more than 100 expert speakers and more than 16,500 networking meetings. Registered brands include Nike, TikTok, NatWest, Dyson, and Virgin Atlantic. The festival closes with an awards ceremony and after-party.
Date: October 19-21, 2026
Venue: Old Billingsgate and The Steel Yard, London, United Kingdom
The Association of National Advertisers holds its 2026 Masters of Marketing Conference at Rosen Shingle Creek, themed “Catalyzing Growth” and presented by Havas. The four-day program convenes chief marketing officers and brand leaders for keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking addressing AI, creativity, brand fundamentals, and performance marketing, with a hybrid virtual attendance option powered by Grip. Confirmed main stage speakers include Procter & Gamble chief brand officer Marc S. Pritchard, TikTok segment director Liza Heller, Coca-Cola executive vice president and chief marketing and customer commercial officer Manolo Arroyo, Verizon executive vice president and chief marketing officer Leslie Berland, and The LEGO Group chief product and marketing officer Julia Goldin. Actress and singer Katharine McPhee performs as part of the conference’s entertainment program. Client-side marketers attend free; nonmember in-person registration starts at $3,499.
Date: October 20-23, 2026
Venue: Rosen Shingle Creek, 9939 Universal Blvd., Orlando, Florida
UP NEXT: The Creator IP Market holds its inaugural single-day event in Los Angeles, developed in partnership with The Hollywood Reporter and produced by Access Media. The market is designed to connect development-ready digital creators directly with studios, streamers, broadcasters, talent agencies, brands, and investors through curated one-to-one meetings, industry networking, IP showcases, panels, and keynote conversations. Attendance is accredited and limited, with applicants applying under one of three tracks: Buyer, Creator or Industry. Scott Benzie, founder of WorldBuilder Summit and former CEO of Buffer Festival, serves as General Manager. The Hollywood Reporter editor-in-chief Maer Roshan says the event is designed to bring the Creator Economy and Hollywood together as digital creators increasingly fuel studio talent pipelines and brand marketing strategies.
Digiday holds its Media Buying Summit at VEA Newport Beach, convening agency and brand-side media buyers for three days focused on artificial intelligence’s effect on programmatic advertising, content creation, Influencer Marketing and retail media. Confirmed sessions include “The Creator Authenticity Problem,” addressing credibility and scale in creator partnerships, led by Open Influence vice president and head of creative strategy Alex Mathieu. Additional programming covers hidden fees in programmatic buying, social commerce, and AI-generated content risk. Confirmed speakers include Crocs chief marketing officer Carly Gomez, Forrester vice president and principal analyst Jay Pattisall, and executives from Horizon Media, Dentsu North America and Realtor.com.
Date: October 26-28, 2026
Venue: VEA Newport Beach, 900 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California
SocialEast, produced by SocialNext, holds its eighth annual edition at the Halifax Convention Centre, billed as Atlantic Canada’s largest marketing conference. The 1.5-day program runs more than 25 sessions across content marketing and video, email and SMS, marketing technology, artificial intelligence, Influencer Marketing, digital brand strategy, social media and analytics. Confirmed speakers include Reddit’s Gilbert Nguyen, Snapchat’s V Gaik, TikTok’s Jeff Topol, Meta’s Felipe Barrientos, and Metricool’s Anniston Ward. Workshops run the morning of October 29, followed by conference sessions on both days and an East Coast Kitchen Party reception. A discounted registration rate is available through October 20.
Date: October 29-30, 2026
Venue: Halifax Convention Centre, 1650 Argyle Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
AfroTech Conference, produced by Blavity Inc., returns to the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston for its 10th anniversary edition, with programming running Monday through Friday across approximately 129 sessions. The event centers on professional development, startup culture, and corporate recruiting for Black professionals in technology and adds a HealthStack Conference track this year alongside specialized workshops and continuing education credits. More than 60 companies are confirmed on the expo floor, including NVIDIA, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, Amazon, Capital One, LinkedIn, Walmart, Disney and Riot Games. Confirmed speakers include Delta Air Lines head of global brand and creative Shannon Womack, Reign Ventures co-founder and general partner Monique Idlett, and Deloitte’s Larry Quinlan.
Date: November 2-6, 2026
Venue: George R. Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida de las Americas, Houston, Texas
Glossy, a Digiday Media publication, holds its Beauty x Wellness Summit at the Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village for three days of executive-level beauty and wellness programming. Creator-focused sessions include “When Community Becomes the Brand,” in which POV Beauty co-founder and chief executive officer Ani Hadjinian and POV Beauty founder and content creator Mikayla Nogueira discuss converting creator influence into a standalone beauty business, and “The Future of Brand Discovery: Building Visibility in an AI-Powered, Creator-Led World,” in which Statusphere founder and chief executive officer Kristen Wiley addresses how creator content is reshaping product discovery and how beauty brands build scalable programs around micro and nano creators.
Date: November 9-11, 2026
Venue: Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village, 2 Dole Drive, Westlake Village, California 91362
Web Summit returns to Lisbon’s Altice Arena and the Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL) for four days, convening technology leaders, startups, investors and media across artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, sustainability and digital transformation. Organizers project more than 70,000 attendees, 900-plus speakers, 2,300-plus exhibiting startups and 1,200-plus investors. Programming opens with an evening session at Altice Arena on November 9, with main conference days running November 10 through 12 across the FIL pavilions. An official evening program, Night Summit, runs networking events across bars and districts in Lisbon throughout the week.
Date: November 9-12, 2026
Venue: Altice Arena and Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL), Lisbon, Portugal
Adobe holds its annual creativity conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center, with in-person pre-conference courses running November 8-9 ahead of three main days of keynotes, sessions and labs. One of seven content tracks is dedicated to Creator Economy, which Adobe describes as extending beyond influencers to designers, agency creatives, freelancers, and creative entrepreneurs building brands and revenue streams across digital platforms. Confirmed sessions include “A Creator’s Kitchen: Build, Batch, and Brand Your Content,” led by content creator Cindy Chen of Cindy Chen Designs on batching and branding content with Adobe’s creative tools, and “Creator Trust and Authenticity: A Pinterest Insider’s POV,” addressing how platforms like Pinterest are reshaping content discovery and trust for creators. A free online option runs November 10-11.
Date: November 10-12, 2026 (pre-conference courses November 8-9; free online programming November 10-11)
Venue: Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida
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This issue’s Creator Economy calendar spans nine events from October 19 through November 12, 2026, with stops in London, Orlando, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Halifax, Houston, Westlake Village, Lisbon, and Miami Beach. The slate covers affiliate marketing, brand CMO strategy, entertainment IP dealmaking, AI-focused media buying, Atlantic Canada social media marketing, Black professional development in technology, beauty and wellness strategy, and global technology and creative-software programming. Primary audiences include affiliate marketers, brand CMOs, entertainment executives, media buyers, social media marketers, Black technology professionals, beauty and wellness executives, and startup and creative professionals.
PI LIVE Europe 2026
PI LIVE Europe, produced by Hello Partner and billed as the Festival of Partnerships, convenes across a three-venue campus in London for its affiliate, retail media, and partnership marketing community. The festival runs specialist summits, expert clinics, Hosted Meetings, and interactive Build Lab workshops across the Direction, Well, and Action stages at Old Billingsgate, with dedicated Summit stages at The Steel Yard and additional networking at the Partner’s Arms. Programming addresses affiliate and publisher models, AI-driven attribution, retail media, social commerce, fintech, and creator partnerships through a Retail Media and Creator Street track. Organizers report more than 100 expert speakers and more than 16,500 networking meetings. Registered brands include Nike, TikTok, NatWest, Dyson, and Virgin Atlantic. The festival closes with an awards ceremony and after-party.
Date: October 19-21, 2026
Venue: Old Billingsgate and The Steel Yard, London, United Kingdom
ANA Masters of Marketing 2026
The Association of National Advertisers holds its 2026 Masters of Marketing Conference at Rosen Shingle Creek, themed “Catalyzing Growth” and presented by Havas. The four-day program convenes chief marketing officers and brand leaders for keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking addressing AI, creativity, brand fundamentals, and performance marketing, with a hybrid virtual attendance option powered by Grip. Confirmed main stage speakers include Procter & Gamble chief brand officer Marc S. Pritchard, TikTok segment director Liza Heller, Coca-Cola executive vice president and chief marketing and customer commercial officer Manolo Arroyo, Verizon executive vice president and chief marketing officer Leslie Berland, and The LEGO Group chief product and marketing officer Julia Goldin. Actress and singer Katharine McPhee performs as part of the conference’s entertainment program. Client-side marketers attend free; nonmember in-person registration starts at $3,499.
Date: October 20-23, 2026
Venue: Rosen Shingle Creek, 9939 Universal Blvd., Orlando, Florida
UP NEXT: The Creator IP Market
UP NEXT: The Creator IP Market holds its inaugural single-day event in Los Angeles, developed in partnership with The Hollywood Reporter and produced by Access Media. The market is designed to connect development-ready digital creators directly with studios, streamers, broadcasters, talent agencies, brands, and investors through curated one-to-one meetings, industry networking, IP showcases, panels, and keynote conversations. Attendance is accredited and limited, with applicants applying under one of three tracks: Buyer, Creator or Industry. Scott Benzie, founder of WorldBuilder Summit and former CEO of Buffer Festival, serves as General Manager. The Hollywood Reporter editor-in-chief Maer Roshan says the event is designed to bring the Creator Economy and Hollywood together as digital creators increasingly fuel studio talent pipelines and brand marketing strategies.
Date: October 21, 2026
Venue: Los Angeles, California
Digiday Media Buying Summit 2026
Digiday holds its Media Buying Summit at VEA Newport Beach, convening agency and brand-side media buyers for three days focused on artificial intelligence’s effect on programmatic advertising, content creation, Influencer Marketing and retail media. Confirmed sessions include “The Creator Authenticity Problem,” addressing credibility and scale in creator partnerships, led by Open Influence vice president and head of creative strategy Alex Mathieu. Additional programming covers hidden fees in programmatic buying, social commerce, and AI-generated content risk. Confirmed speakers include Crocs chief marketing officer Carly Gomez, Forrester vice president and principal analyst Jay Pattisall, and executives from Horizon Media, Dentsu North America and Realtor.com.
Date: October 26-28, 2026
Venue: VEA Newport Beach, 900 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California
SocialEast 2026
SocialEast, produced by SocialNext, holds its eighth annual edition at the Halifax Convention Centre, billed as Atlantic Canada’s largest marketing conference. The 1.5-day program runs more than 25 sessions across content marketing and video, email and SMS, marketing technology, artificial intelligence, Influencer Marketing, digital brand strategy, social media and analytics. Confirmed speakers include Reddit’s Gilbert Nguyen, Snapchat’s V Gaik, TikTok’s Jeff Topol, Meta’s Felipe Barrientos, and Metricool’s Anniston Ward. Workshops run the morning of October 29, followed by conference sessions on both days and an East Coast Kitchen Party reception. A discounted registration rate is available through October 20.
Date: October 29-30, 2026
Venue: Halifax Convention Centre, 1650 Argyle Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
AfroTech Conference 2026
AfroTech Conference, produced by Blavity Inc., returns to the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston for its 10th anniversary edition, with programming running Monday through Friday across approximately 129 sessions. The event centers on professional development, startup culture, and corporate recruiting for Black professionals in technology and adds a HealthStack Conference track this year alongside specialized workshops and continuing education credits. More than 60 companies are confirmed on the expo floor, including NVIDIA, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, Amazon, Capital One, LinkedIn, Walmart, Disney and Riot Games. Confirmed speakers include Delta Air Lines head of global brand and creative Shannon Womack, Reign Ventures co-founder and general partner Monique Idlett, and Deloitte’s Larry Quinlan.
Date: November 2-6, 2026
Venue: George R. Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida de las Americas, Houston, Texas
Glossy Beauty & Wellness Summit 2026
Glossy, a Digiday Media publication, holds its Beauty x Wellness Summit at the Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village for three days of executive-level beauty and wellness programming. Creator-focused sessions include “When Community Becomes the Brand,” in which POV Beauty co-founder and chief executive officer Ani Hadjinian and POV Beauty founder and content creator Mikayla Nogueira discuss converting creator influence into a standalone beauty business, and “The Future of Brand Discovery: Building Visibility in an AI-Powered, Creator-Led World,” in which Statusphere founder and chief executive officer Kristen Wiley addresses how creator content is reshaping product discovery and how beauty brands build scalable programs around micro and nano creators.
Date: November 9-11, 2026
Venue: Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village, 2 Dole Drive, Westlake Village, California 91362
Web Summit 2026
Web Summit returns to Lisbon’s Altice Arena and the Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL) for four days, convening technology leaders, startups, investors and media across artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, sustainability and digital transformation. Organizers project more than 70,000 attendees, 900-plus speakers, 2,300-plus exhibiting startups and 1,200-plus investors. Programming opens with an evening session at Altice Arena on November 9, with main conference days running November 10 through 12 across the FIL pavilions. An official evening program, Night Summit, runs networking events across bars and districts in Lisbon throughout the week.
Date: November 9-12, 2026
Venue: Altice Arena and Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL), Lisbon, Portugal
Adobe MAX 2026
Adobe holds its annual creativity conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center, with in-person pre-conference courses running November 8-9 ahead of three main days of keynotes, sessions and labs. One of seven content tracks is dedicated to Creator Economy, which Adobe describes as extending beyond influencers to designers, agency creatives, freelancers, and creative entrepreneurs building brands and revenue streams across digital platforms. Confirmed sessions include “A Creator’s Kitchen: Build, Batch, and Brand Your Content,” led by content creator Cindy Chen of Cindy Chen Designs on batching and branding content with Adobe’s creative tools, and “Creator Trust and Authenticity: A Pinterest Insider’s POV,” addressing how platforms like Pinterest are reshaping content discovery and trust for creators. A free online option runs November 10-11.
Date: November 10-12, 2026 (pre-conference courses November 8-9; free online programming November 10-11)
Venue: Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, Florida
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