The last full week of June concentrates Creator Economy programming across Europe and North America, anchored by the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in southern France and VidCon’s 15th annual edition in Anaheim. Events span the Croisette from the main festival, its dedicated creator track, and two brand activations, to a travel creator conference in Richmond, Virginia, an innovation festival in Bologna, and creator networking and monetization events in California and London. Professional audiences across the week include brand marketers, independent creators, advertising executives, talent managers, platform representatives, and travel content creators.
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity gathers advertising and creative marketing professionals in Cannes for five days of programming, awards ceremonies, workshops, and networking. The 2026 edition features six content streams, including the newly introduced Cannes Lions Deconstructed alongside Insights and Trends (co-curated with Contagious), Innovation Unwrapped, and Creativity Toolbox. Dedicated programs include the newly launched LIONS Sport, LIONS Creators, and LIONS B2B. Oprah Winfrey receives the 2026 Cannes LionHeart award, which recognizes individuals who have used their platform to drive meaningful positive change. Programming unfolds at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès and partner venues across the city.
Date: June 22-26, 2026
Venue: Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, France
LIONS Creators introduces a dedicated Creator Economy program and venue within Cannes Lions, produced in partnership with Adobe. The track occupies an exclusive beach space at Palais Beach with a dedicated stage, content studio, editing suite, and meeting areas organized around the business of influence. Confirmed speakers include Mel Robbins, author and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast; Dhar Mann, founder of Dhar Mann Studios; and creators Hannah Stocking, Max Klymenko, Jennifer Awirigwe, and Chingu Amiga. Scheduled programming includes a Kick-Off Breakfast, a Microsoft Creators Night featuring Yusuf Mehdi and Mel Robbins with music from Sofi Tukker and Club 1BD, an Awards Watch Party, and an invite-only Creators and Marketers Mixer. Creator passes are priced at €1,245 plus 20% sales tax and require an application; availability is limited.
United Talent Agency (UTA) returns to the Croisette with its festival hub for creators, entertainment executives, and brand leaders. The Main Stage runs Monday through Thursday from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. The confirmed Monday program features Paris Hilton in conversation with UTA Chief Executive Officer David Kramer, The Home Edit founders Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer, a panel on nostalgia and AI featuring creator Kate Bartlett alongside Nike Global Senior Director of Entertainment and Celebrity Partnerships Sari Katz and Cosmopolitan and Seventeen Editor-in-Chief Willa Bennett, and Beast Industries President and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Housenbold. Additional confirmed featured speakers across the week include Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Mel Robbins, Karlie Kloss, Olandria Carthen, and Draymond Green. Facilities include a Creator Lounge, advisory meeting spaces, and a podcast studio. UTA After Dark events are invite-only. The event drew more than 6,000 attendees in 2025. Access requires a Cannes Lions badge.
Date: June 22-25, 2026
Venue: UTA Beach, Entry at Checkpoint 3, Palais des Festivals, La Croisette, Cannes, France
RockWater hosts the Night Before VidCon at the Expert Dojo rooftop in Santa Monica, co-hosted with Owl & Co, Content Forge, and Red Seat Ventures. The event is officially partnered with VidCon for the first time and brings together 200-plus founders, executives, and investors active in the Creator Economy, digital media, and technology. Programming centers on networking and an open bar. The event is curated for founders, CEOs, senior executives, and investors; service providers are required to sponsor for entry. Tickets require host approval. Hosts are Chris Erwin, Founder of RockWater, and Michael Booth, Partner at RockWater. Gold sponsors include Greenberg Glusker and Cookie Finance; Tipalti serves as a silver sponsor.
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 5:00-8:00 PM PDT
Venue: Expert Dojo Rooftop, 1218 5th Street, Santa Monica, California
The Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) holds its North American edition in Richmond, Virginia, targeting travel content creators and destination marketing professionals. Programming spans more than 30 sessions, workshops, and industry forums covering content creation, SEO, monetization, photography, video, social media marketing, and Influencer Marketing, delivered by more than 40 speakers. Confirmed speakers include Penny Zibula, Caroline Makepeace, Cory Lee, Martinique Lewis, Valerie Stimac Bailey, and Kris Njatcha, among others. A Media Marketplace component facilitates structured one-on-one meetings between creators and tourism boards, destination management organizations, and travel brands. Content creator tickets are priced at $647 and industry professional tickets at $897.
Date: June 23-26, 2026
Venue: Greater Richmond Convention Center, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Billion Dollar Boy and FiveTwoNine co-host a curated rooftop session during Cannes Lions, produced in partnership with Patreon with Tubefilter as media partner. The half-day program examines what brand marketers need to reconsider in a creator-led media environment, structured around three discussion themes: feed-native creative strategy and the shift away from legacy brand frameworks, audience-participatory formats including micro-dramas, and how senior marketing leaders are restructuring teams and budgets around social content velocity. Attendees have access to conversations with brand leaders, creators, and platform representatives, as well as introductions to the 20 winners of the Billion Dollar Boy Creator Fund. A Patreon and FiveTwoNine Happy Hour follows the formal program. Registration is subject to host approval; spaces are limited.
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:30-4:00 PM CEST
Venue: Rooftop venue, Cannes, France (exact address provided upon accepted registration)
WMF Creators Fest returns as the dedicated Creator Economy track within WMF (We Make Future), an international innovation festival held at BolognaFiere. The 2026 edition builds on the previous year’s event, which featured more than 150 creators, with programming across dedicated stages covering social media strategy, content marketing, music and the arts, and gaming. Core activations include creator talks and interviews on the WMF Mainstage, C2B (Creators to Business) meetings pairing brands with creators for collaboration opportunities, an Open Stage for creator presentations, and a Creators Live space supporting live content production across all three days. Confirmed participants include content creators Camihawke, Guglielmo Scilla, Jakidale, and Gabriele Vagnato, alongside Aprajita Jain, Chief Brand at Google.
VidCon returns to Anaheim for its 15th annual edition, introducing a Brand Match Accelerator offering invitation-only creator-brand networking. Programming runs across three pass tiers: a fan-focused VidCon Pass, a Creator Pass for content creators, and a Pro Pass for digital media professionals and brands. The 2026 Hall of Fame inductees are Markiplier, Michelle Phan, Casey Ho, and Philip DeFranco. Confirmed Pro Pass speakers include Malik Ducard, Chief Content Officer at Pinterest; Dan Clancy, Chief Executive Officer of Twitch; Ceci Mourkogiannis, Vice President of Product at Snap; and Taylor Lorenz, journalist at User Mag. Confirmed Creator Pass speakers include Todd Beaupré, Senior Director at YouTube; Chris Do, founder of The Futur; and Kevin Espiritu, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Epic Gardening.
Date: June 25-27, 2026
Venue: Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California
Creator Live London is a one-day in-person event for content creators focused on personal brand building, content strategy, and monetization. Organized by Jun Yuh, who has built an audience of more than 5 million on Instagram, the event features tactical sessions on content creation, audience growth, digital product development, and platform algorithm strategy, alongside live panels and interactive creation activations with more than 20 speakers. Programming runs 10 AM to 7 PM, with doors opening at 8:30 AM. General admission tickets are priced at £40.
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The last full week of June concentrates Creator Economy programming across Europe and North America, anchored by the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in southern France and VidCon’s 15th annual edition in Anaheim. Events span the Croisette from the main festival, its dedicated creator track, and two brand activations, to a travel creator conference in Richmond, Virginia, an innovation festival in Bologna, and creator networking and monetization events in California and London. Professional audiences across the week include brand marketers, independent creators, advertising executives, talent managers, platform representatives, and travel content creators.
Cannes Lions Festival 2026
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity gathers advertising and creative marketing professionals in Cannes for five days of programming, awards ceremonies, workshops, and networking. The 2026 edition features six content streams, including the newly introduced Cannes Lions Deconstructed alongside Insights and Trends (co-curated with Contagious), Innovation Unwrapped, and Creativity Toolbox. Dedicated programs include the newly launched LIONS Sport, LIONS Creators, and LIONS B2B. Oprah Winfrey receives the 2026 Cannes LionHeart award, which recognizes individuals who have used their platform to drive meaningful positive change. Programming unfolds at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès and partner venues across the city.
Date: June 22-26, 2026
Venue: Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, France
LIONS Creators
LIONS Creators introduces a dedicated Creator Economy program and venue within Cannes Lions, produced in partnership with Adobe. The track occupies an exclusive beach space at Palais Beach with a dedicated stage, content studio, editing suite, and meeting areas organized around the business of influence. Confirmed speakers include Mel Robbins, author and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast; Dhar Mann, founder of Dhar Mann Studios; and creators Hannah Stocking, Max Klymenko, Jennifer Awirigwe, and Chingu Amiga. Scheduled programming includes a Kick-Off Breakfast, a Microsoft Creators Night featuring Yusuf Mehdi and Mel Robbins with music from Sofi Tukker and Club 1BD, an Awards Watch Party, and an invite-only Creators and Marketers Mixer. Creator passes are priced at €1,245 plus 20% sales tax and require an application; availability is limited.
Date: June 22-26, 2026
Venue: Palais Beach, Cannes, France
UTA Beach at Cannes Lions 2026
United Talent Agency (UTA) returns to the Croisette with its festival hub for creators, entertainment executives, and brand leaders. The Main Stage runs Monday through Thursday from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. The confirmed Monday program features Paris Hilton in conversation with UTA Chief Executive Officer David Kramer, The Home Edit founders Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer, a panel on nostalgia and AI featuring creator Kate Bartlett alongside Nike Global Senior Director of Entertainment and Celebrity Partnerships Sari Katz and Cosmopolitan and Seventeen Editor-in-Chief Willa Bennett, and Beast Industries President and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Housenbold. Additional confirmed featured speakers across the week include Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Mel Robbins, Karlie Kloss, Olandria Carthen, and Draymond Green. Facilities include a Creator Lounge, advisory meeting spaces, and a podcast studio. UTA After Dark events are invite-only. The event drew more than 6,000 attendees in 2025. Access requires a Cannes Lions badge.
Date: June 22-25, 2026
Venue: UTA Beach, Entry at Checkpoint 3, Palais des Festivals, La Croisette, Cannes, France
Night Before VidCon
RockWater hosts the Night Before VidCon at the Expert Dojo rooftop in Santa Monica, co-hosted with Owl & Co, Content Forge, and Red Seat Ventures. The event is officially partnered with VidCon for the first time and brings together 200-plus founders, executives, and investors active in the Creator Economy, digital media, and technology. Programming centers on networking and an open bar. The event is curated for founders, CEOs, senior executives, and investors; service providers are required to sponsor for entry. Tickets require host approval. Hosts are Chris Erwin, Founder of RockWater, and Michael Booth, Partner at RockWater. Gold sponsors include Greenberg Glusker and Cookie Finance; Tipalti serves as a silver sponsor.
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 5:00-8:00 PM PDT
Venue: Expert Dojo Rooftop, 1218 5th Street, Santa Monica, California
TBEX North America 2026
The Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) holds its North American edition in Richmond, Virginia, targeting travel content creators and destination marketing professionals. Programming spans more than 30 sessions, workshops, and industry forums covering content creation, SEO, monetization, photography, video, social media marketing, and Influencer Marketing, delivered by more than 40 speakers. Confirmed speakers include Penny Zibula, Caroline Makepeace, Cory Lee, Martinique Lewis, Valerie Stimac Bailey, and Kris Njatcha, among others. A Media Marketplace component facilitates structured one-on-one meetings between creators and tourism boards, destination management organizations, and travel brands. Content creator tickets are priced at $647 and industry professional tickets at $897.
Date: June 23-26, 2026
Venue: Greater Richmond Convention Center, Richmond, Virginia, United States
The Great Unlearn @ Cannes Lions 2026
Billion Dollar Boy and FiveTwoNine co-host a curated rooftop session during Cannes Lions, produced in partnership with Patreon with Tubefilter as media partner. The half-day program examines what brand marketers need to reconsider in a creator-led media environment, structured around three discussion themes: feed-native creative strategy and the shift away from legacy brand frameworks, audience-participatory formats including micro-dramas, and how senior marketing leaders are restructuring teams and budgets around social content velocity. Attendees have access to conversations with brand leaders, creators, and platform representatives, as well as introductions to the 20 winners of the Billion Dollar Boy Creator Fund. A Patreon and FiveTwoNine Happy Hour follows the formal program. Registration is subject to host approval; spaces are limited.
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:30-4:00 PM CEST
Venue: Rooftop venue, Cannes, France (exact address provided upon accepted registration)
WMF Creators Fest
WMF Creators Fest returns as the dedicated Creator Economy track within WMF (We Make Future), an international innovation festival held at BolognaFiere. The 2026 edition builds on the previous year’s event, which featured more than 150 creators, with programming across dedicated stages covering social media strategy, content marketing, music and the arts, and gaming. Core activations include creator talks and interviews on the WMF Mainstage, C2B (Creators to Business) meetings pairing brands with creators for collaboration opportunities, an Open Stage for creator presentations, and a Creators Live space supporting live content production across all three days. Confirmed participants include content creators Camihawke, Guglielmo Scilla, Jakidale, and Gabriele Vagnato, alongside Aprajita Jain, Chief Brand at Google.
Date: June 24-26, 2026
Venue: BolognaFiere, Bologna, Italy
VidCon Anaheim 2026
VidCon returns to Anaheim for its 15th annual edition, introducing a Brand Match Accelerator offering invitation-only creator-brand networking. Programming runs across three pass tiers: a fan-focused VidCon Pass, a Creator Pass for content creators, and a Pro Pass for digital media professionals and brands. The 2026 Hall of Fame inductees are Markiplier, Michelle Phan, Casey Ho, and Philip DeFranco. Confirmed Pro Pass speakers include Malik Ducard, Chief Content Officer at Pinterest; Dan Clancy, Chief Executive Officer of Twitch; Ceci Mourkogiannis, Vice President of Product at Snap; and Taylor Lorenz, journalist at User Mag. Confirmed Creator Pass speakers include Todd Beaupré, Senior Director at YouTube; Chris Do, founder of The Futur; and Kevin Espiritu, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Epic Gardening.
Date: June 25-27, 2026
Venue: Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California
Creator Live London 2026
Creator Live London is a one-day in-person event for content creators focused on personal brand building, content strategy, and monetization. Organized by Jun Yuh, who has built an audience of more than 5 million on Instagram, the event features tactical sessions on content creation, audience growth, digital product development, and platform algorithm strategy, alongside live panels and interactive creation activations with more than 20 speakers. Programming runs 10 AM to 7 PM, with doors opening at 8:30 AM. General admission tickets are priced at £40.
Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026
Venue: The Troxy, London, United Kingdom
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