This issue’s Creator Economy calendar spans 12 events from November 2 through November 18, 2026, with stops in Houston, Paris, Los Angeles, Westlake Village, Lisbon, Miami Beach, Culver City, McAllen, San Diego, Detroit, and Hollywood. The slate covers Black professional development in technology, the European Creator Economy, Black beauty creator partnerships, beauty and wellness strategy, global technology programming, creative software and creator tools, commerce and social media, South Texas creator and small business development, live streaming, Midwest creator and business programming, and creator advertising awards. Primary audiences include Black technology professionals, European Creator Economy professionals, Black beauty and wellness creators, beauty and wellness executives, creative professionals, marketers and retailers, streamers, and creators and brands.
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
Paris Creator Week convenes at the Grande Halle de la Villette for its third edition, two days of programming billed as Europe’s largest Creator Economy event. Organizers report more than 8,000 attendees, 3,000-plus creators, 300-plus speakers, 120-plus partners, and 400-plus participating brands across four tracks covering creator business, brand-creator partnerships, content production, and industry sustainability. Confirmed speakers include Twitch chief executive officer Dan Clancy, Whalar co-chief executive officer Emma Harman, and YouTube Shopping general manager and vice president Travis Katz.
Black Beauty Roster holds its annual Creator Summit, connecting Black beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and entertainment creators with brand partnerships and networking opportunities. Past editions have featured speakers including Issa Rae, Danessa Myricks, Sir John, and Karen Civil. The organizer’s own event page lists 2026 speakers as still to be announced, and the two prior editions both ran in Los Angeles in November.
Date: November 5, 2026, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Venue: The Majestic, 650 S Spring Street, Los Angeles, California
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 MEO Arena (formerly 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 MEO 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: MEO 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. Terry Crews serves as celebrity host of MAX Sneaks. 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
Adweek holds its ADWEEK House: Commerce Summit at Pinterest’s headquarters, bringing together marketers, creators, retailers, platforms, and technology companies to examine how commerce and social media converge. Confirmed speakers include Bilt Merchants president Sam Bakhshandehpour, Fenty Beauty general manager and senior vice president for North America Roshini Greenwald, Target chief marketing and guest experience officer Mark Weinstein, and content creator, host, and comedian Lou Young. Confirmed sessions include “Turning Influence Into Enterprise.”
Date: November 12, 2026
Venue: Pinterest HQ, 8888 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California 90232
Social Fest holds its 2026 edition at the McAllen Convention Center, with two days of keynotes, panels, workshops, and an Experience Hall for creators, marketers, and business owners. The program runs across five rooms and four tracks: Marketer, Business Owner, Content Creator, and General. The organizer reports more than 1,000 creators and attendees and more than 60 speakers. Keynote speakers include food creator and entrepreneur Keith Lee, comedy creator and Streamy Award winner Leo González, best-selling author and mindfulness expert Case Kenny, and Academy Award-nominated actor Terrence Howard, who delivers the Day 2 opening keynote on November 13. Additional speakers include attorney and independent journalist Aaron Parnas, Google Cloud AI go-to-market lead Hash Syed, and Manychat chief marketing officer Ido Mart. The event presents its inaugural RGV Creator of the Year Award on November 13.
Date: November 12-13, 2026, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CST
Venue: McAllen Convention Center, 700 Convention Center Boulevard, McAllen, Texas 78501
Twitch holds TwitchCon San Diego at the San Diego Convention Center, convening streamers, creators, and viewers for three days of live streaming programming. The lineup includes Twitch Rivals Arena, Glitch Theater, Community MeetUps, and Creator Camp, which offers sessions and workshops. Glitch Theater hosts the Opening Ceremony, a Drag Showcase, and headline shows. Show hours run 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Pacific time.
Date: November 13-15, 2026
Venue: San Diego Convention Center, 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, California 92101
Creator Con V, the fifth annual edition of the Detroit conference billed as the largest in the Midwest for creators, convenes entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, business owners, content creators, social media managers, corporate brand teams, and creative agencies at Huntington Place. Programming includes keynotes, panels, and breakouts across technology, fashion, real estate, music, marketing, sports marketing, film, entrepreneurship, and investments, along with sessions on artificial intelligence, social media, content creation, and the Creator Economy, plus live podcasts and activations. The organizer, Robert Courtney Events, lists no confirmed speakers and accepts speaker nominations.
Date: November 13-15, 2026
Venue: Huntington Place, 1 Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan 48226
The Clios hold the first Clio Creator Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, in partnership with YouTube and Influential. Entries compete across three tracks (Brand, Creator, and Student), with shortlist and Bronze, Silver, and Gold winners announced in October and Grand winners revealed at the ceremony. “Of the Year” honors include Creator of the Year. The Creative Council includes Dhar Mann, Haley Kalil, Hannah Stocking, Adam Waheed, and Cole Walliser. The organizer has not announced a host or presenters.
Date: November 18, 2026, 3:30 p.m. PT
Venue: Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California 90028
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This issue’s Creator Economy calendar spans 12 events from November 2 through November 18, 2026, with stops in Houston, Paris, Los Angeles, Westlake Village, Lisbon, Miami Beach, Culver City, McAllen, San Diego, Detroit, and Hollywood. The slate covers Black professional development in technology, the European Creator Economy, Black beauty creator partnerships, beauty and wellness strategy, global technology programming, creative software and creator tools, commerce and social media, South Texas creator and small business development, live streaming, Midwest creator and business programming, and creator advertising awards. Primary audiences include Black technology professionals, European Creator Economy professionals, Black beauty and wellness creators, beauty and wellness executives, creative professionals, marketers and retailers, streamers, and creators and brands.
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
Paris Creator Week 2026
Paris Creator Week convenes at the Grande Halle de la Villette for its third edition, two days of programming billed as Europe’s largest Creator Economy event. Organizers report more than 8,000 attendees, 3,000-plus creators, 300-plus speakers, 120-plus partners, and 400-plus participating brands across four tracks covering creator business, brand-creator partnerships, content production, and industry sustainability. Confirmed speakers include Twitch chief executive officer Dan Clancy, Whalar co-chief executive officer Emma Harman, and YouTube Shopping general manager and vice president Travis Katz.
Date: November 4-5, 2026
Venue: Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
Black Beauty Roster Creator Summit 2026
Black Beauty Roster holds its annual Creator Summit, connecting Black beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and entertainment creators with brand partnerships and networking opportunities. Past editions have featured speakers including Issa Rae, Danessa Myricks, Sir John, and Karen Civil. The organizer’s own event page lists 2026 speakers as still to be announced, and the two prior editions both ran in Los Angeles in November.
Date: November 5, 2026, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Venue: The Majestic, 650 S Spring Street, Los Angeles, California
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 MEO Arena (formerly 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 MEO 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: MEO 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. Terry Crews serves as celebrity host of MAX Sneaks. 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
ADWEEK House: Commerce Summit 2026
Adweek holds its ADWEEK House: Commerce Summit at Pinterest’s headquarters, bringing together marketers, creators, retailers, platforms, and technology companies to examine how commerce and social media converge. Confirmed speakers include Bilt Merchants president Sam Bakhshandehpour, Fenty Beauty general manager and senior vice president for North America Roshini Greenwald, Target chief marketing and guest experience officer Mark Weinstein, and content creator, host, and comedian Lou Young. Confirmed sessions include “Turning Influence Into Enterprise.”
Date: November 12, 2026
Venue: Pinterest HQ, 8888 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California 90232
Social Fest 2026
Social Fest holds its 2026 edition at the McAllen Convention Center, with two days of keynotes, panels, workshops, and an Experience Hall for creators, marketers, and business owners. The program runs across five rooms and four tracks: Marketer, Business Owner, Content Creator, and General. The organizer reports more than 1,000 creators and attendees and more than 60 speakers. Keynote speakers include food creator and entrepreneur Keith Lee, comedy creator and Streamy Award winner Leo González, best-selling author and mindfulness expert Case Kenny, and Academy Award-nominated actor Terrence Howard, who delivers the Day 2 opening keynote on November 13. Additional speakers include attorney and independent journalist Aaron Parnas, Google Cloud AI go-to-market lead Hash Syed, and Manychat chief marketing officer Ido Mart. The event presents its inaugural RGV Creator of the Year Award on November 13.
Date: November 12-13, 2026, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CST
Venue: McAllen Convention Center, 700 Convention Center Boulevard, McAllen, Texas 78501
TwitchCon San Diego 2026
Twitch holds TwitchCon San Diego at the San Diego Convention Center, convening streamers, creators, and viewers for three days of live streaming programming. The lineup includes Twitch Rivals Arena, Glitch Theater, Community MeetUps, and Creator Camp, which offers sessions and workshops. Glitch Theater hosts the Opening Ceremony, a Drag Showcase, and headline shows. Show hours run 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Pacific time.
Date: November 13-15, 2026
Venue: San Diego Convention Center, 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, California 92101
Creator Con V 2026
Creator Con V, the fifth annual edition of the Detroit conference billed as the largest in the Midwest for creators, convenes entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, business owners, content creators, social media managers, corporate brand teams, and creative agencies at Huntington Place. Programming includes keynotes, panels, and breakouts across technology, fashion, real estate, music, marketing, sports marketing, film, entrepreneurship, and investments, along with sessions on artificial intelligence, social media, content creation, and the Creator Economy, plus live podcasts and activations. The organizer, Robert Courtney Events, lists no confirmed speakers and accepts speaker nominations.
Date: November 13-15, 2026
Venue: Huntington Place, 1 Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan 48226
Clio Creator Awards 2026
The Clios hold the first Clio Creator Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, in partnership with YouTube and Influential. Entries compete across three tracks (Brand, Creator, and Student), with shortlist and Bronze, Silver, and Gold winners announced in October and Grand winners revealed at the ceremony. “Of the Year” honors include Creator of the Year. The Creative Council includes Dhar Mann, Haley Kalil, Hannah Stocking, Adam Waheed, and Cole Walliser. The organizer has not announced a host or presenters.
Date: November 18, 2026, 3:30 p.m. PT
Venue: Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California 90028
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