The beginning of the year is often an opportunity to fill your agenda and plan a few professional conferences. Canada is quite rich in events of this type and if you can’t participate in all the meetings. It is still important to go to a few.
Indeed, conferences for professionals are excellent ways to network and discover new trends or even to train continuously.
Remembering that DoyouSEO, the association of SEO experts in Quebec of which I am a member of the board of directors, invites you every two months to its SEO camps .
The best digital marketing conferences that will take place in 2019 in Canada.
If you are reading this article and are in France or Europe, you should know that you must fill out a series of administrative details before traveling to Canada. We advise you to visit the embassy’s websites before buying your tickets.
DX3 Canada – the e-commerce conference
March 2019 – 06-07 March
Location: Toronto, Canada
Dx3 is the largest marketing conference and one of the largest trade shows in Canada. The DX3 event is mainly focused on retail, marketing, but also on technology and digital marketing (SEO/ SEM/ Social Media…)
Through captivating content and immersive experiences, Dx3 connects the world’s leading technology brands with Canada’s leading brands, retailers and communications agencies. An event to discover. Ideal for advertisers.
Social Media Camp – the conference around social media marketing.
April 2019 – April 25-26
Location: Victoria, Canada
The Social Media Camp will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2019 and promises great moments. This event is very popular with brands (both large advertisers and small businesses) and features a wide range of conferences and meetings around social media.
Social media marketing is of course, the keystone of this meeting, but not only. It also talks about communications strategies, sales, crowdsourcing, e-learning, digital marketing, content marketing, SEO, email marketing, inbound marketing… In short, a big program to be consumed without moderation.
eTail Canada – the historic e-commerce conference
May 2019 – 07-09 May
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Tail Canada can boast of being one of the oldest events in this country or even on the Internet… The adventure began in 1999 before the bursting of the Internet bubble. The eTail conference was already there when Amazon made its first profit, when Facebook was launched, when Apple released its first iPhone. This major retail and e-commerce conference will celebrate its 18th year in 2019. It is therefore an important event not to be missed.
eTail also offers other global e-commerce conferences in cities such as Boston, Toronto, London, Berlin and others.
DigiMarCon: Canada – a major conference around digital marketing
16-17 May /
Location: Toronto, Canada
DigiMarCon is a major player in the digital sector. They offer more than twenty digital marketing conferences around the world.
Whether your goal is to build customer loyalty, improve lead generation, increase sales, or increase consumer engagement, DigiMarCon conferences can provide you with practical solutions.
The events are organized around training sessions. Each session focuses on a theme such as creating traffic, increasing brand awareness, improving customer service or discovering the most popular digital tools today. An event not to be missed! SocialWest – Western Canada’s Social Marketing
Social West is consideredthe largest social media and digital marketing conference in Western Canada. We will talk about marketing, SEO, Content management and of course social networks.
June
12-14 Location: Calgary, Canada
Social Media Day : Halifax
June 21, 2019
Location: Halifax, Canada
“Social Media Day: Halifax 2019” is a gathering that invites entrepreneurs, business owners and social media professionals for businesses and organizations.
The sessions are for anyone who wants to improve their communications plans and social marketing. The event offers a full day of training in the field of social media marketing.
SMX East – The SEO Conference
November 13 & 14, 2019
New
This conference is not in Canada, but almost… It will be held in New York in the United States, right next to the border. It seems good to talk about it, because it is an event of great importance.
“Search Marketing Expo SMX” is a major event organized by SEO and SEM professionals since 2007. SMX conferences take place in several locations around the world and are on a mission to help thousands of marketing professionals succeed in gaining traffic.
This event will have many renowned speakers and offers you the opportunity to participate in workshops to train you in the best practices of the sector.
SMX is not a marketing event organized by a product provider or a digital agency. SMX is programmed by the team at Search Engine Land, the go-to magazine for search marketers.
If after all these conferences, Canada has enchanted you and you want to go and work there. You should know that this is a country that loves French speakers. You will have to think about taking care of some administrative details (visa application, passport…), make your CV the Canadian way and you are on board!