by Travis Van, Founder, ITDatabase and Vilan Trub, Business Wire
It’s getting hard to even think of tech as an “industry” anymore.
Tech is much bigger than any one vertical (like automotive or financial services). Tech’s more like a galaxy or universe. And keeping track of the tech industry’s tens of thousands of events is like trying to count stars in the sky.
As technology has become “horizontal” and deeply impacts every single industry, Business Wire’s Trade Show Group has seen an explosion of events. Mega-shows like CES, Mobile World Congress and a handful of others are hugely important – but today, most important tech companies are also event organizers, and every technology that has any sort of inertia has its own dedicated user groups and regional workshops.
For the modern marketing and PR pro, promoting technology requires knowing the most important events that matter to the audience(s) you’re targeting – and this task has truly become a nightmare. You have to discover events, you have to qualify their importance and relevance, and you have to stay on top of dates and deadlines.
Everyone knows about CES, but how do you discover the new wearables conferences that are being hosted by top tier vendors and investors? Everyone knows about OSCON, but how do you find all of the influential hackathons that attract open source developers at regional levels? Each industry has its well-known behemoths, but then at the next-level the important (but smaller) and new (but hot) events are the needles in the haystack….
To address this obvious pain point for tech companies, Business Wire has co-created TechCalendar – a new directory of tech events that is much more comprehensive and easy to use than any other available method. We’ve isolated the hardest parts of discovering and tracking tech events and boiled it down into a much simpler workflow. With this tool, you can find all the tech events or awards relevant to you by simply searching keywords, topics, in the tech industry’s most comprehensive database (12,000 events and growing every day).
In addition to keeping track of industry events, TechCalendar allows you to also follow organizers and topics that match your interests so that all opportunities are accessible with a single click. And you can integrate your TechCalendar with your calendar client (Outlook, Google Calendar, etc.) and share calendars with everyone on your team (or export to .CSV / Excel).
For tech companies, the pain of tracking tech events is universal. No one has time these days to try to track all of this manually, in spreadsheets. If you’ve found yourself struggling to find your way in the universe of tech events, give TechCalendar a look.
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