Q: June 2025

DigiMarCon
The hybrid DigiMarCon digital marketing, media and advertising conference offers both in-person and online sessions, with keynotes and case studies presented by executives from brands including PepsiCo, Meta, PayPal, Google and HubSpot. In June, DigiMarCon will make stops in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Kansas City, Kansas. Topics on the agenda are set to include generative AI and omnichannel marketing to social commerce and programmatic advertising.

Gartner Marketing Symposium/Xpo
This marketing-centric edition of Gartner’s popular event series — which also includes separate forums focused on supply chains and IT — dives “deep into key topics for CMOs and marketing leaders,” according to the organizers. For 2025, the overarching theme is excelling through disruption, with sessions covering topics such as AI integration for marketing operations and new tech for monitoring brand health. The speakers and moderators will feature a mix of Gartner analysts and execs from blue-chip firms including IBM, SAP and Adobe.

ANA Masters of B2B Marketing Conference
Open to both physical and virtual attendees, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) promises a slate of programming curated by elite client-side marketers: The event’s steering council has executives from Shell, CVS Health and MetLife, among others. They’ve tapped a top-flight lineup of speakers from across the industry, including executives from Cigna, Verizon, Carhartt and Franklin Templeton. Notably, the conference agenda also incorporates the ANA’s B2 Awards gala and dinner, which will take place the evening of June 3.

Marketing Analytics Summit
The Marketing Analytics Summit brings together “digital analytics trailblazers and marketing professionals … to master marketing data to create an impact,” per the event website. With keynotes, workshops and presentations led by experts from companies such as Google and Microsoft, the event will cover topics including cracking attribution in B2B marketing to predictive modeling.

Future Festival New York City
Hosted by Trend Hunter, this self-described “AI-driven innovation conference” is focused on consumer insights and future marketing trends. The two-day 2025 Future Festival New York City will cover topics ranging from scaling AI innovation to the rise of AI in food, with a keynote from Trend Hunter CEO Jeremy Gutsche.

CRMC 2025
Covering areas including AI, CX, mobile and social, the Customer Relationship Management Conference (CRMC) brings together brand marketers to “learn, connect and share accomplishments and challenges,” per the event’s website. Attendees and presenters are slated to include brands such as McDonald’s, PepsiCo and Sephora, with opportunities to learn about topics ranging from data and personalization to loyalty and AI-driven engagement.

The Governors Ball
This music festival, which arrived on the scene in 2011, is now both a cultural touchstone and a springboard for youth-marketing moments. Unfolding over three days and drawing more than 100,000 fans to Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the Queens borough of New York City, The Governors Ball will feature on-site activations from the likes of Dunkin’, Rakuten, Coca-Cola, Sharpie, Verizon and Red Bull. This year’s headliners are Olivia Rodrigo, Benson Boone and Tyler, The Creator — a trio whose combined reach exceeds 220 million followers, per Songstats data. Social media marketers can expect to be busy on the festival’s closing night, which overlaps with Game 2 of the NBA Finals.

GroceryTech 2025
Billing itself as “the only technology innovation event for grocery leaders,” GroceryTech is focused on helping retailers, suppliers and vendors understand and influence their ideal shopper. The 2025 event, themed “Creating Connections,” will bring together grocery retail decision-makers from Sam’s Club, Save A Lot, Dollar General and more to lead discussions on topics ranging from shopper engagement to unified commerce to using AI to generate business value.

PMM Leaders Summit New York
This one-day event for product marketing managers will focus on mastering AI integration, cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder buy-in. Leaders from companies including Ticketmaster, Salesforce, Peloton and Publicis Media are slated to speak on topics ranging from career progression to AI for leadership.

U.S. Open Golf Championship
The U.S. Open ranks among pro golf’s most storied and lucrative major championships, attracting advertisers from apparel, travel, banking, telecom, spirits, autos and more. In fact, the event may be too attractive; additional ad breaks in recent years led to a backlash from TV audiences, and U.S. Open organizers have been workshopping solutions with NBCUniversal. Keep an eye on how brands are sold into broadcast-integrated layers (sponsored cameras, replays, graphics, etc.) as well as the tenor of messaging across all channels (golf has an emerging self-care and mental health narrative among younger fans, which marketers have yet to embrace at scale).

Father’s Day
The third Sunday in June has long been a reliable (and powerful) consumer vehicle: Father’s Day drove more than $22 billion in spending in 2024, according to the National Retail Federation. CPG brands, such as Gillette and Dove, have owned the marketing conversation in recent years, debuting viral campaigns that foregrounded social issues involving masculinity and nontraditional families. (The extent to which that trend continues may provide a pulse-check for all marketers about the appetite for perceived risk in the current political climate.)

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
Once a niche award show for film and TV ads, Cannes Lions is now the world’s premier summit for marketing, advertising and communications. Ostensibly centered around the prestigious Grand Prix prizes — recognizing the year’s best campaigns across a wide range of channels, as well as specific disciplines such as pharma and luxury goods — Cannes serves as the de facto spot to meet, greet, strike deals and take the industry’s collective temperature. Quad executives, including CMO Josh Golden, will be returning to Cannes this year; book a meeting using the dedicated online portal here.

NGA Fresh Summit
Created with store operations and merchandising leaders in mind, the National Grocers Association’s (NGA) annual Fresh Summit is focused on product insights, marketing strategies and merchandising techniques to enhance grocers’ bottom lines “through fresh produce, dairy, deli, bakery, food service and meat,” per the event’s website.

Product Marketing Summit Seattle
With a focus on “elevating product marketing from a reactive function to a force for driving growth and lasting impact,” per the event website, the Product Marketing Summit covers topics such as emerging technology, messaging and positioning. This year’s presenters are scheduled to include leaders from TikTok, Microsoft, AWS and Meta.

Social Media Strategies Summit
The Social Media Strategies Summit is a two-day virtual conference focused on providing actionable strategies to grow brands through social media. Talks and panels are set to cover topics ranging from how collaborations drive brand equity to maximizing short-form video success, with leaders from companies including McDonald’s, Ariat, Walmart and more slated to speak.

CommerceNext
Bringing together digital, marketing and technology leaders from top retailers and DTC brands, CommerceNext includes both in-person and virtual content exploring new and emerging insights, trends and strategies to improve confidence in decision-making. Past events have featured brands and retailers such as Home Depot, Walmart, Tapestry, Estée Lauder and more, who’ve covered topics ranging from content marketing to optimization.

Wimbledon Championships
Dating back to 1877, Wimbledon is the world’s oldest major tennis tournament. It’s also, famously, one of the most resistant to commercialization. (Wimbledon’s website has a dedicated section explaining its policy of confiscating overtly branded items from ticketed fans.) But over time, the tournament’s executive leadership has been quietly creating more space for marketers — primarily through experiential, off-site activations. Popups such as The Hill, an officially sanctioned viewing party in Brooklyn with plenty of branded experiences, could amplify buzz surrounding this year’s event.