This issue’s Creator Economy calendar spans nine events from October 26 through November 12, 2026, with stops in Newport Beach, New York, Halifax, Houston, Paris, Los Angeles, Westlake Village, Lisbon, and Miami Beach. The slate covers AI-driven media buying, creator marketing, Atlantic Canada social media strategy, the European Creator Economy, Black professional development in technology, Black beauty creator partnerships, beauty and wellness strategy, and global technology programming. Primary audiences include media buyers, creator marketers, social media marketers, European Creator Economy professionals, Black technology professionals, and beauty and wellness executives.
Digiday holds its Media Buying Summit at VEA Newport Beach, convening agency and brand-side media buyers for three days focused on artificial intelligence’s effect on programmatic advertising, content creation, Influencer Marketing, and retail media. Confirmed sessions include “The Creator Authenticity Problem,” addressing credibility and scale in creator partnerships, led by Open Influence vice president and head of creative strategy Alex Mathieu. Additional programming covers hidden fees in programmatic buying, social commerce, and AI-generated content risk. Confirmed speakers include Crocs chief marketing officer Carly Gomez, Forrester vice president and principal analyst Jay Pattisall, and executives from Horizon Media, Dentsu North America, and Realtor.com.
Venue: VEA Newport Beach, 900 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, California
#paid, a creator marketing platform, holds its one-day Creator Marketing Summit at Hall des Lumières in New York. The event brings together North American marketers, macro creators, and industry thought leaders for sessions on artificial intelligence and creator authenticity, brand-creator collaboration strategies, Gen Z and youth culture, and the use of creator content in advertising. Confirmed speakers come from YouTube, TikTok, Meta, Walmart, and Variety.
Venue: Hall des Lumières, New York, New York
SocialEast, produced by SocialNext, holds its eighth annual
SocialEast, produced by SocialNext, holds its eighth annual edition at the Halifax Convention Centre, billed as Atlantic Canada’s largest marketing conference. The 1.5-day program runs more than 25 sessions across content marketing and video, email and SMS, marketing technology, artificial intelligence, Influencer Marketing, digital brand strategy, social media, and analytics. Confirmed speakers include Reddit’s Gilbert Nguyen, Snapchat’s V Gaik, TikTok’s Jeff Topol, Meta’s Felipe Barrientos, and Metricool’s Anniston Ward. Workshops run the morning of October 29, followed by conference sessions on both days and an East Coast Kitchen Party reception.
Venue: Halifax Convention Centre, 1650 Argyle Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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.
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.
Venue: Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
Black Beauty Roster holds its annual Creator Summit,
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.
Venue: Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village, 2 Dole Drive, Westlake Village, California 91362
Web Summit returns to Lisbon’s 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 Altice 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.
Venue: Altice 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. 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
