MERGE SHOW a conference where Business meets Innovation
DOMAINS | BRANDING | TECHNOLOGY | COMMERCE
THE MERGE SHOW is a group of conferences – like a ‘worlds fair’ event – hosting different events within MERGE! (new and old) with technology and domain names at the core. One of these is the well attended THEDomain Conference, in its third year. A continuation of a long-standing gathering of a who’s who in the domain space. This event draws people to sunny Florida every fall, for its wealth of good networking, content, and opportunities, as well as being a who’s who of experts on appraisal, brokering, registries, registrars, domain advertising, registration, TLD Applications, email services and other investment opportunities.
Your MERGE SHOW Ticket covers access to all non-closed sessions at all the sub-events, the networking events, the seminars, and more.
THEDomainConference is just one of many other sub events, activities and open meetings, which also will include: Allegravita’s China Bootcamp, Blockchain Road Show, CMS Summit, Confluir, McGrady Domain Academy, TheWHIR Networking Event and more coming soon.
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Join us for one of the sub-events at THE MERGE SHOW, such as TheWHIR Networking Event @ MERGE – bringing all conference participant streams together for an amazing, well known cloud-hosting networking Event (these have been running since 2004) which attracts hosting/ssl/email and services.
In addition to TheWHIR Event @ MERGE. there will also be:
Multiple “speed-date” networking sessions designed to maximize the amount of new contacts from different groups.
Cross-Discipline Expert Panels – MERGEd panels that include leaders from each of the sub-shows to add perspective from within their groups.
MERGE! has many conferences, disciplines, and focus areas, with Domain Names and Technology as a common theme. Click the tabs above to learn about the many sides of the MERGE! event.
Digital Search Summit will cover a variety of search, marketing, social, and marketing automation topics.
Allegravita is doing an enhanced version of their China Bootcamp for people to understand engaging with that large economy and market.
A Digital Branding event for CIO/CMO and director level people.
SEO/SEM/Marketing Automation
Blockchain Roadshow – Learn about blockchain technology and how it is transforming currencies, contracts, and more. Blockchain may be more familiar to most as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Etherium use it, but there are a growing number of uses and utility for this robust technology, and it will be a rapid area of growth and innovation.
Blockchain Roadshow has previously been featured content at ICANN 58 in Copenhagen, and other large events, and provides small and medium sized summits and symposiums.
TOKEN FEST is a preview event for an amazing entrepreneurial-focused summit in San Francisco in March of 2018. Content at the MERGE! show will include dialog and discussions around the white-hot Initial Coin Offering (“ICO”), Token Sales and Startups, and more.
Learn from entrepreneurs, financiers and technologists in the space of token trading, and hear about interesting products and innovation from some bright, leading edge experts.
Web Host Industry Review, TheWHIR, is a long trusted source of news, product announcements, reviews, and advisories on the Cloud / Hosting / Services field. Learn from experts and meet and socialize at TheWHIR Networking event.
McGrady Domain Academy – learn about domains (and social media) and law from the person who quite literally wrote the book on it,
Other Legal Sessions with THE Domain Conference and other activities will include:
- Hon Neil Brown, UDRP Panelist for WIPO and NAF
- Gerald Levine, author of “Domain Name Arbitration”
- Derek Newman, Attorney and former president Zevia Soda
- Karen Bernstein, Domain Attorney
- Stevan Lieberman of Greenberg and Lieberman
A large CMS Summit which will have Joomla / Automattic (WordPress and .blog) / Drupal and other content management platform vendors / experts / developers / theme vendors / designers / consultants and perform educational sessions as well as certification programs,
Startup focused sessions
(potentially – pending agreement) A hackathon
CONFLUIR.LAT Content and sessions in and around highlighting the entrepreneurial spark and successful Hispanic businesses and opportunities in the Latin American and Spanish speaking markets.
Allegravita’s China Bootcamp – a popular, long-running series of training and educational sessions designed to help the audience engage with the massive audience and potential base of customers within the Chinese market.
MERGE includes Waaaaaaaay more than what is listed here, with space for user groups and other sessions, meeting space for ICA members gathering, DBR Members’ welcome social, investors’ focus (microfinancing, vc/angels, hedge funds, etc) and more.
THE SHOWS AT MERGE!
MERGE.DOMAINS : THE Domain Conference
Rub elbows with the illuminati of the domain name world.
THE Domain Conference is an annual event that gathers the most amazing entrepreneurs and domain owners, to discuss new business trends, changes in policy, new revenue options, and buying and selling domain names.
In it’s third year, this event is a well attended networking and business conference. THE Domain Conference admission is included with your MERGE! Conference Ticket.
MERGE.SOCIAL : TheWHIR Networking Event
Turn your networking up a notch and meet cloud and hosting leaders, influencers and fellow MERGE! attendees!
Since 2004 TheWHIR has been a source of breaking news, trends, innovation and insights within the cloud, storage, hosting and security sector.
WHIR Networking Events offer you a great opportunity to meet face-to-face with local like-minded industry executives and corporate decision makers with an interest in the hosting, cloud, MSP, VAR, Telco and internet infrastructure industries. Events are held in a relaxed, comfortable environment where you can expand your network and create new business opportunities.
VIP Expanded Access to the WHIR Networking Event is included with your MERGE! Conference Ticket, and MERGE! attendees are automatically enrolled onto the RSVP.
MERGE.BUILD : CMS Summit
Developers. Integrators. Designers. User Experience.
Leverage world class platforms to build portals, presence, and brands using CMS platforms like Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Grav, Concrete 5, Craft CMS to design and develop amazing websites.
CMS Summit is a group of different activities and sessions that pull the diverse universe of platforms together for discussions, trainings, panels, and insights on trends and developments in CMS.
CMS Summit admission is included with your MERGE! Conference Ticket.
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THESE AMAZING BRANDS HAVE SPONSORED THE EVENT
We all love providing an amazing place to meet, learn, and network. If only we could pay the vendors with love, we would not need the support of our sponsors. It is through the support and funding of these great companies that we are able to do events. The following companies have supported our efforts in making this outstanding conference.
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Location
- 8701 world center dr. Orlando Florida 32821
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- Oct 14-18 2017
