What you need to do to get more women at your conference — or company

If you want to recruit more women to your conference -- or to the ranks of your company's employees -- there's a way to do it without lowering your standards.

Summit Series buys a mountain in Utah to host conferences, retreats, and entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur conference organizer Summit Series has bought a 10,000-acre mountain near Eden Utah, where it plans to host conferences, retreats, and apparently, birdmen.

A history of hacking: Documentary captures essence of Def Con

Def Con, the famed hacker conference, just celebrated its 20th birthday this year. And to mark the occasion, the conference welcomed something they strictly policed in years prior: a film crew.

Watch all of Microsoft’s Build 2012 sessions online

Missed Microsoft's Build conference this year? Now you can watch all of the sessions online at Microsoft's Channel 9 website.

Why Build is Microsoft’s most important event ever

Never before has Microsoft so desperately needed to prove itself -- perhaps because it’s never been in such a precarious position.

MobileBeat 2012: Two days of design, thinkers, and startups (gallery)

It’s only been a few days since MobileBeat 2012 concluded, but I’m already missing the great energy and conversations from the show.

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the conference to discuss design and its implications for the mobile …

Meet our next round of MobileBeat 2012 speakers

We’re a few weeks away from MobileBeat 2012, VentureBeat’s annual mobile conference, where we’ve lined up some of the biggest names in the industry to chat about this year’s theme, “Design is the new battleground.”

We’ve snagged Matt Murphy, partner …

Apple unveils WWDC 2012 schedule and official app

If you’re lucky enough to be attending Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year, which kicks off on June 11, you can now start planning which sessions to hit.

Apple released the full schedule for WWDC 2012 attendees this morning, as …

Think you’re hot stuff with mobile design? Prove it at our MobileBeat 2012 Innovation Competition

We're delighted to announce the MobileBeat 2012 Innovation Competition, which will culminate with the winners being announced at the MobileBeat 2012 conference July 10-11 in San Francisco...

The rise of the unconference

Which tech conference would you rather go to – one where the vendor maintains rigid control over the agenda and speakers (with no input from you) and you shut up and listen while they do all the talking, or one …

Devs, set your alarms: Google I/O registration early on March 27th

Google will being registration for its important developers conference, Google I/O, at 7 a.m. PT on March 27, with the event taking place June 27 through 29 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Last year at I/O, Google introduced …

How to pitch your startup at conferences

I attended the Launch conference in San Francisco yesterday and saw quite a few pitches. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs are still making the same mistakes they’ve been making for years.

Here are a few tips for pitching. Because many of the …

Going to SXSW? Or not? Either way, VB has your back

It’s that time of year again for the big South by Southwest (SXSW to its friends) tech and entertainment event in Austin, Texas – and VentureBeat has planned ahead to cover it all.

SXSW is a monster. Some 20,000 attendees …

Google wants to make sci-fi a reality with “Solve for X,” a conference for radical tech ideas

We can never accuse Google of thinking small. The search giant today unveiled a website for “Solve for X,” a conference for big thinkers to discuss “radical technology ideas for solving global problems.”

Yes, it sounds ridiculously geeky, but it’s …

Box.net founder Aaron Levie is poised on the edge of startup stardom

The first time I met Box.net chief executive Aaron Levie, he showed me a magic trick with a deck of cards.

A year later, the 26-year-old was standing on stage (in his typical electric orange sneakers) in front of 350 …

Demo: Conferize simplifies conference discovery with new portal

Conferize aims to help you discover conferences, see who is involved with them and follow the conversations that unfold around them. The company launched an alpha version of its service today at DEMO in Silicon Valley.

“We have platforms and …