Noah Kagan

CommunityNext, organized by Noah Kagan, is a conference that aims to help entrepreneurs socialize and become educated about online communities.

Their first conference was held at Stanford University in February, and was titled "The Present and Future of Online Communities." Speakers included Guy Kawasaki, Max Levchin (Paypal co-founder), James Hong (HotOrNot co-founder), and Ted Rheingold ( Dogster co-founder).

A month from now (July 14th) is the second CommunityNext conference, titled "Viral! From Zero to Ten Million Users." The event will be held at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale. Regular tickets are $295 and student tickets are $75.

The founders panel

If you're at all interested in marketing and viral growth, you should think about going to this conference. One of the speakers is the co-founder of RockYou!, a company that has been very successful in growing via the Facebook Platform.

There might not be too many tickets still available, so if you're interested in attending this conference register soon. The page to purchase tickets can be found here.

Updates: Folksonomy writer Sian Liu will be attending the conference.

Frank Gruber has a great list of conferences that will be happening this year.

Photographs by Scott Beale of laughingsquid.