Are you heading to WordCamp US in St. Louis this week? A number of our team members will be there, so we thought we’d check in with them about what they’re most excited about!

We can’t wait to get started in Columbus this week at WordCamp for Publishers. As a Gold sponsor, we’re excited for and proud of every one of the sessions that’s taking place, but we’re particularly looking forward to two talks, each by one of our fabulous team members. Find out more about them here!

We decided to do something different at the MuseWeb conference in Boston this April. How many times have you been to a conference and learned a lot, but, by the time you got home, weren’t able to put it into practice? We wanted to flip the script.

Well, we’ve been busy. Over the past 2.5 months, we’ve attended, sponsored, or exhibited at seven different events! We’re still recovering from all that travel but we wanted to share with you a bit about each!

Our team mostly survived this year’s South by Southwest Interactive conference intact, with the main casualties being our voices and business card inventory.

Now in its 30th year of transforming downtown Austin, Texas, into New York’s Meatpacking district on a Friday night, South by Southwest (SXSW) is just days away! Our favorite part of SXSW’s interactive conference is the Awesomest.Journalism.Party.Ever.VII, where you’ll find us with our custom cocktail creation, “The Branded Cocktail Experience.”

The MIT Media Lab hosted journalists, technologists, librarians, academics, and even a former fake-news publisher to explore how tools ranging from cognitive science to ad tech can combat the influence of misinformation (unwittingly distributed false info) and disinformation (deliberately distributed false info).

Alley software developer James Burke spent much of this year’s WordCamp US as a volunteer for the conference. Here he shares his experiences at the event and his motivation for donating his time to help the WordPress community.

Earlier this month Alley Interactive co-hosted a book party for Columbia professor Tim Wu’s new book The Attention Merchants in San Francisco. Automattic held the event at their SOMA headquarters and our co-hosts included Bloomberg Beta, Jenny 8. Lee, Elizabeth Stark, and Tim Hwang.

  Alley was proud to be a sponsor of this year’s Digiday Publishing Summit, held earlier this week in beautiful Key Biscayne, Florida.

We’re excited to head to this year’s Online News Association‘s annual conference ONA16 in Denver Colorado. Like last year, we’re proud to be a sponsor of the conference.