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The 16 Top Sales Conferences You Should Attend in 2020 (MANY EVENTS HAVE BEEN CHANGED OR CANCELLED)

NOW UPDATED! The Top Sales Conferences You Should Attend in 2019 list was one of our most popular buyers’ resources. We are excited to share that we have compiled an updated and expanded list of top sales conferences and events for 2020.

Our Sales Technology Experience Zone™, which helps buyers simplify their sales technology selection process, was onsite for many of the 2019 events, helping buyers navigate the current sales technology landscape with the more than 600+ solutions currently offered.

We’ve learned a lot in 2019, including which sales enablement technologies are providing conference resources to enable your success. Check out Mobile Locker and Modus, who both offer tools to help you capture important information about attendees during the show and do rapid follow up. Additionally, we discovered another great resource, Alice Heiman and Dianna Geairn, with Trade Show Makeovers. They can show you how to bring home the deals that everyone else is leaving behind. Check out their article 7 Steps to Selecting Your 2020 Trade Shows for some tips.

Here it is… the top sales conferences & events we have on our 2020 calendar and believe you need on yours (ordered by date)

16 Sales Conferences To Follow 

1. Sales Team Accelerator Retreat (STAR): A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXChange

  • Date: March 2 – 4th 2020
  • Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Sales Team Accelerator Retreat (STAR): A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange is a remarkable setting for key members of the sales organization to come together to strengthen their bonds and improve communication, productivity, and effectiveness. The unique format also delivers robust opportunities to collaborate with other sales organizations to tackle shared challenges around C-Suite expectations, talent, sales tools, best practices, and processes, changing customer behavior, and game-changing emerging technologies. Use our code venneu to receive a Buy One Get One registration!

2. Institute for Sales Transformation

  • Date: November 5-6th, 2020
  • Location: FIU Kovens Conference Center – Miami, FL

You WILL NOT find a better concentration of sales & marketing best practices on the planet. Keynotes from industry experts and interactive sessions to ensure you and your team leave with a competitive edge.

iST SalesLive is where the most profound voices in sales & marketing leaders share their perspectives with the industry. From business luminaries & executives to leading practitioners delivering cutting edge case studies.

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3. Sales 3.0 Conference

Live Event:

  • Dates:  October 13 – 14th, 2020
  • Location: Las Vegas

The Sales 3.0 Conference provides sales, sales operations, and sales enablement leaders with strategic insight and best practices that drive improved sales performance and revenue growth. Speakers at each event are a mix of sales VPs and CEOs from industry-leading companies, technology influencers, analysts, and management and leadership experts.

4. SaaStr Virtual Summit 2020

  • Dates: April 22, 2020
  • Location: Virtual

100% Virtual 100% Free! These are unique times. In some ways, we can use our playbooks, make adjustments, and in other ways, things are very different. What isn’t likely to be very different is that recurring revenue … recurs. This is the bedrock of SaaS.

Join the very top SaaS leaders and experts from around the globe as they share how they’re Bridging the Gap during the downturn. From hiring, to sales cycles, to venture and everything in-between— this will be an open conversation on what they’re seeing now in SaaS and what it means for the near future.

SaaStr is all about our community. We provide endless opportunities to share and learn with peers from every role, function, industry, company size, and beyond.

5. AA-ISP Leadership Summit 2020

  • Date: August 18th – 20th, 2020 (Dates Updated, See Announcement)
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois

The Inside/Digital Sales Leadership Event of the Year! #LS2020 is a three-day event with 65+ sessions to help you solve the challenges your teams are facing! This 12th annual event will bring together 900+ Sales Leaders dedicated to improving the performance and professionalism of their teams, and the industry.

Leaders are encouraged to unplug from their daily duties as much as possible in order to take full advantage of sessions, pre-event workshops, hands-on breakouts, networking opportunities, and the annual AA-ISP Awards. Take this time to develop yourself, as well as the performance of your teams!

6. TOPO Summit

  • Date: August 26th – 27th, 2020 (Dates Updated, See Announcement)
  • Location: San Francisco, California

Summit isn’t just about learning from the best in the industry – it’s also about having a great time and networking with over 2,000 sales and marketing peers in the heart of San Francisco. With parties, craft made food & cocktails, and engaging activities, Summit is the must-attend event for sales and marketing professionals.

7. AA-ISP Sales World 2020

  • Date: September 17th, November 19th, 2020
  • Location: Randolph, MA and Dublin, IE

The Sales World 2020 series will bring together sales reps and leaders from all industries and levels for a 1-day hands-on learning opportunity. The AA-ISP Community has a wealth of experience with overcoming sales challenges, building high performing teams, managing metrics, and providing top level Inside/Digital Sales and Leadership for their companies. Sales World will provide the community a chance to share these experiences with each other!

8. TRACTION

  • Date: August 5 – 6th, 2020
  • Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

Traction Conf brings you actionable strategies and tactics for supercharging your growth, straight from founders and leaders of some of the fastest growing companies like Google, Twentieth Century Fox, Reddit, LinkedIn, Slack, Trello, Github, New Relic, Box, SendGrid, Grammarly, Bumble and much more.

Plus, you get to network with and get on a first-name basis with Fortune 500 leaders, high-growth startup founders, leading investors, and major media.

9. OutBound 2020

  • Date: August 11th – 14th, 2020 (Dates Updated)
  • Location: Atlanta, Georgia

OutBound is the biggest, baddest conference in the Sales Profession and the only conference focused exclusively on sales prospecting, pipeline, and productivity.

Attracting over 1200 attendees from across the globe and growing each year, we feature a once-in-a-lifetime lineup that includes the world’s most respected speakers and trainers, OutBound is an event built for individuals who are looking to reach higher and entire sales teams that want to up-skill, recharge, and gain a decisive competitive advantage.

10. Sales Enablement Society (SES) Annual Conference

  • Date: September 23-25, 2020
  • Location: Westin – Buckhead,  Atlanta Georgia

Every year, the Sales Enablement Society brings together the best and brightest minds in the Sales Enablement profession to gather for an amazing three days in an out-of-the-box conference experience. Learn from others and collaborate to understand best practices to further your career and revenue.

Vendor Events

11. REV2020 (SalesLoft)

Ignite your passion for delighting customers and maximizing revenue with 3 days of leading-edge insights from the best minds in the industry. Build the network that will be your secret to success for years to come.

12. Multipliers 2020 (SalesHood)

  • Date: March 23– 24th, 2020 – (LIVE – VIRTUAL, See Announcement
  • Location: Virtual

This year’s conference is all about helping you advance your career and impact by improving your professional enablement skills. Sharpen your craft with workshops and talks by successful practitioners on measuring outcomes, executive storytelling, working with front-line managers, do’s and don’ts of onboarding, securing executive buy-in and much more. Together, we’ll work in groups to learn and share ideas. Get ready to meet some of the most successful enablement professionals on the planet.

Certified vendor reports

13. Unleash 20 (Outreach)

Sessions from World Class Revenue Leaders. We’re bringing together Sales, Ops, Marketing and Success leaders from the fastest-growing companies and Fortune 500 leaders.

14. Seismic Shift (Seismic)

  • Date: November 5-7, 2020
  • Location: Carlsbad, California

Shift is a gathering of forward-thinking sales and marketing leaders who converge to hear from peers, executives, and keynotes that will leave you feeling inspired to be the transformative leader your organization needs.

15. INBOUND 2020 (HubSpot)

  • Date: August 18 – 21st, 2020
  • Location: Boston, Massachusetts

INBOUND is an annual experience uniting super curious, question-asking professionals with big-name and break-out industry thinkers, high-octane events, and boundless education sessions.

Our 250+ speakers are reshaping the future and will help you pump change-fueled adrenaline into everything you touch. The comedy shows and happy hours whisk away the always-on, daily grind of regular work life. Interactive forums build community.

These four September days are for you—the product manager, the creative marketer, the start-up founder. Those who want more than the cookie cutter learning and development noise and who yearn for an explosion of positive energy, sharing, and clear, empowered ways to move forward at work.

16. Dreamforce (Salesforce)

  • Date: November 9 – 12th, 2020
  • Location: San Francisco, California

Dreamforce is Salesforce’s conference – an event that’s guaranteed to be a lot of fun, all while learning new sales strategies that you can implement into your business. Each year, thousands join to learn more about Salesforce technology, sales, and marketing practices and hear great keynotes.

Do you have a favorite, “must attend” event? Let us know in the comment