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  • From February 13-17, DC will host its first ever Social Media Week, a week-long festival featuring independently curated (and mostly free) speakers, panels, workshops, events, and parties all across the district celebrating tech and social media in the Nation’s Capital.

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    From networking events, to political panels, to keynotes at the monthly DC Tech Meetup, Social Media Week will connect people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media, asserting DC as a growing leader in the tech industry. See the full event schedule.

    Social Media Week DC will run concurrently to a number of other Social Media Week conferences held around the world, in cities that include New York, San Francisco, Miami, Toronto, London, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sao Paulo. Social Media Week brings hundreds of thousands of people together every year through learning experiences that aim to advance our understanding of social media’s role in society.

    Social Media Week DC is curated by digital experiential agency iStrategyLabs, working with a carefully curated Advisory Board to build, promote and sponsor a week of memorable events. Plan your own Social Media Week event here.

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