Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet
The organization holds an annual conference and awards banquet, the Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet, which features three days of training, leading media keynotes and a Career Summit & Job Fair. Past keynote speakers include: Twitter’s Evan Williams; Vivek Kundra, Chief Information Officer of the United States in the Obama administration; AOL CEO Tim Page; then-NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, and journalists instrumental in the Arab Spring uprising. The 2008 conference was held September 11–13 in Washington, DC; the 2009 conference was held Oct. 1-3 in San Francisco; the 2010 conference was held Oct. 28-30 in Washington DC, and the 2011 conference was held in Boston. The 2012 conference, Sept. 20-22, was in San Francisco.
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