About Communications Week - Communications Week

Communications Week brings thousands of communicators together each fall to shine a spotlight on the profession and solve for the challenges facing both internal and external communicators worldwide. CommsWeek 2025 will be held Nov. 10-14, 2025 and will include the signature conference, Future of Communications, taking place in Austin, Texas (November 12-14) as well as virtual, regional and university events around the nation and and the world.

Ragan Communications is the owner and organizer of Communications Week. The most influential industry organizations and media outlets have been supporters of the week with educational and networking events, from conferences to webinars to meetups and mentoring sessions.

CommsWeek has been a part of Ragan Communications since 2021, and was founded in 2014 by Tiffany Guarnaccia, CEO of Kite Hill PR. Diane Schwartz, CEO of Ragan Communications, is the chair of Comms Week.

50+

Speakers

100+

Educational
Hours

17

Live
Events

8

Virtual Events

5K+

Attendees

Meet the team behind Communications Week

DIANE SCHWARTZ
CEO
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AMY URBAN
CMO
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BRIAN GILBERT
CFO
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MARY BUHAY
Chief Growth Officer and Head of Council
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MATTHEW KINSMAN
Chief Content Officer
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ALYSSA SMITH
Director of Event Programming
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CARRIE BROWN ALBANESE
Director of Marketing
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HANNAH LAVELLE
Director, Sponsorships & Sales
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JUSTIN JOFFE
Editor-in-Chief Ragan.com & CLC
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ALLISON CARTER
Executive Editor, PR Daily & PRLN
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SHALLON BLACKBURN
Head of Customer Service & Sales
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KIM EGAN
Senior Marketing Manager
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CAROLYN EYLER
Senior Director of Design
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CLAUDIA SOZIO
Assistant Marketing Manager
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MORGAN EINSPANIER
Business Development Advisor
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JON MINNICK
Special Projects Manager
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HOST COMMUNICATIONS WEEK IN YOUR COUNTRY!

Ragan offers a limited number of licenses for organizations based outside of the United States that would like to license Communications Week. This is a unique opportunity to be the host of Communications Week in your region, bringing to your stakeholders the same level of content, networking and connections that Ragan’s Communications Week offers in the U.S.

Ragan will provide you with a starter toolkit and counsel on making Communications Week in your country a heralded success. Contact Kim Egan at [email protected] to find out more.