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Michelle Obama is coming to Boston this fall to speak at a marketing conference

Former first lady Michelle Obama. Jim Cole / Associated Press

Harvard alum and former first lady Michelle Obama will return to Boston this fall.

Inbound, a annual marketing conference sponsored by Hubspot, announced on Twitter that Obama will be one of the featured speakers at its 2017 event.

The event, hosted at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, attracted more than 19,000 attendees from 92 countries across the globe in 2016. Other speakers at this year’s conference include chef Mario Batali and actresses Issa Rae and Brit Marling. Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of the memoir Eat, Pray, Love, has also been announced as a featured speaker.

Inbound 2017 will run from September 25 to 28.