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Convene Hospitality Group’s Ryan Simonetti Is Redefining Where the World Meets
He grew up in the back of a bread truck. He built the largest gathering company in America. He’s just getting started.
 • David Adler
The Gathering Economy Is Now an Asset Class
Apollo bought 140 trade shows. Searchlight bought CloserStill. MARI bought the consumer side. $5B, seven months. (113 chars, over) Tightened: Apollo…
 • David Adler
Ted Turner, and the Washington I Came Up In
A 1980 CNN tape, the magazine I ran at twenty-one, and what that decade taught me.
 • David Adler
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Seven Bites Before the Met Gala
The Curator’s Brief · No. 1: Searchlight, AXPONA, the Bezos sponsorship, the agency split, the LACC, the catering reset. Plus fifty flops for your…
 • David Adler
What's Happening Around the World in May- Inspiration for Event Pros
A high level view of what is going on in the “Gathering Economy” around the world
 • David Adler
Meet Mari- The Big New Player in Live Consumer Ticketed Events
Ari Emanuel’s MARI raised $2 billion to consolidate the recurring ticketed consumer events whose brand and calendar can be sold.
 • David Adler
Event Industry Leaders You Should Know: Tim Groot, Femi Oke, Andrew Roby and Marco Giberti
the matchmaker, The room-runner, the matchmaker, the architect of belonging. and the founder of founders
 • David Adler
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