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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…
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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
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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.
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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
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Belonging by Design: Andrew Roby and the False Divide Inside the Event Industry
For years the industry dismissed “party planners.” Andrew Roby’s career suggests it misunderstood them.
 • David Adler
Femi Oke and the Case for the Professional Moderator
How a British-Nigerian broadcaster built a global events company on the conviction that facilitation is a profession, not an afterthought.
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