ABOUT GATHERINGPOINT.NEWS —
The cultural magazine for the people who gather people.**
If you’ve ever stood in the back of a ballroom and felt the air shift when the right words hit the right room…
if you’ve ever watched a table assignment change the trajectory of a deal…
if you’ve ever seen a summit, a gala, a protest, or a product launch turn into something bigger than itself…
then you know gatherings aren’t logistics.
They’re culture in motion.
They’re where industries rewire themselves.
Where relationships accelerate.
Where belief gets negotiated.
Where cities show off.
Where leaders rehearse power.
Where people remember who they are — and who they want to be.
And yet the people behind these moments — the planners, producers, facilitators, designers, exhibition architects, dreamers, fixers, whisperers — have never had a publication that treats their world with the intelligence, style, and curiosity it deserves.
Until now.
GatheringPoint.News is the Vanity Fair–style magazine for the Convening Class
The people who design the rooms where culture, commerce, and human behavior collide.
We write about gatherings the way great magazines write about fashion, politics, or Hollywood —
with edge, with context, with personality, with an unapologetic point of view.
Because gatherings are a cultural force.
And the people who run them deserve to be covered like one.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
There are plenty of places to get “tactics.”
Templates. Tips. Tools. Trends.
That’s not us.
We’re here for:
the big questions, the strange truths, the human drama, the psychology, the stakes, the spectacle.
We’re here for the conveners who think beyond the run-of-show —
who understand that events are emotional architecture,
that hospitality is soft power,
that rituals shape identity,
and that one well-timed moment can shift an entire room.
This is where we talk about:
the real reasons people attend events
the neuroscience of openings and endings
the wild, unseen economics of gatherings
the ridiculous, sublime, glorious chaos of production
the politics of protocol
the culture inside green rooms
the sociology of lobbies and lineups
the emotional choreography behind the perfect toast
the backstage stories that never make the press release
the influence networks that travel through ballrooms, halls, and back entrances
We’re here to write about events the way no one ever has —
as a lens on how society actually operates.
THE GATHERING ECONOMY
Behind every major shift in business, politics, culture, philanthropy, media, and community…
there was a room.
A summit.
A salon.
A festival.
A trade show.
A gala.
A war room.
A retreat.
A dinner.
A launch.
A march.
We call this vast, interconnected world the Gathering Economy —
the invisible engine that distributes information, emotion, trust, identity, and meaning at scale.
You’re already part of it.
We’re here to cover it.
THE INNER CIRCLE
For those who want to step deeper into the intelligence layer —
beyond the stories and into the canon —
there’s the Inner Circle.
Think of it as your private reading room:
Culture Drop
The Method Book
The New Protocol
Recognition architecture
The Top 100 lists
And the Wisdom Bank —
your 24/7 intelligence companion trained on forty years of convening.
It’s where the conversation goes when the lights come up but the real talk begins.
ABOUT DAVID ADLER
David Adler has spent a lifetime in rooms where power performs itself.
Founder of BizBash.
Chronicler of Washington’s political, diplomatic, and cultural gatherings.
Former corporate communications executive.
Observer of more than 5,458 events across sectors, cities, continents, and crises.
GatheringPoint.News is the publication he always wished existed —
a smart, stylish, culturally attuned magazine
for the people who understand that we don’t work in events.
We work in the goosebump business.
WHO THIS IS FOR
If you know what it means to change a room —
or to be changed by one —
you’re in the right place.
This is where the Convening Class reads, thinks, laughs, debates, and sees its reflection.
Welcome.
