ABOUT GATHERINGPOINT.NEWS —

I’m David Adler. I founded BizBash in 2000, built it into the events industry’s trade publication of record, and sold it. GatheringPoint is what I’m doing now.

It covers the gathering economy: the people, the money, and the craft behind the business of bringing people together. Trade shows and exhibitions, corporate summits and incentives, festivals and experiential, associations, weddings and social, civic and ceremonial, hybrid and digital. Who funds the rooms, who controls the platforms, who shapes the agendas, and who benefits. I’m not consulting, not pitching a platform, and not angling for the stage, which means I can write what I actually see.

The Wisdom Bank is the long-form interview series: the people you should know, in their own words. Strategy, hard-won learnings, and honest predictions from the practitioners actually building this business, drawn from the gatherings where the industry’s real thinking happens. Read enough of them and a bigger picture assembles itself, one that no single conference or trade report gives you.

Alongside it: reported features on the deals and the power, and the ideas worth stealing for your next room.

A conviction that runs through all of it. What separates a gathering that endures from one that merely happens is design, and especially facilitation. The people who shape conversation in a room aren’t background operators. They’re the reason anything changes. Too much of this industry is still built for attendance optics and sponsor density. What lasts is consequence.

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— David Adler
Founder, GatheringPoint.News
Author, Harnessing Serendipity