What We Are
GatheringPoint.news is the insider’s guide to the most powerful industry you don’t hear enough about: the broader world of event organizing.
Conferences, summits, premieres, festivals, trade shows, protests, product launches, incentive trips, offsites, weddings, memorials—we cover it all.
Because gathering isn’t a luxury. It’s infrastructure.
We’re here to name, decode, and elevate the people and practices that shape how we come together—and what that gathering means for business, culture, and society.
Not a trade mag. Not a blog. Not a hype machine.
A cultural reporting platform for people who make things happen in rooms.
Founded by David Adler—creator of BizBash, Washington Dossier, and former corporate communications lead at Macmillan and PRIMEDIA—Gathering Point is part think tank, part gossip column, part collaborative lab. A living, breathing notebook built for the event-curious and the clipboard-converted alike.
What You’ll Find
FutureThink:Formats, tools, and playbooks from the year 2035—and who’s already testing them.
Clipboard Confidential:Our signature gossip + intel column. A Walter Winchell whisper with a PowerPoint pulse.
The Prompt Drop: Creative AI tools and prompts made for event brains—not tech bros.
The Culture Drop: A monthly guide on what event organizers need to know about in the popular culture. What to watch, stream, eat, attend, and borrow for your next activation.
The Complaint Bureau: The smartest venting in the business. Cathartic. Strategic. Sometimes funny.
The Honor Roll: A running log of standout event work across the globe—because recognition is strategy.
Eventlandia: An evolving map of roles, responsibilities, and reinventions in the event world.
The Weekend Wisdom Bank: Insights from event legends—so we don’t lose what they’ve learned.
The 50 Greatest FLOPS in Event History: A box set of spectacular failures—and what they still teach us about planning, psychology, and pride.
The Idea Bank: Good ideas, bad ideas, and the neuroscience to tell the difference.
A filtration system for planners drowning in Pinterest.
Essays to Make You Think About Our World: How events mirror—and mold—who we are. Big questions. Smart takes. Occasional goosebumps.
How to Use It
Skim it or sink into it.
Every post is designed to work at multiple levels—quick takeaways for your brain’s inbox, deeper dives when the stakes are real.
What’s Coming
🎙 Voice reads of major pieces—using AI-powered storytelling tools for podcast-style access.
📊 Collaborative research drops that tap our collective intelligence.
🎖 Recognition systems that spotlight the most creative and strategic work in the field.
Join the Insider’s Club
When you become a paid subscriber, you’re not just supporting the work—you’re joining the Insider’s Club: a curated space for the most committed event thinkers, doers, and disruptors.
Membership includes:
✔ A free copy of Harnessing Serendipity, David Adler’s essential e-book
✔ Exclusive access to premium content, strategy tools, and bonus features
✔ Downloadable guides like 100 Ice Breakers That Don’t Suck, The Faux Pass Guide, and The 100 Biggest FLOPS in Event History
✔ Discounted tickets to future conferences, salons, and digital experiences
✔ First-look access to recognition programs, trend briefings, and experimental editorial drops
If you live, breathe, plan, fund, design, or survive events—this is your community.
Help Us Build This
This is your clipboard too.
Forward what hits. Flag what doesn’t. Nominate, contribute, remix.
The world gathers. Let’s be the ones who understand how—and why—it matters.
About David Adler
David Adler is the founder of BizBash, Washington Dossier, and now GatheringPoint.news. He’s a lifelong connector, convener, and chronicler of people who make things happen.
A former Corporate Communications executive at Macmillan and PRIMEDIA, David is also a partner in the Adler Entertainment Trust, which manages the literary legacy of his late father, novelist Warren Adler. His father’s 50+ books include The War of the Roses—now reimagined as The Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman.
David has spent his career spotlighting the power of events, gatherings, and the people behind them—believing deeply in the chemistry of convening and the strategic value of human connection.
