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October Culture Drop
Everything we consume informs everything we create.
Oct 1
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David Adler
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September 2025
The Archaeologist of Place: Vic Isley and the New Power of Destination Leadership
The essential skill set for anyone in destinations: one year after Hurricane Helene, Asheville, NC showed leadership means resilience, culture, and…
Sep 30
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David Adler
2
Forget Engagement at Events. Participation Is the Real Infrastructure.
The real future of events isn’t content or spectacle. It’s what happens when the room takes control.
Sep 26
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David Adler
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Freeman Builds Worlds
Janet Dell runs the temporary-infrastructure machine that makes it possible.
Sep 25
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David Adler
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From Lockdown to Boardroom: Why Event Leaders Belong in the C-Suite
The ELX Future-Ready Leadership survey reveals why event leaders, despite running the most powerful gatherings in business, are still fighting for a…
Sep 22
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David Adler
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Decoding Event Fashion: Eight Decades of Style, Signal, and Showing Up
From trade show floors to protest marches, wedding aisles to keynote stages—this is a cultural timeline of what we wore to events and why it mattered…
Sep 21
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David Adler
5
Wired for Wonder: Dahlia El Gazzar and the Gospel of Curiosity
From moonlit camel races to AI workflows, Dahlia El Gazzar has built her brand on curiosity, emotional precision, and the courage to disrupt softly.
Sep 15
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David Adler
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Friendship on the Public Stage Could Save Us
The science of empathy shows why leaders must let us see their friendships.
Sep 12
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David Adler
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Advertising Week Wins Platinum Gathering Medal for Shaping the Language of Modern Marketing
A Platinum Gathering Medal Winner: The People Who Control the Narrative Don’t Hold Office. They Hold the Room.
Sep 11
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David Adler
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Miguel Neves, Editor-in-Chief of Skift Meetings, is here to listen, question, and disrupt the industry’s mirror maze.
He doesn’t hype. He doesn’t hide. He asks the questions we’ve all avoided.
Sep 9
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David Adler
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The Wisdom Bank: What Is Club Ichi—and Who Is Liz Lathan?
With longtime collaborator Nicole Osibodu, Liz Lathan didn’t just build a community—she designed a new emotional operating system for events ( Listen to…
Sep 5
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David Adler
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Culture Drop for Eventlandia: Curtain Up on September
Hotels as stages, restaurants as theater, Broadway as a playbook—September’s cultural premieres decoded so event pros stay ahead.
Sep 1
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David Adler
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