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Events Are Being Rewritten—And You’re Probably Still Running the Old Playbook
In Her New Book, Sasha Frieze—the Wise UK Strategy Guru Rewrites What Event Leadership Really Means
 • David Adler
Warning: Enrollment Is Down Up to 50% at Event, Tourism & Hospitality Schools Worldwide
While the meetings industry celebrates recovery, international education programs are quietly contracting. What Happens to the Next Generation of Event…
 • David Adler
Relationships Extend Life. Gathering Forges Relationships. The Events Industry Has Been in the Longevity Business All Along
Two governments have declared a public health emergency. Harvard spent 88 years proving the case. Neuroscience explains why people can’t do it alone…
 • David Adler
The Latest Freeman Trend Report: The End of Boomer Thinking in Events
Freeman has once again reminded the industry that spectacle is no longer enough. Experience must now be defined by outcomes, participation, and…
 • David Adler
Nicole Peck: The General of Warmth
Designing the business of how people feel.
 • David Adler
The Pentagon Just Declared War on Convening
You can’t lead the world if you’re afraid of the room. And the events industry can’t stay silent while the rooms are being dismantled.
 • David Adler
Freeman Builds Worlds
Janet Dell runs the temporary-infrastructure machine that makes it possible.
 • David Adler
The New Era of Events Is Not So New
From private clubs to YPO to PTTOW, how gatherings have quietly become part of who we are
 • David Adler
Taking the Industry’s Temperature
Freeman’s new research reveals a quiet shift in how events are judged—and why the future belongs to those who design the room, not just fill the stage
 • David Adler
Why Thousands of Event, Hospitality, and Tourism Pros Still Love one of the World’s Most Stressful Jobs
They’re heading to Las Vegas for IMEX, chasing the rush they create for others—the chemistry of awe, risk, and belonging that makes the work worth it.
 • David Adler
Disney Just Elevated the Gathering Economy to the Corner Office
Josh D’Amaro’s appointment as CEO signals that shared experience—across parks, films, and live gatherings—now sits at the center of cultural power.
 • David Adler
EventCamp and the Power of Participatory Events
How a community-built experiment in the early 2010's quietly shaped a generation of conveners—and revealed where the Gathering Economy was headed
 • David Adler
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