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LAST FOUR 2036 PREDICTIONS FOR EVENTS INDUSTRY - BELONGING, GLP1, AND THE POWER OF FACE TO FACE REMAINS

Four predictions about belonging, connection, and what people actually need from the gathering.

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David Adler
Aug 12, 2026
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A note before the predictions. Welcome to the final installment of my summer predictions for 2036- This is my take — a point of view, not a forecast I’m betting the house on. Some of it will be wrong; I’ve misjudged this industry’s timing in every decade I’ve worked in it, and I’ll misjudge some of this too. The point isn’t to be right. It’s to pull the…

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