The Retention Problem No One Wants to Admit

Habit builds intimacy. Intimacy builds return.

Spend enough time talking with conference founders, festival producers, association chiefs, and brand-side experience leaders and you start to hear a tone change — not in public, not onstage, not in the glossy recap decks — but in the private conversations where the curtain comes down and the room is finally honest. Registration isn’t dead. Sponsors sti…