The Internet Dating Excellence Association (IDEA) and Online Social Community Association (OSCA) will host this international gathering of by-invitation-only CEOs and executives of leading Internet dating apps and online social communities.Â
The LTR online conference experience builds on what we learned from you at the prior IDEA SUMMITs. Times have changed, and we are holding off on the summits until late 2021. We know time is precious, so we're keeping these LTR conferences to just 2 1/2 hours, starting at 11:30am EST (New York) Sep 10th. A half hour of networking + ~90 mins presentations + another ~half hour of networking to close things out.
LTR is designed to help you get to know other CXOs and leaders in the online connections industries. It is small and focused and like no other online industry gathering you've ever attended.
There are 75 places only. Three times more than the prior summits. You'll meet fellow CEOs and top flight executives from a diversity of leading dating and online social communities along with a smattering of brilliant people that can really inspire you to think outside the box, and to the future.  Â
Presentations will be 12-20 minutes each and will reveal a core idea. Ideas on matters currently affecting the growth of the industry, dating-related safety, challenging issues worthy of collaboration, opportunities for collective growth, along with inspirational and informative stories that just might impact your strategy, or will at least enhance your understanding of our wonderful industry.
This event is for C level executives and leaders who are exceptionally personally and professionally invested in the online connection industry. This will be a unique, uplifting and essential event that will inform your strategy, and help align you and your company with the best of what the dating and online social community industries are, and will become, and help you evolve with the benefit of perspective from your peers.
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This is a closed-door session, but the presentations will be available online two months after the conference. You won't find this conference promoted, listed or advertised anywhere online. You found this page via a direct email invitation. Please reply and let Mark know if you can make it by responding to the email. ;-)
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Professor Iyengar has a B.S. in Economics from Wharton and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University. Sheena focuses on the psychology of choice and decision-making, addressing how humans face challenges in a world where they are inundated with options.
She is rated as one of the world's best B-School Professors by Poets and Quants. Her best selling book 'The Art of Choosing' was a Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Books of the Year and ranked #3 on the Amazon.com Best Business and Investing Books of 2010. Her TED Talks received over 6 million views. She is a blind, first generation Indian-American.
Geoff Cook heads The Meet Group which is a public company (NASDAQ) and comprises the industry leading brands Meetme, Lovoo, Tagged, Skout and Growlr. One-to-many video is a key feature of The Meet Group dating apps. Geoff joined the dating industry in 2005. Â
Geoff announced a deal to sell The Meet Group for $500 million in March, 2020 -- one of the last large public deals prior to the declaration the pandemic by the WHO.
Adam spent the last 10 years in mobile tech and dating, building his first dating website at Harvard in 2008. He spent almost 5 years with The Meet Group then after some time in consulting and adtech he joined Magic Labs as the MD of Chappy, Bumble's gay dating app. Then he started S'More (a.k.a Something More) in 2019. "Imagine a dating app that starts with getting to know a person before swiping on them. Where character is considered before physical attributes"
Dan is an award winning consultant in research & strategic influence industry.
He has previously worked on projects for Nokia, enpocket, Unilever, EA Games, 20th Century Fox, Virgin Megastore, Play.com, AOL, Ikea, World Wildlife Fund and many other world leading brands.
He is currently working with RealMe and executed and analysed an extensive study into current trends in dating behavior.
Jon ushered in the modern reality TV genre with his late partner Mary-Ellis Bunim.Â
Since the launch of The Real World on MTV in 1992, Murray created and executive produced the Emmy award winning Born This Way (A&E),
Besides The Real World, which aired on Facebook after 32 seasons on MTV, Project Runway, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Total Divas, Road Rules, The Challenge, The Simple Life, Starting Over (Emmy Award), and Making the Band, movies; The Real Cancun, Pedro, and documentaries; Autism: The Musical (Emmy Award), Shadow Billionaire, Valentine Road, They Call Us Monsters and TransHood. His most recent series, Family or Fiancé, airs on OWN.  In 2012, Murray was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
Mark's team has worked with 112 dating, online social communities and best-in-class service providers since 2005. He runs the business agency-consultancy Courtland Brooks, and supports the dating and online social communities by heading the associations IDEA & OSCA and the daily executive news summary services OPW.news & VSN.ist. Mark joined the dating and online social community industry in 1998. Â
Interim Corporate Development DirectorÂ
Thomas Pappas
Matchmaking (be2) & Casual (c-date)
CEO / Founder
Zackary Lewis
Video chat app with compatibility influenced by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Program Coordinator for Prof. Iyengar
Allie Sinclair
Supporting keynote speaker Prof. Iyengar
The third formal event took place at Harvard Club New York in early March 2020 and was hosted by Geoff Cook, the CEO/co-founder of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET). We enjoyed a wonderful prior evening of dining and full day of idea sharing and discussion, followed by an IDEA WOW (World Officers Weekend) in New York.
See invitation site here.
The second formal event took place in December 2019 in Berlin at the Spark Networks (NYSE: LOV) board room, hosted by Jeronimo Folgueira, the outgoing CEO and Eric Eichmann, the new CEO. An all-star group of executives from some of the top dating and matchmaking companies on the planet were present, and presented their growth ideas to the group. See photo below. Â
See invitation site here. Â
The first formal event took place in April 2019 this year in Chennai, India which is the home of Matrimony.com. The weekend prior to the event we held a WOW, World Officers Weekend, where we toured the sights and sounds and culinary delights of Chennai. Then the first IDEA SUMMIT was held in Matrimony's boardroom and was hosted by Muru, the CEO of Matrimony.com.Â
See invitation site here.
IDEA mixers have been happening for the last 10 years but the first semi-formal event was in Malta in November 2018. The World Officers Weekend brought together a group of dating executives to learn and share and have a long weekend in Malta.
See invitation site here.