This is the 5th edition of the LTR online conference experience. LTR is a fast-paced 2 1/2 hours and starts at 11:30am EST (New York time) Thursday 18th February with a half hour of networking followed by presentations and then another networking session to close things out.
LTR is designed to help you get to know other CXOs and fellow leaders of online social communities and dating companies, and help you further perfect your masterplan. This event is small, focused, and by-invite-only. 80 places only.Â
You'll meet CEOs and top flight executives from a diverse group of leading dating and online social communities. We'll also have some select, brilliant people from outside our industry that can help inspire you to think outside the box, and to the future.
The LTR conference is hosted and attended by the Internet Dating Excellence Association (IDEA) and Online Social Community Association (OSCA).Â
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Presentations are ~20 minutes each and will reveal a core idea. You'll hear ideas on growth opportunities and user experience, challenging issues worthy of collaboration, interesting new technology and inspirational and informative stories to help enhance your understanding and sharpen up your strategy.
This will be a unique, uplifting and essential event that will help you and your company align with the best of what the dating and online social community industries will become. LTR will help you evolve and help you connect with and get more perspective from your peers.
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This is a closed-door session and is by direct-invite-only from your host and organizer Mark Brooks. You can simply reply to Mark's email invitation to RSVP.
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PLEASE NOTE: ALL PRIORÂ SUMMIT & LTRÂ EVENTSÂ WERE FULL WITHIN 72Â HOURSÂ OF INVITES BEING SENT
Kindly sponsored by:
  RealMe - Check for real users & raise your ARPU
  vPaaS by Meet Group - Video at scale
 Utopia Analytics - Next generation AI Moderation
  Real Gifts - Real gifts plug-in for online communities
 Courtland Brooks - Internet dating and communities consultancy-agency
Mark runs the agency-consultancy Courtland Brooks which is focused on serving Internet dating companies and online social communities.Â
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He supports the dating and online social community industries by heading IDEA & OSCA, hosting LTR, and publishing the news summary services Online Personals Watch, and Very Social Network.Â
Mark is an HBS grad and recently completed an Exec. MSc in Behavioral Science at London School of Economics.
Patti Stanger is the world's most prominent matchmaker and starred in and was executive producer of 'The Millionaire Matchmaker' for seven years on Bravo.
She is also author of a number of dating books including the best seller 'Become Your Own Matchmaker.'
Patti is the Simon Cowell of dating. Forthright, and incredibly insightful, she will give us her thoughts on how the dating industry can improve in this interview with Mark Brooks.
Patti runs the matchmaking firm The Millionaire's Club.
Geoff Cook heads one of the most unique social dating community companies worldwide. The Meet Group is focused on providing one-to-many video, and comprises industry leading brands Meetme, Lovoo, Tagged, Skout and Growlr.Â
Geoff joined the dating industry in 2005 and pioneered one to many video. This platform (vPaaS) is now available to other dating apps, like POF. What does vPaaS do? Who can get vPaaS? What's in store for the future? Geoff will answer these questions and enlighten you on one-to-many video.
Zach is a data scientist, with a passion for health coaching. In 2019 he started Filter Off, a video speed dating app and #1 product on Product Hunt with features in NY Times and BBC.
Prior to this he started BeginU to help college students find skill enhancing work opportunities. Then Zach worked with Bitly before starting the dating advice site Top Romp. which covered dating hacks and apps for the modern dater, which he sold in 2018 to start the mental health community 18percent.
He is a chapter leader for the Internet marketing community 'Online Geniuses' and is a product analyst for Johnson & Johnson health services.
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* supporting sponsors of LTR
Adam Cohen-Aslatei, Founder & CEO, S'More
Adam Pogach, Director, Business Development & Partnerships, RealMe *
Adekunle Adeniji, CEO, 2CanPlay
Adryenn Ashley, co-Founder, CEO, Loly
Alex Black, Head of Marketing, Grindr
Alex Leshan, Product Owner, DatingPro
Alex Pinto, CEO, ForHimDating
Amanda Rose, Founder & CEO, Dating Boutique
Andrej Matijczak, Founder, La La Love
Andrew Fisher, CEO, The Cute Media Group
Andrew Yaroshenko, CEO & Founder, FantasyMatch
Anil S. Kumar, CEO, FeeElective
Anthony Volpe, CMO, Tawkify
Arnel Guiang, Founder & CEO, ChatApp
Arvia Few, CEO, Dottie
Ben Goodman, Marketing Manager, CitySwoon
Bill Alena, Head of M&A, The Dating Group
Bill Swartz, podcast host
Blake Barrett Kuhre, Advisor, The Dating Group
Brandon McLevis, COO, Dating Gold
Brandon Wade, Founder & CEO, SeekingArrangement
Brianna Woodward, co-Founder & CEO, ZEST Dating
Bruno Mustone, Managing Director, Forcespenpals.co.uk
Carmelia Ray, CEO, Carmelia Ray Consulting & Matchmaking
Catherine Cook, CMO, The Meet Group *
Christian Mercer, Founder & CEO, Positive Plus One
Clémentine Lalande, CEO, Once
Courtney Kovacevich, VP Partnerships, RealMe *
Darren Chan, Founder & CEO, Sugarbook
Dave Gottesmann, CEO, Perchance
Dave Sanguinetti, CEO, Real Gifts *
David Adams, CRO, White Label Dating
David Minns, Founder & CEO, Platformdating.com
David Vermeulen, Founder, Inner Circle
Eddy Ankrett, President of DatingAgencyAssociation
Erica Arrechea, co-Founder, Cinqe
Es Lee, Founder, Crushh
Felix Hoo, Head of Subscriptions, EME Hive
Gloria Diez, MD Europe, Wamba
Haley Fradkin, co-Founder, Revibe Social
Haluk Akin, co-Founder, Pembe Panjur
Hanna Kozlowska, Reporter
Harrit Diwan, Founder & CEO, Curius
Hunt Ethridge, Founder, Hunt For Advice
India Simpson, COO, Dottie
Dr Isabell Springer, Founder, LoveEd
Jamie Lee, co-Founder, Lunch Actually
Jane Ramadan, Account Manager, Business Development, RealMe *
Jennifer Burns, PR Manager, The Meet Group *
Jens Kammerer, CEO, Jaumo
Jesper Johansson, PO, Mötesplatsen
Jessica Alderson, co-Founder, SoSyncd
Julien Hamilton, Founder, Single Spot
Karima Ban Abdelmalek, General Counsel & Secretary, Happn
Katie Hartle, CEO, Friendmatch
Kellie Ammerman, President, Tawkify
Kevin Teman, CEO, AIMM
Kim Kaplan, CEO, Myth
Konstantin Poltoran, CEO, Meetville
Ksenia Droben, CEO, Ksenia Droben Partnervermittlung
Larklind Cerkezi, co-Founder, Dua
Laticia Austin, CEO, Its A Real Date
Laura Brashier, CEO, RomanceOnly
Lemarc Thomas, Founder & CEO, Lemarc Thomas Matchmaking
Leon Gomez, CEO, MyCircles
Lisa Butkiewicz, CEO, Meetopolis
Lisa Clampitt, Founder & President, The Matchmaking Institute & Lisa Clampitt Matchmaking
Lluis Carreras, CEO, Mobifriends
Maria Avgitidis Pyrgiotakis, CEO, Agape Match
Maritza van den Heuvel, co-Founder, Intentions
Martina Čakajdová, Founder, Najdi Partnera
Michael O'Sullivan, Owner, Hubpeople
Michael Carter, President, Passions Network
Michael Kaye, Global Communications & PR Manager, OkCupid
Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group *
Michelle Jacoby, Owner, DC Matchmaking
Mike Bandar, Owner, ToyBoyWarehouse
Mike Carroll, VP Operations, Brotherton Holdings
Nasi Rwigema, Founder, Umwuga
Natalia Rohr, Head of PR, AIMM
Neil Davis, CBO, RealMe *
Niklas Wikblad, Senior Business Development Manager, Utopia Analytics *
Peter Weiler, President & co-Owner, Dating Central Europe Zrt
Radha Patel, Founder, Single to Shaadi
Ross Williams, Founder & CEO, Venntro Media Group
Rowen Ash, CEO, Speakeasy Dating
Ryan Surratt, CEO, Wonder
Sagi Cezana, Director of Marketing, FriendFinder Networks
Sam Moorcroft, President & co-Founder, ChristianCafe
Sanchita Saha, CEO & Founder, Citysocializer
Santiago Osorio, Business Development Manager, Utopia Analytics *
Scott Valdez, Founder & President, VIDA Select
Sid Klein, CEO, Matchmaker2Matchmaker
Simon Corbett, Owner, Global Dating Insights
Sneha Ramachandran, Head of Operations, S'More
Steve Jordan, Marketing Consultant, FindBetterLove
Sunali Aggarwal, Founder, As You Are
Tammy Shaklee, Founder & President, H4M
Thomas Nomaksteinsky, CEO, Mektoube
Dr Timothy Sexton, CEO, DNA Romance
Toby Visram, Operations Director, The Cute Media Group
Tommy Sanguinetti, President, Real Gifts *
Torab Arya, Enterprise Account Executive, Sensor Tower
Trea Tijmens, Founder, SuccessMatch.ch
Uwe Thomas, CEO, Icony
Valon Asani, Founder & CEO, Dua
Victoria Aagaard, COO, Wonder
Viktor Cindric, Chief Design Officer, First Beat Media
Vlad Savchak, CPO, Meetville
Zach Schleien, Founder, Filter Off
Zackary Lewis, Founder, SayAllo
Our 4th LTR featured noted conversions and digital design specialist Tim Ash talking through some fascinating pricing model designs. Ross Williams from White Label Dating appealed to the industry to work together more and gave some examples of lucrative ways to do that. David Minns of Platform Dating talked us through some of his extreme niche products and gave us insight on why the products work, and how well they're doing.
See invitation site here with speakers and attendees
LTR #3 was another landmark event. Harvard Business School's Professor Ashley Whillans gave us an overview of her findings from behavioral science on how our time can be used in a more personally fulfilling way. Dr Mari-Sanna Paukkerri, CEO of Utopia Analytics, shared how advanced language independent AI is being used for UGC review. Then Catherine Connelly, a notable long termer in the dating industry started her company at age 15, and has guided The Meet Group to it's current $360m a year.
See invitation site here: shows speakers and attendees
Once again, LTR filled to capacity within 72 hours of invitations being sent out. The CEO/Founder of Hornet explained how he transitioned Hornet from being a dating app to being an online social community. The CEO of RealMe defined how reputation data is making users safer. Professor Robert Metcalfe walked us through how we can measure consumer value. We also got a half hour networking session before and after the speakers session, so attendees could meet fellow industry leaders on small tables of six. Â
See invitation site here: shows speakers and attendees
The very first LTR online conference happened September 10th, 2020 and was attended by 99 leaders and luminaries (including 72 CEO/Founders of dating and online social communities). Professor Iyengar of Columbia University spoke about the Art of Decision Making. Geoff Cook, CEO of The Meet Group gave us the inside-track on the rise of video. The Godfather of reality TV, Jon Murray, was interviewed. Â
See invitation site here:Â shows speakers and attendees. Â Â
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.