This is the 8th 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 20th May with a half hour of networking followed by presentations and then another half hour networking session.
LTR is designed to help you get to know other CXOs and fellow leaders of online social communities and dating companies, and inspire you to further business growth. 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 have some brilliant speakers, and attendees, that can help you think outside the box and inspire you about the future.
The LTR conference is hosted and attended by the Internet Dating Excellence Association (IDEA) and the 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.
LTR is a unique and 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. Â
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PLEASE NOTE: ALL PRIOR SUMMIT & LTR EVENTS WERE FULL WITHIN 72 HOURS OF INVITES BEING SENT. LTR is by invite only.  Please reply to Mark's email invitation to RSVP.Â
Kindly sponsored by:
  RealMe - Improve safety with user access to background info and raise your ARPU
  vPaaS by Meet Group - Video at scale
  Real Gifts - Real gifts plug-in for online communities
 Tawkify - Partner with America's leading nationwide Matchmakers
 Courtland Brooks - Internet dating and communities consultancy-agency
Jon writes for Fortune, and has also written for The Washington Post, Time, and BusinessWeek among many others.
Jon's book "Date-onomics" was called 'the moneyball of dating' by NBC's Today Show.Â
Make Your Move is the sequel and covers some of the material challenges the dating industry has, from the user perspective. He also covers strategies for users to find the one.   Â
Jon's advice is making it's way around the Internet and it's important for you to hear the research backed advice he is expounding to users.
Barbara runs one of the world's largest influencer networks, with 1.6m influencers.  In 2013 she founded LifeTube, a multichannel network for Youtube, which she grew to 300m monthly views, with 270 engaged creators in 3 years and exited in 2016.
IndaHash's USP is automating content marketing campaigns, mostly on Insta, FB, Snapchat and Tiktok. Â
With the recent changes with Apple user tracking, influencer marketing becomes even more compelling. Barbara and her VP Ashwin Chandoesing will give some key influencer marketing ideas and advice for you based on their experience.
Shauny is a digital health entrepreneur. She built CBOH to help users share their covid status, along with other health tests.
Shauny previously worked as an Analyst at Intentional Capital, and then as an investments advisor at Impact Assets focusing on impact investments. She is currently studying at MIT and Harvard on a dual Masters program. Â
Dating and online communities need to find a way to indicate covid testing status. Shauny would like to help us. Â
We will see a 5 minute overview of CBOH and then we'll run a quick survey so YOU can inform her product strategy. Â
Mark runs the agency-consultancy Courtland Brooks which is focused on serving strategy, marketing and business development services to 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.
* supporting sponsors of LTR
Adam Pogach, Director, Business Development & Partnerships, RealMe *
Adekunle Adeniji, CEO, 2CanPlay
Adelaide Matte, Founder, SetMeUp
Alex Leshan, Product Owner, DatingPro
Amanda Wilson, co-Founder, #open
Annie Brown, Founder, Lips
Arnel Guiang, Founder & CEO, ChatApp
Arvia Few, CEO, Dottie
Ayo Olatoye, co-Founder, Trueflutter
Ben Goodman, Marketing Manager, CitySwoon
Bill Shafton, VP, Business & Legal Affairs, Grindr
Bradley Boyd, Founder & CEO, SetForMarriage
Carmelia Ray, CEO, Carmelia Ray Consulting & Matchmaking
Catherine Cook Connelly, CMO, The Meet Group *
Christopher Klotz, Owner, SinglesAroundMe
Consuelo Costin, Founder, SohoMuse
Courtney Kovacevich, VP Partnerships, RealMe *
David Epstein, co-Founder, #open
David Minns, Founder & CEO, Platformdating.com
Dominic Whitlock Editor, Global Dating Insights
Eddy Ankrett, President of DatingAgencyAssociation
Es Lee, Founder, Crushh
Fei Mei, VP of Live Streaming, EastMeetEast
Felix Hoo, Head of Subscriptions, EME Hive
Guillaume Asselot, Founder, Seeders
Gustav Borg, CEO, Motesplatsen
Hal Oppenheimer, CEO, Dating Service Network
Haluk Akin, co-Founder, Pembe Panjur
Higinio Dillinger, President & Owner, Cebcor
Hristo Zlatarski, CEO, Elitebook.bg
Hunt Ethridge, Founder, Hunt For Advice
Dr Isabell Springer, Founder, LoveEd
James Leftwich, Founder, NoLongerLonely
Jane Ramadan, Account Manager, Business Development, RealMe *
Jeffrey Kaplan, CEO, JustKibbitz
Jens Kammerer, CEO, Jaumo
Jessica Alderson, co-Founder, SoSyncd
Joris van Doorninck, co-Founder & CEO, Breeze Social
Karima Ben Abdelmalek, General Counsel & Secretary, Happn
Katia Loisel, Founder & CEO, The Love Destination
Katie Hartle, CEO, FriendMatch
Kolina Kretzschmar, Head of Operations, Snack
Konstantin Poltoran, CEO, Meetville
Laura Ciccone, Co-Founder, Blinkdate
Lemarc Thomas, Founder & CEO, Lemarc Thomas Matchmaking
Leon Gomez, CEO, MyCircles
Lisa Butkiewicz, CEO, Meetopolis
Lluis Carreras, CEO, Mobifriends
Marc Schachtel, COO, ParshipMeet Group
Maria Avgitidis Pyrgiotakis, CEO, Agape Match
Mark Owen, President, Events and Adventures
Markus Bähr, Director Customer Care, Spark Networks
Maureen Shaw, Founder, SexyAds
Meet Kanodia, co-Founder, Go Gaga
Michael Carter, President, Passions Network
Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group *
Mike Carroll, VP Operations, Brotherton Holdings
Nasi Rwigema, Founder, Umwuga
Neil Davis, CBO, RealMe *
Numair Qureshi, Founder & CEO, Mixo App
Oscar F. Estupiñán, Partner, Novasemocoes.com, Flertou.com
Paul Ergatoudis, Owner, SingleSolution
Phil Henricks, Sr Director of Marketing, Growlr
Radha Patel, Founder, Single to Shaadi
Ritesh Bhatnagar, CMO, U2opia Mobile
Rowen Ash, Founder & CEO, Speakeasy Dating
Saichithra Swaminathan, Chief Portal & Mobile Officer, Matrimony.com
Sam Moorcroft, President & co-Founder, ChristianCafe
Saurabh Goswami, MD, Ultra Rich Match
Scott Valdez, President and Founder, VIDA Select
Sid Klein, CEO, Matchmaker2Matchmaker
Taly Mathiteyahu, Founder, Blinkdate
Tammy Shaklee, Founder & President, H4M
Dr Timothy Sexton, CEO, DNA Romance
Viktor Cindric, Chief Design Officer, First Beat Media
Vivek Jain, co-Founder, LOKO
Zach Schleien, Founder, Filter Off
Zackary Lewis, CEO, SayAllo
Another sold-out LTR, we were super thrilled to hear Dr Helen Fisher, a powerhouse top-flight anthropologist with a long history in Internet dating. She is Chief Scientific Officer at Match since 2005, and is Senior Research Fellow at Kinsey Institute. Then Carsten Boltz presented on growth strategy. He's CEO of Online Personals Group with properties in 37 countries and a team of 160. Carsten is a member of IDEA Ten Year Club, Anthony Volpe, CMO at Tawkify, overviewed how Tawkify has done well despite the pandemic.
Gitte Bendzilla, the MD of public company, Spark Networks was interviewed by Mark Brooks about her 2 years at Spark. Alex Durrant, the CEO/Founder of Jigsaw talked about the rise and recent raise of Jigsaw. They just raised $3.7m. Henning Wiechers is a long term mega-affiliate in Germany who is an expert on the DACH market and he gave us the benefit of his insights on the DACH markets. All in all, another diverse and fascinating line up, enjoyed by a packed room of online community leaders and luminaries.Â
See invitation site here with speakers and attendees
Edition 5 in Feb 2021 featured celebrity matchmaker Patti Stanger, a.k.a. the millionaire matchmaker. Patti produced and starred in "The Millionaire Matchmaker" for 7 years and is probably the world's most famous matchmaker. Geoff Cook gave us an overview of the vPaaS product which enables PlentyoffFish and is opening up to work with more dating and online social communities. Zach Zhleien is a startup CEO with a penchant for data and video, and gave us his thoughts on video dating.
See invitation site here with speakers and attendees
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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