This is the 7th 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 15th April 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
 Utopia Analytics - Next generation AI Moderation
  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
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.
Dr Helen Fisher is one of the world's leading anthropologists and has been Chief Scientific Advisor to Match since 2005. She was instrumental in the formation of Chemistry and it's compatibility profiling. Â
Dr Fisher is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute, which focuses on sexuality, relationships and well-being.
Noted author, Helen has written essential reads: Why Him, Why Her, and Why We Love.
Helen's TED talks have attracted over 20 million views. She's also a regular in the media. See her on Charlie Rose.
Carsten has worked with Internet dating companies for most of his career, over 20 years.Â
He started out at Friendscout24, and graduated to work with Be2 and to become CEO at Insparx in 2011.Â
Now he leads be2, Academic Singles, Singles50, and C-date. Â
He heads a team of 160 that serve Internet dating services to 37Â countries around the world.
Anthony has a diverse tech marketing background spanning IBM, General Motors, Intel, eBay and Travelocity. Â
Anthony started working with dating companies with his role as CMO of at Social Discovery ventures in 2012, and he his now CMO and Head of Partnerships at Tawkify with a $10m annual ad budget. Â
Tawkify has morphed and prospered recently, and I think you need to hear their story, and where Tawkify is headed next, as one of the few national footprint matchmakers in the USA.
* supporting sponsors of LTR
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Adam Pogach, Director, Business Development & Partnerships, RealMe *
 Adekunle Adeniji, CEO, 2CanPlay
Alex Leshan, Product Owner, DatingPro
Amit Patel, Founder, GujjuWeds
Andrea McKee, Director of Future Development, Reflex Media *
Andrej Matijczak, Founder, La La Love
Andrey Bronetski, General Director, Mamba.ru
Arvia Few, CEO, Dottie
Ben Goodman, Marketing Manager, CitySwoon
Bill Alena, Head of M&A, The Dating Group
Blair Currie, CEO, Snibble
Bradley Boyd, Founder & CEO, SetForMarriage
Bruno Mustone, Managing Director, Forcespenpals.co.uk
Catherine Cook Connelly, CMO, The Meet Group *
Christof Wittig, CEO, Hornet
Christoph Reisner, co-Founder, Koko
CJ Carter, co-Founder, LOV App
Courtney Kovacevich, VP Partnerships, RealMe *
Dave Sanguinetti, CEO, RealGifts *
David Minns, Founder & CEO, Platformdating.com
Eddy Ankrett, President of DatingAgencyAssociation
Eran Beris, VP Marketing, Astrodita
Erica Arrechea, co-Founder, Cinqe
Felix Hoo, Head of Subscriptions, EME Hive
Garfield Wright, CEO, Rumpur
Geoff Cook, CEO, The Meet Group *
Geneviève Zawada, CEO, ElectClub
Guillaume Asselot, Founder, Seeders
Haluk Akin, co-Founder, Pembe Panjur
Harrit Diwan, Founder & CEO, Curius
Haze Deng, Chief Revenue Officer, Ruby Life
Henning Wiechers, CEO, Metaflake
Higinio Dillinger, President & Owner, Cebcor
Hristo Zlatarski, CEO, Elitebook.bg
Hunt Ethridge, Founder, Hunt For Advice
India Simpson, COO, Dottie
Dr Isabell Springer, Founder, LoveEd
Jane Ramadan, Business Development Manager, RealMe *
Jas Bagniewski, co-Founder & CEO, Lover
Jay Neves, COO, First Beat Media
Jennifer Burns, PR Manager, The Meet Group *
Jens Kammerer, CEO, Jaumo
Jessica Alderson, co-Founder, SoSyncd
John Meuffels, CEO, MatchMedia.eu
Justin Shimoon, CEO, AffinityClick
Karinna Karsten, Founder & CEO, SacredLove.com
Katie Hartle, CEO, FriendMatch
Konstantin Poltoran, CEO, Meetville
Larry Frazin, Manager, Patti Stanger (The Millionaire Matchmaker)
Laticia Austin, CEO, Its A Real Date
Lemarc Thomas, Founder & CEO, Lemarc Thomas Matchmaking
Lisa Butkiewicz, CEO, Meetopolis
Lisa Clampitt, President & Founder, The Matchmaking Institute & Lisa Clampitt Matchmaking
Lluis Carreras, CEO, Mobifriends
Maria Avgitidis Pyrgiotakis, CEO, Agape Match
Martina Čakajdová, Founder, Najdi Partnera
Matt Paoli, Founder, Flare Events
Meet Kanodia, co-Founder, Go Gaga
Mia Wealthall, Director of Operations, Vida/Maclynn International
Michael Carter, President, Passions Network
Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group *
Mike Carroll, VP Operations, Brotherton Holdings
Murugavel Janakiraman, Founder & CEO, Matrimony.com
Nadav Mills, Director of Product, DOWN
Neha Kanodia, co-Founder, GoGaga
Neil Davis, CBO, RealMe *
Niklas Wikblad, Senior Business Development Manager, Utopia Analytics *
Norman Petty, Head of Trust & Safety, The Meet Group *
Paul Uhlig, co-Founder, LemonSwan
Péter Weiler, President & co-Owner, Dating Central Europe
Phil Henricks, Senior Director of Marketing, Growlr
Radha Patel, Founder, Single to Shaadi
Ross Williams, Founder & CEO, Venntro Media Group
Rowen Ash, CEO, Speakeasy Dating
Ruben Buell, COO & CTO, Reflex Media *
Saichithra Swaminathan, Chief Portal & Mobile Officer, BharatMatrimony
Sam Moorcroft, President & co-Founder, ChristianCafe
Sanjay Panchal, Founder, Elate
Santiago Osorio, Business Development Manager, Utopia Analytics *
Scott Valdez, President & Founder, VIDA Select
Sid Klein, CEO, Matchmaker2Matchmaker
Steve Dean, Special Advisor, Courtland Brooks
Sunali Aggarwal, Founder, As You Are
Tammy Shaklee, Founder & President, H4M
Dr Timothy Sexton, CEO, DNA Romance
Tina Houser, CEO, Press Play
Toby Visram, Operations Director, The Cute Media Group
Tommy Sanguinetti, co-Founder & President, RealGifts *
Valon Asani, Founder & CEO, Dua
Vivek Jain, co-Founder, LOKO
Zackary Lewis, CEO, SayAllo
Zach Schleien, Founder, Filter Off
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.
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 attendeesÂ
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
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