This is the 11th 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) Wednesday 6th October with a half hour of networking followed by 90 mins of 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.
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). If you got an email invite, you're in the group, and very welcome to join us. (Email mark@courtlandbrooks.com to inquire about joining IDEA or OSCA).
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.
This is a closed-door session and is by direct-invite-only from your host and organizer Mark Brooks.
PLEASE NOTE: LTR is by invite only. Please reply to Mark's email invitation to RSVP.
PRIOR LTR EVENTS FILLED WITHIN 72 HOURS OF INVITES BEING SENT.
Kindly sponsored by:
RealMe - Improve safety with user access to background info and raise your ARPU
vPaaS by Meet Group - Video at scale
Courtland Brooks - Internet dating and communities consultancy-agency
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.
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 who have it integrated.
The creator economy is taking off. What does this mean for dating and online social communities. Geoff has a unique vantage point on this trend, and will reveal some key thoughts and findings to help inform and inspire you.
Geoff is an IDEA Ten Year Club member
Neil has been an innovator in television and digital media since 1981. He worked as SVP of AOL from 1995-2001 and originally joined MyLife (then Reunion.com) in 2005.
Now Neil is leading business development and partnerships for RealMe, into the dating and social community space.
RealMe helps people be safer when socializing online. Dating and social companies can validate their userbase, enable users to view background profiles and have safer interactions.
In this presentation Neil will highlight the key advances in Trust & Safety in the dating and online social community space this year, so far.
Eddy is an IDEA Ten Year Club member and was first active in the dating space in 1992 when he was MD of Elite Introductions. This was a well known franchised dating service at scale in the UK in the 90s.
Then Eddy went on to advise White Label Dating a.k.a. Venntro Media, working closely with the founders Ross Williams and Steve Pammenter through their formative years with the business.
Now Eddy is on his 3rd stint in the business of love, as Lifetime President of Dating Agency Association which is a consortium of matchmakers in the UK.
How can the dating and social industries work with the matchmaking industry. Eddy will enlighten us in his presentation.
Mark runs the agency-consultancy Courtland Brooks (est. 2005) which is comprised of an elite team of 30 industry specialists focused on serving strategy, marketing and business development assistance to Internet dating companies and online social communities.
He supports the dating and online social community industries by heading IDEA.gp (since 2007) & OSCA.gp, hosting LTR, and publishing the news summary services Online Personals Watch (est. 2004) and Very Social Network (est. 2006).
Mark graduated from HBS in 2014 and completed an Executive MSc in Behavioral Science at London School of Economics in 2017.
Mark is committed to helping dating and social industry executives connect, learn and share, and get inspired for an even more effective and prosperous future.
* supporting sponsors of LTR
Adekunle Adeniji, Founder, 2CanPlay
Amber Lee, CEO, Select Date Society
Andrej Matijczak, Co-Founder, Freeletics & Lalalove
Anthony Oyogoa, co-Founder & CEO, UrSafe
Arvia Few, co-Founder & CEO, Dottie
Bill Alena, Chief Investment Officer, Dating Group
Bradley Boyd, Founder & CEO, Set For Marriage
Carmelia Ray, CEO, Carmelia Ray Consulting & Matchmaking
Catherine Cook Connelly, CMO, The Meet Group *
Courtney Kovacevich, VP Partnerships, RealMe *
Daryl Webster, Director of Customer Support, Reflex Media
Felix Hoo, Head of Subscriptions, EME Hive
Guillaume Asselot, Founder, Seeders
Higinio Dillinger, President & Owner, Cebcor
Hunt Ethridge, Founder, Hunt For Advice
Jamie Wykes-Hobday, CEO, FITFCK
Jane Ramadan, Account Manager, Business Development, RealMe *
Jessica Alderson, Founder, SoSyncd
Julien Hamilton, Founder, Single Spot
Kate Gould, Sr Marketing Manager, Brotherton Holdings
Kimberly Kaplan, CEO, Snack
Kris Covino, co-Founder, Date.com
Leslie Wardman, CEO, Ambiance Matchmaking
Lisa Butkiewicz, CEO, Meetpolis
Lluis Carreras, co-Founder & CEO, Mobifriends
Louis Dresse, co-Founder, Himoon
Marcia Rubin, CEO, Yak Networks
Michael Bruch, Founder, Sweetpea
Michael Couvreur, co-Founder, Himoon
Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group *
Neil Davis, CBO, RealMe *
Nicole Chasin, VP Marketing, XO
Numair Qureshi, Founder & CEO, Mixo App
Oscar F. Estupiñán, Partner, Novasemocoes.com, Flertou.com
Phil Henricks, Senior Director of Marketing, Growlr
Rowen Ash, Founder & CEO, Speakeasy Dating
Saurab Uttam, co-Founder, Tubbr
Sam Moorcroft, CEO, ChristianCafe
Sandra Myers, co-Founder, Select Date Society
Sid Klein, CEO & co-Founder, Matchmaker2Matchmaker
Tammy Shaklee, President, H4M
Timothy Sexton, Founder & CEO, DNARomance
Uwe Thomas, CEO, Icony.com
Viktor Cindric, Chief Design Officer, First Beat Media
Yllkë Abdullahu, Business Development Officer, Dua.com