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OVERVIEW

This is our 4th LTR online conference experience and builds on what we learned from you at the three previous LTR Conferences and prior IDEA SUMMITs (see below). LTR #4 is a fast-paced 2 1/2 hours and starts at 11:30am EST (New York time) Thursday 21st January 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 perfect your masterpiece strategy. This event is small and focused with 75 places only.

You'll meet CEOs and top flight executives from a diversity of leading dating and online social communities along with a couple of select, brilliant people from outside our industry that can really 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).

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.

This is a closed-door session and is by direct-invite-only from your host and organizer Mark Brooks. RSVP above or simply reply to Mark's email invitation.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PRIOR SUMMIT & LTR EVENTS WERE FULL WITHIN 72 HOURS OF INVITES BEING SENT

Kindly sponsored by:
  RealMe - Making dating apps safer
  vPaaS by Meet Group - Video
Utopia Analytics - AI Moderation
  Real Gifts - Gifts plug-in
Courtland Brooks - Consultancy/agency

mark brooks

CEO & President

Courtland Brooks & IDEA, OSCA

LTR's Host

Mark runs the agency-consultancy Courtland Brooks which is focused on serving Internet dating companies and online social communities.

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.

Mark is an HBS grad and recently completed an Exec. MSc in Behavioral Science at London School of Economics.

Ross Williams

CEO / Founder

Venntro Media Group

TOPIC: How We're All Better Together - Working WITH Your Competition

With nothing more than a credit card, Ross set up White Label Dating/Venntro Media Group with Steve Pammenter in 2003.

Venntro has 45+ million members and is a world leader in niche dating.

Venntro Media's White Label Dating product now powers thousands of dating sites around the world and sites on the platform have generated over $390m revenues to date. Ross joined the dating industry in 2003.

Tim Ash

Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author, Marketing Advisor

TOPIC: Neuromarketing Tips

Tim is an acknowledged authority on evolutionary psychology and digital marketing. He is a sought-after international keynote speaker, and the bestselling author of "Unleash Your Primal Brain" and "Landing Page Optimization."

For 19 years Tim was CEO/Co-founder of SiteTuners – a digital optimization agency. Tim developed deep expertise in user-centered design, persuasion, consumer behavior, neuro-marketing, and landing page testing.

He's an early pioneer in the discipline of website conversion rate optimization (CRO).

David Minns

CEO / Founder

DMCUBED LTD - Niche Online Dating

TOPIC: Niche Dating is No Longer Niche Enough

In 2006, Dave founded dm³, a computer software company specializing in software development for the online dating industry, and then started launching his own dating services.

Also known as The Niche Online Dating Man™, Dave Minns is a niche online dating entrepreneur with a broad network of award winning dating sites.

He runs 'ooOo Dating' for singles age 18 to 30s, '20' for extreme age gap dating, and 'Joystick' which is focused on gamer dating.

RSVP List

Here's the complete list of RSVPs
IDEA Members, Sponsors and Special Guests

Adam Pogach, Director, RealMe *

Adekunle Adeniji, CEO, 2CanPlay
Alex Felipelli, CEO, Veggly
Alex Leshan, Head of Product, DatingPro
Amanda Bradford, CEO, The League
Amanda Moorhouse, Director of Video, FriendMatch
Andrea McKee, M&A, Reflex Media *
Andrew Lee, Business Development Manager, Tinder
Andrew Yaroshenko, CEO/Founder, Fantasy Match
Arvia Few, CEO, Dottie
Asher Snyder, Founder, Mesh Labs
Ben Goodman, Marketing Manager, CitySwoon
Bill Alena, Head of M&A, The Dating Group
Blake Barrett Kuhre, Advisor, The Dating Group
Bill Swartz, podcast host
Carsten Boeltz, MD, Insparx
Catherine Cook, CMO, The Meet Group *
Charlyn McNamara, CMO, FriendFinder Networks
Christian Mercer, CEO, Positive Plus One
Clémentine Lalande, CEO, Once
Constance Curtis, Founder, The List
Courtney Kovacevich, VP Partnerships, RealMe *
Dave Sanguinetti, CEO, Real Gifts *
David Adams, CRO, White Label Dating
David Epstein, Co-Founder, #open
Dennie Smith, CEO, Old Style Dating
Geneviève Zawada, VP, Brotherton Holdings
Geoff Cook, CEO, The Meet Group *
Hal Oppenheimer, CEO, Dating Service Network
Harini Chakrapani, Freelance Reporter, Various
Heather Dougherty, CEO, Date Evolution
Hig Dillinger, CEO, Latin Conexiones
India Simpson, COO, Dottie
Dr Isabell Springer, Founder, LoveEd
Jason Du, Founder, MillionaireMatch
Jens Kammerer, CEO, Jaumo
Jeremy Vestbirk, CEO, Legal Geek
Jessica Alderson, CEO, So Syncd
Jim Leftwich, CEO, No Longer Lonely

John Meuffels, CEO, Matchmedia
Jonathan Buckheit, CEO, FriendFinder Networks
Katie Hartle, CEO, Friendmatch
Kevin Teman, CEO, AIMM
Laticia Austin, CEO, Its A Real Date
Laura Brashier, CEO, Romance Only
Laura Ciccone, Co-Founder, Blink Dating
Leon Gomez, CEO, MyCircles
Lisa Butkiewicz, CEO, Meetopolis
Lluis Carreras, CEO, Mobifriends
Louella Alderson, Co-Founder, So Syncd
Ludwig Schwarzmayr, Investments Manager, Russmedia
Maria Avgitidis, CEO, Agape Match
Mark Owen, CEO, Events & Adventures
Matthew Pitt, CEO, Ole Dating
Michael Blakeley, CEO, Clikd
Michael Carter, President, Passions Network
Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group
Mike Ellis, Global Business Development Director, Tinder
Natalia Rohr, Head of PR, AIMM
Naza Shelley, CEO, Carpe DM Dating
Neil Davis, CBO, RealMe *
Niklas Wikblad, Senior Business Development Manager, Utopia Analytics *
Rachel MacLynn, CEO, The VIDA Consultancy
Rachel Russo, Matchmaker & Dating/Relationship Coach
Rowen Ash, CEO, Speakeasy Dating
Ruben Buell, COO/CTO, Reflex Media
Sabine Schöler, MD, LemonSwan
Sabrina Zaremba, Business Development Mgr, Latin America, Tinder
Sam Moorcroft, CEO, Christian Cafe
Sanjay Panchal, CEO, Elate
Saket Toshniwal, Head of Product Marketing & Growth, Lovoo
Santiago Osorio, Business Development Manager, Utopia Analytics *
Sarah Sloane, Director of Operations, #open
Scott Valdez, CEO, VIDA Select
Sid Klein, CEO, Matchmaker2Matchmaker
Simon Corbett, Editor, GDI
Sunali Aggarwal, Founder, As You Are
Taly Matiteyahu, Founder, Blink Date
Thomas Pappas, Corporate Development Director, Insparx
Dr Timothy Sexton, CEO, DNA Romance
Tommy Sanguinetti, President, Real Gifts
Uwe Thomas, CEO, Icony
Yaroslav Sergeev, COO, Mamba/Wamba
Zach Schleien, Founder, Filter Off

* supporting sponsors of LTR

This is a closed-door session and is by direct-invite-only from your host and organizer Mark Brooks. RSVP above or simply reply to Mark's email invitation.

PRIOR GATHERINGS

LTR 3

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

LTR 2

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.
See invitation site here: shows speakers and attendees

LTR LAUNCH

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.
See invitation site here: shows speakers and attendees.

IDEA SUMMIT+WOW, NEW YORK

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.

IDEA SUMMIT, EUROPE

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.
See invitation site here.

IDEA WOW+SUMMIT, INDIA

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.
See invitation site here.

IDEA WOW, MALTA

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.