Audiences are exhausted by spectacle and hungry for meaning.

observation — attributed to Richard Attias

After years of choreographed launches, hyperbolic keynotes, and hollow networking, audiences arrive depleted. They do not need more production value. They need fewer, better encounters, conducted with seriousness and discretion. The convener who understands this can do more with less.

Attias on the current state of audience attention and what it asks of platform design.

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