Journalism captures the moment. Conferences create it.

principle — attributed to James Lancaster

A gathering's value lies in the fact that it happens at a specific moment in time. Participants show up because the conversation in that room matters now. Stretching a conference into a year-round digital experience erases the very thing that made the room worth entering.

Lancaster's argument against turning gatherings into perpetual content engines.

liveness, time, presence, format-philosophy