The right to convene can shift.

principle — attributed to Paul Miller

Authority to convene has moved before. It moved from media to marketplaces when broadcast lost its grip on attention. It can move again. What determines the shift is not scale or production quality. It is proximity to the signal. Corporate-owned events are not a threat so much as an indicator. They are what happens when organizations decide to control their own information flow without mediation. They are not replacing the industry. They are revealing what it looks like when the center of gravity shifts.

The structural frame for understanding why corporate events are gaining strategic weight relative to third-party trade shows.

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