IDEA Summit Details

*Please respond to your invite to RSVP or email mark@courtlandbrooks.com with questions 

Welcome to the new hybrid online and in-person IDEA Summit.  All our Internet Dating Excellence Association Summits will be fully hybrid moving forward.  This event celebrates 20 years of Online Personals Watch (OPW) coverage of the online dating industry and brings together the brightest minds and top leaders of the worldwide online dating industry. 

This International IDEA Summit is on Thursday 23rd January, 2025 in Matrimony.com's boardroom at their HQ in Chennai, India. Also online. The event starts 8:30pm, and will run for 3 hours. 

  { Starts 7am PST / 10am EST / 3pm GMT / 4pm CET / 8:30pm India }

This is an international gathering of by-invitation-only CEOs and leaders of leading Internet dating apps and services.  

The IDEA Summit is designed to help you learn, share and connect with other leaders in the online dating & matchmaking & social discovery industry.  This IDEA Summit is led by the CEO of Matrimony, Murugavel Janakiraman, and Mark Brooks, CEO of the dating business agency-consultancy Courtland Brooks which operates IDEA and OPW.

The event is free.  The price of admission is an idea worth sharing or an issue worthy of discussion. All participants should be prepared to briefly present on a topic you feel you would like to share something meaningful and impactful on.  We will form an agenda around the most pressing issues and opportunities submitted.

There is no price we can put on this event, so we do not charge an entry fee for it.  We are being very selective to CXOs and leaders of online dating companies.  No reporters, vendors or startups will be present.  Our discussions will be private.  This gathering is for established companies, at scale. 

Matrimony are kindly covering the venue, and the pre-event dinner for those attending in-person.  (You just cover your direct costs, i.e. hotel, other meals, travel, etc.)  

The IDEA Summit will be like no other industry gathering. You'll meet fellow CEOs and strategy leaders from a diverse group of Internet dating companies from around the world.  This event is for C levels, founders, and rising-star leaders who are exceptionally personally and professionally invested in the industry. This will be a unique, uplifting and essential event that will inform your strategy, and help you align with the best of what the industry is, and will become.  We'll help you evolve your thinking and your strategy with the benefit of perspective from your peers.  
 

Our costs and time for developing IDEA Summit and our other initiatives are kindly sponsored by:
RealMe - Verification + Background checks. Making dating apps & communities more trusted.
and Dating Through Curiosity - Boost user engagement by empowering them with the confidence and skills to make more authentic connections.

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