Name: IDEA WOW + IDEA SUMMIT
Start: 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2019-04-08T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Leela Palace & Matrimony.com World HQ

IDEA WOW + IDEA SUMMIT

Leela Palace & Matrimony.com World HQ

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Chennai, India

Friday

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April

05

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Monday

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April

08

Contact Organizer :: Mark Brooks

IDEA World Officers Weekend + IDEA SUMMIT

Asia is the fastest growing region in the world for Internet dating and matchmaking. The Internet Dating Excellence Association will host this not-for-profit international gathering of by-invitation-only CEOs and executives of leading online dating and matchmaking companies.

Fly in Friday. Depart Tuesday morning. We'll stay at the amazing beachside 5 star Leela Palace. The IDEA World Officers Weekend is designed to help you get to know other CEOs in the dating industry. For IDEA WOW we'll explore the culture and best parts of Chennai, have some amazing and authentic culinary experiences, and learn and share with each other over the weekend. IDEA WOW dovetails perfectly with IDEA SUMMIT.

Then IDEA SUMMIT will take place in the board room of the Matrimony Worldwide HQ on Monday 8th April, led by Muru and Mark. IDEA SUMMIT will be small and focused and like no other dating industry gathering you've ever attended. There are 15 seats in the Matrimony boardroom. You'll meet fellow CEOs and top flight executives from a diversity of leading dating and online matchmaking companies from around the world.

The most unusual thing about IDEA SUMMIT is there are no attendees. Just presenters. Everyone is a presenter. So please bring your best ideas on how we can improve and grow the effectiveness of the dating industry as a whole. Presentations will be 15 to 30 minutes, on matters currently affecting the growth of the industry, challenging issues worthy of collaboration, opportunities for collective growth, and highly inspirational and informative growth stories.

This event is for senior executives personally and professionally invested in the dating industry. This will be a unique, uplifting and essential event that will inform your strategy, and help align you and your company with the best of what this industry will become.

*** PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL. (It actually filled up 72 hours after release) ***

Speakers

Murugavel Janakiraman

CEO/Founder, Matrimony.com

Muru founded Matrimony in 2000. For the last 18 years he's pioneered matchmaking and online matrimony in India and now employees over 4000 people with 140 locations. He's an angel investor and a Harvard grad. Muru is your co-host.

Mark Brooks

CEO, Courtland Brooks & IDEA

Mark's team has worked with 100+ dating companies and service providers since 2005. He runs Courtland Brooks, OPW.news, and IDEA.gp. Mark is your co-host and the event organizer. Bio at www.MarkBrooks.info

Jeronimo Folgueira

CEO, Spark Networks

Jeronimo runs Spark Networks which operates quality dating services for people looking for LTR across 29 countries. JDate, Elite Singles, Attractive World, and more. The Spark HQ is in Berlin and he employs 250 people.

Andrey Bronetskiy

CEO, Mamba

Andrey has been the CEO of Mamba, the top Internet dating service in Russia, for over 13 years, since 2005. Before that he was head of Begun, which pioneered PPC advertising in Russia. Based in Moscow.

Saichithra Swaminathan

Chief Mobile Officer, Matrimony

Sai is the Chief Portal and Mobile Officer and has worked with Matrimony since 2000. Over the last 18 years Matrimony, Sai has led the R&D team, architecture design and mobile advances.

Jens Kammerer

CEO/Founder, Jaumo

Jens is Founder of Jaumo which has 40 million registrants in 90 countries. Jaumo is a truly international social dating app and is in 59 languages. Based in Stuttgart. Jens team is a distributed workforce.

Violet Lim

CEO/Founder, Lunch Actually

Violet and Jamie Lee started Lunch Actually in 2004, which makes them veterans of the dating industry after 14 years. They have dating brands in Singapore, HK, Indonesia and Thailand and are based in Singapore.

Michael Schrezenmaier

MD/COO, Spark Networks

Michael is an expert marketer and operator. One of the leaders behind the merger, growth and success of Spark Networks. He works closely with Jeronimo and is based in Berlin.

Ritesh Bhatnagar

CMO, Woo

Woo is India's answer to Tinder. Ritesh grew Woo to a user-base of several million. He's a proponent of culturally specific Indian dating apps in India. Ritesh knows branding, and previously worked for Diageo, Ogilvy, & J.Walter Thompson. HQ in Gurgaon, Delhi.

Maria Pyrgiotakis

CEO/Founder Agape Match

Maria is a 4th generation matchmaker based in the Empire State building, NYC. She leads the Matchmakers Alliance which is a network of the most successful matchmakers around the world.

John Adams

CEO, LoveMe.com

Very few people have more than 20 years tenure in the dating industry. John has spent 24 years building leading Premium International Dating (PID) service 'A Foreign Affair' and Loveme.com to 150 employees in 10 countries.

Roman Malichenko

VP Int'l, Cupid & Together

Roman has been dedicated to dating since 2011, serving Cupid plc and Together Networks. Now he's heading their International expansion initiatives. Roman is based in Ukraine, with HQ in Malta.

Carsten Boltz

MD, Insparx

Carsten is a dating industry veteran of 18 years. First he set up Operations at FriendScout24. He was employee #1 at be2. He's been MD since 2011 and now runs premium brands (be2, C-Date) in 37 countries with a team of 160. Munich based.

Ron Lee

CEO, Friends Date Network

Watch www.free.date. Ron was inspired by Plentyoffish and created FDN, a network of 200 free dating sites and singles communities which are all organically driven. He's a vocal online dating critic and reviewer. The FDN team are in Bangalore.

Ken Agee

Co-Founder, LoveMe.com

Ken leads marketing for LoveMe.com and A Foreign Affair and has built a marketing and operations network that covers 250 affiliates and 35 countries since co-founding the company 24 years ago. HQ is in Phoenix, AZ.

Michael O'Sullivan

Owner, Hubpeople

10 years ago Michael started Hubpeople. The company offers white label dating SAAS solutions to media companies and entrepreneurs who want to start their own dating brands. Based in Isle of Man.

Jason Du

Owner, Successful Match

Jason founded the Successful Match group of dating sites in 2001. The group now includes Millionaire Match, Interracial Match, Large Friends and many other niche dating apps and communities.

Rahul Namdev

Co-Founder/CTO, BetterHalf.ai

Rahul has an MSc Computer Science from MIT and is one of the brains behind BetterHalf.ai, which is a partner prediction engine. They're crunching data from millions of married couples to better predict compatibility.

Overview

IDEA WOW + IDEA SUMMIT is a not-for-profit gathering hosted by Mark & Muru. A unique opportunity to get to know your peers, the most senior managers of leading Internet dating and matchmaking and matrimony services in the world. Compare notes, learn and share, and form meaningful business relationships.

WHAT'S COVERED BY MATRIMONY & IDEA - There is no event fee. Matrimony provides the IDEA SUMMIT venue.

WHAT'S NOT COVERED - Taxis, Meals, Chennai outings. Hotel accommodation.

GROUP - 18 people are speaking. 12 are CEOs, 11 have 15+ years in dating, 11 are founders.

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IDEA WOW + IDEA SUMMIT

April

05

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8th

2019

Leela Palace & Matrimony.com World HQ

Chennai, India

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IDEA WOW + IDEA SUMMIT

Date

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8th

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April

2019

About

Clear your calendar - It's going down! You're invited to take part in the festivities. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Venue

Leela Palace & Matrimony.com World HQ

Chennai, India

Cost

Free

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Schedule

FRIDAY
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Introductions at Leela Palace

Murugavel Janakiraman – CEO, Matrimony.com

Mark Brooks – CEO, Courtland Brooks & IDEA.gp

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Group Dinner - A very fine Indian dinner

DISCUSSION: Your personal growth stories. Why are you in this business?

ALL

SATURDAY & SUNDAY
9:00 AM – 9:00 PM

IDEA WOW - Group Experiences, Discover Chennai, Fine Dining, Discussion

ALL

MONDAY
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Group Breakfast at Leela Palace

ALL

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM

IDEA SUMMIT Welcome
IDEA Vision

Murugavel Janakiraman – CEO, Matrimony.com

Mark Brooks – CEO, Courtland Brooks & IDEA.gp

9:30 AM – 1:00 PM

8 Presentations

ALL

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Lunch at Leela Palace

ALL

2:30 PM – 6:30 PM

10 Presentations & Discussion

ALL

6:30 PM – 6:45 PM

Closing Remarks

Murugavel Janakiraman – CEO, Matrimony.com

Mark Brooks – CEO, Courtland Brooks & IDEA.gp

7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Group Dinner

DISCUSSION: What one thing will you do as a consequence of this IDEA gathering?

ALL

TUESDAY
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Group Breakfast at Leela Palace, Departures

ALL

10:00 AM +

Optional Bonus Day. Stick around for an extra half-day of activities.

Mark Brooks – CEO, Courtland Brooks & IDEA.gp

Leela Palace & Matrimony.com World HQ

Chennai, India

OVERVIEW
This is a one-off not-for-profit informal gathering organised and subsidised by IDEA. You'll meet other CEOs and executives from online dating companies from around the world at this event. Spouses are also welcome. Compare notes, learn and share, and form meaningful business relationships.

WHAT'S COVERED BY IDEA: Food and drink at the mansion. There's 6 bedrooms at the home, but they're all taken now. There's plenty of hotel and Airbnbs available in the vicinity however.

WHAT'S NOT COVERED: Taxis, Meals out. Hotel accommodation.

CAP: This gathering is capped at 10 executives. Spouses and significant others are welcome. {EVENT IS NOW FULL}

Map

Block #3

Leela Palace & Matrimony.com World HQ

Chennai, India

Clear your calendar - It's going down! You're invited to take part in the festivities. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Your Hosts

Muru and Mark are your hosts.

Muru is the CEO of Matrimony.com and is co-hosting and leading the first ever IDEA WOW + IDEA SUMMIT.

Mark is the CEO of Internet dating agency-consultancy Courtland Brooks and is organizing and co-hosting.

The event is by-invitation-only for the most senior members of IDEA.gp.

Online Personals Watch is the media sponsor. See www.OPW.news.

It all starts here, at Leela Palace

Chennai's fabulous Leela Palace is a great place for us to get to know each other better, and be our base for exploring Chennai for IDEA WOW (World Officers Weekend). Then the IDEA SUMMIT is at Matrimony's worldwide HQ very close by.

This is a very special not-for-profit initiative designed to bring the industry together. No vendors or ground floor start-ups. No media. Just us, for a fun weekend, followed by a serious meeting of minds on the Monday.

*** PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL. (It filled up 72 hours after release) ***

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