About Why Attend? Speakers Agenda

This Next Thing was divided into three parts:
Warmup, main-event, and wind-down.

Guests chose the city they started in:
Milan, Zürich, or Innsbruck.

It was one of the best experiences of my life. It was my first time attending a conference and I don't think anything can beat this one.

The warmup also comprised three parts:
a group activity, a meal, and a journey together.

The next day, the three groups converged in the mountain town of Pontresina in the Swiss Alps.

The comedown afterwards was really hard, like more so than for other events

The main themes were: magic, creativity, and meaning.

How do we use our creativity to create magical experiences that enrich people’s lives?

The emphasis was on story-telling.

Overall, just a great experience. The format, care, and detail were exceptional. The venue was stunning. The people were wonderful.

The main event itself also had three parts:
Stories, explorations, and a gala banquet.

I want a time machine to do it all over again

There were three headline story-tellers.

Each told their own story, but also sponsored a nominated reciprocal to tell stories about similar themes from a different perspective.

The amazing people and openness of the environment, building up relationships over days coming and going and the just organic-ness of it all… just doesn't really happen [like this] after school age

Talks were followed by a day of exploration.

A variety of smaller events took place simultaneously around the venue. These were workshops, group-discussions, round-tables, meditations, an escape-room. Activities designed to help you to learn, to think, and to interact.

Experientially: it’s unparalleled, I probably would have never taken an open-top train through the Alps had it not been for TNT.

Exploration was followed by a meal

A shared banquet, coming together as a group to share what we’ve learned.

And of course, after dinner, one more thing...but to share that would be telling.

Honestly, it was perfect.