Conference News: Semafor in Dubai; StreamTV in Bangkok; LiveLong Event Team Talks
Semafor in Dubai: During UNGA Week in New York, Semafor hosted their The Next 3 Billion event which gathers global leaders together to explore how AI, energy, and emerging technologies can help connect the three billion people who are still offline. At the start of the event Semafor CEO & Co-Founder Justin B. Smith announced that the next edition of The Next 3 Billion would take place in Dubai in 2027. More will be available on their site early next year.
Streaming in Asia: StreamTV is self-described as “the premier event series connecting leaders and innovators across the global streaming television industry.” Due to the recent success of their events in Denver and Lisbon, they announced the launch of StreamTV Asia in 2027, which will take place from 16–18 November at Shangri-La Bangkok in Thailand. The event will again bring together Streaming Leaders, Content Owners, Broadcasters and Technology Innovators to “unlock opportunities across Asia-Pacific’s rapidly growing streaming market.”
Submission Opportunity: Money 2020 returns to the RAI in Amsterdam from 8 – 10 June 2027. The conference leaders are creating the agenda around a fundamental question: “who gets to build, move, manage and govern money?” This shift is reflected across their five content pillars for next year’s show: The Tokenised Economy, Building Future Foundations, Banking, Reimagined, New Rails, New Rules, and The Changing Trust Equation. If you have a session and speaker idea, you may suggest them via their online form before the 27 November deadline.
Conference Organizer Q&A: Livelong Women’s Health Summit (5-6 March 2027) is a two-day event on wellness and longevity grounded in editorial integrity. We recently spoke with Livelong Media’s Executive Co-Founder and COO Katie Gaudu about the summit’s return to San Francisco and expanded programming in 2027.
Speaker Strategies: What about your next event excites you the most?
Our next event is in San Francisco, the city where the Livelong Women’s Health Summit began, and coming back feels like a homecoming with a much sharper point of view. I’m most excited about the speaker lineup. We put women in the room with experts they usually only hear from online, and we also introduce them to people they may not know yet, like pioneers from leading institutions such as Stanford, UCLA, and Yale who are working on new cancer treatments, dementia prevention, and cardiovascular protection. Instead of being talked at, they get face time with those experts, the opportunity to ask questions, and small-group discussions with other women navigating similar challenges.
Speaker Strategies: Do you plan to do anything new or differently at your next event?
Yes. We’re expanding our programming with new speakers and topics our audience keeps asking about, like sleep, mental health, peptides, and deeper dives into cardiovascular health. We’re also leaning into the formats people love most, especially Ask Me Anything sessions with our headline speakers, where the conversation is driven by the audience rather than a script. And we’re making sessions longer, with more time for Q&A and more time for networking.
Speaker Strategies: How do you differentiate your Summit from other women’s and longevity events?
We are evidence-based. Everything we do is through the lens of scientific and journalistic integrity. Our audience is highly educated, and about a fifth of attendees are healthcare professionals, so the content has to hold up to scrutiny. We offer CE/CME credits, we hold our speakers to a high standard, and we design every session to leave women with something they can act on.
Speaker Strategies: What is the most important trait of a good speaker?
Our best speakers are deeply credentialed, but what makes them great on stage is that they’re generous with what they know. They speak to the audience as smart peers, they’re comfortable with hard questions, and they leave people feeling capable rather than overwhelmed.
Speaker Strategies: What do you love most about your job?
I get to build something that matters, with an amazing team, at the intersection of events, media, and women’s health. No two days look alike: one day I’m working through an agenda, the next I’m finding the next great speaker or shaping a partnership. But the best part is always the moment on site when the room fills up and you can feel the energy. Women tell us the Summit is the first time they’ve finally felt seen when it comes to their health, and that’s the reason we do this work.
Coming Up Next Week: Semafor kicks off its inaugural Silicon Valley & the World on 16 November, designed to forge meaningful dialogue and understanding between the leaders building the world’s most revolutionary technologies and those responsible for governing it. New York Times DealBook celebrates 25 years on 18 November, featuring interviews between DealBook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin and some of the most consequential names in tech, policy, and business. Also in NYC, Axios BFD is hosted 17 November by business editor Dan Primack, spotlighting the power players behind the year’s biggest deals in tech, finance, private equity, and M&A. From 16-17 November, Fortune 500 Innovation Forum celebrates America’s 250th anniversary in the “city that powered America’s first industrial age” – Detroit – to ask: what will the next century of American ingenuity require? At HLTH (15-18 November; Las Vegas), attendees from across the healthcare ecosystem to advance conversations, inspire new ideas, and drive action. And 18 November, Slush gets underway in Helsinki bringing together a curated crowd of European startups, world-class investors, and tech journalists.