Welcome Back
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An opening celebrates the return to in-person events after Zoom, arguing that live formats recreate an unmanufacturable social aura and detailing concrete outcomes: two decades of partnership, about 17 years of co-curation, a week of Odessa programming that produced a film festival in Odessa, a VC industry summit and an unconference called kinernet on the beaches of the Black Sea. Anecdotes include a Zoom wedding mishap and drive-in movie nostalgia, concluding that the Odessa experiments demonstrably built real-world connection that still works.
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