1 June 2026
12:00-17:00
W South Beach
Your week starts here. Open House is the first official day of L.E/Miami – a bold welcome for the original thinkers, tastemakers and rule-breakers shaping lifestyle travel.
Flow through tailor-made experiences, killer F&B and fresh perspectives from the industry’s brightest minds, set against the electric backdrop of the iconic W South Beach, alongside the 2,000-strong L.E/ Collective.
THE SPEAKERS
Matt
Klein
Head of Foresight & Consumer Growth Research, Reddit and Founder & Director, ZINE
Matt is a Webby-winning writer, cultural researcher and strategist, empowering organisations to make sense of and stay ahead of cultural change.
Leveraging a decade of experience in trend forecasting, innovation research and strategic comms, Matt partners with brands to provide provocative explanations of the emergent.
He’s also Founder of ZINE, a cultural intelligence and sensemaking think tank.
Matt
Klein
Head of Foresight & Consumer Growth Research, Reddit and Founder & Director, ZINE
Sharan
Pasricha
Founder & President, Ennismore and Founder, Estelle Community
Sharan is the Founder & President of Ennismore, a rapidly growing collective of founder-built travel brands.
Founded in 2011, Ennismore now has over 180 hotels across 40+ countries, and over 500 restaurants and bars – including Gleneagles, Hyde, The Hoxton, Mondrian, SLS and Rixos – to name a few.
Sharan’s been included in Condé Nast Traveller’s ‘50 People Changing The Way We Travel.’
He’s also the Founder & CEO of Estelle Community (best-known for members-only Estelle Manor in Oxfordshire).
Sharan
Pasricha
Founder & President, Ennismore and Founder, Estelle Community
Clint
Runge
CEO & Founder, Archrival
Clint is CEO & Founder of Archrival, a youth culture agency that reinvents how brands win the hearts and minds of young adults.
Clint and team light the fires for clients such as Red Bull, Marriott, Netflix, Adidas and Spotify by going against the grain of traditional marketing to build brand love, loyalty and sales with teens to twenty-somethings.
His insight on Gen-Z has been featured in Forbes, Teen Vogue and Vogue Business.
Clint
Runge
CEO & Founder, Archrival
Elbia
Eddaikra
CEO & Founder, Be Essential Club and CEO & Co-Founder, Odia
Elbia brings a rare dual perspective: she lives the daily reality of running a DMC – managing suppliers, designing itineraries, navigating agent relationships – while also building technology to solve the operational challenges she’s experienced firsthand.
She’s the Founder of Be Essential Club, a luxury DMC based in France, and Co-Founder of Odia, a SaaS platform built specifically for DMCs and travel agents.
Elbia
Eddaikra
CEO & Founder, Be Essential Club and CEO & Co-Founder, Odia
Sarah
Quigley
Co-Owner, Private Travel Iceland
Sarah is the Co-Owner and Sales & Agency Manager at Private Travel Iceland, a leading luxury boutique DMC in Iceland.
With over 20 year's experience within the tourism industry, she has been instrumental in building the company from the ground up and cultivating strong agency relationships.
Known for her high sales conversion and deep destination knowledge, she continues to grow both new and existing partnerships in the luxury sector.
Sarah
Quigley
Co-Owner, Private Travel Iceland
Richard
Walton
Founder, OSS Group
Richard works with luxury travel and hospitality brands to help them extract more value from their investment in trade relationships, events, and partnerships.
With OSS Group, he has worked with some of the most well-known properties, estates, and DMCs in the world of lifestyle travel, helping them transform trade investment into measurable growth.
Richard
Walton
Founder, OSS Group
Cara
Federici
CEO & Head of Design, The Madison Melle Agency
Cara is a luxury lifestyle entrepreneur and brand visionary with a proven track record shaping some of the world’s most sought-after brands across lifestyle travel.
Think collaborations with OMNIYAT, Hotel Chelsea, Standard Hotels and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts.
She leads next-generation search marketing and creative performance strategy that drives discoverability and the right attention. Her clients are regular features in Forbes, Afar and Condé Nast Traveler.
Cara
Federici
CEO & Head of Design, The Madison Melle Agency
Danny
Benadaret
Chief Commercial Officer, The Madison Melle Agency
With over two decades in hospitality, Danny has shaped the sales, marketing, and brand narrative for some of the industry’s most recognisable lifestyle and luxury hotels – including Dream Hotel Group, Loews Hollywood, Sixty Beverly Hills, and The Standard, Downtown LA.
His experience ranges from high-profile property openings to creative brand reinventions and strategic revenue initiatives.
Danny
Benadaret
Chief Commercial Officer, The Madison Melle Agency
Eva
Nineuil
Chief Creative Officer, The Madison Melle Agency
A master in brand building and design, Eva leads creative strategy and brand development across luxury lifestyle brands & products.
She brings over a decade of experience shaping culturally relevant businesses through disciplined creative direction and brand positioning.
Eva’s work is defined by a rigorous and thoughtful approach – aligning culture, commerce, and experience to create enduring, high-impact brands.
Eva
Nineuil
Chief Creative Officer, The Madison Melle Agency
Haley
Donegan
Director of Business Development, The Madison Melle Agency
Haley leads client acquisition, partnership strategy, and marketing-driven growth across luxury hospitality, real estate, and lifestyle sectors.
Prior to joining The Madison Melle Agency, she held hospitality and marketing roles with City Club and Invited, where she developed expertise in member engagement, experiential marketing, and relationship-driven revenue growth.
Haley
Donegan
Director of Business Development, The Madison Melle Agency
Ronan
Gay
Head of Digital Transformation, Black Tomato
Ronan leads the technology transformation for luxury travel experts, Black Tomato.
From making sure the website and app are the best they can be, to ensuring systems are world-class, his key goal is to ensure both customers and colleagues have a frictionless experience when using technology. Be it before, during or after any trip.
He helps people see the world differently; steering away from the country-counting mindset to a far more thoughtful approach and from a technological lens.
Ronan
Gay
Head of Digital Transformation, Black Tomato
THE SESSIONS
Your Brand ≠ Your Metrics: Stop Chasing, Start Making
With Matt Klein, Head of Foresight & Consumer Growth Research, Reddit and Founder & Director, ZINE
Your Brand ≠ Your Metrics: Stop Chasing, Start Making
With Matt Klein, Head of Foresight & Consumer Growth Research, Reddit and Founder & Director, ZINE
13:15-14:00 | UNFILTERED STAGE
Are you what you want – or what the algorithm wants? Somewhere along the way, bold brands started playing it safe. Optimising instead of originalising. Chasing numbers instead of making noise.
This session calls it out.
Once upon a time, bold ideas moved culture. Now? Data and audience expectations are calling the shots. Let’s stop that. We’re unpacking audience capture, platform pressure and the slow slide into sameness – then showing you how to take your voice back. Expect honest takes, open discussion and a reset on how you show up online.
Because safe doesn’t get remembered. Originality does.
Gen Z Rewrote the Brief: Still Reading the Old One?
With Clint Runge, CEO & Founder, Archrival
Gen Z Rewrote the Brief: Still Reading the Old One?
With Clint Runge, CEO & Founder, Archrival
15:15-16:00 | UNFILTERED STAGE
Gen Z isn’t the future. They’re already shaping it.
In a hyper-digital world, they’re craving something real – community, connection, culture. And the brands winning them? They get that.
In this session, Clint Runge breaks down what drives this generation – from how they travel to what earns their attention (and what instantly loses it). Gen Z is rewriting the rules, gravitating toward something more deeply human: community. Are you keeping up with what they really want?
If you’re still marketing like it’s 2015, this is your wake-up call.
DMC Unfiltered: The Conversations You Actually Want
With Elbia Eddaikra, CEO & Founder, Be Essential Club and CEO & Co-Founder, Odia Sarah Quigley, Co-Owner, Private Travel Iceland
DMC Unfiltered: The Conversations You Actually Want
With Elbia Eddaikra, CEO & Founder, Be Essential Club and CEO & Co-Founder, Odia Sarah Quigley, Co-Owner, Private Travel Iceland
13:15-14:00 | HOUSE OF ORIGINALS
By DMCs. For DMCs.
You asked, we listened – for the first time you have an exclusive space carved out just for you at L.E/Miami. A closed-door zone for real talk – not surface-level networking. This is where you get into what’s actually happening behind the scenes.
The challenges. The shifts. The opportunities no one’s saying out loud.
No presentations. No posturing. Just honest conversation with people who get it.
L.E/Bootcamp: Shift Your Appointments into ROI
With Richard Walton, Founder, OSS Group
L.E/Bootcamp: Shift Your Appointments into ROI
With Richard Walton, Founder, OSS Group
14:15-15:00 | HOUSE OF ORIGINALS
L.E/Bootcamp is designed to help you master trade shows like L.E/Miami (and beyond) to unlock real commercial value. You’ll learn how to maximise impact before, during, and after events – turning conversations into measurable growth over the next 12-24 months.
What’s covered? Strengthening partnerships – so they actually last. Improving appointment prowess (so they convert into long-term revenue). Expanding into new markets overseas – and what to look out for. Make trade shows work harder for your brand.
Be Found or Be Forgotten: Why Originality Wins
Workshop with The Madison Melle Agency With Cara Federici, CEO & Head of Design Danny Benadaret, Chief Commercial Officer Eva Nineuil, Chief Creative Officer Haley Donegan, Director of Business Development
Be Found or Be Forgotten: Why Originality Wins
Workshop with The Madison Melle Agency With Cara Federici, CEO & Head of Design Danny Benadaret, Chief Commercial Officer Eva Nineuil, Chief Creative Officer Haley Donegan, Director of Business Development
15:15-16:00 | HOUSE OF ORIGINALS
Tech is rewriting how travel gets discovered – and in a world of sameness, only the Originals get noticed.
But this isn’t an AI hype session. It’s about showing up with a POV strong enough to cut through it so algorithms (and travellers) can actually find you online.
Because your real competition? Not the hotel next door. The one with the clearest narrative and the strongest emotional pull.
This workshop gets hands-on – helping you define your narrative, sharpen your positioning and make sure both humans and algorithms actually notice you. To own your originality in an AI driven world, you better keep up.
Travel, Rewired: How AI Is Reshaping the Industry
With Ronan Gay, Head of Digital Transformation, Black Tomato
Travel, Rewired: How AI Is Reshaping the Industry
With Ronan Gay, Head of Digital Transformation, Black Tomato
16:15-17:00 | HOUSE OF ORIGINALS
If AI only makes your team faster, you’re not seeing the bigger picture. AI is changing how travel companies organise and utilise knowledge, design workflows and decision-making.
This workshop combines provocations, open discussion and hands-on guidance. Regardless of where you are in your AI journey, expect to come away feeling more confident about it. We dive into questions like what the luxury travel advisor might look like by 2030, and risks the industry is quietly ignoring.
THE 2025 AGENDA
THE LIMITED EDITION STAGE
SCHOOL OF LIMITED EDITION
L.E/POP-UPS
