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A new series hosted by Shotgun for the minds defining the next chapter of nightlife. Each edition brings together the promoters, artists, venue operators, managers, and tastemakers who define what a city's nightlife actually feels like. This is a very special edition of INDUSTRY STANDARD, timed to Fashion Week, and we've brought together a rare mix of people who rarely share a stage. Fashion Week is the one week a year when NYC nightlife, cultural tastemakers, and brands are all in the same room at the same time, and that overlap raises a question the industry thinks about constantly but rarely says out loud: what happens to underground culture the moment it gets monetized at scale, and who actually benefits when that happens. At 8:45 PM, Erez Davids (Co-Founder of RAW CUTS), Travis Egedy (Founder of ALIEN BODY), Lee Harmon (Head of Partnerships at MP3 LABS), and Zach Walker (VP of Partnerships at Shotgun) sit down for a moderated conversation on "Where Nightlife and Culture Meet." Three different vantage points. No slides, no script. Nightlife runs on informal knowledge. Who's throwing the best parties, which promoters are reliable, what pricing models actually work, how to survive a slow month. That intel gets passed around in green rooms, after-parties, and DMs. There's no centralized space where the people who actually build nightlife culture can sit down together and level up the conversation. The "standard" for how this industry operates has been defined by platforms that treat nightlife as a transaction or by legacy gatekeepers who hoard information. INDUSTRY STANDARD was born to change that. By invitation only.