I came out alive. I made it. And I even did 50% fewer events this year than as I did last year by choice. So, let’s start with Wednesday, when we stopped by the 4th year of the informal quarterly Entrepreneur Event at L2 Lounge. Each time we get together, we bring new likeminded entrepreneurs, executives and decision makers to mix, mingle and meet over a cocktail. As the hosts always remind us: The exclusive Entrepreneur Event collects business and community leaders. It is a place where entrepreneurs, luminaries and aspiring minds congregate for the purpose of building community. There is no agenda, no speakers and no sponsors.
Right after that, we headed over to Russia House for the 10th Year Anniversary party, where each floor held food, complimentary vodka (of course) and other drinks, as well as live entertainment, an electric fiddler no less. The next night, Thursday, it was time to gear up for the Nerd Prom, WHCAD, White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner and hashtag this and hashtag that. Yes, what we define our events by these days. #whcad #nerdprom #makingnewsparty and more. In fact, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook were blowing up with photos, just look for the hashtags.
That evening we went to Council on Foreign Relations for the Foreign Affairs and Devex reception “It’s a Big World After All” where they and sponsor UN Foundation as well as the host committee were celebrating international affairs journalism. Three honored guests joined to give brief remarks on the importance of international affairs journalism: Andrea Mitchell, NBC’s distinguished Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and host of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, Margaret Warner, Senior Correspondent for The PBS NewsHour and an Emmy Award-winning international journalist and Tony Blinken, Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant to the President of the United States, and himself a former foreign policy reporter. You know, it’s good to be wonky in this town.
The Honorary Host Committee included: Alan H. Fleischmann, Principal & Managing Board Member, Albright Stonebridge Group, Betsy Fisher Martin, Sr. Executive Producer, Meet the Press, David G. Bradley, Chairman & Owner, Atlantic Media Company, J. Brian Atwood, former Chairman, OECD Development Assistance Committee and Maura O’Neill, Chief Innovation Officer, USAID.
The later party that everyone was geared up for was the SPIN ROOM, a party hosted by Jess Hoy & Meredith Fineman aka Rock the Vote WHCD Kick-off private party at HEIST. From the photos I viewed while in bed that was well attended soiree with a kick ass gift bag.
This first appeared in Pamela’s Punch.