Spotlight - SET The Show

produced by This Is Beyond

11-13 NOVEMBER 2026
NEW ORLEANS

SPOTLIGHT

Unfold the future of entertainment travel.

Running parallel to SET – the world’s first trade event uniting the entertainment and travel industries – Spotlight is a closed-door thought-leadership programme for entertainment’s leaders to network, problem-solve and share big ideas peer-to-peer. The spotlight is on you: what will you do with it?

SPOTLIGHT 2026

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THE AGENDA

AT SPOTLIGHT

THE MAIN DAY - 12 NOVEMBER 2026

Spotlight gives you direct access to new, senior-level contacts and strategic insights via expert-led sessions, tailored specifically to the pros managing multinational travel programmes.

09:00 – 10:00	Welcome
10:00 – 12:30	Morning Sessions
12:30 – 14:00	Networking Lunch
14:00 – 17:00	Afternoon Sessions
17:00 – 18:00	Drinks Reception

AT SET

DAY ONE - 11 NOVEMBER 2026

As VPs and Directors of entertainment travel, we know you’re short on time. That’s why Spotlight allows you to curate your own agenda: you can arrive a day early and check out Open House, where you can tune into epic thought leadership sessions and network with the SET crowd, followed by SET’s opening soirée.

AFTERNOON	Open House by SET at Fairmont New Orleans
EVENING	SET After Dark, hosted in partnership with Visit West Hollywood at 420 Julia

AT SET

DAY THREE - 13 NOVEMBER 2026

Want to build out your little black book? Stay on for an extra day of up to ten 1:1 appointments with SET’s all-star roster of travel suppliers (depending on your business needs), followed by SET Fest: The Rally.

MORNING	The Showfloor: 1:1 appointments and networking at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
AFTERNOON	SET Fest: The Rally at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans

Anna Sun

Co-Founder & CEO, Nowadays

Anna is Co-Founder and CEO of Nowadays, a sister-founded company and the first AI platform for corporate event planning. Under her leadership, it has grown to $10M in booked revenue from 300+ clients, including Airbnb, Google and BlackRock.

An MIT graduate and AI expert, Anna brings a fresh perspective on where technology is heading – and how it’s already transforming events. Nowadays has powered everything from a 475-person gathering at Universal Studios to a Thailand hotel buyout featured in The White Lotus Season 3. Before

Nowadays, Anna was a software engineer at Datadog, DoorDash and Amazon.

Adam Krentzman

Film Producer & Entertainment Strategist

Adam is a strategic advisor, film producer and former Creative Artists Agency (CAA) motion picture agent with over 35 years' experience connecting companies, investors and entrepreneurs with Hollywood.

After more than two decades at CAA, he founded AKA | Adam Krentzman Advisory, where he helps clients navigate the entertainment industry through strategic partnerships and opportunities. Throughout his career, Adam has packaged, financed, produced or advised on more than 60 feature films.

Andrew Reinsdorf

Executive Vice President, Head of Global Public Policy and External Affairs, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)

Andrew serves as the Executive Vice President and Head of Global Public Policy and External Affairs at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). He leads the company’s government relations strategies, public policy initiatives, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts.

Under his leadership, Sony Pictures Entertainment is using the power of content to make a positive impact on audiences and communities worldwide. Before SPE, he held senior government relations roles at WarnerMedia and DIRECTV, bringing deep experience across policy, regulation and entertainment.

Katie Pryor

Co-Founder and President, FilmUSA

Katie is Co-Founder and President of FilmUSA, the national trade association representing more than 120 film commissions across 36 states.

She’s a leading voice in the push for a federal production incentive and National Film Office, helping strengthen the US position in the global screen economy. Katie also serves as Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Film Commission, is Founding Board President of the Louisiana Academy of Production, and teaches the economic and political impact of film at Louisiana State University.

FilmUSA represents American production on the global stage, from the Marché du Film in Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Sundance and beyond.

Sophie Taitt

Sophie Taitt, Founder, Taitt Media

Sophie is a global media expert and speaker with more than 25 years’ experience leading international productions for some of entertainment’s biggest names, including Netflix and BBC Studios.

British-born and now LA-based, she’s spent her career where entertainment, technology and travel collide – giving her a front-row view of how the industry is evolving, and what comes next.

Jake Hoskins

Co-Founder, Tripgrid

Jake is the Co-Founder of Tripgrid, a travel software built around the realities of media and entertainment.

For the past 11 years, he’s worked closely with entertainment coordinators, travel managers and TMC partners to understand what actually keeps complex travel moving – and how the systems behind it can support what’s next.

A quick, hands-on workshop on why entertainment travel needs a creator mindset. Not influencer. Creator.

Because the best people in this industry already have the raw material: expertise, access, opinions, stories and a point of view. The challenge is knowing how to turn that into something people actually want to hear.

Sophie brings 25 years of experience from media powerhouses including Netflix and BBC Studios – and she’s back to take the conversation further in this follow-up session to her Open House talk. Tailored to senior Spotlight attendees, you’ll dig into what you want to be known for, what you see that others don’t, and where you have something worth saying.

Then you’ll turn it into a sharp industry POV and start drafting a LinkedIn post or piece of content you can take out into the real world. Less “personal brand”. More original thinking. A simple framework for turning what you know into influence.

Last year at Spotlight, we looked at where global production was heading. This year, we pick up the conversation.

What changed? Which shifts actually stuck? Where is production moving now – and what does that mean for entertainment travel over the next 12–24 months?

A carefully curated panel of senior production voices will unpack the forces still reshaping the global map, from incentives, policy and infrastructure to talent, technology, costs and changing market pressures.

For travel bookers, hotels, destinations and suppliers, it’s a chance to look further upstream and better understand the decisions driving demand: why productions land where they do, what can shift at short notice, which markets are gaining ground and where new opportunity could emerge next.

Last year was about what was coming. This year, we find out what happened next – and where the industry goes from here.

Because when production moves, entertainment travel moves with it. Global media expert Sophie Taitt will be leading the session – and even if you weren’t at Spotlight last year, you’ll find the discussion just as valuable. The panel pulls back the curtain on it all.

Everchanging landscape. New rules to keep up with. That’s why Spotlight exists.

Entertainment travel teams are trying to juggle two things at once. Making bookings more controlled, efficient and cost-effective – while still giving talent, production teams and coordinators the personal, high-touch service they expect. This session is about closing the gap. Jake gets into what it actually takes to bring more bookings back into the managed program without making the experience feel less personal.

From leakage and lost buying power to the payment, reporting, and reconciliation friction slowing down global programs, we'll look at where the biggest gaps still exist, which tools are finally starting to close them, and why adoption remains the hardest part.

Expect a candid, discussion-led session on what Travel Managers really need from their TMC and technology partners, where automation can genuinely remove cost and friction, and where the human touch still matters most.

We’ll also look ahead at where teams should be investing in the near future – and how to move from spreadsheets and workarounds towards systems that actually work for the people using them.

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