{"id":991,"date":"2018-01-17T22:36:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T22:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/founder-of-agenda-leaves-trade-show-to-pursue-new-entrepreneurial-goals\/"},"modified":"2018-01-17T22:36:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T22:36:45","slug":"founder-of-agenda-leaves-trade-show-to-pursue-new-entrepreneurial-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/founder-of-agenda-leaves-trade-show-to-pursue-new-entrepreneurial-goals","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Agenda Leaves Trade Show to Pursue New Entrepreneurial Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-57434\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/levantcropped.jpg\" alt=\"levantcropped\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Aaron Levant courtesy of Agenda.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Founder of Agenda Aaron Levant will be leaving the trade show and its parent company, Reed Exhibitions, to pursue other entrepreneurial endeavors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apparelnews.net\/news\/2018\/jan\/04\/agenda-founder-leaving-trade-show\/\">Apparel News reported<\/a> earlier this month. Since Levant founded the streetwear-forward trade show in 2003, Agenda has become the biannual Las Vegas and Long Beach display for more than 1,000 established and emerging lifestyle brands.<\/p>\n<p> <center>.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Flongbeachpost%2Fvideos%2F10155869315705256%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Levant was a forward-thinking leader in the industry. While browsing the convention floor had traditionally been an exclusive activity for buyers, it was just last summer the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/music\/in-pictures-inaugural-agenda-festival-brings-rap-stars-hundreds-of-street-culture-shops-to-long-beach\/\">inaugural Agenda Festival<\/a> brought over 15,000 fans and consumers to the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center to shop and see Tyler, the Creator, Ludacris, Cam\u2019ron, Taco and Lil Dicky perform with a surprise appearance from ASAP Rocky. The decision to create a third day for consumers was Levant\u2019s.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width:100%; float:left;\" \/>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; float: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: 100px; height: 100px; background-image: url('images\/stephanie\/agenda17\/agenda10.jpg'); background-size: cover; background-position: center center; float: left; margin-right: 30px; display:none;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p> <small style=\"font-weight: lighter;\">RELATED<\/small> <\/p>\n<h2 ><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'Related Link', 'click', 'Realted Link v1');\" href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/music\/in-pictures-inaugural-agenda-festival-brings-rap-stars-hundreds-of-street-culture-shops-to-long-beach\/\">IN PICTURES: Inaugural Agenda Festival Brings Rap Stars, Hundreds of Street Culture Shops to Long Beach<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 0;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%; float:left;\" \/>\n<p>Levant told Apparel News that becoming \u201cthe CEO of a major trade-show conglomerate\u201d isn\u2019t the first item on his to-do list. In an effort to find a new challenge, he stated, \u201cNow I\u2019m going to start from the ground up with something new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-57435\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/agenda182.JPG\" alt=\"agenda182\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Agenda Winter 2018. Photo by Asia Morris.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Agenda\u2019s office will remain based in Los Angeles and, until a new group leader is hired, the team will continue to report to Herv\u00e9 Sedky, Reed\u2019s regional president of its Americas division, according to Apparel News. Levant is expected to officially leave at the end of February. <\/p>\n<p>Levant also started <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/arts-culture\/in-pictures-complexcon-versations-provide-insight-on-drops-japanese-influence-on-fashion-and-more\/\">ComplexCon<\/a>, which albeit mixed feelings about its growth from major brand starters like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BbJLw_eDkbu\/?hl=en&amp;taken-by=bobbyhundreds\">Bobby Hundreds<\/a>, made more than $20 million for exhibitors and brought 50,000 attendees to Long Beach during its second year at the convention center, according to Apparel News.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width:100%; float:left;\" \/>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; float: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: 100px; height: 100px; background-image: url('images\/asia\/DSC_0701.JPG'); background-size: cover; background-position: center center; float: left; margin-right: 30px; display:none;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p> <small style=\"font-weight: lighter;\">RELATED<\/small> <\/p>\n<h2 ><a onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'Related Link', 'click', 'Realted Link v1');\" href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/arts-culture\/in-pictures-complexcon-versations-provide-insight-on-drops-japanese-influence-on-fashion-and-more\/\">IN PICTURES: ComplexCon(versations) Provide Insight on Drops, Japanese Influence on Fashion<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 0;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%; float:left;\" \/>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apparelnews.net\/news\/2018\/jan\/11\/agenda-vendors-ponder-shows-future-after-founders-\/\">separate story<\/a> which included perspectives from Agenda vendors, trade show veteran Jeff Staple said it would be up to the organization to continue in Levant\u2019s footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAaron had all of the relationships and the vision,\u201d Staple told Apparel News. \u201cThe onus is on Agenda, the organization, to show that it cares more than Aaron. That will be the challenge. He put his head on the rails for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-57436\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/agenda18.JPG\" alt=\"agenda18\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Staple Pigeon at Agenda Show in January. Photo by Asia Morris.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Requests for comment from Agenda went unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Agenda via the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agendashows.com\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of Agenda Aaron Levant will be leaving the trade show and its parent company, Reed Exhibitions, to pursue other entrepreneurial endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":66469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[548],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-agenda-show","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}