The bubbles have settled after UTA ‘s ZCON event and new Gen Z-taught lessons have, hopefully, been learned by old-guard executives looking to team with the next wave of movers and shakers in media.

And plans have already started for ZCON 2026 — and more.

“This doesn’t only have to live at ZCON. This idea that we need to be intergenerationally, intersectionally platforming creative voices and connecting brands to culture can exist everywhere, and ought to exist everywhere,” Ziad Ahmed, head of UTA Next Gen, told Variety as the two-day event, which ran Oct.22-23 at The Preserve in Hollywood, concluded. “And that UTA can really be this supercharged engine to accelerate that transformation in the marketplace is something that we’re really excited about, and why we chose to call UTA ho

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