Rumor Has It — Let’s Align & Clear the Air

After a seven-year absence, the format of the Great Debates are returning and not for small talk.

This is a reimagined Rumor Session built for the world we’re actually living in: AI-fueled narratives, half-truths, and leaders who too often dodge reality. So let’s ask the only question that matters:

What are the facts and what’s real?

We’re putting the industry’s biggest rumors on the table and calling them what they are: fact, fiction, or somewhere uncomfortably in between. No panels hiding behind safe answers. No vague consensus. Just sharp debate, real perspective, and clarity. Debaters will provide facts, receipts and the occasional industry expert testimony to prove their points.

The goal:
To confront the rumors shaping our industry and arm every attendee with the truth, so WE ALL can go back to our destinations and cut through the noise with confidence to our stakeholders and residents.

These rumors have gone on long enough.

So we brought Ted out of “retirement” to lead the debates on what's fact and what's fiction.

Let’s clear the air.