The Listening Room: An Evening for Professional Listeners

The Listening Room Join us on September 23rd at 6:30pm in The Red Room at Bridges for an evening of dinner, themed cocktails, and easy conversation. We're bringing together marketing, research, and insights leaders from across New York. Bridges Bridges sits at 9 Chatham Square, where Chinatown meets the entrances to the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, a Michelin-starred bistro that opened in fall 2024 and became one of the hardest tables in the city almost overnight. It belongs to chef Sam Lawrence, who learned the way the best researchers do: by apprenticing himself to the masters. Years at The NoMad, then leading the kitchen at Estela under Ignacio Mattos, where he says the cooking had a freedom and identity he carried with him. He listened, took notes, and refined his method until he was ready to go out on his own. The result earned a Michelin star in under a year, which is what good methodology looks like when you finally publish. We can relate. At Listen, we believe great insights work the same way great cooking does: it starts with the right sources, it depends on knowing how to ask, and the craft is in making rigor feel like conversation. Hosted by Listen Labs Listen Labs is an AI-first customer research platform. Its AI interviewer talks to people the way a great interviewer would, with access to over 50 million pre-qualified participants across demographics and geographies, so teams can quickly learn what people think about anything from ads and messaging to new product concepts and usability tests. Listen turns these conversations into reports, highlight reels, and presentation decks, while building a searchable repository of customer interviews over time. Trusted by Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, SKIMS, and hundreds of leading enterprises worldwide.