It’s hard to fathom that Agenda has been around for over ten years. Launched by Aaron Levant in 2003, the first Agenda show took place in a small Thai restaurant in L.A. Starting out with just 30 brands, nobody could imagine that Agenda would get this large but now 12 years later, Agenda has amazingly grown and has so much more to offer.

RESPECT. Mag hit up Agenda NYC last week and caught up with Levant to get his thoughts on one of the biggest trade shows around. Check out what Levant had to say below and some of the photos from the show.

We love bringing the show here to New York City! We’ve been coming here for years. We’ve had the show here for 13 years now so we’ve watched it grow. I think to some people’s perception, Agenda is like an overnight success; which is definitely not the fact. Most people think we’ve only been around for three or four years but that’s just when we’ve gotten really big. But there was ten years before that. We were just grinding and growing organically. So it’s really cool just to see it all evolve and some of the brands that are here, I wanted to have in the show for years, have finally jumped on board with us these past few years.

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