Four minutes of totality does something to a room that a keynote speaker never could.
I get asked why we anchored the Iceland Eclipse convening to the eclipse itself. Why not just do it in Iceland without the astronomical event.
Because totality is a forcing function. It creates a shared experience that is genuinely unrepeatable. The same group, the same place, the same sky, one specific afternoon in August. That constraint does psychological work no agenda item can replicate.
The people I've watched go through totality together don't just share a memory. They share a reference point. A before and after. That's the raw material for trust that usually takes years to build.
78 days out from the August 12 eclipse over Snæfellsjökull. The list is almost locked.
If you've been sitting on this, now is the time. The window is closing.