On Wednesday night, at the Black Hat hackers conference in Las Vegas, the first gathering of Hackers for Hillary was convened.
The no-kill conference at George Washington attracted 860 people in 2012; in 2005, at the first gathering, two dozen attended.
The meeting at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington is the first gathering of the largest securities firms and regulators to discuss a settlement.
Indeed, the state Democratic convention this weekend in Orlando will feature the first gathering of Mr. Gore and other potential presidential candidates for 2004.
The first gathering, in 2013, focussed on the influence of the neurologist Oliver Sacks.
The first gathering in 2014 featured crucial American restaurant figures such as April Bloomfield, Christina Tosi and Gabrielle Hamilton, with Alice Waters making a surprise appearance.
Last year, the annual India Art Fair in Delhi drew 128,000 visitors over four days with 84 galleries showing work by nearly 500 Indian artists — a sharp contrast from the first gathering in 2008, which drew just 10,000 visitors and 34 galleries.
Blair, a former prime minister of Britain, told the first gathering in September that "people who hold deep convictions about life and its purpose necessarily can be prone to holding those views to excess or the point of prejudice".
And those who created the first gathering in London have incorporated as a start-up business called First Tuesday, which a company founder, Julie Meyer, acknowledges is a bit of a fluke.
It was the first gathering in Caracas of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which is on tour here, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and 16 Venezuelan choruses before Saturday's performance of the Eighth, to be simulcast in high definition in movie theaters in the United States.
