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Inside ZCON 2024: UTA Next Gen Brings Together Over 500 ‘Besties’ to Discuss Gen Z, Entertainment, Social Impact and More
At ZCON's Club Cosmo Awards, former 'SNL' star Chloe Troast addressed her exit from the show.
Orchestrated by UTA Next Gen, an agency that operates within UTA ’s entertainment marketing division, ZCON featured a slate of diverse Gen Z speakers and panelists across multiple industries, including Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez and actors such as Avantika (“Mean Girls”), David Iacono (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Brian Altemus (“Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin”) and Bailey Bass (“Avatar: The Way of Water”). Standout moments included a presentation from social entrepreneurs Neeka and Leila Mashouf, whose company Rubi Laboratories manufactures textiles through the process of carbon capture, in effect creating a carbon-negative supply chain. “There are not a lot of people in this world that can relate to you when you lose a job like ‘Saturday Night Live,’ besides maybe Adam Sandler, Jenny Slate, Michaela Watkins, Joan Cusack, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Robert Downey Jr, Billy Crystal… but no way you know their names.
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