FIG. I · THE PERSON
The expert is the moat
People follow people, not brands. We partner with the operator a community already trusts and build everything around them.
The operating company for B2B media
Every great B2B community has an expert at the center.
We partner with the experts who lead niche B2B communities, build the conferences around them, and run the operations on proprietary AI.
325 attendeesKinetic 2026
27 sponsorson the floor
3 propertiesone playbook
Founded 2026New York City
The model
The oldest idea in media, run on the newest machine.
Communities have always formed around a trusted expert. We back that person, build the event that turns their audience into a business, and run the operation with software instead of a team of ten.
FIG. II · THE EVENT
The conference is the product
A conference is where a community becomes a business. We build it and run it end to end: sponsors, floor, logistics, follow-up.
FIG. III · THE MACHINE
AI is the operator
Proprietary AI runs the back office at a scale headcount can't match. Leverage, not headcount. That's the whole edge.
Kinetic 2026 partners
The software
Leverage, not headcount.
One operating system runs the unglamorous work that makes an event profitable: the same console across every property we hold.
Kerri · operating system
● LIVE
The portfolio
Three properties today. More on the way.
Hardware FYI
Media and community for the people who build hardware. Its conference, Kinetic, is the model we'll run with every partner.
Standard & Works
Our second expert-led community: same playbook, its own audience, its own event ahead.
Trove
Our weekly report on the market for AI training data. The beat nobody else covers: who owns the datasets, who's buying them, and what they sell for.
Next chapter
Kinetic proved the model. We're scouting the next expert to run it with.
Looking for: a niche B2B audience that trusts one recognizable expert, any industry where they gather.
Kinetic 2026
On stage 
The room 
The floor
Photographs: Fireside Visuals
About
Kerri Media Group is Brian D'Erario's operating company, based in New York City.
It started with Hardware FYI, a publication for the people who build hardware, and Kinetic, its annual conference. Standard & Works took the same playbook to a second niche. Trove is a Monday report on the market for AI training data, worth covering closely if your own operation runs on AI.
The pattern across all three: an audience that trusts one expert, and software instead of headcount doing the operational work. Sponsors, vendors, logistics, follow-up: the unglamorous parts that decide whether an event makes money. A team our size shouldn't be able to run this. Software is why we can.
If you lead a B2B community and want your conference built and run properly, that's the partnership described below.
Partner with Kerri
If you lead a B2B community, we should talk.
You bring the expertise and the audience. We bring the event, the operating system, and the leverage to run it all with a small team.