WHO WE AREWHERE VISIONARY IDEAS COME TO LIFE.
Expertly engineered to translate industry standards into scalable enterprise platforms, AYN Studios is a high-end experiential and content design agency. We build everything with intent, creating high-impact experiences, so that our clients can leave powerful, lasting impressions.
The Future of Everything Festival
Photo by Andy Davis/WSJ
WITW: Women Of Color and the Way Ahead 2019
Photo by Gary He
Most initiatives spike and fade. This is because events without clear strategy underpinning them will never build sustainable momentum. AYN instinctively and deeply understands how to create a steady drumbeat around experiences by aligning content, target audiences, and customer goals. And we know how to leverage the critical in-room experience to ensure the right trajectory in the days, weeks, and months after. It all needs to compound through sustained audience growth, partner retention, and franchise value—and that is where we excel.
We partner, guide, lead, and listen. We bring editorial rigor to live execution and operational discipline to creative vision. We design speaker lineups for narrative alignment and target audiences. We think creatively around sponsor integration, ensuring they’re not an afterthought. We hold every environment—physical and virtual—to our highest of standards. We build platforms that connect global minds and anchor industry authority.
OUR PHILOSOPHYThe Blueprint for Compounding Momentum.
SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE 01
Editorial Infrastructure
Building the narrative foundations that dictate program direction. Developing deep research briefs, content slates, and thematic frameworks to ensure absolute market authority.
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Program Architecture
Designing structural session flows, interview frameworks, and targeted networking tracks. Vetting global figures and C-suite speakers strictly for narrative alignment.
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Production Engineering
Managing end-to-end technical logistics, spatial design, and live broadcast environments. Delivering senior-led onsite execution with zero operational points of failure.
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Lifecycle Optimization
Structuring long-term partner integration, post-event content slates, and repeatable intellectual property to extend asset value far beyond the live moment.
RECOGNITION & ACCOLADES
The team behind the practice.
A multidisciplinary team spanning editorial programming, live production, operations, creative direction, copy, and culture.
AYN STUDIOS is led by Alia Aljunied, a content and experience strategist with two decades of editorial and experiential leadership across global media brands and cultural institutions. Her work has supported teams at The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, GLG, LACMA, and MOCA.
A third-culture Singaporean, Alia leads programs across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, and serves on the Board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
Her strategic work at the intersection of complex narrative design and live media environments has earned industry recognition from the Webby Awards, Drum Awards, INMA, and Digiday. She was also named one of Sessionboard’s leading event content professionals, highlighting her influence in shaping high-stakes corporate programs.
Believing that large-scale corporate platforms are most successful when they remain connected to real human contexts, Alia balances her studio leadership with active civic engagement. Alongside her board work, she collaborates with community organizations including ICNYC and the Coalition for the Homeless to support and elevate local communities.
- Board
- Asian American Writers' Workshop
Jessica Tenzer is an event programmer and producer with a background in hospitality, private events, and editorially driven programming. She began her career overseas, where a year abroad evolved into a decade working across high-touch hospitality and event environments, shaping her understanding of service, atmosphere, and the details that make people feel considered.
Today, Jessica brings that perspective to conferences, summits, roundtables, and retreats, helping clients develop thoughtful programs, identify and manage exceptional speakers, and create experiences that feel both polished and deeply human. She brings a rare combination of editorial curiosity, operational rigor, and genuine warmth to every stage of the process, from speaker research and outreach to prep, run of show, and live execution, knowing that the success of any gathering is ultimately relational.
- Specialism
- Events and editorial programming
Seattle-raised but now in New York for nearly 20 years, Blake Henderson is a copywriter with a knack for identifying, channeling and refining different tones and voices. He finds that his background in comedy helps him edit down his work to the bare minimum required to get the point of the project across, while still employing linguistic, stylistic and comedic flair when appropriate.
He started out in the nonprofit world, but has spent the last decade honing his craft in small- to medium-sized agency settings. Ever curious about how the world actually works, his favorite hobbies are reading biographies, roaming the streets of Brooklyn and trying to see things through the eyes and experiences of his two little kids.
- Based
- New York
Issa Ramadhan is an operations strategist focused on building the systems, workflows, and partnerships that enable creative teams to do their best work. Working across media, technology, and community-driven initiatives, he specializes in translating ambitious ideas into efficient execution while creating environments where collaboration can thrive.
With experience spanning operations, project management, and organizational strategy, Issa supports teams by bringing clarity to complexity and ensuring that creativity is backed by thoughtful structure. Alongside his operational work, he is an active music curator and community builder, with a longstanding interest in the intersection of culture, storytelling, and technology.
- Specialism
- Operations and organizational strategy
Scott Meriam is a Brooklyn-based executive producer and creative director with 15+ years shaping positioning and execution for high-end live events and experiential work for brands like Google, IBM, and Miro. He spent seven years directing creative strategy for the Wall Street Journal's sponsorship program, a relationship he carried forward while working agency-side as a senior executive producer at The Gathery.
He is the founder of Little Edie, a boutique creative production company partnering with cultural institutions like the Brooklyn Museum, B2C beauty brands, fashion houses, hospitality companies, and blue-chip luxury agencies, working alongside creatives and C-suite leaders alike to turn ideas into work that delivers real, repeatable value.
- Founder
- Little Edie