Vitor Cardoso was a plenary speaker at two major meetings on gravity. The first event, hosted at Kindai University was the JGRG 33, the Japanese meeting on General Relativity and Gravity, with over 200 participants. The meeting was hosted by Akihiro Ishibashi and a number of other colleagues in Osaka. The second is the QCD meets Gravity meeting in Taipei, intended to foster interactions between different communities to understand Strong Gravity.