At the fourth annual conference of the Academy of Professional Dialogue, participants gathered to honour David Kantor with a posthumous honorary membership. The comments collected from attendees capture the texture of that moment: gratitude, grief, and a recurring sense that many in the room had never met Kantor in person yet felt the weight of his influence through the practitioners around them. One participant described 'an unfillable footprint in the world of dialogue'; another reflected that the tribute made the conference feel 'more human.' Mrs Kantor's presence was acknowledged with particular warmth. The record stands as testimony to how foundational Kantor's thinking, including the Four Player Model that bears his name, remains to the community the Academy continues to build.