Unveiling ELX: What today's data tells us about tomorrow's future ready event leaders
Trends and Research

Unveiling ELX: What today's data tells us about tomorrow's future ready event leaders

Corporate
Data
Leadership
Culture and engagement
Agency
Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | America/Los_Angeles

Education session

Inspiration Hub, Mandalay Bay | Insights Theater, Stand F247
English
About

The Event Leaders Exchange (ELX) unveils powerful new findings from its latest research and whitepaper: Future-Ready Leaders. Hear about the challenges, insights and potential solutions of the world’s most influential event teams. Look at stunted innovation, stakeholder buy-in, the illusion around innovation, the AI gap and the urgent talent priorities shaping how we recruit, upskill and lead. Explore where leadership needs to evolve, which skills are becoming mission-critical, and how senior leaders are reimagining team structures to remain agile, strategic and high-impact.

Learning outcomes:

Explore the key trends and talent gaps identified in the ELX research - and what they mean for the future of the industry

Discover the new leadership behaviors and cross-functional capabilities that are defining future-ready event professionals

Gain insight into how top organizations are evolving to stay strategically relevant, innovative and robust

This session is approved for the following certifications.

* ICCA Skills Domain CICS/CICE: Module 1: Understanding the Market, 0.75 credits

* CMP/CEU Approved: Domain F: Talent Management, 0.75 credits

* CSEP Approved

Speakers

Joelle Morgan

VP, BrandAssetMark

Heather Shuman

Director of Global EventsCelonis

Moderators

Chloe Richardson

Head of Content/EmceeELX