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10 Minutes With… Jon Wolff, Senior Global Events Manager at Lenovo

Event Marketer

Our monthly interview series goes “live” as we sit down virtually with Jon Wolff, senior global events manager at Lenovo. Wolff will be a featured speaker during Event Marketer’s Experiential Marketing Month this October, presenting on trends and what’s ahead for the industry in 2026.

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Best of 2024: Event Safety and Security

Smart Meetings

Although these other event aspects can happen without security, if attendees safety is in question, its questionable if things will. Alan Kleinfeld, senior director of meetings and safety at Arrive Management Group, shared a few tips about what meeting profs could do, which can apply to this specific scenario and event safety in general.

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Holograms Beam into Events

Smart Meetings

Hologram technology can increase engagement and attract hard-to-get speakers Meetings may be a mostly in-person experience but—as we learned during Covid, with the use of Zoom, Teams and other online video platforms—the use of communications technology has its place in the world of meetings and events.

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Sustainable Event Planning: Action Steps to Lasting Strategy

Smart Meetings

Becoming a sustainable event planner is a marathon, not a sprint. As the events industry continues to evolve in its sustainability journey, there are a lot of accomplishments to celebrate. Smart Meetings’ October webinar, From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices , breaks it down.

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B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Valerie Strehle

Event Marketer

Event Marketer’s 2025 B-to-B Dream has been unveiled. Valerie Strehle, Senior Director-Global Events, Workiva When an event organization operates under the code name GSD, or Get S**t Done, you know it has some serious momentum behind it. After studying p.r.,

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Field Report: Things We’ve Never Seen at Trade Shows Until Shoptalk 2025

Event Marketer

Shoptalk 2025, a global event for retail and ecommerce, owned by Hyve Group, took over the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, March 25-25, bringing together more than 10,000 attendees and more than 225 senior-level speakers from top retailers, including Macys, Inc., Mattel, Canada Goose and P&G.

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3 Extreme Accessibility Experts Share Their Accommodation Mandates

Smart Meetings

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. Let’s learn more.