Encore Joins Event Leaders Exchange as Strategic Partner for 2025

The Event Leaders Exchange (ELX) is proud to announce Encore as its newest strategic partner for 2025. This partnership reflects a shared vision for enhancing innovation, experience, and impact across the events industry.

As a global leader in event production and technology services, Encore will contribute its creative expertise to help ELX deliver world-class experiences for its members. Through this partnership, Encore will collaborate with ELX on its in-person events, while also providing thought leadership and insights gleaned from the 350,000 events Encore supports annually. Together, they aim to foster collaborative problem-solving, addressing key challenges and enhancing the value ELX provides to its community of senior event leaders.

Nicola Kastner, CEO of ELX, commented on the new partnership: “We are excited to welcome Encore as a strategic partner for 2025. Our new partnership opens a dialogue between ELX members and Encore, allowing us to collaboratively drive meaningful advancements in our industry by addressing challenges, sharing thought leadership, and creating even more impactful experiences for our members. We look forward to working together to drive meaningful innovation and create new opportunities for our community.”

Encore is equally enthusiastic about the partnership and the opportunity to support the ELX community. “Our formal partnership with Event Leaders Exchange aims to benefit everyone associated with the evolving corporate events industry,” said Ben Erwin, Encore President and CEO. “The opportunity to better connect with ELX will strengthen knowledge sharing. For Encore, it will inform technology innovation and shape our ability to deliver personalized service at the highest level, which is at the core of our mission and values.”

The ELX community looks forward to collaborating with Encore throughout 2025 for the fresh ideas, innovation, and conversation they will spark in our community.

About Event Leaders Exchange (ELX)
Event Leaders Exchange (ELX) is an invitation-only community for Global Heads of Events from the world’s largest corporations and a leading authority in the events industry. The community mission is to drive top-down change within the industry by bringing together senior event leaders to collaborate, engage and contribute to powerful actionable conversations that lead to progress.

About Encore
Encore is the world’s largest event production company, supporting meeting and event professionals with event technology, production, tradeshow and exhibition services. With unmatched capabilities, a hospitality mindset and award-winning customer service, Encore is the trusted partner for 2,200 premier hotels and venues worldwide, serving thousands of customers and interacting with 25 million people annually. Encore is a certified Great Place To Work ™, a recognition that highlights the company’s continual investments in its talented workforce as the key to unlocking event customers’ greatest successes. The company is headquartered in Schiller Park, Illinois, and operates in 21 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and Asia Pacific. Learn more at encoreglobal.com and connect with Encore on LinkedIn.