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Hattendorf Leaves UFI on Top of the World

Hattendorf signs off – for now: From the IBTM Forum for Advocacy in Barcelona to his final edition as chief executive of the UFI Annual Congress held in Cologne, Kai Hattendorf shares his reflections on ten years at the global exhibitions industry association helm, seven of which featured as a board member of the Joint…

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Kai Hattendorf to Leave UFI

From Exhibition World: UFI, the global association of the exhibition industry, has announced that its CEO Kai Hattendorf will leave his role at the association at the end of 2024. He has been the CEO since 2015. “I joined UFI in 2015, and these past ten years as the association’s CEO have been an amazing…

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Kai Hattendorf Critiques the Paris Olympics

The Paris Olympic Games are approaching the finish line, and I had the opportunity to get a close and personal look at the games from many perspectives: as a (part-time) resident, a visitor, an event professional, and a spectator. Here are some observations. As a destination… Paris blends the Olympic venues into the city with…

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Kai Hattendorf on the UFI Global Congress in Las Vegas

In this episode of The EXHIBITOR Now Podcast, Tommy Goodwin (Exhibition & Conferences Alliance) chats with Kai Hattendorf, Managing Director / CEO at UFI, about UFI’s advocacy work in the US and around the world, and Kai shares some insights into the upcoming Global Congress in Las Vegas in early November. Co-Hosts, Mark Johnson and…

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COP 27: Hattendorf Delivers End of Term Report

Kai Hattendorf, the omnipresent managing director of UFI and past president of the Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC) reports back from COP27 with a progress report on the sector-wide Net Zero Carbon Events movement.  “We’ve done what we initially wanted to achieve in three years in just eighteen months through the power of collaboration.”…

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Kai Hattendorf

Connector & Transformer Through Business Transformation, Global Advocacy, Association Management

Kai Hattendorf is one of the most prominent thought leaders in the global business events and exhibition industry, building on a decades-long legacy of transformation and innovation across the sector. In his decade at the helm of Paris-based UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, he spearheaded numerous initiatives and projects to develop the…

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