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SIGHTLINE LIVE

SIGHTLINE LIVE takes you inside today’s most impactful brand experiences. Hear the most honest conversations with top global leaders from brands like Canva, Amazon, MetLife, Hartbeat, and more, as they reveal what it really takes to master marketing strategy, events, and live experiences. From creativity and execution to measurement, gain insights that help you exceed industry expectations. This is your front-row seat to the world of live brand marketing. Hosted by Marie-Elaine Lemire, Head of Content at SIGHTLINE. Want to sponsor or be featured on an episode? ➡️ Reach out to our team today: contact@sightlinelive.com Join our newsletter for industry news and expert insights before anyone else. ➡️ https://www.sightlinelive.com/join Connect with us and follow our growing community: ➡️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sightline-live/ ➡️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sightline.live/ Explore the complete SIGHTLINE world: https://www.sightlinelive.com/

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September 8, 2026 • 27 mins

Angie Ahrens, Head of Growth Experiences at Intuit, to explore what it really takes to build trust through experiences. With more than 20 years in the events industry, Angie shares how Intuit designs events that go beyond engagement to create genuine customer relationships and lasting brand confidence. Angie discusses how trust influences every stage of the experience design process, the behaviors that reveal when trust has been e...

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Shawn Wagner, Vice President of Global Events at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Olivia Brooks Allan, Chief Client Officer at Nteractive, unpack what it takes to bring a new agency into one of a brand’s most important flagship events without losing what already makes it successful.   Using HPE Discover as the case study, they share how to build trust quickly, integrate client and agency teams, preserve years of eve...
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Erin Oles is the President and Chief Marketing Officer at Salesforce, leading Global Strategic Events, Executive Marketing, Field Marketing, Product Marketing, Community, Brand, and Messaging. Recently promoted from EVP of Global Integrated Marketing to CMO, Erin brings a unique perspective on how marketing, events, and customer experience work together to propel the brand story and drive business growth. In this episode, Erin tak...

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Benja Juster is the Lead Creative Producer, Global Events at HubSpot, where he helps create experiences that bring people together and build meaningful connections. After years creating experiences for some of the world's leading brands, his work sits at the intersection of creativity, community, and live experiences.   In this episode, he explores why the most memorable experiences are built through participation, emotion, an...
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Liz Urheim, Chief Marketing Officer at Verifone, and Courtney Engel, VP Strategy & Development at Magnet Media, to explore how the most successful brands are turning events into year round marketing engines. Drawing from their collaboration around NRF, they share how strategy, storytelling, and content work together before, during, and after an event to build awareness, deepen engagement, and drive business results.

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What makes a brand-agency partnership truly work?

In this episode of SIGHTLINE LIVE, Gil Forer, former partner at EY and current founder of ForerSight Advisors, and Lina Beaudin, VP of Production at C2 Studio, unpack the long-term EY and C2 partnership behind one of experiential marketing’s most ambitious leadership platforms.

They discuss how trust, strategic alignment, and creative tension helped turn big busin...

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Danielle Damiano Medeiros is LinkedIn's current Global Head of Industry Tentpole Experiences, Events and Executive Engagement COE. With a background spanning advertising, media, hospitality, finance, and technology, she has spent her career making purposeful moves toward one goal: designing experiences that earn attention at a global scale.

In this episode, she gets into how LinkedIn decides when and how to show up at the world's ...

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Michael Roberts is the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at MetLife. With previous stops at Vanguard and Bank of America, he brings decades of experience building data-driven marketing strategies inside some of the world's most recognized financial institutions.   In this episode, Michael gets into how neuroscience shapes the way great brands build trust, what most marketers misunderstand about large-scale sponsorship...
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Jeff Clanagan is the President and Chief Distribution Officer of Hartbeat, a global entertainment company built at the intersection of comedy and culture.

With a career spanning concert promotion, film distribution, and live experiences, Jeff has spent decades turning bold creative ideas into some of the most culturally defining moments in entertainment. In this episode, he gets into what it takes to build live experiences that ear...

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Matt Morris is the Head of Marketing at Lightspeed Commerce, the unified commerce platform powering retail and hospitality businesses across 144,000 locations worldwide.

In this episode, Matt breaks down how he thinks about the full events spectrum, strategic sponsorships to Edge, Lightspeed's owned flagship experience how to decide when to build your own stage versus showing up on someone else's,and what separates events that gene...

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Jimmy Knowles is the Global Head of Experiential at Canva, one of the fastest-growing visual communications platforms in the world. As the creative force behind Canva World Tour and Canva Create, global celebrations of creativity bringing together users and creators across cities worldwide, Jimmy knows what it takes to build brand experiences that move people.   In this episode, he shares what it really takes to keep bold id...
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Jennyfer Goune, Harvard-trained marketer and Product Marketing Lead at Amazon, shares how events power today’s most effective content strategies, acting as the launchpad for storytelling that carries forward well beyond the live experience.     In this conversation, you’ll hear how to transform event moments into ongoing narratives, invite audiences in as co-creators, and focus on metrics that reflect real im...
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