Mary Erholtz, the vice president of marketing at Superior Industries, serves as the chair of ConExpo-Con/Agg 2020. Portable Plants caught up with Erholtz, who offered a glimpse at what’s in store for ConExpo-Con/Agg in 2023.
Portable Plants: Regarding future editions of the show, what sorts of changes might be on deck for ConExpo-Con/Agg four years from now?
ERHOLTZ: If you’ve been around the Las Vegas Convention Center lately, you would see all of the new construction there. They’re building a new indoor exhibit area. For lack of a better term, there is a “West Hall” that is over top of the former Gold Lot. It’s some really nice indoor exhibit space.
In 2023, the Festival Grounds will probably be a new norm because we need that space for products that need to be outside.
The other thing is the [Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority] has contracted out and hired the Boring Company, an Elon Musk company, to create a people-moving system. It will be an underground tram of sorts, moving people around the convention facility. It will help people get from the South Hall to the new “West Hall.” It will be underground.