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Looking into the Future of Event Tech

Velvet Chainsaw

As the event-tech space continues to evolve with a number of mergers and acquisitions, I see four changes coming for larger annual conferences. #1. Software solutions built on older platforms and smaller companies with fewer resources are going to have a harder time meeting event organizers’ more stringent data-security requirements. #2.

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Survey: What’s In Your Event Tech Toolbox?

Smart Meetings

Please take this short survey, and you could be included in our future-focused survey published in the March Smart Meetings magazine. This is your chance to tell event tech companies and the world what you think of their products. The post Survey: What’s In Your Event Tech Toolbox? Take the Survey.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. That book came out in 2009, and suddenly I was in the meeting industry.

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Virtually There: Tech Meetings

SmartMeetings

Tech companies tested virtual meetings before they were cool. Smart Meetings talked to the planners behind the alt-launch and a bevy of other experts in streaming meetings and found out the answer is: “A lot.”. Most face-to-face meetings embody three major components: education, networking and commerce.

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7 Design Considerations for Your Conference Hub

Velvet Chainsaw

High-tech user conferences like Dreamforce and Microsoft Ignite have been designing innovative hub spaces to engage and nurture their top customers for years. Another popular addition is to incorporate demo kiosks where tech providers can share their solutions and grow connections. Here’s what we came up with. Where Your Hub Belongs.

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5 Event Planning Magazines to Inspire Your Next Event

Social Tables

The inspiration for your events can come from just about anywhere: event planning magazines, colleagues, other events, or social media. These event planning magazines, both digital and print, can help inspire your next big event idea. Meetings & Conventions. Want event planning magazine content digitally?

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Tech Meets the Future

SmartMeetings

From around the world, announcements of dates and places for bringing tech minds together F2F have started to trickle in. The Day the Meetings Stopped. We quickly pivoted to meet the needs of our customers and the company,” Horstman said. “We Geeks have always been a discerning audience.

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