Articles tagged “event tech”

As meeting venues contend with rising costs, supply-chain issues, labor shortages, and other challenges, they should not lose sight of opportunities to increase efficiency through automated solutions and win more business by marketing efforts toward diversity, accessibility, and sustainability.

The latest event technology acquisition involves a most unusual investor, the national postal service of Switzerland. It has taken a majority stake in SpotMe, which will continue to operate independently with no changes to its product offering.

On paper, this deal makes perfect sense. Hubilo is keen to move beyond virtual events and build a strong offering for in-person events. Fielddrive brings innovative badging and on-site solutions. Now the challenge is gaining market share.

This week's episode explores the overlap between the online and in-person event spaces in regards to both the community and design elements.

Pedro Góes, CEO at InEvent, joins this episode of the Event Manager Podcast to discuss event tech innovation.

The perfect storm stirring in the event tech sector is pounding the virtual event tech world worst of all. Still, event tech leaders are confident of steady and sustainable growth for virtual events.

Thorben Grosser, Vice President of Product Marketing at EventMobi, joins this episode to discuss event tech, event design and how to run a successful event tech business in Europe.

The economic downturn is decimating the event tech sector hard, particularly virtual event tech platforms. This won't be the last round of layoffs as investors lose confidence in the sector.

When one of event tech’s largest providers makes the difficult decision to cut almost a third of its staff it sends shivers down the spine of everyone working in the sector.

Event tech has slumped lower than investors predicted. The delight of returning to in-person events is laden with a backlash towards virtual events. Nevertheless, event tech is here to stay and there are plenty of reasons to anticipate a recovery.