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Looking into the Future of Event Tech

Velvet Chainsaw

Your guidepost for event-technology decisions should be to put your customer’s experience before your staff efficiency. 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. Which of these event tech predictions surprises you?

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From Speakers to Influencers: Event Tech That Boosts Reach

EventMB

Skift Take: Using influencer marketing to promote events doesn't have to involve celebrities. These tools help turn speakers into the influencers that they are. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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3 New Event Tech Tools to Bling Your General Session

Smart Meetings

Augmented reality, 3D Visualization and AI add branding, logistics and meaning to programs Could event tech end up being a meeting professional’s best friend after all? The new technology makes it easy to share information, videos and messages with attendees’ phones through event signage and products—without needing a QR code.

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Is Event Software Worth It? How to Get Leadership Buy-In

Attendease

With simple drag-and-drop design tools, creating on-brand event websites and email campaigns is a breeze. Save hours of manually building and revising your event schedule. Instead, drag and drop sessions, speakers, and rooms for your meeting or event. First, frame event tech as an investment, not a cost.

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Learn the Latest Efficiency Hacks That Event Tech Has to Offer

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Event planners who are feeling overwhelmed with their current workloads might look at event tech as an added challenge they simply don’t have time for right now. After all, it may feel second nature to juggle multiple Excel files and chase down speakers, sponsors, and staff with email after email. It doesn’t have to be.

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The Future of Event Tech Trends, According to Cvents’ Brian Ludwig

Smart Meetings

In addition to asking about the venue, the food and the speaker on a scale of one to five, ask, “Did you feel that you belonged?” True value of AI: The whole promise of AI for events is that it will take away the drudgery and free up organizers to be far more strategic. and “Did you meet anyone new?” That is powerful,” Ludwig said.

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Recap: Finding the perfect speaker.

Expo Pass

“I love seeing speakers that change the way we think […] They are experts, they have thought about something, they bring their own view of the world – to you – and it changes how you think about the world.”. Innovation Women also works to create more diversity at events, and remake the “all-male, pale, and stale” panels we so often see.

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