Event Technology

When it’s imperative that you keep your attendees connected, here’s what you need to know about Wi-Fi, video feeds, simulcasts, apps, social media, and more. We look at what works and what doesn't, and talk to meeting professionals about their favorites.

Scott Galloway Tees Up His Predictions for 2025

The NYU Stern marketing professor kicked off CL25 on the Main Stage last night with his pick of stocks, tech, media platforms, and more to keep an eye on this year.

BY Jennifer N. Dienst January 13, 2025

Social Connection: There’s an App for That

A neuroscientist has developed an app that makes connections between incoming first-year college students with a high likelihood they’ll turn into friendships. Up next: conference participants.

BY Michelle Russell December 13, 2024

Trends Report 2025: An Eye on AI and the Planet

Event professionals’ proficiency using AI tools continues to grow. How about their green skills? Part of Convene’s Annual Events Industry Forecast.

BY Casey Gale December 6, 2024

Trends Report 2025: Will Event Tech Costs Fuel Low-Tech Options?

The demand to create high-tech, awe-inducing spectacles at events could stretch planners’ budgets to the limit. Part of Convene’s Annual Events Industry Forecast.

BY Barbara Palmer December 6, 2024

Trends Report 2025: The Rise of Humans in an AI World

A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene’s Annual Events Industry Forecast.

BY Barbara Palmer December 6, 2024

Boost Your Event Success With These Expert AI Hacks

Nick Borelli, one of the event industry’s leading technologists, shares three ways to use Spark that most impress planners.

BY Barbara Palmer December 2, 2024

Making Sustainable Events Easier

A new collaboration aims to get a web-based tool developed in cooperation with the United Nations into more organizers’ hands so they can more easily measure and report the climate impact of their events.

BY Curt Wagner November 18, 2024

Is It Time to Revamp Your Social Media Strategy?

Younger attendees are using social platforms as search engines and, in the process, discovering brands. Here are four tips to help event brands drive engagement and boost attendance numbers in this new era of social media.

BY Sara Fellows October 13, 2024

How Fair Is It to Compare Generative AI Tools?

When a competition pitted Spark AI against other gen AI tools, it became clear that the outcomes depend more on the users than the tools themselves.

BY Barbara Palmer October 7, 2024

Keeping Smartphones in Their Place

Ambivalence over the impact of social media is spurring interest in analog experiences.

BY Barbara Palmer September 24, 2024

3 Ways for Event Planners to Strategically Incorporate AI

Most conversations about the use of artificial intelligence in the events industry focus on use cases that improve workforce productivity and performance for repeatable processes. Here are approaches that not only help you but help your event participants implement AI within their own organizations.

BY Dave Lutz, CMP September 9, 2024

‘The Only Skill That Most of Us Need Is Curiosity’

The best way for event planners to use AI image generator? It helps to have a level of cultural competence, and the advice of a tech expert and EDI consultant.

BY Magdalina Atanassova September 4, 2024

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