Tools & Apps
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
Making an Impact as an Event Exhibitor
The co-founders of Backtrack, a mobile app for recording exhibit booth conversations, went the extra mile to make connections and get leads at ECEF 2024. Their experience can help spark ideas for all kinds of exhibitors and sponsors.
‘Technology With Purpose’: Have a Valid Business Case When Using AI
Generative AI has swept the business landscape — including the events industry — but it takes time and effort to figure out its best uses.
The Challenge of Using AI to Enhance Your Writing
There’s a paradox that more users of generative AI are noticing — it can make your writing sound more professional, but also more generic.
Measuring an Event’s Carbon Footprint — It’s All in the Details
Two sustainability experts have created a tool to accurately measure an event’s true carbon footprint. Here’s the level of detail required.
Keeping Up With Technology Tools
An academic with an entrepreneurial streak offered edUcon participants insights on how technology can elevate events and boost productivity — now and later.
Bringing AI to Life — as a Conference Presenter
An AI-powered robot named Ameca co-presented part of the Welcoming Session at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) 2024 in Las Vegas, where artificial intelligence in many forms was a hot topic.