Technology and apps for events

You'd have to be sleeping pretty heavily over the last twenty four months if you weren't aware of the event technology boom over the last few years. From the evolution of event apps to hybrid events, virtual and back to in-person, it's all been created, hasn't it? 

There are a lot of options out there for event organisers, and it can be overwhelming to try to figure out which one is right for you. Event planners have a lot on their plates, and the last thing you want to do is spend hours researching different software options.

To help you out, we've compiled a list of event technology that could be utilised for any conference, trade show and exhibition that will help to save you time, money and effort so you can concentrate on what matters most: delivering transformational event experiences.

Snöball

Snöball helps get the word out about your event and make it a success by mobilising attendees, sponsors, speakers to grow your event. This is for virtual, hybrid or even in-person experiences. 

The software helps save you time and money with your event marketing budget by utilizing the power of your audience across social media and more traditional methods to drive registrations and conversions to your next event.

What is it

Snöball uses the power of peer-to-peer influence to reach a wider and more engaged audience. Mobilising your community to amplify your event and content with ongoing segmented and optimised activation campaigns. 

How does it work

The software is like personal marketing on steroids. It ‘automagically’ generates personalised marketing toolkits for every member of your audience to help them spread marketing word-of-mouth to their audiences. 

You can monitor and measure reports on every one of your interactions (and event participants), which also makes clever recommendations for your next campaign. 

By getting your attendees, sponsors and speakers involved in the marketing of your event, you can ensure that they are more engaged with what's going on. In turn, this will help increase attendance by motivating those who might otherwise not want to go or could possibly be prevented from going if it is seen as too difficult an endeavour for them.

To find out more, head over to snoball.com

Clipr 

Are you capturing lots of video at your event, but are struggling to find the time to share relevant clips with your audience? Or do you have a 100's of hours of content that you want your audience to have access to on-demand?

If so, CLIPr is the solution for you.

What is CLIPr 

CLIPr is a video analyses and management platform that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you create a searchable video library for your audience. But I hear you say you already use something like YouTube?

Well, CLIPr enables you to easily grab highlights from your speakers or presentation videos and share those with your event audience creating greater attendee engagement year round. Simple right? 

It not only saves you hundreds of hours of editing time, it improves the event attendee experience and saves your audience valuable search time too as they can watch "on the go" from any mobile device!

Unless it's an incredibly engaging presentation (think TedTalks), the likelihood of your audience watching a full 35 minute presentation is probably quite slim. However, within that presentation there could be a 3 minute segment that is relevant and useful to your audience.

Your audience can also search the automatically generated transcript for any keywords that matter most to them too! 

With CLIPr's analytics package it instantly shows you what is resonating with your audience so you can share more of that relevant content with them too. And when your event participants watch only what they need, they regain time to transform everything else they do. 

What's not to like? Find out more over at cliper.ai

Lineup Ninja

Are you getting bogged down with endless task lists, organising your speakers availability, checking when profile information is complete and if they've uploaded or updated their presentations yet? 

Then you should check out Lineup Ninja.

Lineup Ninja is like a speaker agenda spreadsheet on steroids and the best bit is, you don't need to be a whizz at Excel to manage your entire agenda or speaker submission process. 

What does Lineup Ninja do? 

Lineup Ninja helps event planners to save time by automating the often repetitive and error prone tasks associated with speaker management. Built for events, exhibitions, conferences and festivals, this clever eventtech software can help you gather, review, schedule and publish your event content more effectively. 

One of the greatest time savers this will give to event planners is the ability to efficiently manage time slots and availability of speakers. 

When a potential speaker submits their session, they also submit their availability to speak. When you have all of your sessions submitted, the software automatically populates your conference agenda ensuring sessions / speakers aren't double booked. Of course you can move things around to suit your content schedule if needed, but this action alone will save you hours when planning your next event! 

To find out more, head over to lineup.ninja

Field Drive

Fielddrive offers all of the normal technology that you'd expect from a modern registration and badging event technology platform. Fast badge printing, NFC and RfId encoding, accreditation and multiple badging options. 

However, there's something that sets Field Drive apart from the rest... facial recognition. 

What's it all about 

Fielddrive partnered with Zenus Biometrics (read more on that technology here) to create the most frictionless, fast and secure event check-in around. 

You may be wondering about the speed of event badge collection, particularly if you have thousands of event attendees arriving at the same time. This event technology was created specifically with the unique nature event badge collection in mind with check-in often taking less than 8 seconds per delegate. 

The facial recognition check-in allows attendees to collect their badge in real time (or check-in) using only their face and then a full colour badge is printed instantaneously. 

We see a particularly strong use case for high value conferences and events or events where access control is required as unless they're John Travolta or Nicolas Cage in FaceOff, it will make it very difficult to reshare high value event tickets and badges. When buying tickets, the software is used to capture an image of the buyer, to later then be used for badge collection at your event. 

We hope you found this roundup of the event technology platforms helpful. We think they're all great options for anyone looking to streamline their event planning process and create a more engaging and seamless event experience for their attendees.