Trends and Predictions in #EventTech

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Event Wi-Fi will (finally) turn a corner

Venues will step up their Wi-Fi strategies to have an advantage over competitors

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center has recently become the first venue to lead their marketing & advertising with the quality of their Wi-Fi service

New Mesh Networking Technology

Users can make direct contact with others within range of their smartphones – without using the

regular internet. 

iBeacon Technology

Heat Mapping to track where attendees travel around the venue & analyze behavior

iBeacon TechnologyAudience Response

Proximity technology allows organizers to lock down the app to live polling & audience response – eliminating the need for expensive custom hardware with a move to BYOD (bring your own device)

NEW: Audience Response Solution

Wearable TechnologyWill it make an appearance at Events?

Registration through Social Media

Making things easier for potential attendees

Connected solutions

A lot of event organizers use different vendors for:

• Registration• Website• Online mapping• Mobile apps• Audience response

Why not have just one? With one CMS.

More ways to make use of event data

Different ROI drivers for different stakeholders:

Maximum attendee engagement

Generate contacts and leads for exhibitors

Generate interest in future events

Knowing which sessions and speakers are most highly-rated

Number of contacts made who viewed their profile and how well the meeting management system worked

Prove the value of participation in order to generate interest in next year’s event

Blog: Getting the Right Data to Prove ROI

A new issue in the Event Industry:Mobile Security

With the issues around mobile security in all other industries, it’s time to step up security in event technologyAll data is under threat to hackers

Does your provider have a security reassurance?

This “Securing your Event Technology” Best Practice Guide discusses what to look out for with Security

iOS 8 Rumoured Features

Rumoured app suggestions feature when iPhone is locked could fuel event app marketing efforts

Read more on this here

Multi-Event Apps and Member Portals make things easier for Associations

ONE App for everything Association• Year-round updates, downlaodables, networking• All events and event details

ONE Member Portal• With an easy, online method to engage with the association

brand and events

ONE Content Management System• One place to enter details for both the online portal and the

mobile app

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