Lausanne: Poken  

Green event technology company Poken offers a complete set of tools that allow you to “go digital” and “go green” with your events. Best known for its fun and effective USB “digital business card”, Poken has grown into a company that provides a proven platform to boost your event’s effectiveness: Mobile, social, networking, gamification, emailing, scheduling, match making, registration & ticketing – over 1,500 trade shows, conferences, and corporate events have contributed towards establishing the Poken Green Event platform as the industry reference for creating more engaging, more interactive events. With local event management experts in its 14 offices worldwide, Poken is a full service event technology company that offers tailored account management, event technology guidance, and hand-holding right up to event deployment and on-site support.

Poken is green: Digital profiles eliminate the need for paper business cards, brochures, catalogues and all that "stuff" that gets quickly tossed out after the event. This also lets exhibitors leave it at home, by using our paperless distribution setup.

Poken is in the cloud: Mobile- and desktop-friendly, Poken offers a fully customisable and white-label visitor engagement portal, accessible instantly from any device, which you can embed in your event site.

Poken is the icebreaker: Poken gets guests talking, engaging and networking. For events from 300 to 10,000+ people.

Poken is data-rich: Lead interactions, graphs, charts, Poken has it all for exhibitors and event management teams, so you can create beautiful reports illustrating your ROI.

London: evvnt  

evvnt has reinvented the way event organisers around the globe find new customers. Through one simple interface organisers can distribute and publish events to 90+ targeted listings sites in one click. The evvnt platform creates events awareness and momentum in organic search, mobile and social streams through building a customised network on listing sites and feeds, maximising exposure in the run-up to any event. evvnt is processing 10,000 events per month for the world’s best-known conference, exhibition and event organisers. It works and there is nothing else like it.

When looking for a cost and time effective marketing solution organisers are often left with few options. With the rising cost of internet advertising, utilising publishing sites and listings has become a valuable avenue for targeted marketing. The issue stands that with the current fragmentation of the online events space, understanding these markets and platforms is an uphill struggle. evvnt has accelerated a marketeers time and budget by providing a cost-effective solution that reaches targeted event sites across an events location and genre.

evvnt’s indexed publisher database means whether in Dubai or Dublin, Sydney or San Fran, Finance or Pharma, an organiser can list their event on targeted sites quickly and effectively, whilst measuring the success via evvnt reports.

Through click tracking metrics, full visibility of an events online coverage and of the impact on SEO - evvnt provides reporting transparency for organisers to review and better manage their listings.

Copenhagen: Conferize  

Conferize makes it easy for any event organiser to a build a living event community and boost registrations for their events. Get the perfect event page with built-in social networking, content aggregation and registration.

• Automatically aggregate all collective media around your event (videos, pictures, slides, tweets)
• Automatically build a living community of attendees and online followers (they call them leads) and let Conferize convert your leads to attendees
• Engage people in content sharing, social networking, meeting-bookings, messaging, likes, and comments.
• All speakers, attendees and online followers have a personal profile which makes networking exciting and easy.

And one more thing… Conferize keeps building your community so next time you host an event you already know lots of people ready to buy your tickets. After all, you want to maximize the event experience before, during and after the event and get the right people to attend your events.

Conferize has been covered on Forbes, TechCrunch, FoxBusiness, The Next Web.

Brussels : Whales on Waves  

Until now all delegates, interpreters and presenters had to travel to the same location for their conference. But not any longer. Today Whales on Waves can announce the launch of their new web-based simultaneous interpretation service. The new service allows delegates to fully interact with their live meetings via webinars, in a choice of languages.

This new innovation saves travel time and costs associated with “on Location” interpretation. Whales on Waves provides the service from their purpose built London and Brussels offices where interpreters work in pairs in sound proof interpreter booths supported by technicians, just as they would at an onsite meeting. They can provide experienced technicians on location at your meeting to ensure all the technology works seamlessly. Like all their services, it is fully project managed and the company can also provide qualified moderators or facilitators for your meeting.

Paris: myQaa  

myQaa is the most user-friendly mobile event app for events, meetings, conferences and tradeshows. It provides organisers with an online tool to manage the mobile version of their event. For event participants, it is a convenient way to ask questions and give feedback, to network with other attendees and to have all the practical information in one place. 

The app has just been redesigned and it boasts a more sleek look as well as new features, such as interactive maps or rich agendas.

myQaa is available on all platforms and has customisation options to reflect your event's brand. The mobile and tablet app can be used by both onsite and online participants.

myQaa has experience providing event apps for a wide array of clients and pride themselves on delivering outstanding customer service. 

Some of their clients include Reed Exhibitions, Boehringer Ingelheim, Nokia, Bouygues Telecom, EDF, Credit Agricole and SNCF.

London: Survey On Tablet  

SurveyOnTable offers an innovative technology of a unique combination of hardware and cloud service. SurveyOnTablet is designed to spare you the hassle of creating professional and engaging multi-language surveys. It is easy to use and can be installed by anyone with no technical or programming skills.

It works seamlessly even in areas with no internet connection. When online, it automaticlly syncs data in the background. With the help of their secure enclosures you can leave the devices in public areas, knowing that unauthorised users will not gain access to your data.

Instant Alerts gives you immediate alerts by e-mail and SMS when a customer is at risk, thus giving you the power to turn unhappy clients into happy ones even before they leave your property.

Slick design and intuitive user interface will capture and hold the user's attention and secure a higher response rate and quality of data. Your clients will be able to voice their opinion not just via the tablets but also through their personal smartphones. By using QR codes you can collect feedback at every location within your property.

SurveyOnTable has prepared a large library of virtually every possible question you could ask your clients translated into more than 25 languages.

Powerful reporting and analysis is at your fingertips to get an unmatched insight into your business. Thorough analysis is made with one purpose in mind - to give you a competitive advantage. 

These solutions are affordable even for small businesses and can come completely free of charge (with limited functionality) with the Free Plan.

Bremen: pep EVENT & pep Presenter  

The engineering company CAD-Architektur, existing since 1992 in Germany, develops since 1999 software products for planning, presentation and marketing of all kind of events. 

pep EVENT: CAD-based software for event planning in 2D and 3D.

pep PRESENTER: Virtual reality software with interactive realtime walking for presentation and marketing of events.

pep = professional - easy - planning (CAD, Virtual reality)

They offer software products especially developed for the event industry (MICE) and services like measurement, CAD drawing and 3D roombuilding visualization with experience of over six million realized sqm. 

Their users recruit themselves from the entire meeting industry like locations, event agencies, caterers, technicians, fair hall planners, booth designers, tent deliverers, furniture rentals, educationals and other enterprises.

With pep EVENT users plan events in 2D und 3D, pep PRESENTER allows interactive realtime walkthroughs for users and their customers for presentation and marketing of events.?

Software products are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch.

Barcelona: Kigo  

Over the past decade, there has been a noticeable shift towards holiday goers booking alternative accommodation options, and as a consequence, there has been a rise in vacation rentals. Once thought of as a niche market, the vacation rental industry continues to build towards its growing presence in the mainstream travel sector.

Alongside the rise of portal listing websites, the emergence of vacation rental software providers has allowed vacation rental managers to run their business seamlessly. 

This is where Kigo's All-in-One innovative software fits in perfectly. Kigo is a key element to save time, stay organised and cost effectively manage a vacation rental business by automating every aspect. 

Integrated with a Channel Manager, vacation rental managers can enjoy connecting from one centralised place and join forces with over 35 portal listings: Booking.com. HomeAway, Flipkey to name a few. In addition to Kigo’s dynamic vacation rental platform you can take advantage of cutting edge features such as the scheduling, reservations, mobile ready websites, SEO and social media packages. To date Kigo has and still is helping over 1000 property managers around the world

Washington, DC: Scene Squid  

SceneSquid submits your events to local publications, blogs, and calendars so you don’t have to. The platform starts by helping you target relevant media outlets and event curators for your event. It then automatically fills out calendar submission forms and sends digital event digests containing your event details. SceneSquid is designed to give publications all the information they need about your event, in their preferred submission format, with the click of a button.

SceneSquid works with hundreds of organisations and businesses to save them hours in promoting events each month. Users of the platform work with all types of events, ranging from nightlife and fashion to cause-based events and arts & culture.

SceneSquid is based in Washington, DC and is in the midst of building out Media Networks for a dozen new cities.

San Diego: Schedulehead  

Schedulehead is an app that intelligently automates your staff-schedules.  It’s unique from other staff-scheduling websites, because the patent-pending technology allows it to make the same decisions that a human would.
 
As you use Schedulehead, it learns some of the qualities that your workers possess, like what skills they have, how good of a job they do, or whether they were late to work last week.
 
Using this information, Schedulehead rewards your best employees by giving them the opportunity to work more often.  
 
Schedulehead is the only completely automated staff scheduler. All you have to do is tell Schedulehead when and where you need people. Schedulehead will actively work to fill all of your shifts, placing those who fit best in each shift.

On top of all that, Schedulehead is free for anyone to use!

Toronto: SocialBungy  

With SocialBungy, clipboards and raffle boxes are a thing of the past. In fact, forgot about them altogether. Welcome to the new digital age and the way you interact with your customers…

SocialBungy is a lead capture tool for the savvy peer-to-peer marketer. One who looks to the latest technology to capture leads at events, trade shows, or any experimental marketing campaign.

Using SocialBungy’s innovative campaign builder (that requires absolutely zero design experience), you can build contests, sweepstakes, and sign-ups forms in a matter of minutes. Perfect for in-store promotions, trade show kiosks, event booths, and even during your field marketing initiatives. Standing out of the crowd has never been this easy - and effective!

Unlike other similar tools, SocialBungy focuses on deep analytics and is built for single users or large teams alike. Even set campaign goals and reward your top performing employees. Their free lead capture platform can also be used on any tablet or computer. Your possibilities are endless!

Vienna: Superevent  

Superevent is the ultimate app for event organisers, being a single, easy to use app with extensive features to meet, learn and collaborate with peers either at one or multiple events. Superevent evolves from being a platform for one event to supporting all events within your community, providing news feeds and creating a vibrant community where events are recommended by peers to peers within the community.

Working across all mobile devices, Superevent puts all event information – invitations, programme booklet, speaker and attendee lists, sponsor brochures, maps, floor plans, practical information and reminders - into one easy to access app. And it’s all managed and updated in realtime.

With a need for event planners to justify return on investment, Superevent enables clients to save paper, achieve more income through extra income from sponsors.

Washington: EventKloud  

EventKloud is an event marketing platform for businesses. Their platform helps organisations with frequent events to streamline the way they promote, manage and track the event marketing workflow.

The EventKloud platform saves time by keeping every marketing channel up to date with your latest events (i.e. your website, social media, blog, photos, event sites, etc.), and it also gives you a unified dashboard to track all the customer and marketing data from these channels.

This gives a comprehensive view of your event marketing, and includes actionable insights in order to increase event registration. EventKloud is a plug-and-play, one stop shop for event marketing.

Paris: Sponseasy  

Sponseasy makes event sponsorship management finally easier. The solution allows event planners and sponsorship agencies to create, in a matter of minutes, a beautiful and professional sponsorship proposal without any designing or programming skills and manage their sponsorship campaign from a powerful dashboard. 

Forget about Keynote, Microsoft Word or even Photoshop! Thanks to Sponseasy, you are now able to:

• Create a professional sponsorship proposal for your event.
• Track your sponsorship proposal views with analytics.
• Add your sponsorship deck widget on your event's website.
• Manage your canvassing from your dashboard.

Sponseasy also propose custom template design and a white label solution.

Vienna: Webges  

A conference organiser always strives to add extra value to a conference or an association. One idea is to add an online library to display conference content like presentations, audio streams and webcasts after the actual meeting is already closed. Richard Rettenbacher, CEO of WEBGES, a Vienna-based event technology company, lists the main reasons why a conference organiser should invest in an online library:

• Extend the delegate’s post-conference experience with actual content
• Reach and serve those who could not attend the conference
• Designated areas for the association can generate interest in the association and therefore result in additional members
• Sponsors could be given extra exposure
• Delegates interests must be supported by clear search functions
• An incorporated e-learning platform could generate traffic to the online library, income to the association and benefit to the learning experience of a participant
• Generating extra income for the association by charging selected presentations or access to the e-learning platform

WEBGES has recently developed an e-learning feature that accompanies their online library in an organised, modern and clearly laid out design. Established in 2001, the company has wide experience with membership and registration software, as well as content and presentation management. Some of their clients are: ESMO, ESR, Eurospine, CIRSE and EACTS.