Event Technology We’re Excited About This Month
To make event travel more affordable
SplitStay, a new travel-tech platform, connects travelers heading to the same destination so they can share hotel rooms or apartments through verified profiles, secure payments, and compatibility filters. The system is designed to help event attendees, business travelers, and solo visitors reduce costs and find companions attending the same conference or festival. Users can post their trips, browse overlapping itineraries, and match to split hotel rooms, apartments, or villas. For hotels and hosts, SplitStay opens access to a new segment of guests—solo travelers who might otherwise book outside the area—while supporting higher occupancy and dynamic pricing opportunities.
“At SplitStay, we’re rethinking how people travel to events,” said founder Ruben Vanhees. “Too often, rising accommodation costs and limited availability make live experiences less accessible. By helping attendees share nearby hotel rooms with separate beds, apartments, or villas, we make it easier and more affordable for people to be part of the action. Think of it as the BlaBlaCar for event stays—a smarter, more social, and more sustainable way to bring people together.”
To automate awards management
PRVIEW, a new AI-powered platform, is designed to help marketing and public relations teams manage awards and speaking submissions more efficiently. Built by PR industry veterans, the system automates the research, tracking, and updating of deadlines for thousands of events and awards across 80+ industries—replacing manual spreadsheets with a centralized dashboard. Features include automated deadline alerts, client workspaces, win-rate analytics, and task management templates that guide teams from submission to event day.
“AI, generative engine optimization, and the expanding media landscape are giving PR pros more work, not less. The industry desperately needs tech tools that truly improve productivity and automate routine tasks,” said Lisa Ann Pinkerton, CEO and co-founder of PRVIEW. “We started with events and awards because too many of us across industries are all building and maintaining our own databases of opportunities. Yet, no tech tool has attempted to solve this glaring problem.”
For sustainable digital signage
Glass-Media, a provider of purpose-built, highly configurable digital signage solutions, recently launched its new FibreCraft line of sustainable visual-digital solutions in partnership with Samsung Electronics America. Constructed from a fully recyclable material engineered for both safety and durability, the FibreCraft solutions are designed for repeated use and upcycling, helping companies and event planners meet their carbon-neutral and net-zero goals. The digital signage is lightweight with a modular design that allows for fast, flexible deployment across a wide range of high-traffic environments, including convention centers, hotels, pop-up retail spaces, and short-term brand activations.
The displays are already in action, appearing at the Walton Arts Center for the 2025 Art of Wine event, where Glass-Media delivered three custom displays in under two weeks. The displays are powered by Samsung’s VXT platform, a cloud-native content-and-device management solution that delivers seamless content management, real-time diagnostics, and remote monitoring within a single, intuitive interface.
To boost live session engagement and accessibility
NoteAffect has launched event-engage, an AI-driven platform that enhances attendee participation during live sessions at conferences, trade shows, and meetings. The software connects to a room’s existing AV setup, allowing attendees to follow presentations on their own devices through an event app or QR code. Features include interactive note-taking, multilingual live captioning, AI-generated session summaries, and engagement analytics that highlight top-performing topics and speakers. The tool is designed to extend learning and content value beyond the session, while providing organizers with insights into attendee engagement and programming impact.
“Events continue to feel the impact of change from the post-virtual era. Reports indicate that exhibitors, sponsors, and attendees are all being more selective with their time and money. So, they have high expectations when they show up in-person,” said Jay Tokosch, CEO of NoteAffect. “With event-engage, organizers can differentiate their session experience to ensure attendees choose their event instead of the seemingly endless options they have to get similar education online or at other events.”
To streamline calendar management and participation
AddEvent, an add-to-calendar SaaS platform used by brands like Nike, Amazon, Nvidia, and Paramount, recently launched AddEvent 2.0, a major update designed to help organizations build stronger relationships and boost participation through smarter calendar technology. The latest version introduces a streamlined interface for easier navigation, no-code landing pages for quick event setup, and multi-calendar views that let users manage and compare multiple calendars at once. Other enhancements include seamless calendar syncing, customizable display filters, real-time analytics for tracking event performance and subscriber growth, and support for unlimited events—all aimed at simplifying event management and improving user engagement.
“Our mission has always been to make it effortless for organizations to create meaningful, seamless experiences that ensure no important moment is ever missed,” said Michael Nilsson, founder and CEO of AddEvent. “With AddEvent 2.0, we’re taking that vision further, giving every user the tools to turn the calendar into a dynamic channel for engagement, communication and growth.”
For smarter venue and nightlife operations
Fourvenues, a Spain-based operating system built specifically for nightlife venues, has officially launched in the United States with new offices in Miami and New York. The platform—already used by major clubs and festivals in more than 20 countries—centralizes ticketing, VIP reservations, promoter management, payments, and marketing analytics into a single system. For event professionals, it offers a way to streamline operations, forecast demand, and track sales performance in real time. Fourvenues will also bring its industry gathering, Fun Business Days, to the U.S. for the first time during Miami Music Week in March 2026.
“Digitizing ticket sales means nothing if the rest of the operation is still manual,” said Alberto Centeno, CEO and co-founder. “Fourvenues exists to help operators work more efficiently, maximize revenue, and deliver unforgettable guest experiences that they can actually control. We’re here to elevate how nightlife runs.”
To unify registration, mapping, and ticketing workflows
Nextech3D.ai has completed its acquisition of Eventdex, an AI-powered registration and badge-printing software company serving clients like Yale, AbbVie, and the Institute for Supply Management. The all-cash deal, valued at about $700,000, brings Eventdex’s capabilities into Nextech3D.ai’s existing Map D platform, which already offers tools for floor plan management, exhibitor coordination, ticketing, and mobile apps. The integration creates a single suite for event organizers encompassing registration, AI matchmaking, on-site check-in, and mapping. Nextech3D.ai also plans to use Eventdex’s identity and registration stack to accelerate its blockchain-based ticketing roadmap, featuring tokenized tickets and programmable access rights.
“This acquisition is pivotal as it now allows us to deliver a single, powerful one-stop-shop event platform that combines ticketing, registration, mapping, event app-and blockchain innovation,” said Evan Gappelberg, CEO of Nextech3D.ai. “Event organizers want simplicity and reliability-and with Eventdex integrated into Map D, that’s exactly what we’re providing.”
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