Your Digital Assistant: A Chatbot

The future of speech recognition is changing how we interact with our technology. Chatbots and digital assistants have become our trusted companions at home, work or on the go. They can help you manage your schedule to fulfil requests of all kinds, including weather information, news updates as well anything related to events happening nearby,[…]

Reinvigorate Special Events Sponsorship Program

Sponsorship sales are an essential aspect of most production budgets. If you want your sponsors to keep coming back, they must have a good experience at the event and come away feeling satisfied with what was accomplished during their time there. Moreover, in a world where the competition for sponsors has never been greater, it’s[…]

Is Now the Right Time to Rethink Your Event Management Software Strategy?

Today’s businesses depend more on event management software to run smoothly. But many still aren’t sure if it’s time for them or their IT teams to invest in new technologies like SaaS (Software as Services) platforms, PaaS/ Iaas suites and cloud services such as AWS, Microsoft Azure etc. The question is easy: what gets you[…]

3 Easy Ways to make your Conference more Enjoyable

Any event planner worth their salt knows that event marketing is essential to the success of any event. After all, no matter how well-organized and well-run an event may be, it won’t amount to anything if nobody knows about it. That’s where event marketing comes in. By getting the word out about an event through[…]

Top 5 Tech Trends That Will Transform the Events Industry

Events will undergo major changes over the next few years. The pandemic still lingering in business and a shift towards believing it’s okay not to have employment or work for yourself are two key factors that predict future event trends well into 2022Many different things, such as societal attitudes about job security, which seem like[…]

Are Event Platforms a reliable source for Audience Engagement?

Today we will discuss a tough subject; one that many event planners have considered over the last two years. It’s time to discuss event platforms audience engagement!Many event professionals are divided about whether to use event technology to improve audience engagement. Those who are pro-technology (heaven help us if they are right!) insist that technology[…]

Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Event Technology?

Pricing in event technology firms is notoriously opaque. In addition to not providing any pricing structure, some platforms only offer rough estimates, for example. Event planners often do not have the time or energy to sit through lengthy demonstrations or discuss pricing for weeks, just as event technology firms don’t have the time or energy[…]

It’s time to rethink your event tech software

The event management agency, like the software industry, has tech stacks. Event software platforms are made up of all the technology required to run an event. It is common for event planners to forget whether their tools are suitable for the job and their budget and therefore spend inefficiently. Evaluating your virtual event software platform[…]

In The Know, Why GigCentric’s Better Than The Rest

Can you imagine not changing anything in your software for over a 12-year period? Just creating a niche product and not taking care of it? That would be like having a child, a really smart and great looking child and not giving him a bath, feeding him healthy foods and providing him any discipline at[…]

How to Avoid Massive Failures for Starting Your Events Business

Starting a new business is a daunting experience if you have never done it before, period. There is so much to think about. Every single business owner goes through the process of determining what type of company to set-up, to where to spending their limited and small marketing dollars. On top of it, determining whether[…]