
Event Apps you cannot miss!
Technology has rocked and shaken the human world like never before, thus changing the ways of life and work drastically in the last decade. With advancement of technology and innovations effecting every walk of life people needs to be aware and updated with the current world thus allowing change for effective digital transformation.
Every industry has evolved with this change thus adapting new ways of carrying on their business, which aims to prove more efficient, effective and less time consuming. Automation, Robotics, and AI has helped in enhancing productivity without the consequence of hard manual labour. This change is not limited to only products, but has effected all service industries aswell.
In this regard, Event Management Industry is no exception. Technology and innovations has eased the way of planning, managing and implementation of exhibitions, conferences, forums and all other B2B or B2C events.
Be it a musical concert packed with a focus to entertain or a corporate event with a aim to offer knowledge and networking, digital adaptation to soft wares and apps exclusive for the service of this industry has revolutionised the way events are organised today.
Here is a list of latest apps that are available for the event industry, specifically helpful for B2B events, organised to gather top professionals to share knowledge and brainstorm on latest industry issues. Business networking meetings with your target market and closing deals with your clients are a prime feature of such events.
Apps to help Event Planning and End-To-End Execution
CrowdCompass by Cvent offers innovative mobile app development for conferences, meetings, conventions, trade shows and events. It offers a feature-rich native app to your attendees and engage them before, during and even after your conference is over. Inform your event attendees with schedules, speaker profiles, and much more, Leverage sponsor and exhibitor tools to generate more revenue. Track and analyse your key event metrics and activities. This App gives your attendees a unique experience with its smart content features like personalized bookmarks, individual notifications and quick photo sharing. Features like social sharing, interactive polling, and powerful push messages help increase engagement and ensure year-round ROI.
Price: Available on Request
Eventboard is a simple mobile conference tool that lets you organize and communicate with event attendees effortlessly. Using this app you can view a newsfeed, build agendas, create surveys and upload floor plans.This app also lets you create a mobile guide for your event in less than 24 hours and provides instant feedback electronic session ratings.
Pricing: Eventboard offers a FREE trial for your first event. You can then choose from two packages- Community (starting $99) and Conference (starting $599).
MyQaa aims at offering a unique experience to the attendees while giving event organizers a great online event management platform. It helps you mobilize corporate events like meetings, trade shows, and association conferences. You can ask questions, create agendas, analytics, organize surveys and do a lot more. Display live content like select comments, tweets and questions on the event wall.Help your attendees explore places in and around the event venue with the unique map feature. Organize speakers, exhibitors, sponsors and event partners in clean lists
Pricing: myQaa comes in three packages starting 1900 EURO, 5000 EURO and 7500 EURO respectively.
BusyConf offers a range of conference planning tools which help you plan better conferences. Speaker and abstract management, streamlined event registrations and mobile conference schedules help you give your attendees an enhanced conferencing experience. This app helps to create beautiful mobile-ready websites for your next.
Pricing: BusyConf offers flexible pricing for each event. Details available on request.
Tapcrowd app offers an end-to-end solution to enhance the conferencing experience for high stake events. It lets you interact with your delegates, use analytics and reporting to improve the event experience and create, manage and launch apps. Live content updates make last minute changes immediately available on the app. On-site set up and support from technical engineers. Get statistics and insights on app usage to see which feature performed the best
Pricing: Available on request
Quickmobile provides you the analytical data for all your events including meetings, conferences and other events. It helps you maximize your ROI providing benefits like project management, content management, core training, and analytics reporting. Make sure the latest news, events and interactions stay on top with a dynamic activity feed. Enable attendee networking and content sharing including chat, photos, notes, and 1-on-1 meetings. Add gaming experience to your app to drive attendee behavior and reward participation. Reduce your carbon footprint and save on printing costs
Pricing: Available on request
Eventbase is a feature-rich native app which emphasizes on social engagement and revenue generation using a wide range of revenue generating tools like full screen commercials, branded placements and shake functionality. This award winning app has powered the mobile presence of various events like SxSW, Sundance Film Festival and Montana Folk Festival. This scalable app can support events of all sizes.
Pricing: You can choose to download the FREE version or the Premium version (price available on request) of this app.
10Times Events App lets you curate events based on your industry and also lets you find popular events happening near you. Simply register your event on the app and send invites to unlimited attendees. Managed Visitor List lets you see who all are attending the event, network and share events with your business associates and clients
Pricing: Free
EventAtlas is a specialized events app by Canam Solutions USA which helps you manage your event schedule in an intuitive calendar view, connect with speaker and attendees, and lets users give instant feedback about the event. Attendees can rate speakers/sessions, send urgent messages as notifications and broadcast event news. An intuitive schedule supports multiple tracks, notes and personalized agendas.
Pricing: Available on request
Lanyrd is an app to find professional events and conferences. See events your Twitter contacts are attending and speaking at. Catch up on slides and videos from events you’ve attended or missed.
Price: Free.
Evernote captures information on the go. Easily gather everything important. Capture handwritten notes, and snap photos to record physical and digital details. Collaborate on ideas, and easily create presentations.
Price: Basic is free. Premium plans start at $24.99 per year.
EventFriendly is a 360 degree mobile app designed to simplify events and conferences for both organizers and attendees. It helps organizers build audience, engage audience and garner feedback, while attendees get real time event updates and the chance to connect with like-minded people.
Pricing: Free
Apps for Content Management and Marketing of an Event
Tagboard curates content within seconds of its being posted to social networks using hashtags and displays it on your social media wall. Most people get a little thrill out of seeing their tweet, Facebook post, or Instagram photo shared on a giant screen — which can go a long way in helping to encourage attendees to engage online with your event and with each other. And once they’ve posted using your event hashtag, it’s easy for attendees to find each other to continue to conversation.
Pricing: Free No-Obligation Trial, Starting at $19/month
SpotMe is an easy-to-use event app which supports content sharing via presentations, personalized agenda, Q&A surveys and evaluations, and social networking. The app helps you improve client relations with its quality and interactive features. This app can be created in just 5 minutes with Backstage and can be populated by directly importing data from Excel. Integrating with your registration system to send invites, reminders and follow-ups is also possible.
Pricing: Available on request
Eventmobi is the easiest way to build your custom conference app. It gives you a customizable content manager, authority to update offline, prime real estate for sponsors, and customized branding options. Seamlessly integrate your event data into the app from any database or registration system. The app supports 17 languages so that you can communicate with all your attendees
Pricing: The app is available for a 14 day free trial with unlimited access and support. After that you can purchase the app to gain full functionality over it.
ContentPlum helps you easily gather content from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and feature it on a social media wall — live at your event.
Pricing: Free Trial: 15 days; Upfront Fee: Free; Recurring Fee: $19.99/mo.
Grupio allows your attendees to access the complete event information and necessary news through the app. It also helps you with branding, advertisements, scheduling a meet, social messaging, and creating surveys and analytics. It is a complete social media app that keeps your audiences engaged to your business. This app helps you promote your brand via features like custom mobile event app icon, top navigation bar, splash entry image, menu background and app background.
Pricing: Available on request
Webmobi is a simple customer engagement program that facilitates real time push messaging across multiple platforms, allows location marketing, provides event reports and analytics and helps you find similar events. You can deploy this enterprise friendly app at any public, private or hybrid cloud. After initial download, the app can be accessed offline and can be used to generate revenue by offering sponsors detailed profiles and in-app advertising space
Pricing: Webmobi offers three packages- basic, pro and enterprise starter. You pay $750 for one event in the basic package. The prices for other two packages are available on request.
Apps for Networking and Build Business Relationship at a Corporate Event
Intro is an app to send your About.me page as a digital business card. You control the information you want to share. Keep track of the people you’ve shared your card with, and cards you’ve received. Contact people directly through the app, or save the info into your address book.
Price: Free.
CamCard. Is sued to capture all your business cards and manage your contact info. Exchange e-cards, manage your cards by adding notes and tagging, access your cards anywhere. Batch scan all your paper cards to cut the card clutter.
Price: Basic is free. Premium plans start at $5 per month.
Namerick. If you’re bad with names, this is an app for you. Namerick improves your memory of people’s names using repetition and mnemonics modeled from memory “athletes” and studies of the human memory.
Price: $0.99.
CityHour helps you arrange face-to-face meetings with nearby professionals, or around other commonalities such as industry or shared objectives. CityHour syncs with your LinkedIn profile to locate contacts both in and out of your current network that are open to scheduling in-person meetings.
Price: Free.
Contxts enables professionals to share their contact information and more via SMS. Exchange all of your professional information with a single text message. Rid yourself of “old school” business cards.
Price: Free.
Spotcard is a close-proximity business networking app. Discover LinkedIn members nearby, view their LinkedIn profile and send them your digital Spotcard. Export your cards from networking events into a CSV file for use in Excel, Salesforce, and numerous other applications.
Price: Free.
Bizzabo is an event networking app for conferences. Connect with fellow attendees, speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors before, during, and even after events. Get suggestions for people you should meet. Interact through in-app messaging. Access event materials, and leverage social media materials.
Price: Free.
Pathable, an Award-winning networking app, helps your attendees connect before, during, and after your event. Features like a browsable attendee directory, speaker profiles, private messaging, public discussion forums, and meeting scheduling tools all help attendees connect.Pathable also empowers attendees to start networking long before the event begins. Attendees can search for and connect with people online pre-event — and even book meetings at specific locations within your venue. The host simply sends a request to the guest and then reserves a networking table or room.
Pricing: The basic version of Pathable is Free, while price for the Premium version is available on request.
PROsimity was created to help attendees who are mutually interested in one another connect. In a format similar to dating app Tinder, attendees swipe left to scroll through networkers around them, swiping up or down to indicate whether they’re interested or not in meeting that person. Drawing on data from LinkedIn, as well as a personalized profile within the app, each contact is displayed with a photo, name, and job title, as well as scores for their relevance and similarities. When a user swipes up, the other person is notified of the connection request. If they accept the invitation, connections may instant message each other and exchange contact details.
Pricing: Available on Request
Attendify enables you to create a private social network for you event. The app creates a timeline of the event to which attendees can share and comment on posts to network. Features like timeline, photo sharing, messaging, likes, and comments all help enrich the experience. Whenever anyone joins the networking app, an update appears on the timeline introducing that person to the community. Users can click on the newcomer’s photo to check out their profile and invite them to connect.
Pricing: Attendify comes in three packages- One event ($999), Multiple events ($1999) and Enterprise (price available on request).
Presdo Match integrates directly with LinkedIn, meaning attendees can import their LinkedIn profiles. Once they’ve synced LinkedIn with your networking app, attendees can easily check out the credentials of other event participants. This saves guests the trouble of having to create a new profile in a new app to connect.The searchable directory lets attendees quickly find target contacts, communicate with them safely and securely, and arrange meetings, all within the networking app. Plus, it can make personal recommendations for attendees to connect with and show them who they already know.
Pricing: Differs with the kind of services customers avail. 1st plan with basic services is Free, Pricing for branding package start with $999 and pricing for Premium pacj=kage start with $1999.
Whova helps attendees connect with each other through detailed profiles, which include a picture, professional bio, and links to their social media accounts. With so much information about each other beforehand, attendees can plan whom they’d like to meet ahead of time. The networking app has other useful features such as business card scanning and exchanging, and one-on-one and group chat functions. That way attendees can schedule meetings on the day of your event, store important contact details, and make important connections.
Pricing: Available on Request as per services required.
With continuous development of systems, networks and technology, new innovative apps, improvised versions of the old apps are being witnessed. It’s not long that we will witness more apps entering the market with a competitive edge and promising better and simpler experience.
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