Event Tech & Virtual Meetings

Online meetings are not going away, but plenty of employees at virtual-platform companies are. One meeting-technology consultant advises planners on what to ask these companies when planning future virtual and hybrid events.

MeetingsNet named meeting technologist Kyle Kocinski a 2022 Changemaker for his efforts to take the legwork out of researching virtual-event platform providers and building community.

Celebrating individuals whose initiative and innovation are moving their organizations and the meetings industry forward

Changemaker Stephen Cutchins is charged with ensuring that Cvent’s technologies can be used by people of all abilities, and he’s bringing in an independent auditor to be sure.

Short takes on the latest meeting-technology developments from Blackthorn, eventPower, Hopin, Cvent, and MeetingPlay+Aventri.

Recently-merged MeetingPlay + Aventri has brought a big-name registration company into the fold.

Here’s the latest from companies offering new ways to create and measure engagement, provide language captioning, integrate video, and more.

The collaboration with VSef, the global data format for virtual events, will speed the push to make data easily accessible from and transferable between different online platforms and analytics tools.

Academic research published in the journal Nature compares in-person and remote idea generation, and finds that too much focus might not be a good thing.