Event Tech News Roundup: September 2025
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Skift Take
AI is hogging the spotlight once again with multiple companies announcing developments and integrations, but there are also new offerings around floor plans and registration.
In this roundup a fresh wave of launches, integrations, and experiments highlights AI’s growing potential in and around events. From smarter agendas and multilingual assistants to more experiment strategy bots and cost estimation tools, vendors are racing to reimagine how events are planned and experienced.
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ATIV Software launched EventPilot AI Assistant, aimed at scientific and academic conferences. The tool helps attendees navigate multi-track programs and abstracts with actions such as adding sessions to schedules and accessing speaker details, all using natural language. It includes multilingual support, technical term definitions, and integrates with the existing mobile event app.
Encore, the audiovisual giant, has partnered with captioning and translation platform Wordly, and content summarisation vendor Snapsight. It will now offer live, AI-powered captions, translations and session summaries, all offered within Encore’s mobile event app.
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Event Strategy Bot is a Custom GPT developed by Dr. Barış Onay delivers a 10-step strategic review of events using publicly available data. Users can analyze any event by URL to receive insights including performance history, competitor comparisons, SWOT, content, tech stack, and market strategy. It operates on the user’s own ChatGPT instance, ensuring data privacy.
Happily, an event staffing and technology company, launched Arrived, an event registration solution. The platform offers RSVP management, badge printing, and onsite staffing. It doesn’t require external software subscriptions and supports CSV file imports/exports.
InEvent launched a fully AI-powered event agenda tool, featuring AI search, attendee intent recognition, and automated session recommendations, inspired by HubSpot INBOUND's custom-coded agenda using Claude. The rapid development was spurred by event consultant Julius Solaris’ plea for event tech companies to upgrade event agenda functionality.
Mint Link, a venue and vendor sourcing marketplace, launched an AI-powered event cost estimation tool. It creates automatically generated cost estimates of different event proposals for side-by-side comparison.
Prismm, a floor plan design platform acquired by Cvent in April, announced an integration with Releventful, a CRM-focused event management tool. This allows users to create, import, and manage floor plans directly within projects. Releventful users can now share floor plans through client portals or embed them in invoices and proposals.
