The Global Event Technology Exhibition and Conference
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11-12 NOVEMBER
2026
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Discover the latest event technology solutions through a world-class exhibition, structured networking, and a curated Hosted Buyer Programme – all under one roof at Excel London.
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EVENT TECH LIVE
Event Tech Live is the world’s leading conference and exhibition dedicated to event technology, taking place at Excel London on 11-12 November 2026. Now in its 13th year, the event brings together 3,000+ event professionals, buyers, and the world’s top event tech companies under one roof.
Across four dedicated stages – the Main Stage, AI & Innovation Stage, MarTech & Growth Stage, and Experiential & Engagement Stage – attendees get direct access to cutting-edge education from the most respected voices in the industry.
A curated Hosted Buyer Programme connects qualified buyers with leading suppliers through structured, pre-matched meetings. The exhibition floor showcases the latest innovations in event technology, event management software, and solutions from around the globe.
Whether you’re looking to discover new technology, benchmark your strategy, or build the relationships that move your business forward, Event Tech Live is where the event technology industry comes together.
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THE LATEST NEWS
Super Benji named Official Growth Partner of Event Tech Live London 2026
The show will put the platform to work on its own audience acquisition and sponsor prospecting, and share what it learns with the industry Event Tech Live has appointed Super Benji as Official Growth Partner of its London show, which takes place at Excel London on 11 and 12 November 2026. Super Benji is an…
Event tech has a read/write line, and almost nobody is publishing it
ADITUS has put a trade fair registration system inside Claude, with 125 tools that can write to live event data and 19 that can delete it. The question worth asking is not what AI can now do to your event. It is what stops it. The short version ADITUS Evo is listed in Anthropic’s Claude…
Snöball appoints Tony Melis as chief operating officer
The former SIAL Canada CEO joins the advocacy marketing platform, bringing the organiser's side of the table to Snöball's leadership team. Snöball has appointed Tony Melis as chief operating officer. He joins from SIAL Canada, the agri-food trade show that sits within the Comexposium group, where he was CEO of a show the company says…
First wave of the ETL 2026 agenda is live, plus open calls for workshops and podcasts
The first sessions for Event Tech Live London 2026 are now published. The show runs 11 to 12 November at Excel London, across four stages. Speakers confirmed in this first wave come from Terrapin, Informa, Easyfairs, George P. Johnson, Hemming Group, Clarion Events and CI Group. More will go live over the coming weeks as…
Interprefy joins the Cvent App Marketplace as language access moves in-platform
The listing gives Cvent planners a route to human interpretation and AI translation without a separate vendor. The more interesting question is where multilingual support now sits in the stack. TL;DR: Interprefy has listed on the Cvent App Marketplace under Accessibility. Cvent planners can now add its professional interpreters and AI speech translation, in more…
Events as a sales channel: RainFocus makes its case, and picks a fight worth having
RainFocus has launched a Sales Module built to turn events into a governed, measurable sales channel. The product is interesting. The argument underneath it is the bit worth paying attention to. For as long as most of us have been in this industry, events have sat in the wrong column. Cost centre. The line finance…
Seek: when the AI becomes the game, not the gimmick
Gramercy Tech won Best AI for Attendee Engagement, Networking & Matchmaking for Seek, an AI-powered activation that turned an entire conference floor into a playing field, with Google Gemini as the real-time judge. Every experienced event professional knows the quiet problem with large internal conferences: programming is passive, networking is largely accidental, and energy drops…
The right photo, to the right person, in seconds
MementoPhoto.AI won Best AI for Personalisation of the Attendee Journey for turning the thousands of photos captured at every event into a real-time, individual experience. Every event produces thousands of high-quality photos, and almost all of them go to waste. They sit scattered and unsorted, difficult to access, and the people actually in them rarely…
Personalised Clips Delivered in Seconds: How Production and AI became One Flow
First Sight Media and MyGraduationClip won Best Collaboration Between Agency/Organiser & AI Supplier for a partnership that turns a full-length ceremony into a personalised, shareable clip for every graduate, in minutes. Graduation is one of the most emotional and shareable moments in a person’s life, but for years the technology around it worked against that.…
Rebuilding event operations, from the ground up, around AI
A Berlin team combined more than two decades of attendee-management experience with advanced AI and full-stack engineering to build an Event Intelligence Platform from the ground up. The result won Best AI for Registration & Onboarding, and points to where the whole industry is heading. Most event technology has spent the last decade getting digital.…
vFairs shipped an MCP server. The dashboard just stopped being the only way in
The platform has opened its event data to the AI assistants planners already use. It is a bigger move than another copilot, and it shifts the hard questions from one event to the whole portfolio. I recently caught up with Muhammad Younas, CEO of vFairs, and he ran through what the platform shipped in the…
Momentus Wins AI for Venues Award for its Purpose-Built AI Platform
Momentus Technologies is building AI into every corner of the venue and event lifecycle: Momentus AI for Sales, AI for Events, and AI for Finance, three purpose-built layers designed to give sales, operations, and finance teams the same thing - a straight answer, in seconds, without chasing a spreadsheet or a specialist. Running horizontally across…
RainFocus wires event data into Adobe Experience Manager, and the martech line blurs again
Two new integrations push session, speaker and exhibitor data into Adobe's content supply chain. The plumbing is the least interesting part of this. TL;DR RainFocus has announced two Adobe Experience Manager integrations. A Sites Connector syncs session, speaker and exhibitor data into AEM Content Fragments. A Content Advisor lets marketers pull brand-approved Adobe assets into…
Bending Spoons went Public. What could that mean for Event Tech and Martech?
On 1 July 2026, Bending Spoons listed on Nasdaq under the ticker BSP. The Milan-based technology holding company priced its shares at $29, above its original $26 to $28 target range, raising $1.68 billion and closing its first day of trading up nearly 40%, at a market capitalisation of roughly $25.7 billion. That is more…
Komo returns as Official Engagement Partner of Event Tech Live London 2026
The engagement platform behind some of the world's biggest live experiences signs on for a second consecutive year - embedding deeper into the show, on the floor, inside the event app and across this year's exhibitor stands. Event Tech Live (ETL), the world’s leading gathering for the event technology community, has confirmed that Komo will…
Markus AI joins Event Tech Live as an official partner in three-year agreement
Agent-based platform is the latest addition to the connected event technology stack Event Tech Live is building around the show, bringing richer pre-event intent, AI note-taking inside the lead capture app, and personalised post-event intelligence across 2026, 2027 and 2028 Event Tech Live, the world’s only dedicated event technology trade show, has named Markus AI…
The first Event Technology Awards: AI Edition winners are in
After more than a decade of celebrating the pioneers of event technology, the Event Technology Awards last night crowned the winners of its first ever AI Edition, at The White Space at The Ministry in London. It is the first awards programme dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence in events, and the room reflected how far…
Claude Design System For Events Operation Teams: Your one-prompt design system
A practical guide for event ops teams on how to use Claude Design Systems for on-brand event assets in minutes Every ops person knows the feeling. Doors open in an hour and you need a directional sign, a “session moved” slide and three reprinted badges. The design team is offline, in a different time zone,…
Choosing event technology, without getting it wrong
A vendor-neutral toolkit for planners. Define what you need, score your shortlist and ask the right questions in every demo and sales call, so you are clear on exactly what you are getting and how your business will be handled. Buy in the right order and the rest gets easier Most event technology is bought…
The Event App Is Being Unbundled and Text Is Taking the Guest Layer
A new category of event technology is skipping the app entirely and reaching attendees in the one place they already are, their messages. The channel is the easy part to notice. What matters more is where the data goes once a guest starts a conversation. Ask a room of organisers how many of their attendees…
WHO ATTENDS
Event Tech Live attracts event organisers, marketers, agencies, venues, brands, technology providers, and investors from across the globe.
With 86% of attendees holding purchasing authority and over 665 visitors managing annual event technology budgets of £100,000 or more, it’s where the decisions get made.
Forward-thinking professionals come to connect with peers, discover new solutions, and explore what’s next in event technology – all in one place, once a year.
Event Technology Awards
The Event Technology Awards celebrate the solutions, platforms and teams pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in events.
From AI-driven innovation to long-standing industry excellence, our awards shine a spotlight on the technology making a real difference.
Being named a finalist opens doors – to new clients, media coverage, and recognition from the people who matter most in your industry.
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