Event Tech & AI News Roundup - March 2026

While a single, nine-figure investment may have captured the industry's attention this month, the more telling story in event tech is the focus on operational excellence and offering clients a more complete package. 

We are clearly in a time of strategic integrations, product partnerships, and the relentless expansion of AI, signaling a sector that is consolidating its offerings and embedding intelligence across the entire event management workflow.

Read previous event tech & AI roundups here.

Investments

Naboo, a Paris-based venue sourcing platform, raised $70 million in Series B funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, following a $28.8 million (€26.5 million) Series A in 2025. The AI-powered platform centralizes sourcing, contracting and payments for venues, catering, hotels and transportation. The company plans to use the funding for product development, including an AI agent for automated event booking and procurement, and continued expansion into North America.

Qondor, an Oslo-based event proposals and project management platform, secured an investment from Monterro, which became majority owner, to. The partnership includes plans to support international expansion and product development including increased investment in AI features for workflow automation.

Launches

Keith Johnston and Tess Vismale, two event tech experts with decades of experience as event strategists, designers, producers and technologists have founded Event Tech Atlas. The new company is a decision-support platform for researching and evaluating event technology, featuring an event tech solutions directory for comparing platforms with independent peer-led reviews.

Partnerships & Product Updates

Accelevents, an event management platform, has introduced a Hosted Buyer Program Support feature that lets organizers run structured buyer programs with tools for participant grouping, preference collection and meeting scheduling visibility. The update adds rules-based buyer grouping, guided selection pages for opt-ins and meeting preferences, and a centralized meeting grid to manage schedules and outcomes.

BoomPop, a venue sourcing and event management platform and service provider, has announced a new partnership and integration with business travel and expense platform Navan. The BoomPop platform is powering Navan’s enhanced Meetings & Events feature with capabilities like AI chatbot venue sourcing, access to our marketplace of hotels and event spaces, RFP negotiation, and room block management. This allows contracts, invoices, and approvals to be centralized alongside Navan's travel and expense data in a unified platform. Event website creation, registration, and agenda tools are also part of the new functionality.

Brella, a mobile event app provider, has launched Pitch Reels, a new short-form video feature allowing attendees and sponsors to upload video introductions to their profiles, catering to the trend of social-style video experiences. Brella also announced a collaboration with ExpoFP, integrating its interactive floor plans directly within Brella’s app, linking of attendee matchmaking and profile discovery with on-site navigation.

Cvent, the event management and venue sourcing giant, has signed a three-year agreement to become the official event technology partner for the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE), powering SITE’s global events through 2028. The company also released Event-Led Growth For Dummies, Cvent Special Edition, a guide for marketers on using events as a measurable go-to-market strategy tied to pipeline, revenue and customer retention.

Groups360, a hotel group booking platform, is powering Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ group booking platform. Through the GroupSync Housing tool embedded in Wyndham’s site Planners can track reservations through a real-time dashboard, use a customized booking page with automatic group rates and rewards points, and manage reservations that sync with hotel systems. Wyndham also expanded integrations with EventPipe, EventConnect and Staybook to source group travel demand.

Snapsight, the Ai-powered event content platform, has announced a major update. The platform can now generate 20+ types of content in (near) real-time including summaries, audio or video clips, social posts, reports, sponsor materials and translations in more than 75 languages. It can also analyze cross-session data to identify themes, sentiment and trends, and store insights in a branded portal so organizers and attendees can access event content after the event.

Tripleseat, a sales and event management platform for restaurants and venues, has reintroduced its integration with the Cvent Supplier Network. The renewed integration allows Tripleseat users to receive RFPs from Cvent directly as leads within the platform. Users can manage these leads in a single system and convert awarded proposals into bookings, with event details and guest room blocks pre-populated.

Wordly, provider of AI translation and captioning for meetings and events, has moved beyond events into general company communications through Workspaces, that enables live translation and captions across various channels through a single, centralized account. The company also launched Wordly for Microsoft Teams, a web app that provides live translation and speaker-identified transcripts for any Teams meeting. Both updates feature robust security controls, including ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 Type II compliance.

Zenus, the AI-based analytics company, has launched Session Replays, a feature that overlays anonymized audience sentiment data captured with event videos. Organizers upload a session recording and view a synchronized timeline showing engagement levels mapped to moments in the presentation. The tool highlights sentiment peaks and drops to help planners analyze audience reactions, evaluate content performance and review speaker sessions after the event.

Personnel

EventMobi, an event management software provider, has appointed Brandt Krueger as Director of Industry Relations & Partnerships, a new role focused on industry education, content strategy and partnerships with event associations. Krueger will lead thought leadership initiatives such as webinars and podcasts and manage relationships with industry associations including MPI and PCMA.