Event Tech & AI News Roundup - July 2026
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Skift Take
Event tech vendors are starting to implement bring your own AI (BYOAI) policies. That means organizers can keep their data and pick their own tools, instead of handing the platform the interactions behind them.
The latest event tech news points to AI shifting from bolt-on features to connective tissue, letting organizers bring their own AI rather than accept a built-in one.
Meanwhile, AI-powered tools are offering new ways to quickly turn a live event into finished content before it ends, converting sessions into insights, recaps and ready-to-use assets while the event is still underway.
The onsite layer isn't standing still either, with a new option for on-demand badge printing and the next generation of NFC taps in the mix. Further afield, there's a new way to offer tokenized rewards and digital collectibles for driving attendee engagement. Meanwhile, one vendor report claims AI translation has now overtaken human interpreters.
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AddEvent updated its RSVP tool with a built-in notification flow using reusable form fields and enhanced customization to its branded event communications.
EventMobi launched BadgeON, an onsite badge printing tool that lets organizers check in attendees and print badges on demand from fixed or portable stations. It connects with the platform’s registration system and is available as a standalone module ready to integrate with other registration systems. It supports multiple badge materials and sizes and can be rented or purchased.
EventsAir launched Air Intelligence, a suite of AI-powered assistants connected to live and historical event data. The suite includes AI assistants focused on helping attendees navigate events and explore content as well as an assistant for planners offering natural-language event data queries and real-time insights.
FFAIR launched an embeddable AI live chat integration that lets organizers use their preferred AI tools inside FFAIR instead of a platform-built agent. The feature can connect with systems such as HubSpot, Zoho Desk, Salesforce, Pipedrive and LiveChat, giving exhibitors one place for queries while keeping interaction data in the organizer’s existing CX system.
Groupize rebuilt its sourcing and group travel platform and will launch 11 AI agents sourcing, approvals, registration, compliance, budgeting, reporting and travel workflows. The platform includes agent-to-agent connectivity with ChatGPT, Claude and future enterprise AI systems.
Hubli launched Hubli Events, expanding its platform from small meetings to complex corporate events, hotel room blocks and organization-wide budget management. Features include AI-routed meeting request forms, hotel chain API integrations, virtual card payments, registration, budget dashboards and invoice reconciliation.
Meetingselect appointed Frank Stoer as CEO. He joined from Studytube, where he was strategy director. The company also said it renewed and expanded its Government of the Netherlands contract to cover meetings, groups and hotel bookings.
NoteAffect now offers live-streaming to remote attendees through existing mobile app setups. The platform records sessions, broadcasts content to in-person attendees and adds optional live streaming, with interactive note-taking, multilingual captioning, Q&A, on-demand segmented recordings, AI summaries and downloadable handouts.
Snapsight launched Remix, a visual AI content studio that turns live session content into branded reports, social campaigns, white papers, presentation decks, and sponsor recaps.
The Hashgraph Group launched BrandBoost, a SaaS platform for real-time consumer engagement using gamification, community quests, digital collectibles and tokenized rewards.
Visit by GES launched a new generation of Touchpoints, NFC-enabled devices that let attendees tap badges at booths to receive digital content while giving exhibitors lead data from stand interactions.
Wordly released its 2026 State of AI Translation and Captions report, conducted by Dimensional Research, which found 66% of U.S. and U.K. enterprise event professionals say AI delivers better quality than human interpreters.
