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·9 min read

How Hosted Buyer Matchmaking Works: From Applications to Meeting Schedules

A step-by-step explanation of hosted buyer matchmaking, from qualification and meeting wishlists through organiser review, scheduling, release, and reporting.

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·8 min read

How to Plan One-to-One Meetings Without a Scheduling Spreadsheet

Plan one-to-one, 1-to-1, or 1-2-1 appointments around attendee preferences, programme sessions, teams, places, conflicts, and event-day changes.

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·8 min read

What Is a Hosted Buyer Programme? A Practical Guide for Organisers

Learn how hosted buyer programmes qualify buyers, collect meeting wishlists, match participants, schedule one-to-one appointments, and prove meeting outcomes.

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·8 min read

Why Similarity Matching Fails at B2B Events

Why direct competitors can look like ideal matches to a similarity-first algorithm, and how business-context matchmaking creates more useful buyer–supplier meetings.

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·9 min read

Why Event Checklists Fail: A Better Way to Manage Forms, Documents and Payments

Event checklists record what needs doing. Obligation management goes further by connecting each task to its audience, reminders, enforcement, progress and review.

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·6 min read

The Experience Behind EventGen - and Why It's a Brand-New Platform

EventGen was created by the team behind networking technology trusted by major organisers since 2006. Here's where that experience comes from - and why it makes a brand-new platform one you can trust.

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·7 min read

AI Self-Onboarding: No Demos, No Consultants, No Implementation Team

Enterprise event platforms make you earn the right to use them - demos, contracts, and weeks of implementation. Here's how AI self-onboarding replaces all of that, and why it works.

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Why AI-Powered Event Management Is the Future

Event platforms have barely changed in a decade. AI is about to change everything - from setup to scheduling to comms. Here's why AI-powered event management isn't a gimmick, it's inevitable.

·8 min read

Event Networking Done Right: Hosted-Buyer vs Open Networking

Most platforms make you choose between curated meetings and self-service networking. Here's why that's a false choice - and how to run both in a single event.

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Setting Up Your First Event in 5 Minutes with EventGen

A step-by-step walkthrough of creating a complete event - registration, portal, networking, and communications - using AI, in under five minutes.

The True Cost of Enterprise Event Platforms

Enterprise event platforms quote £10k–£100k per year, but the real cost is higher. Here's the full breakdown - and why self-service platforms are closing the feature gap.

Custom Event Portals: Why Your Event Deserves More Than a Registration Form

A registration page isn't a website. Here's why branded event portals with programme, networking, and dynamic content outperform basic registration forms - and how to build one in minutes.

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