Define who should meet
Directional relationships separate buyers, suppliers, investors, startups, sponsors, and other roles. If sellers should not meet sellers, they are not placed in that meeting relationship.
Networking software for events
Event networking, from discovery to a confirmed meeting
Give attendees a searchable networking directory and the tools to find relevant people, request or book one-to-one meetings, reschedule, and manage appointments themselves. EventGen keeps attendee matchmaking, profiles, privacy, availability, places, communications, and personal itineraries connected to the rest of your event.
Start with a free account. No credit card required.
The problem
A list of attendees is not a networking experience
Many event apps stop at a directory or a messaging inbox. Attendees can see that the right people are present, but they still have to negotiate times elsewhere, remember where to meet, and manually protect gaps around sessions. The organiser has little visibility into whether useful connections are actually happening.
EventGen treats networking as a complete meeting workflow, with relevance judged as a business question rather than a keyword contest. Organisers decide which attendee groups can discover and approach each other, what makes two sides compatible, what information becomes visible at each stage, and whether a relationship uses requests or instant booking. Attendees handle the conversation from discovery to confirmed itinerary without leaving the event portal.
Similarity is not compatibility
Match buyers to solutions, not sellers to their lookalikes.
Two companies can use almost identical words because they sell the same thing to the same market. A similarity-first engine may call that a strong match. EventGen understands the business relationship first, then uses structured compatibility and participant intent inside those boundaries.
Compare needs with capabilities
Cross-field rules match what one side is looking for with what the other side offers. Mandatory criteria can remove an incompatible pair instead of merely giving it a lower score.
Keep judgement in the loop
Ranked and mutual wishlists, participant blocks, preliminary review, and organiser controls turn the score into a reviewable recommendation, not an unexplained final decision.
The result is complementary matchmaking: buyers meet relevant providers, investors meet suitable opportunities, and participants keep a meaningful veto instead of receiving a diary filled by keyword coincidence.
See how it works →How it works
From profile discovery to a confirmed meeting
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Define who can meet
Create directional networking relationships between ticket or registration types, with separate discovery, privacy, booking, and communication rules.
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Publish useful profiles
Choose the fields people can search and see in lists, full profiles, requests, confirmed meetings, and itineraries.
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Let attendees book
Attendees browse, search, request or direct-book, accept or decline, suggest another time, and manage their availability.
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Operate and learn
EventGen checks conflicts, allocates places, sends lifecycle notifications, updates itineraries, and reports how the networking programme performed.
See it in action
Networking that lives inside the attendee portal
Attendees browse the people they are allowed to discover, with organiser-controlled profile fields and clear meeting actions.
Confirmed meetings, received requests, and sent requests stay together in the attendee portal and personal itinerary.
Capabilities
Open networking without losing organiser control
Directional networking rules
Buyers may be allowed to approach suppliers while suppliers can only respond, or both directions can be open. Configure each relationship independently instead of applying one global rule.
Searchable attendee profiles
Let people browse or search the fields relevant to the event, from role and organisation to interests, product categories, regions, or custom registration answers.
Optional AI intent search
When enabled for a direction, participants can describe who they want to meet in natural language across visible freehand profile information and organiser-selected, security-scanned files or images. Exact filters and networking rules remain authoritative.
Phase-aware privacy
Reveal different fields in search results, profile views, meeting requests, confirmed meetings, and itineraries. Contact information does not need to be exposed before a meeting is agreed.
Requests or direct booking
Use approval-style meeting requests where the recipient accepts, declines, ignores, or suggests another time, or allow immediate booking where the event format supports it.
Personal availability
Attendees block times they cannot meet. EventGen also respects their event attendance, existing meetings, programme sessions, and the networking slots made available by the organiser.
Physical and virtual places
Meet at dedicated stands or tables, shared table pools, public locations, or secure virtual rooms. Capacity and simultaneous use are checked before confirmation.
Purpose and custom questions
Ask why someone wants to meet or use a custom request form for topics, products, priorities, budgets, or other context that helps the recipient make a useful decision.
Rescheduling with conflict checks
Allow attendees to suggest another time or reschedule within your rules. EventGen rechecks participant, team, session, and place conflicts before making the change.
Guest invitations
Where appropriate, selected attendee types can invite eligible colleagues or specialists to a confirmed meeting, subject to guest limits and schedule checks.
Notifications and reminders
Keep people informed when a request arrives, a meeting is confirmed, declined, cancelled, rescheduled, or changed. The portal itinerary updates from the same source.
Event-day visibility
Venue check-ins can highlight whether meeting participants are present. Organisers can identify meetings at risk and contact, cancel, reschedule, or replace where necessary.
Networking analytics
Measure requests, confirmations, declines, response speed, cancellations, meeting distribution, place and slot use, feedback, attendance, no-shows, and which participants attract the most demand.
When to use it
A strong fit when attendees choose who they meet
Conferences and association events
Conference networking helps members and delegates discover peers, experts, sponsors, or partners and arrange meetings around the programme.
Trade shows and exhibitions
Trade show networking lets visitors book time with exhibitors, while exhibitors manage availability around stand staffing and existing appointments.
Investor, supplier, and partner events
Participants find relevant organisations using structured profile data and request conversations with clear business context.
Hybrid and multi-location events
Use physical, public, or virtual meeting places while keeping every appointment in one personal schedule.
One connected platform
Networking gets better when the event data is already there
Registration and profiles
Registration answers become searchable, visibility-controlled networking data without a second profile database.
Programme and itinerary
Meeting availability can respect sessions, attendance days, and personal programme choices.
Curated networking
Add organiser-led matchmaking, review, and algorithmic scheduling when self-service networking is not enough.
AI Intent Matchmaking
Optionally add natural-language discovery, objective-led playbooks and organiser intent curation without replacing the ordinary directory or meeting workflow.
Lead Retrieval and meetings app
Give exhibitors and hosted buyers an offline-capable mobile companion for leads and meeting-day activity.
Networking software FAQ
What is event networking software?
Event networking software helps attendees discover relevant people and turn that interest into conversations or scheduled meetings. EventGen combines searchable profiles, privacy rules, meeting requests or direct booking, availability, place allocation, notifications, itineraries, and reporting.
Can attendees arrange meetings themselves?
Yes. In open networking, attendees browse or search eligible profiles, send a request or direct-book where enabled, respond, suggest another time, reschedule, cancel, and manage their own availability from the portal.
Can attendees search in natural language?
Yes, when the organiser enables AI Intent Matchmaking for that direction. Participants can describe who they want to meet across profile information visible for the direction and organiser-selected, security-scanned files or images. It is optional and the ordinary directory, exact filters and meeting workflow remain available.
Does EventGen support one-to-one networking and 1-to-1 appointments?
Yes. One-to-one networking meetings are also commonly called 1-to-1 meetings or 1-2-1 appointments. Attendees can request or book them from the event portal, while EventGen checks availability, programme sessions, existing meetings, and meeting-place capacity.
Can we control who sees whom?
Yes. Networking relationships are directional and can be configured between registration groups or ticket types. Organisers also control which profile fields appear during search, browsing, requests, confirmed meetings, and itineraries.
How does EventGen avoid matching direct competitors?
EventGen does not rely on profile similarity alone. Organisers define which groups may discover or meet each other, so competitors can be kept outside the relevant relationship. For buyer–supplier matching, cross-field rules compare what buyers need with what suppliers offer; mandatory criteria can exclude incompatible pairs. Wishlists, participant blocks, preliminary review, and organiser controls provide further safeguards.
Does EventGen prevent meetings from clashing with sessions?
EventGen checks the attendee’s event days, blocked availability, existing meetings, relevant programme sessions, team concurrency, and meeting-place capacity before scheduling or rescheduling.
Is open networking different from curated networking?
Yes. Open networking lets attendees choose and arrange their own meetings. Curated networking gives the organiser a structured matchmaking workflow using wishlists, matching, review, scheduling, and controlled release. EventGen can run either mode or both at the same event.
Is EventGen an event networking platform or standalone app?
EventGen is an event networking platform whose attendee experience runs in the branded event portal, so profiles, meetings, programme, and itinerary stay together. The separate Lead Retrieval installable app provides an event-day meetings companion for exhibitors and hosted buyers.
Can we start free?
Yes. EventGen Free includes a networking demo and does not require a credit card. Full open and curated networking is enabled through eligible Engage packages, while Enterprise+ includes networking.
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