Cvent is set to host its international Annual Travel Summit, taking place in a hybrid format on 24 May. The Annual Travel Summit is curated for travel buyers and managers, travel management companies and hoteliers. This year’s event will see eventprofs discuss the current state of travel and how the industry is charting a path forward as pandemic recovery continues. The opening keynote will featur...
The Events Industry Council (EIC), a global voice of the business events industry on advocacy, research, professional recognition, and standards, has announced submissions have opened for its annual Global Awards. The awards, in partnership with Cvent, celebrates and honours achievements focusing on leadership at all levels within the global business events industry. This year’s categories are: Ha...
The meetings, events and hospitably technology provider, Cvent is partnering with the Asia-Pacific Incentives and Meetings Event (AIME) 2022, to support the hybrid organisation and running of the show. AIME 2022 will take place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia, in-person 21-23 March, and online 28 March-1 April. AIME will aim to leverage Cvent’s event management platfor...
The sales, marketing and distribution company HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts has announced a new partnership with the global meetings, events and hospitably technology provider Cvent. Under the agreement, HotelREZ will aim to leverage Cvent’s transient sourcing platform to set and promote corporate hotel rates and manage RFPs. Cvent Transient (formerly Lanyon), is an all-in-one platform through whi...
Global meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider Cvent has unveiled the results of an independent study, conducted by Atomik Research, highlighting the opportunity for marketers and organisers to maximise the impact of event programmes in the new digital landscape. The research has suggested that there is still room for improvement in the digitalisation of the events industry. Results ...
Cvent Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: CVT), meetings, events and hospitality technology provider, and Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp. II (formerly Nasdaq: DGNS) (‘Dragoneer’), have announced the completion of the business combination of Cvent and Dragoneer, a special purpose acquisition company formed by Dragoneer Investment Group (the ‘Business Combination’) on 8 December 2021. The Business Combinati...
Meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider Cvent has announced that it now supports 18 international languages within its Cvent Supplier Network (CSN). The company says its expanded language support can now provide planners with a localised venue sourcing tool, enabling them to search and book venues in their native and/or preferred language. The preferred language is carried through mu...
Ensuring the sustainability of events has risen to become the key challenge corporate organisers are looking to tackle between now and 2024, according to this year’s ICE Annual Benchmarking Research Report, sponsored by Cvent. The sustainable events objective was shared by 77% of the respondents of the annual survey and sat ahead of ‘the ability to deliver hybrid events’ (73%) and ‘educating inter...
Global meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, Cvent, kicked off its annual Cvent CONNECT® Europe conference at the InterContinental London – The O2, 5 October, with a keynote from CEO and founder Reggie Aggarwal. In his address on Day 1 of the hybrid event, Aggarwal reflected on the past 18 months and offered an insightful look at the accelerated transformation of the meeting...
The higher education sector in the UK and Europe is embracing digital transformation in order to support their recruitment drives, increase reach and engagement and enhance student and alumni event experiences, according to global meetings and events technology provider, Cvent. Cvent has various higher education clients in the UK and Europe including: Imperial College London and the London School ...
Global meetings, events and hospitality technology provider Cvent announced, 2 August, the launch of Cvent Studio, a new video capture and production solution built for virtual and hybrid events. Cvent Studio is intended to enable event planners to create professional-quality video content for their webinars, virtual events, and hybrid events, and help them more deeply engage their online audience...
Global event management software and technology provider Cvent is returning to the public markets with a Special Merger Acquisition Company (SPAC) deal announced 23 July. Cvent’s SPAC merger is with Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp. II (NASDAQ:DGNS) and values the company at USD$5.3bn. Cvent, founded in 1999, expects to use $801m of the capital raised by the transaction to accelerate innovation...