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Venue Floor Plans Straight into Your Event Layout
Every event layout starts with the same question: what does the room really look like? Until now, the answer meant an email to the venue, a PDF that arrived days later (or never), and an evening of redrawing walls, pillars and doors yourself, hoping every measurement was right.
How to Choose a Digital Transformation Expert Speaker for an Event
The right speaker can transform your event from forgettable to unforgettable, while the wrong choice leaves attendees disengaged. For digital transformation events, it is important to select someone who understands technology and can explain how it affects your business.
ISE 2027 Brings the Live Events Industry into the Spotlight - Save € 300, Free ISE Ticket!
Returning to Fira de Barcelona, Gran Via, from 2-5 February 2027, Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2027 is built around a single idea: When Worlds Unite.
We're back online
We took eventplanner.net offline this morning. Deliberately, as a precaution, and knowing everything we know now, we would make exactly the same call again. Everything is running normally once more, and you can pick up exactly where you left off.
Say Hello to 3D: Step Inside Your Event Before It Happens
We've built something we're really excited about, and we can't wait to show you. Our floor plan designer now builds your room in 3D, to real scale, from the hotel ballroom to the festival field.
New 'Zones' in Tickets: VIP areas, seated sections and check-in per zone
With zones in eventplanner.net Tickets, you decide which guest can access which areas of your event. Set it up once, and it works on your floor plan, during the order, at the door and on the badge.
How to Refine Your Event Content and Provide the Best Insights
Your event content is key to differentiating yourself from the competition. And that’s true regardless of your intentions. However, the competition is fierce. And it’s not about other events in your industry.
Academics want permit authorities to cap festival size. In Europe, they already do
A forthcoming paper argues degrowth belongs on the table for mega festivals. The more useful question for organisers is what happens when capacity becomes a regulated number?
These are the 50 Best Event Companies and Venues of 2026
For the eleventh time, eventplanner.net is awarding the Certificates of Excellence to the absolute top performers in the event sector. No jury, no expert panel, no editorial bias. You decide who wins: our community of clients, organisers, and event professionals.
TIP! - Entertainment Checklist for Events
There is much more to organising your entertainment than simply finding the acts that are appropriate to your objectives, target group and budget. You also need to take account of a number of practical matters.
Safe & Secure: When to Consider Executive Protection Services for an Event
A major event organisation has many moving parts. If yours includes industry leaders, controversial speakers or high-net-worth individuals, extra security may be ...
Free registration for Festivak '26 Netherlands is now open!
Free registration for Festivak Netherlands is now open. More than 6,000 event professionals will gather on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 November for...
New in Budgets: One Change, Every Version of your Event Budget Updated
Linked budget lines in the eventplanner.net event software keep your scenarios in sync while you keep the freedom to make them different.
Print Badges at the Speed of a Scan - New in our Event Software
Every event planner knows the scene. A long table at the entrance, hundreds of badges laid out alphabetically, two hostesses digging through the S-row while the queue backs up to the parking lot.
1 Week Left: the Countdown Stops on September 30.
Thousands of event companies deserve the award from eventplanner.net. Most never receive it, for one trivial reason.
Festivals are Increasingly about More than Music
4 out of 10 young festival-goers expect to possibly use more drugs than in previous years.
Why Half your Free-Event Registrations won't Show Up, and What Actually Fixes It
Every organiser of free events knows the maths: the room is set for 200, catering is paid for 200, and 120 walk in. It feels like bad luck. It isn't. It's one of the most predictable numbers in the industry, and one of the most fixable.
Draw Your Entire Event Layout, to Scale, in our Event Software
Last week you asked us if Seating could handle full event layouts. It couldn't. Now it can: trace your venue to scale, draw the walls, place the bar and the stage, and send one plan to everyone who has to build the room.
How to Build Attendee Personas for Your Event
Event audiences are like buyers; you must know them well to make an impact. And by 'well', we mean 'extremely well'.
Secretly Building Stands for Your Employer's Client? This Project Manager Now Owes €200.000
A project manager at a Dutch stand-building company spent part of his employment quietly running jobs for one of his employer's...
