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ABCey’s #TechTuesday: Top 5 Smart Badges for Your Next Event!
#TechTuesday highlights the best and brightest ideas in the tech world. Technology is designed to make our lives easier, especially as event planners. With an innovative smart badge, you are able to make things much simpler for attendees, exhibitors, and yourself! Today’s #TechTuesday features a list of amazing smart badges we LOVE!
Why use smart badges?
Smart badges can simplify your event by promoting deeper networking connections between attendees, or by providing a simple method of sharing and exchanging contact information. They can also give event planners access to foot traffic and real-time analytics for their events. Exhibitors can benefit by easily sharing access to information to attendes, and can determine which guests are valuable prospects.
1. RFID Badges and LED Tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JficYgaK8j8
With the addition of smart LED tech, you can enhance any attendee’s experience! Whether it’s a lanyard or a bracelet, it will come alive and you can decide when. You can choose to light it up at a specific moment, signal an upcoming segment, or set up to interact with sensors, too. You can see them in action in the Coldplay concert in 2016 featured above!
2. SmartTrac by Hubvents
SmartTrac benefits all. For exhibitors, it notifies them when potential prospects enter their booths. How? With an analysis of attendees’ profiles and behavioral attributes! Moreover, attendees receive and event journey report that includes all their connections, booth visits, and more. Event planners can get an overview of foot traffic and interactions to see which attractions were most popular and for future improvement.
3. eventBit by Experient
EventBit has many features your guests will love! We’re all guilty of checking Yelp to look for recommendations.. EventBit can do that for you, but for booths you’d enjoy based on your preferences. In addition, it provides networking opportunities for attendees based on matching interests. Goodbye to awkward small talk! When the event is over, your guests can receive links to access information relevant to their event journeys.
4. Proxfinity
Unique features of Proxfinity are the options to brand the badge and to program a specific topic of interest! This will elicit conversations that sponsors and clients intended for the event. Event planners love that Proxfinity provides useful metrics! It includes meaningful interactions made per person, connections between demographics, topics that drive connections and conversations, and much more!
5. LiGo by Limefy
Like eventBit, this badge signals to guests when someone with mutual interests are in close proximity with flashing lights. Now your guests can spend more time engaging in meaningful connections! Guests are able to easily exchange contact information with each other with a personalized timeline. Additionally, attendees are able to access exhibitor and fellow attendee portals with a messaging platform available if they want to contact them!
Will you use smart badges?
We love smart badges, and we hope now you do too! Are there any that we missed? Will you be using any of our smart badges at your event? Let us know in the comments below or on Facebook or Twitter! If you’d like to see our past #TechTuesday blogs, click here.
ABCey’s Weekend Lineup 4.18.13 – 4.21.13
This week, ABCey has a great mix of things for you to do! Of course we’re encouraging you to get outside and do something active in the sun, but many of our picks for this weekend just happen to be inside. From epic concerts to tech seminars to good ol’ beer and soul food, you’re bound to find something to meet your preference in this Weekend Lineup.
1. Designers + Geeks: The Future of Infographics | April 18 | Mission Street | Infographics are timeless, but practitioners must evolve to remain effective and combat the oversaturated media landscape. This presentation will examine the continued innovation in the field, identifying applications in which information visualization can create the appeal and soundness necessary to deliver a powerful message.
2. In Concert: The Lumineers | April 19 | Greek Theater, Berkeley | The Lumineers are an American folk rock band based in Denver, Colorado. Having grown in popularity at an insane rate in the past year, the band is here in the Bay Area to put on a show that will leave any attendee beaming with happiness. Their upbeat folk sound and care-free demeanor is absolutely contagious, and there’s no better place to see them than the Greek Theater!
3. Yelp! Seminar and Networking Event | April 20 | Sacramento | Do you know how often your prospects are seeing negative or positive reviews of your business? According to a recent study by two Berkeley economists, a half star improvement in your Yelp rating can bring you 30-49% increase in business! For business owners, entrepreneurs, on-line marketers, social media enthusiasts, and those who are looking to network with other professionals.
4. Bootie SF: Coachella Mash-Up | April 20 | DNA Lounge | So Coachella sold out before you could get tickets to the big festival? Then come out for the next best thing: Bootchella! Resident DJs Mykill, Entyme, and Dada — along with Bootie’s very own live mashup rock band, Smash-Up Derby — will be playing music from Coachella artists past and present all night! But there’s one big twist — they’ll all be mashed up! Sure, it might not be the “real” Coachella … but it’s 3000% cheaper, and you won’t get sunburned!
5. Speakeasy Beer & Soul Food Dinner | April 21 | Old Skool Cafe | Both Speakeasy and Old Skool Cafe are nestled in the Southeast corner of San Francisco, where they enjoy mostly sunny days, and clear skies. It’s a natural fit to have the food and beer paired with one another! Start cocktail hour with Sriracha deviled eggs, and stick around for dinner that includes babyback ribs in Prohibition BBQ sauce.
Planning to attend any of these events? Talk to us in the comments below or on Facebook & Twitter!