Tech Trends: New Tools for Real-Time AI Translation, Venue Sourcing, Engagement Intelligence, and More
Event tech is shifting from "nice to have" to operational infrastructure. These launches and moves focus on speed, clarity, and control-so your team can run bigger programs with less friction and better data.
Real-time translation that extends past the main stage: Wordly Workspaces
Wordly's new Workspaces brings live translation and captions to conferences, keynotes, workshops, and everyday operations under one enterprise account. No new tools or extra licenses-just consistent language access from planning meetings to town halls and external calls.
"Inclusion and accessibility shouldn't end when the last session wraps," said Lakshman Rathnam, founder and CEO of Wordly. "Workspaces gives event organizers the control to extend language access beyond the conference, ensuring the same experience continues across planning meetings, trainings, and everyday operations."
- Standardize multilingual access across departments
- Reduce manual setup for each meeting or event
- Improve attendee and employee experience with consistent captions
Venue sourcing, room blocks, and planning in one place: Navan + BoomPop
Navan integrated BoomPop's AI-driven venue sourcing and planning tools into its Meetings & Events platform. Organizers can source venues, negotiate room blocks, manage agendas, track RSVPs, and see total event costs next to travel and expense data. The advanced features are in beta for U.S. customers, with a broader rollout on the way.
"The events industry has been held back by fragmented technology for too long," said Healey Cypher, CEO of BoomPop. "Navan solved the travel and expense piece, and BoomPop mastered AI-driven venue sourcing and event execution. Federating our offerings together gives planners a single source of truth and a tool that gives them back their most valuable resource: time."
- Get a true end-to-end cost picture (venue + T&E)
- Shorten sourcing cycles with AI suggestions and unified data
- Tighten reconciliation by linking budgets to actuals in one system
Apps and tools built for showtime pressure: Connected Apps by Connected Event Group
Connected Event Group launched Connected Apps to build custom event apps, fast sites, business tools, and AI automations that hold up onsite-tight builds, spotty Wi-Fi, shared hardware, and live show deadlines included. The portfolio covers conference and exhibition apps, festival and brand activation tools, mobile-first sites, touchscreens, multi-screen experiences, and workflow automation.
They also released the Event App Playbook with 18 interactive concepts tested live: phone-as-controller games, RFID interactions, step challenges that unlock rewards, interactive mosaics, and live polling tied to stage moments-each with notes on feasibility, timelines, and audience impact.
- Ship faster with builds scoped for real onsite conditions
- Increase engagement with proven interaction patterns
- Automate repetitive tasks to free up producer time
From engagement metrics to real-time intelligence: Jublia AI
Jublia reintroduced itself as Jublia AI, moving past clicks and scans toward context-aware, real-time event intelligence. The AI-native platform reads agendas, exhibitor data, and attendee behavior, then adapts and responds in the moment. A prompt-based experience lets attendees, exhibitors, and organizers ask questions in natural language across apps, websites, and onsite touchpoints. Organizers can train the system over time for stronger outcomes.
"For years, event technology has focused on engagement metrics-clicks, scans, dashboards," said Kuan Yan, CEO and co-founder of Jublia AI. "But engagement alone is no longer enough. The next era belongs to intelligence: events that understand context, adapt in real time, and act when people need answers."
- Guide attendees to relevant sessions and meetings without extra clicks
- Surface intent signals for exhibitors in real time
- Close feedback loops by training the system on what "good" looks like
Latest updates, promotions, funding, and merger news
- BEST Crowd Management named premier partner for crowd management and event security across Legends Global's 250+ North American venues-bringing more consistency to staffing and safety for sports, concerts, conventions, and civic events.
- EventMobi appointed industry technologist Brandt Krueger as director of industry relations and partnerships to strengthen education, storytelling, and community engagement for planners.
- Naboo raised $70M (Series B led by Lightspeed) to expand in the U.S. and build a global, AI-powered procurement platform for corporate events-centralizing and automating event spend for large enterprises.
- Saavedra Consulting, LLC launched to help organizations simplify event tech RFPs and contracting across AV, registration, and badging-reducing friction between clients and vendors.
- eventPower achieved CMMC Level 2 compliance, enabling secure handling of FCI and CUI for government and defense events. Learn more about CMMC Level 2 here.
What to do this month
- Run a pilot: test Wordly Workspaces in a weekly all-hands or training and measure meeting comprehension across languages.
- Ask your T&E lead about the Navan x BoomPop beta; model an upcoming program's total cost with venue + travel in one view.
- Steal proven interactions: pick two concepts from the Event App Playbook (e.g., RFID tap-to-win + live poll) and scope them for your next show.
- Map one outcome you want Jublia AI (or any event AI) to optimize-meeting quality, session fit, exhibitor leads-and define the signals it should learn from.
- If you serve public sector programs, review vendor CMMC posture and update data-handling SOPs to match Level 2 requirements.
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