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• Fresh Find - Event trends worth your time
• Quick poll - What makes (or breaks) a confirmation email?
• Event Tech Trivia - The wild past of digital event agendas

Event confirmation emails: Love ‘em? Hate ‘em? Ignore ‘em?

We’re working on a set of templates to make them clearer, sharper, and actually useful for event pros. 

But first, we need to know what lands, what flops, and what just clogs up inboxes.

Your input helps us get this right – so take a minute, share your thoughts, and we’ll send over the 20+ email templates very soon.

Fresh Finds

SXSW Proves Events Are Changing

Julius Solaris called it - brands at SXSW weren’t just pushing content, they were using it to bring people together. Small, focused sessions. Hands-on experiences. Just the right amount of celebrity pull.

The old playbook of stuffing agendas with panels isn’t cutting it. People want connection, not just information. And content isn’t the main act, it’s the glue that makes connections happen.

Event Tech Trivia

In the early 2000s, some conferences used Palm Pilots as digital agendas, preloaded with schedules, speaker bios, and venue maps. These devices ran on Palm OS, had a stylus for navigation, and relied on infrared beaming to share contacts - like early AirDrop but way slower. Some events even experimented with basic polling and note-taking features, though syncing data often meant plugging into a PC.

Now, event apps handle AI matchmaking, networking, and engagement, way beyond just schedules.

Expect the unexpected, but not at your event.

Gevme turns “What if?” into “What’s next?”

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Team Gevme

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