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Leap Event Technology wants your event to remember its fans
A ticket gets someone through the door. Leap connects what happens before, inside and after it - and its own history shows how difficult that connection can be.
SmartSource sells the part of the show you can’t afford to get wrong
A 157-foot LED wall. A nine-day sprint to ship 1,300 workstations. SmartSource’s business lives in the gap between renting technology and making it work on deadline.
Bizzabo Survived the Day 1,000 Events Disappeared - Then Put the Internet Back Into the Ballroom
The event-software company started with a networking app, lost its market overnight, and rebuilt around a stubborn idea: a handshake should produce data without feeling like a spreadsheet.
Event Citadel Bought a 1976 Trade-Show Workhorse - Now It Wants to Turn Every Badge Scan Into a Business Signal
The company behind millions of registrations is betting that the dullest moment at a conference - the badge scan - can become its most valuable data point. The playbook is equal parts software, field crews and half a century of scar tissue.
Wordly
Wordly is a San Francisco Bay Area company that delivers cloud-based, AI-powered live translation, captioning, transcription and summaries for meetings and events. Without apps, headsets or human interpreters, attendees scan a QR code and follow along in their own language across 60+ languages and 3,000+ language pairs. Founded in 2017 by Lakshman Rathnam, Wordly serves 4,000+ customers and has supported over 5 million users worldwide, and was ranked among the fastest-growing software companies on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list.