Mobile Apps for Meetings

What the latest downloads can do for you and your attendees...

Bill Kilburg was wowed by an event app he used as an attendee last winter. He could quickly consult the schedule, confirm seminar locations, read speaker bios and send messages to other attendees -- all by running one application on his smartphone. It was so cool, he thought, he should make it available to all of his company's clients. "Apps like that are just a much better solution than the way most meetings are logistically being handled on-site today," he says.

Kilburg is chairman and CEO of HPN Global, the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based site-selection and meetings procurement company. The app he used was developed for MeetDifferent, a Meeting Professionals International conference held in Cancún in February.

After researching a number of suppliers following that show, Kilburg and HPN reached an agreement to partner with QuickMobile, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based developer of the MeetDifferent app. As of mid-July, HPN now offers clients a private-label version of QuickMobile's MobileEvent app. Customer response has been great, notes Kilburg, who adds that one large client already has signed on to develop an app for a show next year. [Read More]

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