We are introducing a powerful new feature designed to supercharge your events: Hosted Buyer Meetings are now available in your event Studio!

If you're organizing a Hosted Buyer event, this new capability makes it easier than ever to deliver curated, high-value meetings between buyers and sellers—all with measurable ROI and enhanced engagement for everyone involved.

This new Hosted Buyer feature is all about making your event more efficient, engaging, and results-driven. With a smart, homemade matching engine at its core, it automatically creates 1-on-1 meetings tailored to your rules—ensuring that the right people connect at the right time. You have complete control over the setup, from time slots and meeting locations to selection rules, filters, and participant profile fields, allowing you to fully customize the experience to suit your event’s needs. The participant journey is seamless too—they can easily indicate who they must meet, would like to meet, or prefer not to meet, making the matchmaking process intuitive and personalized. This curated approach not only boosts engagement and attendance but also leads to more meaningful interactions. And when the event wraps up, you’ll have access to clear, actionable insights so you can measure ROI, track which meetings actually took place, and ensure your stakeholders saw real value.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Set It Up in the Studio
   Head to your Studio and configure your Hosted Buyer settings:

   • Define participant groups (e.g., buyers and sellers)
   • Choose a name, icon, and filters for the meeting page
   • Select profile fields and group matching rules
   • Set the number of meetings per participant and how many selections they're allowed
   • Schedule your selection window (start/end dates)
   • Pick available time slots and meeting locations

2. Participants Make Their Selections
   When the selection phase begins, participants receive an email with a link to their selection page. They can classify others into:

   • Must meet: absolutely want to meet
   • Nice to meet: would like to meet
   • Exclude: prefer not to meet
   • You decide how many choices each participant can make—and when.

3. Generate & Review Draft Meetings
   Once the selection window closes, you can review all selections and generate draft meetings—these aren’t visible to participants yet. You can:

   • Edit meeting details (time, location, status)
   • Delete or reassign meetings
   • Ensure everything looks perfect

4. Publish & Go Live
   Confirm the meetings, and voilà! They appear directly in each participant’s schedule. From there, they can:

   • Join
   • Reschedule
   • Decline
   • Or add extra participants
5. Measure Success
   After the event, track which meetings actually took place to ensure your stakeholders got the value they expected.

This feature is your new secret weapon for high-impact events. Whether you're running buyer-seller meetups, investor pitches, or curated networking sessions, Hosted Buyer Meetings will help you create smarter connections, happier attendees and exhibitors, and more successful events.

Start building your Hosted Buyer experience today in the Studio – and watch the magic happen! ✨ 

AI Recommendations improvements continue, and this time, the Mobile user experience is enhanced! Inside the Exhibitors page, Exhibitors' recommendations will now be displayed to ensure easy access to your best interests. 

By clicking on it, you will have access to the full Exhibitor Profile to find the best information, book a meeting, or register for a session that your recommended exhibitor might host. The app offers up to 10 recommendations, and they are refreshed according to your interests over time. 

We’re thrilled to introduce a major improvement to your Swapcard experience! The "My Event" and "My Favorites" pages are now seamlessly integrated into your profile page, offering a more intuitive and streamlined navigation.

This update creates a single, centralized hub for managing both your personal information and event or community details. No more switching between pages; everything you need is now in one place. Whether you're updating your profile, checking your registered events, or exploring event schedules, you can now access it all from one unified location.

From your profile page, you can now:

• View your schedule, including sessions and meetings
• Access your saved contacts
• Browse bookmarks for exhibitors, saved items, and videos

We’ve also revamped the look of the profile page to make it cleaner, more modern, and easier to navigate. This fresh design ensures a visually appealing and user-friendly experience as you manage your event activities and personal details.

These features will dynamically adapt to your current event or community context, ensuring a personalized and relevant experience every time.

As part of this improvement, it will no longer be possible to create new "My Event" or "My Community" pages for future events once this update is released. To avoid redundancy within your event app, we strongly encourage organizers who have already created a "My Event" or "My Community" page to remove it. That said, existing pages will remain accessible until the end of 2025, after which they will be fully deprecated.

Our goal is to make your experience on Swapcard as efficient and user-friendly as possible. By combining the "My Event" and "My Favorites" pages with your profile, we’ve simplified workflows and reduced unnecessary clicks. This means you’ll spend less time navigating and more time engaging with what matters most: connecting with people, exploring sessions, bookmarks, and getting the most out of your events.

We’re continuously listening to your feedback to improve the platform. This revamp is just one of many enhancements we’re rolling out to make Swapcard the ultimate event experience.

Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, we’d love to hear your thoughts as you explore the new centralized profile page!

Exhibitors AI Recommendations carousel is now live on the Mobile App! This new addition will enhance your experience and make it easier for you to connect with the right exhibitors at events.

As you may already know, Swapcard uses artificial intelligence to match attendees with exhibitors based on their interests and preferences. With the new AI Recommendations carousel, this process is now even more convenient on your mobile device. The carousels will appear on your exhibitor page, making it easy for you to browse through the recommended exhibitors and their profiles.

We understand that time is of the essence during events, and finding the right exhibitors can be overwhelming. With our new AI Recommendations carousels, we aim to simplify the process and help you make meaningful connections. This feature will be available on both iOS and Android devices, making it accessible to all our users. The event organizers can always hide this carousel from the page if necessary.