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May, 2022

Spring has come to InvitePeople HQ in Stockholm, and with that lots of energy for a summer full of events. In our experience, the B2B event season has been extended since the pandemic virtual events boom. Events taking place earlier in January and closer to summer vacations. Another rising trend is the Continuous Meeting event concept, allowing events to live longer, sometimes for years! InvitePeople lives for prolonging and digitalizing events and has been since we started in 2008. Many of our latest updates are focused on Continuous Meetings and expect more updates to come around this concept in the future. Longer events put higher demands on event platforms, and we will keep pushing to stay at the top!

A wide range of improvements

During spring we have released lots of smaller improvements making InvitePeople a little bit better, step by step. To mention a few but not all:

  • Video meetings now have Background effects allowing users to blur or choose a virtual background.
  • The Disable participant feature allows administrators to temporarily or permanently disable all access for a participant to an event, without removing any data.
  • There is a new tab under Customize content for the Order confirmation page so that administrators can customize the last step in the order flow a bit more.
  • The Interactivity add-ons have been improved and give administrators more control over the chat.

Time zones, Meetings, Matchmaking, and Continuous Meetings

Meetings and Matchmaking functionality are a top priority for us. These updates will come in handy for longer events, virtual global events, and events with speed meetings.

  • A new time zone menu is available for participants joining from different time zones. Participants can themselves choose which time zone to view the event in, the default event time zone, or their own. When changing time zone they will see all times presented in their local time. A handy clock in the main nav bar shows the current time.
  • Participants can now click on Subscribe to calendar to import their personal InvitePeople calendar into an Outlook, Apple, Google, or other calendar apps. Meeting and session changes in InvitePeople will keep in sync with the calendar app.
  • We created a new meeting generation wizard for speed meetings. Administrators can automatically generate meetings between groups of participants or companies. Either generate meetings randomly or let participants rate each other and use our matchmaking algorithm to create an optimized meeting schedule.

New InvitePeople Leads app in the App Store and Google Play

We recently released our new lead scanning app: InvitePeople Leads. It is available in the Apple App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android. The app allows exhibitors and partners to scan badges and name tags to collect contact information about the people they meet during events.

The app lets company administrators build their lead forms with multiple questions and fields of their preference. The new app works seamlessly with the online lead retrieval function, which has gotten a lift as well with an easier-to-use UI and more customization options.

Better control of data, API updates, and Federated SSO

When using InvitePeople we want you to be in full control of your data and your event participants. We keep adding more features to our exports, imports, and API:s.

  • We’ve released multiple updates and additions to our exports, including a whole new section for the Advanced session participant search. This allows administrators to pull lists of participants for a specific group of sessions.
  • New columns have been added to our imports, for example, to control check-in and chat settings for sessions.
  • The Add/remove participants function for sessions has gotten a whole lot better. It is now easy to quickly pre-book groups of participants for sessions, even for very large events.
  • Two new updates of the InvitePeople REST API have been released including webhooks and email sending capabilities. We are also broadening our offer for the Enterprise Federated Single Sign-On feature, now having support for SAML 2.0.
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