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Best AI for the events sector

Event managers, congress organisers and festival teams work on projects with many touchpoints, complex logistics and high pressure on communication. AI takes over registration, attendee communication, AI matchmaking for networking and programme management, so organisers have more time for experience and content.

Professional tool with the strongest GDPR profileMomiceGDPR: Strong
  • Provider based in the Netherlands
  • Data in the EU according to the provider
  • Publishes certification/GDPR safeguards
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General model: the default choiceClaudeGDPR: Strong
  • Editorial score 9.0 of 10
  • Elo 1506
Claude for the events sector
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Watch out in this field

Attendee data (name, company, dietary requirements, payment details) is personal data under the GDPR. Only use platforms with a data processing agreement and preferably EU hosting. Automated matchmaking based on profile or behavioural data may be classed as profiling, be transparent and ask for consent. Never put attendee lists into a consumer version of a chatbot.

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Professional tools with the strongest published GDPR safeguards first, then general assistants by suitability.

26options, 14 field-specific
11free to try
8professional tools from NL or EU
12GDPR strong or good
Strong · 1Good · 7Limited · 4Unknown · 2
#SolutionQualityQuality from blind duels on LMArena: users choose between two anonymous answers. A difference of about 20 points is noticeable, a few points is noise. How we measurePriceGDPROur summary of what the provider itself publishes about your data. For a professional tool: whether the data is held in the EU, whether there is a certification or GDPR guarantee, and whether the provider is based in the Netherlands or the EU. For a general model: EU hosting, no training on your data and self-hosting. From Strong to Unknown; Caution only applies to a model with a documented problem. How we measure
1Momice professional toolMomice B.V. (Utrecht, NL) · NetherlandsDutch all-in-one event platform that manages registration, mailings, tickets, on-site check-in and evaluations for business live, online and hybrid events. Used by KLM, ABN AMRO and the City of Amsterdam.own modelfrom €2,595/year (Basic)Strong2Swapcard professional toolSwapcard SAS (Paris, FR) · EUFrench event platform focused on revenue generation with Sherlock AI, an AI engine that turns programme complexity into personalised recommendations to create demand before the event. Aimed at trade fairs and B2B events.own modelfrom $610/year per user (ent…Good3Brella professional toolBrella Ltd (Helsinki, FI) · EUFinnish all-in-one event platform with intent-based AI matchmaking: attendees state what they are looking for and the algorithm matches on goals rather than tag overlap. Aimed at B2B events, conferences and summits.own modelfrom ~$5,000 per event (custom qu…Good4Eventee professional toolEventee s.r.o. (Czechia) · EU · free to tryCzech event platform for conferences and business events, with AI-driven matchmaking for B2B networking. Quick to set up, with live Q&A, polls and gamification for attendee engagement. Free plan available.own modelNo free plan (free trial avail…Good5LineUpr professional toolLineUpr GmbH (Germany) · EUGerman platform for quickly building event apps for live, online and hybrid events. More than 5,000 organisers use it without technical knowledge for conferences, festivals and corporate events. Data hosted in Germany.own modelPlus from €99/eventGood6Sweap professional toolMATE Development GmbH (Berlin, Germany) · EU · free to tryGerman event platform for guest list management, registration, communication, ticketing and check-in, with AI-assisted text and email creation. Aimed at business events where data minimisation and European hosting matter.own modelStarter €2,400 per year (5 events…Good7b2match professional toolB2Match GmbH (Vienna, Austria) · EUAustrian platform for B2B matchmaking events: registration, attendee profiles, agenda and AI matchmaking that pairs attendees with the right counterparts and schedules 1-on-1 meetings. Widely used by chambers of commerce, clusters and the Enterprise Europe Network.own modelon request (Starter, Basic, Prof…Good8eventpage.ai professional tooleventpage.ai GmbH (Munich, Germany) · EU · free to tryGerman AI event platform for guest lists, ticketing and check-in. It uses AI to set up an event in one go (landing page, copy and images) and generates an AI task list and AI briefing for the team. Aimed at event agencies, sales and marketing teams and associations.own modelFree €0 per month (1 active event…Good9Oniva professional toolOniva AG (Switzerland) · free to trySwiss AI-driven event platform for organisations that combines registration, invitations, ticketing, guest management and reporting. Offers AI-generated invitation texts with automatic translations.own modelfree trial period of 10 daysLimited10SpotMe professional toolSpotMe SA (Lausanne, Switzerland; majority shareholder Swiss Post)Enterprise event platform from Swiss Post for in-person, hybrid and virtual events and webinars. Offers AI-driven networking recommendations and attendee engagement for larger business events.own modelon request (enterprise)Limited11Eventbrite professional toolEventbrite Inc. (US; owned by Bending Spoons) · free to tryInternational ticketing and event registration platform for events of every size. Eventbrite Boost offers AI-driven marketing tools that automate social media ads, email campaigns and audience targeting.own modelFree for free eventsLimited12Cvent professional toolCvent Inc. (USA)Enterprise event platform for large organisations, corporates and hotel chains. Strong in global venue sourcing and full event lifecycle management. Used by Fortune 500 companies for complex multi-day conferences.own modelon requestLimited13Grip professional toolGrip Ltd (London, UK)AI-driven event platform built for business relationships at trade shows, fairs and conferences. The AI Assistant is the most widely used AI assistant for commercial events; the matchmaking engine pairs attendees based on business goals.on on request (enterprise)Unknown14Imagen professional toolImagenAI (Givatayim, Israel)Israeli AI platform that learns your editing style from your own Lightroom work and applies it to entire shoots, with AI culling, cropping and retouching.own modelfrom $0.05/photo plus $7/month baseUnknown15Claude generalAnthropicFamily of language models from Anthropic that excels at long documents, careful reasoning, coding and reliable, safe output.1506Elo$20 / monthStrong16Gemini generalGoogleGoogle DeepMind's natively multimodal model family, deeply integrated into Workspace, with a very large context window.1527Elo€4.99 / monthStrong17ChatGPT generalOpenAIOpenAI's versatile, agentic flagship with a very large context window and a broad ecosystem of integrations.1485Elo$8 / monthStrong18Copilot generalMicrosoftMicrosoft's AI layer that combines GPT and Claude models with your own organisational data and the Microsoft 365 apps.1485Elofrom €10 / monthCaution19Le Chat (Mistral) generalMistral AIFrench/European AI lab with open-weight and commercial models and the Le Chat assistant, with EU data residency as its core proposition.1426Elo$14.99 / monthStrong20Qwen generalAlibaba Cloud · free to tryChinese model family from Alibaba Cloud with a free chat app, a large open-weight catalogue and the proprietary flagship Qwen3.8-Max with 1 million tokens of context.1484Eloon requestCaution21GLM (Z.ai) generalZ.ai (Zhipu AI) · free to tryChinese AI lab (Zhipu, international Z.ai) with the open-weight GLM family under MIT licence, particularly strong at programming and agent tasks at low prices.1483Elo$18 / monthCaution22Kimi generalMoonshot AI · free to tryChinese AI lab (Moonshot AI) with the open-weight Kimi K2 family and an assistant that focuses strongly on agents, deep research and long documents.1487Elo$19 / monthCaution23Grok generalxAIThe model from xAI, integrated into X, distinguished by real-time access to live X posts and web data.1471Elo$10 / monthCaution24DeepSeek generalDeepSeek · free to tryOpen-weight (MIT) Chinese language model with a 1M context window and a built-in reasoning mode, at very low API costs.1475Eloon requestCaution25Perplexity generalPerplexity AI · free to tryUS AI search engine that delivers answers with source citations via its own Sonar models and external frontier models, with separate Enterprise agreements on data use.–Elo$20 / monthUnknown26Llama generalMeta · free to tryMeta's natively multimodal, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts family (Scout and Maverick), free to download and self-host.–Eloon requestCaution
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Last checked: 6 November 2026 · How we check

Where AI does the most in this field

The core tasks we track for this profession. Tools in the list above can be compared on these tasks.

  1. 1Automate attendee registration and invitation management
  2. 2AI matchmaking for networking and business meetings
  3. 3Plan and communicate programmes, speakers and venues
  4. 4Drive event marketing, social content and evaluations

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What is the best AI for the events sector?

That depends on your requirements. Field-specific solutions such as Momice are built for the events sector; general assistants such as Claude are more widely applicable and cheaper to get started with. At the top of this page you will find our picks.

What is the difference between a 'field-specific tool' and a 'general assistant'?

A general assistant (such as ChatGPT or Claude) is a clever all-rounder you converse with yourself. A field-specific tool is a ready-made product for the events sector, often built on top of such an assistant, with its own domain knowledge, integrations and GDPR commitments. The 'Quality' column shows which model a tool runs on.

May I use confidential data?

Attendee data (name, company, dietary requirements, payment details) is personal data under the GDPR. Only use platforms with a data processing agreement and preferably EU hosting. Automated matchmaking based on profile or behavioural data may be classed as profiling, be transparent and ask for consent. Never put attendee lists into a consumer version of a chatbot.

What does the GDPR profile mean?

Our summary of what the provider publishes about data protection: EU hosting, no training on your data, certifications and provenance. 'Strong' = several safeguards published; 'Unknown' = the provider shares little, so ask them. It is a tool, not legal advice.