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Abi has worked in the event industry for 16 years; in conferences, global trade shows and event-tech organisations. With this broad experience, Abi understands all aspects of driving innovation in events and has a passion for connecting people, ideas and opportunities. At Grip, Abi translates the complexities of AI-powered event technology into tangible value for event organisers. Abi loves nothing more than getting underwater as a scuba diver and is a budding bass house DJ on dry land.
We give you the ability to add explainer text to your Custom Profile Fields, allowing you to provide additional information to help clarify the information being requested, making your data more reliable. For freeform fields, this explainer text will be displayed within the text field itself. For pre-defined fields, the explainer text will appear at the top of the page.
A popular request, this month we add analytics for your push notifications! This will be particularly useful to understand the reach of the messages you send, and can be used to report on effectiveness of sponsored messages.
You told us that you wanted more explicit control over who gets invited to join an exhibitor/sponsor Team on Grip, so this month we've added three big new settings to allow you to have better ownership of the process and associated data. These features are especially cool as they also give you further opportunities to monetize the platform.
Not even two weeks ago, we released improvements to categorization of profiles usingParent>Child...
Want to embed PDF readers, floor plans, polls (well, anything embeddable) into your Grip homepage? Well, now you can with our new navigation item type: embedded URLs.
Ever tried to decipher hastily scribbled notes on a business card collected at an event? Well, we have and...
Grip's Hosted Buyer (Must Meet) capabilities allow participants to make preferences regarding who they want to meet at an event, helped by Grip's world leading AI-powered recommendations. Once preferences have been made by both suppliers and buyers, Grip's AI automatically populates everyone's schedules with the best meetings possible.
Most Hosted Buyer events in Grip are set up to allow participants show interest in one another (e.g. buyers to exhibitor representatives) but now, Grip also allows participants to show interest in companies, which works in the following way:
At Grip, we've never previously made any profile fields mandatory, for ease of participant access. But as organizers, sometimes there are data points that are essential for your event to run successfully.
By introducing minimum, maximum and required profile values, we can make sure you get the info you need for maximum event success.
A Parent>Child Custom Profile Field is one that has at least two layers of categorization; incredibly useful for events where you have large amounts of data that needs to be navigated. You will be familiar with this concept through shopping on retail sites where you have millions of products, filtered by categories and subcategories.
A long awaited feature, we now give you the opportunity to clone your beautiful events! This will save you countless hours of event set up; even our team couldn't be happier!