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Onsite Rebook, Done Properly: How B2B Event Teams Convert Live Intent Before It Cools
Onsite rebook is more than a post-event email task. Discover how B2B event teams can capture live attendee intent, turn it into early rebook commitments and protect next year’s pipeline before that intent starts to cool.

Caylee Donaldson
9 min read


The Future of AI Agents in Event Marketing: 5 Predictions for 2026–2027
Here's the future of AI agents in event marketing, in five predictions for the next 18–24 months — from the death of the standalone event app to agents negotiating sponsor deals on your behalf.

Caylee Donaldson
2 min read


AI Agent Governance for Event Marketing: The Guardrails Your Team Needs
AI agent governance for event marketing is where most failures actually happen — not capability. Here are the five non-negotiable guardrails every event AI agent needs.

Caylee Donaldson
2 min read


15 Ready-to-Use AI Agent Prompts for Event Marketing
These AI agent prompts for event marketing are ready to use right now, for the most common agent jobs — from post-event follow-ups to sponsor matchmaking briefs.

Caylee Donaldson
5 min read


Is Your Event Marketing Team Ready for AI Agents? (Self-Assessment)
Is your event marketing team ready for AI agents? Score yourself across ten questions — the band you land in tells you exactly what to do next, whether that's fixing your data or scaling your agent fleet.

Caylee Donaldson
2 min read


A 90-Day Roadmap for Piloting AI Agents in Event Marketing
: Piloting AI agents in event marketing doesn't need an enterprise transformation programme. This 90-day, three-phase roadmap is built for small teams with real budgets.

Caylee Donaldson
2 min read


How to Prioritise AI Agent Projects in Event Marketing
Here's how to prioritise AI agent projects in event marketing: plot every use case by effort and impact, then start small. Nine good ideas is a problem, not a solution, without a way to sequence them.

Caylee Donaldson
2 min read


AI Agent Quick Wins for Event Marketing Teams
These AI agent quick wins for event marketing need no six-month transformation programme. Twelve practical moves you could action on Monday morning, from WhatsApp opt-ins to sentiment dashboards.

Caylee Donaldson
3 min read


AI Agents in Event Marketing Case Studies: SaaStr, HubSpot & More
These AI agents in event marketing case studies are real, not theoretical. SaaStr ran a flagship event with three humans, a dog, and 20+ AI agents — here's what really happened, including the $2,000 mistake.

Caylee Donaldson
3 min read


The AI Agent Market for Event Marketing, Mapped
Here's the AI agent market for event marketing, mapped: fifteen platforms worth knowing, from Salesforce Agentforce to WhatsApp Business AI, matched to the layer of your stack they serve

Caylee Donaldson
2 min read


The Event Marketing Lifecycle: Where AI Agents Plug In
Here's the AI agent market for event marketing, mapped: fifteen platforms worth knowing, from Salesforce Agentforce to WhatsApp Business AI, matched to the layer of your stack they serve

Caylee Donaldson
2 min read


The 5-Layer AI Agent Stack™ Every Event Marketing Team Needs
A proprietary framework for sequencing your AI agent investment in event marketing — from unified attendee data all the way up to predictive intelligence. Skip a layer and the rest collapses.

Caylee Donaldson
4 min read


AI Agents in Event Marketing: The Shift Most Teams Are Missing
Most event teams think AI means ChatGPT for drafting emails, that's not the shift. Here's why autonomous agents are already outperforming the teams still doing everything manually.

Caylee Donaldson
2 min read


The Event ROI Measurement Contract: A Pre-Event Framework That Forces the Right Conversations
A one-page agreement signed by marketing, sales, and event teams before the event that defines outcomes, metrics, attribution, and ownership — and forces the conversations that matter most while there's still time to influence the data.

Caylee Donaldson
3 min read


AI Tools Compared: A Marketer's Field Guide (with an Event Marketing Lens)
Genspark, Claude, Veo, HeyGen, HubSpot Breeze... the AI tools shifting what a small marketing team can produce. An honest tour of what each one actually does, where they break, and how to wire them into an event marketing cycle.

Caylee Donaldson
15 min read


Stop Losing Revenue: Event Data Strategy for 2026
The age of tracking strangers is over. But here's what most event teams miss: you already own the most valuable data on the internet. Every registration, badge scan, and booth visit is a first-party signal that's legal, valuable, and actionable. Learn how FT Live, Red Hat, and TechCrunch converted event data into 67-150% revenue increases.

Caylee Donaldson
6 min read
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