Insights, tips, and best practices for event management professionals
Compare the best event management software for US conferences and corporate events, verified 2026 pricing, on-site check-in and badge printing, CCPA/ADA compliance, and a 7-point buying checklist.
Micepad Team
September 15, 2026
Evaluating Whova alternatives? We compare 8 platforms on check-in, badge printing, mobile apps, and pricing — with honest trade-offs for each. Updated for 2026.
Micepad Team
June 19, 2026
Compare 15 event check-in apps side by side: QR scanning, badge printing, offline mode, kiosk, walk-ins, and pricing. Free and paid picks for 2026.
Micepad Team
June 19, 2026
A comprehensive event planning checklist organized by timeline — from setting goals 6 months out to post-event ROI measurement. Use this free event planning template to keep every detail on track.
Micepad Team
April 08, 2026
Online event registration is all the rave right now, but what about event check-ins too?
Micepad Team
April 05, 2026
Event planning is a superpower on its own. For one, planning something in advance to the tiniest detail requires a great deal of attention, precision and det...
Micepad Team
April 03, 2026
Agentic event management is a new approach where AI agents autonomously handle repetitive event operations — imports, reports, email, badges, check-in monitoring — so event teams focus on the work that requires a human.
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April 01, 2026
Even if we didn’t know any other thing about the event and event management industry, we are sure audience engagementis not something you leave to chance. It...
Micepad Team
April 01, 2026
A practical guide to finding event sponsors: 7 sourcing strategies, what to pitch, common rejection reasons, and templates that actually get replies.
Micepad Team
March 28, 2026
The next time you plan a conference, you will no longer fret age-old event dilemmas. It takes more than just event organising experience to arrange the fines...
Micepad Team
March 25, 2026
In 2026, event management ranks as the sixth most stressful job, thanks to challenging clients, heavy workloads, and unpredictable schedules. Yet, for those ...
Micepad Team
March 21, 2026
For event organisers to get larger budgets for future events, you have to prove your event ROI first. Like anyone else, the management needs to see returns b...
Micepad Team
March 18, 2026
Planning a training event that people actually learn from takes more than booking a room and printing slides. Here's how to build a workshop that delivers real results.
Micepad Team
March 15, 2026
Singapore consistently ranks as Asia's top MICE destination. If your next conference or corporate meeting is there, here's how to make it count — professionally and personally.
Micepad Team
March 15, 2026
Event registration is one of the most daunting tasks for event planners. It’s that crucial step where everything can go wrong in the blink of an eye. Not eno...
Micepad Team
March 14, 2026
Event apps are blowing up right now—and for good reason. 79% of event attendees said the event host should give them an app with event info. And we don’t bla...
Micepad Team
March 10, 2026
There is an undeniable consensus that attending a business meeting is not exactly what we would call the most exciting event of the year. We have all been gu...
Micepad Team
September 07, 2024
With the unprecedented epidemic that has taken the world by storm, event deferment and cancellation have impacted the M.I.C.E industry in many ways. Event or...
Micepad Team
September 07, 2024
Most MICE events are annual affairs in another country. If your meeting or conference happens to be in Singapore, you’re in luck! Singapore has been ranked a...
Micepad Team
September 07, 2024
Crafting an effective event marketing strategy is crucial to the success of any event. Without proper planning and organization, your efforts can easily fall...
Micepad Team
September 07, 2024
Live events are about connecting people, from speakers and their audiences, to business networking and recruiting onboarding sessions. Every event planner ma...
Micepad Team
September 07, 2024
Have you ever been tasked to organise a business meeting? Surely, the formal nature of the event can be overwhelming because of how it silently demands for p...
Micepad Team
September 07, 2024
You’re probably using mobile apps for just about everything these days. From checking your bank balance to scrolling through social media, there’s an app for...
Micepad Team
August 29, 2024
Setting up on-site event check-in is a game with its own rules, and it can quickly become a snowball of challenges, especially as the event grows. The check-...
Micepad Team
August 29, 2024
The event registration process sits right in the middle of capitalizing on your marketing efforts and converting interested attendees into actual registrants...
Micepad Team
August 22, 2024
If you’re planning an event, one thing’s clear: without attendees, your goals can’t be met. That’s why most event planners believe that nailing event registr...
Micepad Team
August 22, 2024
Why take on all the cost burden of an event when it can be shared with a sponsor? In fact, done right, you might not need to spend a penny of your own funds ...
Micepad Team
August 16, 2024
Despite not being able to mingle in person, virtual events do offer some visible sponsorship perks. It’s relevant to share that we subscribe to the philosoph...
Micepad Team
August 15, 2024
People attend events for various reasons. Event management personnel know this, so they try to create the perfect blend of fun, keynote speakers, relevant sp...
Micepad Team
August 14, 2024
Many people might think corporate events are just like any other gathering, but that’s not quite the case. When you’re planning a corporate event, there’s a ...
Micepad Team
August 02, 2024
What is email marketing? Simply put, it’s the process of marketing your products or services and directing your target audience’s attention via email. While ...
Micepad Team
August 01, 2024
Event creators are business people too. The first goal of every event is to ensure smooth sailing of the proceedings, such that each and every attendee gets ...
Micepad Team
July 24, 2024
Sometime ago, we discussed the various reasons why you should create an event app for your next set of events. Here, you can choose to create standalone apps...
Micepad Team
July 24, 2024
It is one thing to always talk about why event management applications are the next best thing for event planners – but are there hard facts, numbers, or eve...
Micepad Team
July 17, 2024
Event management is no small market. This is not a statement of sentiment but fact – one that goes on to show that the software side of this market alone wi...
Micepad Team
July 16, 2024
It is not enough that your events are the talk of the town, the next big thing or the most anticipated one in history. Event managers have now come to find o...
Micepad Team
July 11, 2024
It is not enough that your events are the talk of the town, the next big thing or the most anticipated one in history. Event managers have now come to find o...
Micepad Team
July 11, 2024
Events had the room to grow and mature in the decade ending 2019, and we know planners are ready for the next stage of growth and event planning trends to co...
Micepad Team
July 11, 2024
During a conference, the ideal is to have all eyes on the speaker and to have the participants be fully involved in the event, ensuring high event engagement...
Micepad Team
July 08, 2024
In today’s event planning world, keeping up with the latest technology can make a huge difference in saving time and money. You’ve probably heard some collea...
Micepad Team
July 08, 2024
Contrary to what people believe, business events are not created solely for the purpose of marketing products. For quite some time now, audience involvement ...
Micepad Team
July 08, 2024
If you organise events frequently, event apps should not be new to you. Event apps help organisers digitise all of their event planning processes from regist...
Micepad Team
July 04, 2024
The first half of 2024 may be over, but we are yet to witness the full scale of technology trends set to wrap 2024 up and commence 2025 with a bang. Truth b...
Micepad Team
July 02, 2024
A recent research study indicated that no less than 60% of marketers involved in event planning and management get better attendee engagement with an event p...
Micepad Team
July 02, 2024
Traditional event management methods are long gone. Events today are even more complex and challenging. We can all agree that the event industry is in need o...
Micepad Team
March 20, 2024
Traditional event management methods are long gone. Events today are even more complex and challenging. We can all agree that the event industry is in need o...
Micepad Team
March 20, 2024
As many companies are pivoting flagship events to virtual spaces, this article is for those who are making the difficult decision to transform large-scale ev...
Micepad Team
May 26, 2020
Live streaming is a presentation format which involves simultaneously recording and broadcasting media in real time. Popular platforms such as Facebook Live...
Micepad Team
May 06, 2020
AGMs are an important part of listed companies. As AGMs are huge opportunities for companies to communicate with their shareholders, and inform them how the...
Micepad Team
April 28, 2020
As Covid-19 continues to spread, companies with December year ends are increasingly asking themselves how to plan for this year’s annual general meeting. In ...
Micepad Team
April 28, 2020
The value of face-to-face interaction will always stay but there are occasions when going virtual is a vital need. Question is, how do you transform a multi-...
Micepad Team
April 07, 2020
With the unprecedented epidemic that has taken the world by storm, event deferment and cancelation have impacted the M.I.C.E industry in many ways. Event org...
Micepad Team
March 26, 2020
Online event registration is all the rave right now, but what about event check-ins too?
Micepad Team
February 28, 2020
Events had the room to grow and mature in the decade ending 2019, and we know planners are ready for the next stage of growth to commence from the year 2020.
Micepad Team
February 15, 2020
Event management and planning companies are starting to come into the realization of how important mobile apps are to the success of the overall event. Up to...
Micepad Team
January 17, 2020
It is not enough that your events are the talk of the town, the next big thing or the most anticipated one in history. Event managers have now come to find o...
Micepad Team
January 10, 2020
So, you have also heard that some of the professionals in your industry have started using online event management software, and you are at a loss as to why ...
Micepad Team
January 03, 2020
The internet is a lot of things – especially as it gives way and rise to a host of other industries and niches.
Micepad Team
November 22, 2019
Today, we’re announcing yet another exciting update!
Micepad Team
October 22, 2019
Live events are all about connecting people. From speakers and their audiences, to business networking, to new recruit onboarding sessions. Every event plann...
Micepad Team
April 30, 2019
As previously mentioned, you can eliminate all printing costs for your event by uploading your content and material onto your app. Not only is it more access...
Micepad Team
April 29, 2019
Gain relevant audience insights and empower your audience to raise and discuss the questions and topics that impact them and your event the most.
Micepad Team
November 11, 2018
Who would have thought that event gamification and QR codes can be combined together to produce highly influential, relevant and audience-centric events? Ind...
Micepad Team
November 06, 2018
Personalisation and event technology are two present-day components used to improve existing customer experience strategies. Event apps alone spur heightened...
Micepad Team
October 06, 2018
The competition has gone fiercer and fiercer for tech conferences. At present, it is no longer just about who introduces the most interesting products or has...
Micepad Team
September 21, 2018
Conducting trainings and workshops is a great way to impart knowledge and help people develop a particular skill set. The beauty of this type of event is it ...
Micepad Team
September 18, 2018
The next time you plan a conference, you will no longer fret age-old event dilemmas. It takes more than just event organizing experience to arrange the fines...
Micepad Team
September 10, 2018
Event organizers are no strangers to the kind of stress that event management can bring. After all, making sure that every big and small detail sits perfectl...
Micepad Team
August 31, 2018
The first half of 2018 may be over, but we are yet to witness the full scale of tech trends set to wrap 2018 up and commence 2019 with a bang. Truth be told...
Micepad Team
August 22, 2018
You may not realize it, but your events may not be driving the ideal number of conversions for your business. This could be due to outdated methods or event ...
Micepad Team
August 14, 2018
Contrary to what people believe, business events are not created solely for the purpose of marketing products. For quite some time now, audience involvement ...
Micepad Team
August 09, 2018
Event technology is one of today’s impressive and dramatically emerging developments. From a meager 9% of industries offering mobile apps to boost attendee e...
Micepad Team
July 23, 2018
Guest registration plays a very important role when it comes to making an event successful, as it is the front-liner when it comes to welcoming your invitees...
Micepad Team
May 23, 2018
Ten weeks have passed in the blink of an eye and we are now bidding farewell to our interns from NTU and SMU. We hope that they have learned as much from us ...
Micepad Team
April 22, 2018
Name any social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and you’d probably have one account with it. But even in the digital world, human touch still ...
Micepad Team
April 21, 2018
Sometimes, the very thing we want least is to have anything particularly eventful happening at an event, because it might be what we dread the most: utter di...
Micepad Team
April 19, 2018
Much too often, what we wear is viewed as a reflection of our character, and to that end, a reflection of how other people perceive us. It is essentially you...
Micepad Team
April 18, 2018
Being able to speak in front of a large crowd and host meetings is an essential skill in the MICE industry. You are expected to do it, and do it well. If you...
Micepad Team
April 17, 2018
From humble beginnings at NTU to winning the Ideas Inc Most Innovative Startup award in 2013, we have come a long way since we started 5 years ago in Singapo...
Micepad Team
April 16, 2018
During a conference, the ideal is to have all eyes on the speaker and to have the participants be fully involved in the event. However, that is often far fro...
Micepad Team
April 15, 2018
There is an undeniable consensus that attending a business meeting is not exactly what we would call the most exciting event of the year. We have all been gu...
Micepad Team
April 14, 2018
It’s been a dream of ours for quite some time to expand our operations overseas. After months of planning and preparation, we are very excited to inform you ...
Micepad Team
April 14, 2018
Love it or hate it, at some point in your life you were probably tasked to organize and arrange a meeting. From small meetings to large conferences, each eve...
Micepad Team
April 13, 2018
We all like to think that we have got this event-planning thing down pat…but ask yourself this: “Do I really?”
Micepad Team
April 13, 2018
The release of mobile applications for smart devices have taken the market by storm, spanning across various industries and purposes. From the simple to the ...
Micepad Team
April 12, 2018
As the name suggests, Micepad is derived from the merging of two concepts: MICE and iPads. MICE represents the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibiti...
Micepad Team
April 10, 2018
While mobile applications have proven to be a lot more convenient, effective and efficient, this technology has still not yet reached its full potential acro...
Micepad Team
January 10, 2018
If you organise events frequently, event apps should not be new to you. Event apps help organisers digitise all of their planning processes from registration...
Micepad Team
November 10, 2017
They say change is the only constant despite the fact that, for the most part, humans are creatures of habit. It is important to always be on the alert for w...
Micepad Team
October 10, 2017
Last minute changes? Even the most experienced event organisers will encounter this during an event. Pulling off a successful event requires countless hours ...
Micepad Team
August 15, 2017
Singapore has been ranked as Asia's Leading Meetings and Conference Destination. Here's how to make the most out of your MICE event in Singapore.
Micepad Team
August 11, 2017
If you were around in the events industry many years ago, you will probably be used to something like this if you wanted to conduct a poll.
Micepad Team
March 10, 2017
Having a room full high level executives or fresh minds is pointless if you’re not going to take advantage of the collective intelligence. Truth is, it doesn...
Micepad Team
March 10, 2017
Short reads on check-in, badges, and running better events. No spam.