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MatchPoint Launches New Feature Suite to Help Event Organizers Turn Networking Into Measurable ROI
7/7/2026
EDISON, NJ — MatchPoint, the AI-powered networking platform built to help events deliver measurable ROI through smarter, intent-based connections, today announced the launch of a new suite of product features designed to help associations and event organizers create more meaningful event outcomes for attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, and vendors.
The new release includes Pre-Event Goals Surveys, Event Agenda tools, SpeedMatch, expanded Vendor Marketplace Listings, and refreshed organizer and vendor dashboards.
The launch comes at a time when event organizers are under increasing pressure to prove that their events are creating more than attendance. Attendees want relevant conversations. Exhibitors want warmer leads. Sponsors want clearer value. Vendors want stronger visibility. And organizers need a better way to show that their event created real business opportunities, not just badge scans, booth traffic, and busy rooms.
MatchPoint’s latest release is designed to meet that challenge by helping organizers move from passive networking to intentional connection design.
“Networking has always been one of the biggest reasons people attend events, but for too long it has been left to chance,” said Bill McGlade, Co-Founder of MatchPoint. “Organizers work hard to bring the right people into the room, but the real value is created when those people actually find each other. These new features help organizers capture attendee intent, guide better connections, and create a stronger ROI story for every stakeholder involved.”
A Smarter Way to Understand Attendee Intent
At the center of the release is MatchPoint’s new Pre-Event Goals Survey, which helps organizers understand what attendees are actually trying to accomplish before they arrive.
Instead of relying only on profile data, job titles, company names, or broad categories, organizers can now capture deeper attendee intent. They can let AI generate attendee-specific questions, create one default question for all participants, or build keyword-matched questions based on attendee profiles.
That matters because two attendees can have similar backgrounds and completely different goals. One may be looking for strategic partnerships. Another may be searching for vendors. Another may want peer connections, career insight, funding opportunities, or specific subject matter expertise.
By capturing the “why” behind each attendee’s participation, MatchPoint gives organizers better signals to support smarter match recommendations and more relevant event experiences.
Bringing the Agenda and Networking Experience Together
MatchPoint now gives organizers more flexibility to add an event agenda either through an external URL or natively inside the app. Attendees can browse sessions, save items to their personal schedule, and access key event information from the same experience where they discover people, vendors, and opportunities.
For attendees, this creates a more streamlined event journey. Instead of bouncing between a PDF, website, email thread, event app, and separate networking tool, they can plan their time and make connections in one connected experience.
For organizers, it brings the event agenda and networking strategy closer together, helping attendees make better decisions about where to go, who to meet, and how to get more value from the event.
SpeedMatch: Structured 1:1 Meetings Without the Manual Chaos
The release also introduces SpeedMatch, a faster way for organizers to create structured 1:1 meeting programs for attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, hosted buyers, vendors, and other participant groups.
Traditional appointment scheduling can require days of spreadsheets, back-and-forth communication, manual adjustments, and operational cleanup. SpeedMatch gives organizers a more efficient way to build and manage structured meeting schedules, including setup, participant rules, AI-powered scheduling, manual edits, and final publishing.
With SpeedMatch, meeting programs that once required heavy administrative lift can be created in seconds, helping organizers deliver more high-value conversations with less friction.
“Structured meetings can be incredibly valuable, but they are often painful to manage behind the scenes,” McGlade said. “SpeedMatch gives organizers a way to create those intentional conversations faster, while still giving them the control they need to make the experience work.”
Stronger Vendor Visibility Through Marketplace Listings
MatchPoint’s Vendor Marketplace Listing updates give vendors and exhibitors a richer way to present their products, services, images, videos, and company details.
For vendors, the update creates a stronger discovery experience and gives them more room to explain their value. For attendees, it becomes easier to understand which companies are relevant to their needs. For organizers, the marketplace becomes more than a static sponsor list. It becomes a year-round connection and revenue opportunity. The Vendor Marketplace is especially important for associations and event organizers looking to create stronger non-dues revenue opportunities without adding another complicated program for their teams to manage.
By helping vendors become more discoverable to the right audience, MatchPoint gives organizers a more intentional way to connect supplier visibility with attendee interest.
Cleaner Dashboards for Organizers and Vendors
The release also includes refreshed organizer and vendor dashboards with a cleaner, more intuitive user experience. Organizers can more easily manage event details, while vendors have a stronger home base for updating company profiles and marketplace information.
The goal is simple: reduce friction behind the scenes so event teams and vendors can spend less time navigating setup and more time creating value.
What the New Feature Suite Helps Events Do
With this new release, MatchPoint helps event organizers address some of the most persistent challenges in event engagement and ROI:
From Event Attendance to Event Outcomes
For years, event success has often been measured by attendance, booth traffic, session participation, and satisfaction surveys. Those metrics still matter, but they do not tell the full story.
The next standard for events is outcomes.
MatchPoint’s latest feature release is built around that shift. The platform helps organizers collect better signals, create more relevant pathways, and design connection experiences that produce measurable value.
“Events are full of opportunity, but opportunity does not automatically turn into outcomes,” McGlade said. “That is where MatchPoint comes in. We help organizers design the connections that make events more valuable for attendees, vendors, sponsors, exhibitors, and the organization itself.”
About MatchPoint
MatchPoint is an AI-powered networking platform helping events deliver measurable ROI through smarter, intent-based connections. The platform supports attendee discovery, AI-powered matchmaking, built-in messaging, vendor visibility, engagement insights, structured meeting programs, and year-round connection opportunities. MatchPoint helps associations, event organizers, sponsors, exhibitors, vendors, and attendees create more valuable relationships before, during, and after events. Learn more at www.thematchpoint.com.
Contact:
[email protected]
EDISON, NJ — MatchPoint, the AI-powered networking platform built to help events deliver measurable ROI through smarter, intent-based connections, today announced the launch of a new suite of product features designed to help associations and event organizers create more meaningful event outcomes for attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, and vendors.
The new release includes Pre-Event Goals Surveys, Event Agenda tools, SpeedMatch, expanded Vendor Marketplace Listings, and refreshed organizer and vendor dashboards.
The launch comes at a time when event organizers are under increasing pressure to prove that their events are creating more than attendance. Attendees want relevant conversations. Exhibitors want warmer leads. Sponsors want clearer value. Vendors want stronger visibility. And organizers need a better way to show that their event created real business opportunities, not just badge scans, booth traffic, and busy rooms.
MatchPoint’s latest release is designed to meet that challenge by helping organizers move from passive networking to intentional connection design.
“Networking has always been one of the biggest reasons people attend events, but for too long it has been left to chance,” said Bill McGlade, Co-Founder of MatchPoint. “Organizers work hard to bring the right people into the room, but the real value is created when those people actually find each other. These new features help organizers capture attendee intent, guide better connections, and create a stronger ROI story for every stakeholder involved.”
A Smarter Way to Understand Attendee Intent
At the center of the release is MatchPoint’s new Pre-Event Goals Survey, which helps organizers understand what attendees are actually trying to accomplish before they arrive.
Instead of relying only on profile data, job titles, company names, or broad categories, organizers can now capture deeper attendee intent. They can let AI generate attendee-specific questions, create one default question for all participants, or build keyword-matched questions based on attendee profiles.
That matters because two attendees can have similar backgrounds and completely different goals. One may be looking for strategic partnerships. Another may be searching for vendors. Another may want peer connections, career insight, funding opportunities, or specific subject matter expertise.
By capturing the “why” behind each attendee’s participation, MatchPoint gives organizers better signals to support smarter match recommendations and more relevant event experiences.
Bringing the Agenda and Networking Experience Together
MatchPoint now gives organizers more flexibility to add an event agenda either through an external URL or natively inside the app. Attendees can browse sessions, save items to their personal schedule, and access key event information from the same experience where they discover people, vendors, and opportunities.
For attendees, this creates a more streamlined event journey. Instead of bouncing between a PDF, website, email thread, event app, and separate networking tool, they can plan their time and make connections in one connected experience.
For organizers, it brings the event agenda and networking strategy closer together, helping attendees make better decisions about where to go, who to meet, and how to get more value from the event.
SpeedMatch: Structured 1:1 Meetings Without the Manual Chaos
The release also introduces SpeedMatch, a faster way for organizers to create structured 1:1 meeting programs for attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, hosted buyers, vendors, and other participant groups.
Traditional appointment scheduling can require days of spreadsheets, back-and-forth communication, manual adjustments, and operational cleanup. SpeedMatch gives organizers a more efficient way to build and manage structured meeting schedules, including setup, participant rules, AI-powered scheduling, manual edits, and final publishing.
With SpeedMatch, meeting programs that once required heavy administrative lift can be created in seconds, helping organizers deliver more high-value conversations with less friction.
“Structured meetings can be incredibly valuable, but they are often painful to manage behind the scenes,” McGlade said. “SpeedMatch gives organizers a way to create those intentional conversations faster, while still giving them the control they need to make the experience work.”
Stronger Vendor Visibility Through Marketplace Listings
MatchPoint’s Vendor Marketplace Listing updates give vendors and exhibitors a richer way to present their products, services, images, videos, and company details.
For vendors, the update creates a stronger discovery experience and gives them more room to explain their value. For attendees, it becomes easier to understand which companies are relevant to their needs. For organizers, the marketplace becomes more than a static sponsor list. It becomes a year-round connection and revenue opportunity. The Vendor Marketplace is especially important for associations and event organizers looking to create stronger non-dues revenue opportunities without adding another complicated program for their teams to manage.
By helping vendors become more discoverable to the right audience, MatchPoint gives organizers a more intentional way to connect supplier visibility with attendee interest.
Cleaner Dashboards for Organizers and Vendors
The release also includes refreshed organizer and vendor dashboards with a cleaner, more intuitive user experience. Organizers can more easily manage event details, while vendors have a stronger home base for updating company profiles and marketplace information.
The goal is simple: reduce friction behind the scenes so event teams and vendors can spend less time navigating setup and more time creating value.
What the New Feature Suite Helps Events Do
With this new release, MatchPoint helps event organizers address some of the most persistent challenges in event engagement and ROI:
- Attendees can share what they are looking for before the event begins
- Organizers can use deeper intent data to support more relevant match recommendations
- Structured 1:1 meetings can be created faster through SpeedMatch
- Event agendas become easier to access and follow inside the attendee experience
- Vendors can showcase products, services, images, videos, and richer company details
- Organizers and vendors can manage event and marketplace information through a cleaner dashboard experience
- Sponsors and exhibitors can gain stronger visibility into relevant attendee interest
From Event Attendance to Event Outcomes
For years, event success has often been measured by attendance, booth traffic, session participation, and satisfaction surveys. Those metrics still matter, but they do not tell the full story.
The next standard for events is outcomes.
MatchPoint’s latest feature release is built around that shift. The platform helps organizers collect better signals, create more relevant pathways, and design connection experiences that produce measurable value.
“Events are full of opportunity, but opportunity does not automatically turn into outcomes,” McGlade said. “That is where MatchPoint comes in. We help organizers design the connections that make events more valuable for attendees, vendors, sponsors, exhibitors, and the organization itself.”
About MatchPoint
MatchPoint is an AI-powered networking platform helping events deliver measurable ROI through smarter, intent-based connections. The platform supports attendee discovery, AI-powered matchmaking, built-in messaging, vendor visibility, engagement insights, structured meeting programs, and year-round connection opportunities. MatchPoint helps associations, event organizers, sponsors, exhibitors, vendors, and attendees create more valuable relationships before, during, and after events. Learn more at www.thematchpoint.com.
Contact:
[email protected]
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