April 2026 Product Updates

What

Made Meeting Program participation conditions optionally include or exclude team members so organizers can configure exclusive sponsored-only or hosted-buyer programs.

Why

Organizers needed to restrict certain programs to Meeting Sponsors and Hosted Buyers without regular team members being eligible, but previous settings could not separate these groups.

Why it’s helpful

Gives organizers fine-grained control over who can join high-value meeting programs, ensuring all generated meetings align with sponsorship commitments and commercial objectives.

What

Added a random sorting option for sponsors and sponsored products in the Marketplace alongside existing priority and matchmaking-based sorting.

Why

Events with large sponsor lists were consistently surfacing the same top sponsors, which limited visibility for others and created concerns about fairness and value.

Why it’s helpful

Random rotation spreads exposure more evenly across sponsors, improving perceived fairness, sponsor satisfaction, and the diversity of content attendees engage with.

What

Updated recommendation blocks in event email templates to use a full-width layout with clear visual boundaries, consistent with existing visitor blocks.

Why

The previous layout for exhibitor, product, and sponsor recommendations looked cramped and visually inconsistent, reducing clarity and perceived quality of campaign emails.

Why it’s helpful

Delivers more polished, scannable emails that better highlight recommended entities, helping organizers drive higher engagement with exhibitors, products, and sponsors.

What

Introduced a per-card toggle in Website Builder that lets organizers hide the button on individual card components while keeping buttons visible on others.

Why

Organizers often needed cards that were purely informational or decorative, but previously had to rely on custom CSS or workarounds to remove unwanted call-to-action buttons.

Why it’s helpful

Enables quick, code-free control over card behavior so organizers can fine-tune page layouts, reduce visual noise, and avoid confusing or unnecessary calls to action.

What

Added configurable border and shadow styling options for individual card views across Website Builder where these options were previously missing.

Why

Some card layouts offered richer styling than others, which limited design consistency and made it harder to create cohesive, on-brand event websites.

Why it’s helpful

Gives organizers consistent visual controls across all card types, making it easier to emphasize key content, improve hierarchy, and maintain a unified design language.

What

Corrected indexing and ranking so that exact name matches for people, sessions, products, and news appear at the top of search results.

Why

Users searching by specific names were seeing less relevant results ranked higher due to description text dominating relevance, which slowed discovery of the intended entity.

Why it’s helpful

Improves the reliability and predictability of search, enabling buyers and attendees to find the exact people, companies, and content they want more quickly and with fewer attempts.

What

Adjusted sponsored meeting limit validation in Speed Networking so that checks apply only to newly created meetings instead of re-validating already generated ones.

Why

Admins and concierge users were being blocked by validation errors when creating or adjusting meetings during setup, because legacy meetings were unnecessarily included in the limit checks.

Why it’s helpful

Reduces friction for event staff managing meeting programs, allowing them to confidently adjust schedules while still respecting sponsorship limits for new meetings.

What

Updated Online Exhibitor Services so exhibitors see Exhibitor Manual documents only in the language that matches their selected event language.

Why

At multilingual events, exhibitors previously saw multiple language versions of the same document together, which created confusion and made it harder to locate the correct guidance.

Why it’s helpful

Streamlines preparation for exhibitors by presenting only relevant documentation in their chosen language, reducing mistakes and support overhead for organizers.

What

Enabled organizers to upload separate Exhibitor Manual files for each enabled event language under a single document entry in Exhibitor Tools.

Why

Previously, organizers had to create multiple parallel document entries or complex workarounds to support language-specific versions of the same manual, which complicated maintenance.

Why it’s helpful

Simplifies multilingual documentation management, keeping related language versions grouped together and easier to keep in sync as content evolves.