Whova vs Webex Events
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Event management and conference app platform serving 50K+ events annually; attendee networking, agenda management, and exhibitor lead capture for mid-sized conferences competing with Cvent.
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Whova is an event management and event app platform providing conference management software, event mobile apps, virtual event hosting, and attendee networking features for professional conferences, trade shows, and corporate events. Founded in 2013 by Yuanyuan Zhou and Minglan Shi in San Diego, California, Whova has raised approximately $5 million (bootstrapped with small outside investment) and serves over 50,000 events annually ranging from small professional conferences to large trade shows, earning consistent recognition as a top event app platform.\n\nWhova's event app provides conference attendees with a complete event experience: interactive agenda with session filtering and personal schedule building, speaker profiles and session materials, networking (connecting attendees with shared interests via the AI-powered matchmaking), exhibitor booths with lead scanning, community boards for discussion, and live Q&A and polling during sessions. The event management backend enables organizers to manage speaker submissions, agenda building, badge printing, and event analytics from a single platform.\n\nIn 2025, Whova competes in the event technology market against Cvent (enterprise events), Eventbrite (ticketing and registration), RainFocus, Swapcard, and Guidebook for event app and conference management platform share. The event industry has returned strongly post-COVID with in-person conferences back to pre-pandemic levels. Whova's value proposition — a comprehensive event app at more accessible pricing than enterprise platforms like Cvent — makes it competitive for mid-sized conferences (500-10,000 attendees) where full Cvent implementation is too expensive. The 2025 strategy focuses on growing its hybrid event capabilities, expanding internationally, and adding AI-powered session recommendations and attendee matching features.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) Webex Events enterprise virtual/hybrid event platform from Socio acquisition; 16M+ Webex Calling user ecosystem competing with Cvent and Bizzabo for enterprise conference and field event management.
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Webex Events is a virtual and hybrid event management platform — operated by Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), a San Jose, California-based enterprise networking and collaboration company generating $55.8 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2024 — providing event planners, marketers, and enterprise teams with the complete technology stack for in-person, hybrid, and virtual events: attendee registration and ticketing, event website builder, session scheduling, live streaming, virtual networking (AI-powered matchmaking, virtual booth halls), on-site badge printing and check-in, session engagement (live polls, Q&A, gamification), and post-event analytics. Webex Events was built primarily through Cisco's 2021 acquisition of Socio Labs (an event technology platform), combined with Cisco's own webinar and large-meeting infrastructure from the Webex Meetings platform.
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