Event Tech Tools
17 free, open-source tools built for event professionals. Deploy and configure in minutes.
Operations
Run the logistics, ops and safety side of your event.
Event Ops Task & Supplier Tracker
Kanban-style pipeline for managing supplier communications across your event. Track tasks from first contact to confirmed β with staleness alerts when suppliers go quiet.
Supporting tools β enhance your operations
Briefing Generator
Generate professional briefing documents for clients, crew, speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors β automatically populated with live data from your other EventHive tools. Select an audience preset, choose your sections, preview the brief, and export to PDF in seconds.
Event Countdown Task Generator
Generate a complete reverse-timeline task plan from T-16 weeks to post-event. Click any task to edit title, description, notes, and next actions in a slide-out panel. Add, delete, or reorder tasks manually. Export your plan as a reusable template (JSON) or import a saved template. Push tasks directly to an Ops Tracker deployment. Erleah chat is built in β ask her to adjust your plan by name.
Lead Capture
Mobile-first lead capture and qualification tool for exhibitors and sponsors. Quick-add leads on the show floor, score them with BANT qualification criteria, generate follow-up tasks, match against attendee registrations, and export CRM-ready CSVs. Stop paying Β£15/day for badge scanners β this is free and better.
Registration Manager
Attendee registration management hub. Import attendees from any source (CSV or manual entry), manage ticket types with pricing tiers and capacity limits, configure custom registration fields, track check-in on event day, generate printable badges, and analyse registration pace, revenue, and conversion metrics.
Risk Assessment Compiler
Import your completed risk register from the Risk Assessment Wizard and compile it into a formatted risk assessment document. Includes venue hazard summary, event-specific risk register, scoring methodology key, control measures, and supplier RA status. Export as HTML (print to PDF), CSV, or JSON.
Risk Assessment Wizard
AI-powered step-by-step wizard that turns your venue's generic risk assessment PDF into a complete event-specific risk register. Upload the venue PDF, import your supplier and activity data, and walk through each risk area with AI-suggested controls and scores.
Run Sheet / Show Flow
Minute-by-minute production schedule with parallel track management, cascade timing recalculation, and Live Mode for real-time event-day execution. Auto-seeds from Countdown Planner.
Smart Task Manager
AI-powered task management with staleness tracking, cognitive load awareness, blocking dependencies, a parking lot for deferred work, and a product readiness dashboard. Designed for busy professionals who need clarity on what to do next.
Supplier Response Dashboard
A focused supplier communications view. See which suppliers have responded, who has gone quiet, and what needs urgent follow-up β in one glance. Reads live data from the Event Ops Tracker so your two tools always stay in sync.
Team Workload Heatmap
Visualise your team's workload week by week from T-12 to T+1. Spot bottlenecks before they hit, rebalance task loads across the team, and export a clean heatmap for leadership reviews.
Revenue
Manage budgets, sponsors and commercial relationships.
Event Budget Tracker
Financial planning and variance tracking with industry-standard cost categories, budget/actual/variance columns, RAG status per line item, scenario modelling (Best/Base/Downturn), PO & invoice tracking, key ratio dashboard, and CSV/PDF export.
Supporting tools β enhance your revenue
Event CRM β Deal Pipeline
Lightweight deal pipeline for event sales teams. Track sponsor prospects, exhibitor outreach, and partnership deals with staleness alerts, deal scoring, and weighted pipeline value.
Sponsor Deliverables Tracker
Full sponsor lifecycle management: profile CRUD with tier colour coding, package/tier templates with auto-populated deliverables, promised-vs-delivered matrix with RAG status, payment milestone tracking, pipeline Kanban, ROI dashboard, and export to CSV/PDF with Budget Tracker bridge.
Sponsor ROI Calculator
Interactive calculator that helps sponsors estimate their return on investment. Supports multiple tiers with custom pricing and configurable metrics.
Comms & Marketing
Coordinate speakers, exhibitors, registration and marketing.
Communications Timeline
The marketing control room for your event. Plan and visualise all outbound communications β email campaigns, social posts, press releases, sponsor announcements and speaker reveals β on a visual calendar. Includes audience segmentation, message templates, approval workflow, and ecosystem auto-suggestions from Speaker Programme and Sponsor Deliverables.
General
Cross-department tools and AI-powered assistants.
Knowledge Chat
An AI-powered chat widget that answers questions using your uploaded documents. Upload PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets and JSON files β the widget finds relevant information and responds in plain language.
Want more than a free tool?
Visual Hive, the team behind EventHive, can help at any level:
- π£οΈ Free discovery call β a no-strings conversation about your implementation needs
- π Coaching & training β a session or course tailored to your team's needs
- π οΈ Custom build β we can build or deploy tools specifically for your organisation