Recommended AI Tools

The AI stack I recommend for event leaders.

A curated list of the AI tools I have used hands-on — and recommend to clients — for planning, content, attendee experience, analytics, and everything in between. Not sponsored. Not exhaustive. The ones worth your time.

= a personal favorite I keep coming back to

Strategy, Planning & Project Management

AI-powered platforms that help event leaders plan smarter, manage complexity, and keep programs on track.

Notion AI

Program planning, briefs, and knowledge base

Best all-in-one workspace for event teams. AI drafts briefs, summarizes meetings, and surfaces answers from your own docs.

Asana AI (Smart Fields)

Task management and cross-functional workflows

Auto-summarizes projects, drafts status updates, and identifies risks — cuts hours of PM work each week.

Monday.com AI

Event project management and resource planning

Great for teams already running events in Monday. AI automations remove low-value manual work.

ClickUp Brain

Cross-team planning and documentation

Powerful for consolidating briefs, timelines, and vendor docs in one AI-searchable place.

Content, Copy & Communications

Tools for drafting event content — from executive briefs to attendee communications, promotional copy, and social.

ChatGPT (with Projects)

Executive drafting, brainstorming, analysis

My daily driver. Best for briefs, session descriptions, exec talking points, and structured thinking. Use Projects to keep event context persistent.

Claude

Long-form writing and document analysis

Best for reviewing long RFPs, contracts, and post-event reports. Feels more editorial and less templated than most models.

Gemini

Research, competitive analysis, Google-integrated workflows

Strong for research-heavy work and anything that touches Docs, Sheets, and Gmail.

Jasper

Marketing copy at scale

Best when the marketing team owns event promotion and needs brand-consistent copy across many channels.

Copy.ai

Sales and campaign copy for event promotion

Fast for landing pages, invitation emails, and outreach sequences tied to events.

Design, Creative & Presentations

Design and creative AI that keeps event brand assets, decks, and visuals on-brand without waiting on agency cycles.

Canva Magic Studio

Signage, social, and quick event graphics

The fastest way to keep event visuals consistent when you don't have a designer available.

Adobe Firefly

On-brand imagery and creative iteration

Best for teams already in Adobe. Commercially safe generative imagery for keynote visuals and marketing assets.

Beautiful.ai

Executive-ready presentation decks

Perfect for exec readouts, board briefs, and event recap decks. AI keeps slides clean without a designer.

Gamma

Fast, modern decks and one-pagers

Best for turning a brief into a polished deck in minutes. Great for internal alignment docs.

Tome

Narrative decks and pitches

Strong for storytelling — sponsor pitches, exec narratives, and event vision decks.

Attendee Experience & Engagement

AI features built into event platforms that improve matchmaking, engagement, and the attendee experience.

Cvent AI (Cvent IQ)

Enterprise event management + AI-powered attendee insights

The category leader. Best fit for large, complex event portfolios with real reporting needs.

RingCentral Events

Conferences, user summits, and executive events

Modern virtual, hybrid, and in-person event platform with strong engagement, AI-assisted matchmaking, and a clean attendee experience.

Swoogo

Event registration, websites, and attendee management

Highly configurable event platform with flexible branding, strong registration workflows, and a user-friendly builder for event marketers.

Grip

AI-powered attendee matchmaking

Best-in-class for 1:1 meetings, sponsor-attendee matchmaking, and networking at conferences and trade shows.

Brella

Networking-first event platform

Great AI matchmaking engine for business networking events, summits, and trade shows.

Swapcard

AI matchmaking and community

Popular for association and community-driven conferences with strong networking goals.

Registration, Ticketing & Onsite

Registration and onsite tools using AI to reduce friction for attendees and lift check-in throughput.

RainFocus

Enterprise registration and content management

Excellent for flagship user conferences with complex registration flows and session management.

Zenus AI

Ethical facial analytics and check-in

Privacy-respecting attendee analytics that measures dwell time, sentiment, and engagement without capturing identities.

Meetings, Notes & Follow-Ups

AI meeting tools that keep event teams, agencies, and stakeholders aligned across dozens of concurrent conversations.

Fathom

Meeting notes, recordings, action items

My go-to. Clean summaries, searchable transcripts, and action items with almost no setup.

Fireflies.ai

Meeting transcription and search

Great for teams that need a searchable archive across every planning and vendor call.

Otter.ai

Live transcription and meeting notes

Strong for note-taking during agency meetings, run-of-show walkthroughs, and stakeholder reviews.

Granola

AI notepad for high-signal meetings

Best when you want to stay present in exec conversations but capture crisp, decision-ready notes.

AI Hubs & Task Engines

Centralized AI platforms that give event teams access to many models and pre-built tasks in one place.

Sparkit.ai

AI made accessible for events

One place to access the best AI models with 150+ tasks built for event professionals — from content creation to feedback analysis — so teams work smarter, not harder.

Video, Audio & Post-Event Content

Tools that turn keynote recordings, panels, and session footage into content that extends the life of your event.

Descript

Video and podcast editing

Edits video like a text document. Best tool I've used for cutting keynote highlights and speaker reels fast.

Opus Clip

AI-generated short-form clips from long videos

Turns keynotes and panels into shareable short-form clips for social and post-event nurture.

HeyGen

AI video avatars and translation

Great for personalized invite videos, executive recaps, and multilingual event promotion.

ElevenLabs

AI voice generation and dubbing

Excellent voice quality for narrated recap videos, sponsor content, and multilingual sessions.

Data, Analytics & ROI

AI that helps event leaders measure business impact and translate event data into executive-ready insight.

6sense

Account intelligence for account-based events

Essential when you're building executive dinners, exec briefings, and account-based programs tied to revenue.

Demandbase

Account-based marketing and event targeting

Great for aligning event investment with the accounts sales actually wants in the room.

Salesforce Einstein

Pipeline reporting and event attribution

Where most enterprise event ROI stories get told. Einstein layers AI onto attribution and forecasting.

Tableau + Einstein AI

Executive event dashboards

For teams building CFO-ready event dashboards and portfolio views across programs.

Productivity & Research

General-purpose AI I lean on daily for research, thinking, and executive prep.

Perplexity

Fast, cited research

My default for competitive research, destination scans, and quick vendor discovery. Sources are always cited.

Zapier AI

Workflow automation across tools

Best for wiring your event stack together — registration, CRM, project management, and notifications.

Superhuman AI

Inbox management for busy leaders

Cuts email time meaningfully. Great for event leaders juggling agencies, vendors, and executives.

A note on this list

These are the tools I recommend based on hands-on work with enterprise event teams. I have used every tool on this list in some capacity — the starred ones are personal favorites I return to again and again. No affiliate links. No paid placements. If you're a vendor who thinks you belong here, get in touch.