Articles
Guides for event organizers
Plain answers to the questions organizers ask before they choose a networking tool. Each article names its author and the date it was last reviewed.
Background
How event networking works and what buyers check.
- GDPR for event networking apps: what a public buyer checks
Seven questions a city or university should ask any event networking vendor before a pilot, and what a good answer looks like. With Kohtaa's own answers.
- How to run a matchmaking event without an app download
A practical run-sheet for networking at an in-person event when attendees will not install anything: the link, the QR, the first minute, the follow-up.
- How to measure networking at an event (and report it to sponsors or a funder)
Which networking numbers mean something (those both sides confirmed) and which do not, and how to report them to sponsors or a funder anonymously.
- Open networking vs booked meetings: which format for which event
When to let people mingle and confirm who they met, and when to book 1:1 meetings with a time and a table. A decision table by event type and size.
Planning
Formats, data and setup for your event.
- Buying event software under a procurement threshold in Finland
What the national threshold is, why internal limits vary, why splitting a purchase is not allowed, and how per-event pricing fits a small purchase.
- Registration data, Lyyti and your networking tool: who holds what
When registration runs in one system and networking in another: which data moves, who is the controller of each copy, and what is deleted when.