Are your attendees listening and engaging, or are they scribbling? Conference notetaking has always forced attendees to make a difficult choice: either focus on the speaker’s content and risk forgetting crucial details later, or hurriedly jot down notes and lose the overall flow of the presentation.
Fortunately, the era of analogue notetaking and distraction is coming to an end, thanks to Cvent.
Cvent, a global leader in event technology, is addressing this classic pain point with a major advancement in conference notetaking, powered by CventIQ™.
CventIQ is an embedded intelligence layer that moves beyond generic AI by leveraging years of proprietary expertise and intelligent infrastructure to help attendees get more out of their experiences and event organisers personalise at scale to increase event impact.
Session snapshots: turning attention into insight
The Session Snapshot feature, powered by CventIQ and available in the Cvent Attendee Hub app, provides a real-time, accurate transcript of the speaker’s words directly in the event app, with virtually zero lag.
Instead of frantically taking notes on what the speaker just said, attendees simply have to tap a button when they hear something worth remembering. The system automatically captures not just that moment, but a full minute of the speaker’s words.
This raw transcript then undergoes an intelligent transformation. The app’s built-in AI capabilities automatically generate concise summaries and descriptive labels for each captured segment.
No more spending hours manually reviewing, categorising, or trying to decipher your own handwriting post-event. Attendees are free to focus entirely on the speaker and the experience, knowing a customised, searchable notes library is being curated in the background.
Powerful planner potential: Measuring true audience interest
While this feature greatly simplifies note-taking for attendees, it provides something event professionals rarely have: real-time, objective data on audience engagement for each session. Each attendee tap creates a data point showing precisely when attendees engage most deeply with a specific presentation.
This moves conference programming beyond educated guesses about audience interest. Instead of wondering if a keynote resonated, organisers can see exactly which segments generated the most interest. It further allows event organisers to identify content that works best, compare engagement across concurrent sessions, and spot emerging topics before they become trends.
A built-in partner for total event automation
Session Snapshots is just one example of CventIQ in action. This expansive intelligence layer acts as your built-in partner, automating time-consuming tasks across the entire event lifecycle. CventIQ can save your team hours by helping with everything from writing event content and creating social media posts to summarising event feedback and getting smart recommendations on the right people and sessions.
To learn more about how CventIQ can automate your way to more impactful events, click here.
