Cvent Named 'Best Event Platform' in 2026 Digiday Technology Awards for Second Consecutive Year

Back-to-back recognition reflects how marketers are making events a connected, measurable part of their growth strategy

TYSONS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cvent, a leading provider of event, marketing and hospitality technology solutions, recently announced that for the second consecutive year it has been named the winner in the Best Event Platform category in the 2026 Digiday Technology Awards.

The Digiday Technology Awards recognize the companies using AI and other technologies to help marketers deliver personalized experiences, target precisely and measure performance across platforms and channels. The award reflects the growing importance of events as a growth channel marketers can plan, measure and scale. The win places Cvent alongside fellow 2026 winners PolyAI, Taboola, Contentful and Docusign.

Digiday introduced the Best Event Platform category in 2025, reflecting the growing recognition of events as a core part of marketing. Cvent has been the sole winner of this category both years.

Event-Led Growth in Practice: Inovalon

This year's recognition is grounded in Cvent's work with Inovalon which wanted its events connected through technology and the ability to prove their return on investment.

Cvent helped Inovalon bring registration, onsite check-in, attendee engagement, and lead capture together on one platform. By connecting that event data to its marketing automation, CRM and business intelligence systems, Inovalon enabled its sales and marketing teams to follow up faster and with more context and gave leadership a direct line of sight from event engagement to pipeline and revenue. With that foundation in place, Inovalon met its goals and turned its flagship event from a marquee brand moment into a measurable growth channel.

“Events are a growth strategy,” said Chuck Ghoorah, Co-Founder and President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Cvent. “The one thing you can’t automate with AI is showing up to the event, whether in person, digitally or on demand, and that’s why events build trust like nothing else. There is no better first-party buying signal. When marketers connect event experiences, from in-person events to webinars, to the broader tech stack, events can speak the CFO’s language of pipeline and revenue. Our job is to give marketers one platform for every event they run and enable them to prove their value. Being recognized by Digiday two years in a row reflects how well our customers are doing exactly that, and Inovalon is a great example.”

Cvent continues to invest in data, integrations and AI-powered capabilities that help marketers connect events to business outcomes. That includes CventIQ™, the AI that powers our platform, backed by a three year $1B+ product investment the company announced at Cvent CONNECT 2026. It also includes the recently launched Cvent Center for Event Insights, a leadership initiative at the intersection of events, hospitality, and technology to unlock research, best practices and ideas that move the industry forward.

About Cvent

Cvent builds technology to power the highest performing events on the planet. With its purpose-built and AI-powered platform, data insights, unrivaled ecosystem, and deep expertise, Cvent helps its customers deliver real event outcomes.

Cvent gives event professionals the technology to run in-person, virtual, and hybrid events of any size, marketers the solutions to deliver event-led growth, and hotels, venues, and destinations a leading global marketplace to win and keep business. With intelligent tools across the event lifecycle, real-time analytics, personalized attendee experiences, and $20B+ in group business sourced through the ecosystem annually, Cvent delivers the AI-driven technology, insight, and scale customers need to power high-performing events and better outcomes.

445,000+ users across 34,000+ organizations rely on Cvent. With enterprise-grade security and compliance, hundreds of industry accolades, leading customer satisfaction, 8M+ events managed, and its third consecutive year as a Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Event Marketing and Management Platforms, customers around the world trust Cvent to deliver when it matters most. Learn more at Cvent.com.