- What BlaBlaNote Events actually is
- Two tiers of events: with and without organizer agreement
- Upcoming events worth knowing about
- Event mode kicks in
- The Hub: where you are, what’s next
- A personalized agenda, not a 60-page PDF
- People worth meeting, with a reason
- Exhibitors, scored
- Captures: the part that pays off later
- One CRM, across every event and your normal week
- What’s next
If you’ve been following us for a while, you know we have a soft spot for professional events. Conferences, summits, demo days, industry meetups, all the places where a single hallway conversation can change the trajectory of a quarter. The problem is that most of those rooms are still networking like it’s 2005. A badge with your name on it, a printed agenda, a vague hope that you’ll bump into the right person near the coffee.
We’ve been quietly building something to fix that, and today we’re ready to talk about it openly. It’s called BlaBlaNote Events, and it’s the part of BlaBlaNote that lives at the intersection of “use cases” and “networking”, the two lanes most of our users care about.
What BlaBlaNote Events actually is
BlaBlaNote Events is a directory and an event mode rolled into one. It lists upcoming professional events, lets you join them, and turns each event into a personalized experience inside BlaBlaNote, the personal CRM you already use day to day. Event mode is not a separate app: it is the same blablanote.app, the same one we talk about in our other posts, with the same contacts, the same voice notes, and the same follow-up engine, just pointed at a specific event for a few days.
You can browse the full list of upcoming events on our explorer page. It’s open to anyone, you don’t need an account to look around. If you spot an event you’re attending, you can join it from there and BlaBlaNote will start preparing the experience for you.
Two tiers of events: with and without organizer agreement
Not every event we list works the same way, and we want to be upfront about that.
Events with an organizer agreement. These are the conferences where we’ve partnered with the people running the show. The organizer shares the attendee list with us (with consent and proper data handling), gives us access to the agenda, and in some cases distributes BlaBlaNote to attendees as part of the official event experience. When an event is integrated like this, the matchmaking is stronger, the agenda is fully personalized, and the post-event report is much richer because we have the full picture of who was in the room.
Events without an organizer agreement. These are events we list because attendees asked us to. You can still join them, set your goals, and use BlaBlaNote to capture every conversation you have. What changes is the matchmaking surface: instead of working from the official attendee list, we work from public information, your existing network, and the people you tell us you’ve met. It’s still useful, just a bit more manual on the discovery side.
If you organize a professional event and you’d like to move it from the second tier to the first, we’d love to talk. Get in touch through our contact page and we’ll walk you through what an integration looks like. Spoiler: it’s lightweight, free for organizers in most cases, and your attendees end up thanking you for it.
Upcoming events worth knowing about
Our explorer page is the source of truth here, since we add events almost every week. You’ll find a mix of B2B summits, ecosystem events, vertical industry conferences, and smaller invite-only gatherings. Some are run by close partners, others by organizations that don’t even know we exist yet (their attendees do).
If you’re heading to one of them, the workflow is simple:
- Open the explorer and find the event.
- Join it from your BlaBlaNote account, or sign up if you’re new.
- Tell us what you’re looking for: investors in a specific stage, partners in a vertical, hiring conversations, or just “people doing interesting things”.
- We do the rest.
The “we do the rest” part is the bit worth unpacking, and it starts the moment the event begins.
Event mode kicks in
Once the doors open, BlaBlaNote switches into event mode: a focused workspace for that one event that lives a tap away on your phone, and waiting on your laptop when you’re back at the hotel. Everything you need during the event sits behind five tabs.
The Hub: where you are, what’s next
The Hub is your home base for the event. A live day counter (“Day 2 of 4”), a short positioning briefing that tells you what to focus on today based on what you already covered, and progress tiles for agenda, exhibitors, matchmaking, and captures. One glance and you know whether you’re on track or coasting.
A personalized agenda, not a 60-page PDF
The Agenda tab shows what’s happening now and what’s worth your time next, ranked. Sessions get scored against your goals (Must Attend 9/10, Recommended 7/10), so you stop scanning the full program for the three talks that actually matter to you. Tap + Assist on a session and BlaBlaNote folds it into your post-event recap and follow-ups.
People worth meeting, with a reason
People surfaces a ranked shortlist: the speakers and attendees who line up with what you said you’re after. No more guessing who’s in the room.
Open any one of them and you get the why: a plain-English reason you two should talk, plus a couple of conversation starters based on what’s public and any history you share. Not scripts, just a way to skip the small talk. Mark a hello and it drops straight into your captures.
Exhibitors, scored
Same logic for the expo floor. Every exhibitor gets a match score and a one-line “why for you”, tagged as a potential collaborator or provider, with the booth number so you walk straight there instead of wandering the hall. Filter by top match, pending, or already visited.
Captures: the part that pays off later
Every conversation you log during the event lands here, tied to this specific event in your timeline: a voice note thirty seconds after a chat, a quick text note at a booth, all of it linked to the right contact automatically.
If you’ve read our piece on smart event networking, you know what happens next. Voice notes after each chat, automatic linking to the right contact, summaries waiting for you on the train home. The short version: BlaBlaNote Events is the missing front-end to that experience. It makes sure you walk in prepared, and that the conversations you capture connect back to a specific event in your timeline.
A few weeks later, you can pull up that event in BlaBlaNote and see exactly what came out of it: how many contacts you added, how many turned into follow-ups, how many follow-ups turned into meetings, deals, or hires. That’s the kind of clarity that turns “I think that conference was useful” into a real ROI number you can put in front of your team or your CFO.
One CRM, across every event and your normal week
Here is the part that matters most: event mode is not throwaway. The event you join lives inside blablanote.app, your personal CRM, not in some standalone conference tool you forget by Monday. The event ends, the badge goes in a drawer, but the contacts, notes, and follow-ups stay exactly where the rest of your network already lives.
That is what makes BlaBlaNote cross-event. You might still download an organizer’s official event app for the venue map and the schedule, and that’s fine, use it for that. But that app goes quiet the moment the doors close. blablanote.app doesn’t. It follows you from one event to the next, and into the normal weeks in between: the investor you met in Madrid, the partner you called last Tuesday, the lead from a webinar, all in the same place, all compounding. Every event is just another chapter in one continuous relationship history, not a fresh spreadsheet you start from zero each time.
What’s next
Over the coming months we’ll be opening up more events, adding more integrated organizers, and shipping a few features we’re not quite ready to talk about yet (one of them involves group goals for teams attending together, and we think it’s going to be a big deal).
If you want to be part of it, here’s what to do today:
- Attendees: browse the explorer, find an event you’re going to, and join it. Even if your event is not integrated, event mode alone is worth the five minutes it takes to set up.
- Organizers: reach out through the contact page. We’d love to integrate your event, especially if you’ve been looking for a way to make networking less of a luck-based exercise for your attendees.
- Curious about the bigger picture: read our take on smart event networking and two styles of networking for the philosophy behind all of this.
Professional events are too expensive and too rare to leave to chance. BlaBlaNote Events is our attempt to make every one of them count, whether the organizer is in on it or not. See you at the next one.
