Networking that works when the Wi-Fi doesn't.
Ten thousand attendees in one keynote hall, every one of them opening the event app at once, and the venue network folds. Zeva runs inside your conference app and turns attendees' phones into the network, so matchmaking, session alerts and sponsor messages keep working from the keynote to the closing party.
Written for conference organizers, event technology leads and attendee-experience teams.
- Runs inside your existing event app platform
- Attendee matchmaking and Find with no service
- Session and room changes that reach the whole hall
The numbers behind the pitch
- of smartphones in use support BLE 5.0+, with 2× data rate and long-range modes
- 95%
- Source: Bluetooth SIG
- devices on Apple's passive Find My Bluetooth mesh, with negligible battery drain
- ~1B
- Source: Apple
- year-over-year data volume at one 2025 event, 172 TB in a single day
- +35%
- Source: Verizon
What fails on show day
Hall Wi-Fi is sold per event and sized for average use. Conferences peak all at once.
Keynote collapse
Hall Wi-Fi gives out when the whole audience opens the app at the same moment, which is the one moment you need it.
Networking apps with no network
Attendee matchmaking is the feature people came for, and it needs connectivity in the densest room of the event.
Session changes nobody receives
Room moves and overflow notices go out as pushes that land after the session has already started.
Sponsor messages that miss
Sponsors paid for a moment in the app. When the hall is saturated, it arrives late or not at all.
What attendees and sponsors get
The room that breaks the Wi-Fi becomes the room with the best network in the building.
Nearby attendee discovery
Find and message the people in the room over the mesh. Matchmaking and meet-ups work with no service.
Session alerts that arrive
Room changes, overflow notices and start times reach the hall, the corridor and the coffee line.
Sponsor delivery you can prove
Every sponsored message reports delivered counts by hall, ready for the recap.
Keynote-hall intelligence
See the hall fill and the overflow room start to matter, from the mesh itself.
How it runs at a conference
Your event app platform, registration system and sponsorship tools stay in place.
- 1
Integrate
Add the Zeva SDK to your event app, or ship the white-label Zeva app alongside it. Attendees opt in when they install.
- 2
Place
Gateways sit at registration, the keynote hall and the main breakout corridor, on the wired drops you already order from the venue.
- 3
Run
A show-day dashboard shows mesh health, hall density and throughput. Everything else behaves as it does today.
Where conferences use Zeva
- 01Attendee matchmaking and FindDiscover and message the people in the room without service.
- 02Keynote and session alertsStart times and room changes reach the audience before they walk the wrong way.
- 03Overflow routingSend the late crowd to the overflow room while it still has seats.
- 04Sponsor messagingDelivery proof for every message sold on the event app.
- 05Networking receptionsFind the people you planned to meet in a room with no bars.
- 06Hall-to-hall wayfindingRouting that works in the corridor, not just the keynote hall.
Questions from conferences
The objections we hear most from teams like yours, answered plainly.
Run your next conference on the crowd.
We're selecting 2026–27 conferences for validated deployments. Share your agenda, floor plan and app platform; we'll map gateways and the SDK plan.