Attendee Engagement Releases for October 22, 2025

Attendee Hub

Session Priority Order

What's Changed: You can set the display order of concurrent sessions.

Benefit: When multiple sessions share the same start time, attendees will see them listed according to their intended display order—no more default sorting that could bury your most important sessions. This update enables you to highlight key sessions and guide attendee choices more effectively, particularly in events with complex schedules and numerous concurrent options.

Auto Record Embedded Collaborative Sessions

What's Changed: All embedded collaborative session is captured automatically when the host is present and the session begins.

Benefit: Eliminate manual steps, reduce friction, and ensure that every collaborative session is available for replay and accessibility—helping you to focus on delivering great content, not on remembering technical details.

Date Change

1. Enhanced Login Timeout Options for Attendee Hub have been delayed until further notice

Attendee Hub Event App Updates

View a summary of the app enhancements rolled out in each release window here.

Remember, Attendee Hub customers - If you have an active event between Wednesday and Sunday after this release date, you will not see these new features until Monday after the release. This is to ensure that we do not release features into active, ongoing events.

Essentials

Meeting Requesters in Access Portal

What's Changed: Access Portal users can now submit meeting requests and, once approved, utilize Cvent Essentials to create branded websites, manage registration, check in attendees onsite, run live polls, and send post-event surveys.

Key Capabilities:

• Streamlined requests: Request your event in the Access Portal; on approval, launch Essentials to set up and run it.

• Branded websites & registration: Build branded sites and manage end-to-end registration with templates.

• Onsite engagement: Check in attendees quickly and engage them with live polling and interactive tools.

• Post-event feedback: Capture insights with configurable surveys.

• Budget & venue sourcing: Track costs and source the right venue within the Access Portal.

• Central planning visibility: Give planners cross-event attendee data, reports, and engagement trends.

Benefit: 

• Accelerate event execution for extended users by connecting request, venue sourcing, attendee engagement, and feedback in a single, self-serve flow.

• Maintain brand consistency and policy compliance with governed access, approved templates, and clear admin controls.

• Improve operational efficiency and visibility with centralized reporting and cross-event insights for planning teams.

• Elevate attendee experience with streamlined registration, fast onsite check-in, interactive engagement, and timely feedback collection.

Access Portal Premium and Cvent Essentials licenses are required for a meeting requester to manage attendees via Cvent Essentials.

Date Change - Essentials and Webinar

1. Webinar Website Templates and Website Design - 10/22/2025

   1. Administrators will have access to design website layout templates with flexibility and ease, using preset sections and customizable components.

Additional Resources

Cvent Community: Do you have any questions about the updates we've rolled out this window? As always, get questions answered in the Community via the Open Forum.

Beta Program Opportunities: Help us make Cvent Products better by being the first to test products before they're widely available. Join Beta Programs.

Quarterly Product News Webinar: Stay tuned for our upcoming Q4 Product News webinar planned for November 19. Watch the recording of the Q3 Product News webinar here.