Boston Convention Venues Team Up With Technology Providers

The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority has signed agreements with Digitell Inc. and Attend.com to offer new services to planners using the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center and the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center. Digitell Inc., a provider of web-streaming services, will help planners to host more webcasts and live-streaming, as well as to capture content. Attend.com is local Boston startup that provides online registration and event management; its services are geared toward small to midsize events and include Internet, hardware and access to a wide array of registration functions. These include wireless nametag printing, mobile attendance-tracking, text-message alerts for VIP arrivals, and access to data and analytics following the event.