Qualification before hospitality
A hosted buyer who cannot buy costs the programme twice — the travel and the exhibitor’s wasted hour. Qualification criteria, verification and a decline process are set before invitations go out.
Meetings, not footfall
Hosted Buyer Programmes
Qualified buyers brought to a show in exchange for a committed meeting quota — matched on real interest, scheduled properly and reported honestly.
- Typical size
- 40 – 600 hosted buyers
- Duration
- 2 – 4 show days
- Audience
- Show organisers, trade bodies, exhibitions with a B2B matchmaking layer
- Kind of event
- Exhibitions
The format
A hosted buyer programme is a trade: the organiser pays for the buyer’s travel and the buyer commits to a number of meetings. It works when the meetings are relevant, and it collapses into resentment when they are not.
Our matching ranks mutual interest above everything — two parties who each asked for the other have already agreed — then fills toward each buyer’s quota rather than maximising a total score, and reports who is short so somebody can pick up a phone.
How we plan it
Mutual interest outranks overlap
Category matching produces plausible meetings. Two parties who each requested the other produces useful ones. The scoring gap between them is deliberately large.
A quota is a contract
The scheduler fills toward each buyer’s committed number rather than optimising a global score, and surfaces the shortfalls as a list of calls rather than a statistic.
Draft until published
The diary stays a draft so it can be rebuilt without confusing three hundred people, then publishes to both portals at once with travel and stand locations attached.
Where it goes wrong
What we look for first on this format.
Every format has a small set of recurring failures. None of them are mysterious; they are just the things that get planned last and matter most.
- 01
Buyers scheduled into back-to-back meetings across the whole hall
- 02
The same exhibitor and buyer paired twice by accident
- 03
A diary published before the exhibitor list is final
- 04
No process for a buyer who does not show up on day two
Services this format uses
The services behind it.
Organiser · exhibitors · floor · leads
Exhibition & Trade Show Management
Trade shows, country pavilions and expo presences — organiser liaison, stand delivery, freight and customs, staffing, the meeting diary and the lead handover.
Register · check in · match · report
Event Technology & Data
The platform behind the programme — registration, portals, QR badging, matchmaking, live boards and a close-out data handover in a format your team can use.
Air · ground · accommodation · movement
Corporate & Group Travel
Group air, rail, hotels, visas, transfers and manifests coordinated around the programme schedule by one travel desk that knows why each person is travelling.
Sectors that run this
Same format, different rules.
GOVGovernment & Public SectorProtocol, security, procurement rules and delegations that travel with their own requirements — planned with the agencies rather than around them.
TMDTelecom & MediaA sector that meets at a handful of very large international shows, where presence is expensive and the meeting diary decides the return.Other formats
Often planned alongside.
10 – 60 delegates
Leadership & Board Offsites
Private working programmes for boards and executive teams — the property, the arrivals, the pacing and the discretion.
200 – 2,000 delegates
Annual Conferences
Multi-day company conferences connecting plenary, breakouts, travel, hotels, hospitality and several hundred people arriving at once.
100 – 1,500 delegates
Sales Kick-Offs
The start-of-year meeting that sets the target, the message and the energy for a field organisation — content-heavy, fast-paced and unforgiving of a slow room.
Planning hosted buyer programmes? Send the brief.
Qualified buyers brought to a show in exchange for a committed meeting quota — matched on real interest, scheduled properly and reported honestly.
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