Association Technology Showcase 2026

09:30 - 09:55

How to select an Events technology and/or Partner

10:00 - 10:55

How AAE delivers 80 events a year with a team freed from admin

Damian Hutt, Executive Director of the Association of Association Executives, shares how AAE transformed its events operation using ReadyMembership — moving from disconnected tools and generic delegate communications to a fully automated seminar programme and a flagship World Congress where every attendee receives a genuinely personalised experience.

Damian walks through what it took to free his team from the operational overhead of running approximately 80 events a year, how AAE built from basic automation to 36 distinct delegate personalisations, and what the architecture of your event platform makes possible when it's truly integrated with your membership data.

• Who AAE is, the scale and variety of the events programme, and what the team's time used to go on before the platform started doing it for them
• The automation mechanics behind the seminar programme, the personalisation engine behind the World Congress, and how AAE moved from three audience segments to 36
• What the journey looks like over time, the NPS improvement, and what associations at any scale can take from AAE's experience
   

11:00 - 11:55

Case Study presentation of technology from a supplier

12:00 - 12:55

Case Study presentation of technology from a supplier

13:00 - 13:55

Case Study presentation of technology from a supplier

14:00 -14:55

Case Study presentation of technology from a supplier

15:00 - 15:55

Case Study presentation of technology from a supplier