With in-person conferences shut down by the pandemic for close to a year, many event organizers are trying to stay one step ahead of attendees’ “Zoom fatigue.” That’s not easy with many people’s calendars chock-full of company videoconference calls, webinars and virtual happy hours—not to mention after-work socializing.
Gatherly, an online events platform launched at Georgia Tech’s CREATE-X Startup Accelerator this past summer, hopes to offer conference attendees an experience that will keep them coming back.
Gatherly allows users to “walk” the floor of a virtual event venue.
Gatherly
The platform is different from much of the videoconferencing software that has proliferated in the pandemic in that it allows people to “walk” virtually around the floor of an event in a virtual building and mingle one-on-one when they want. That allows organizers to offer a networking component that is more like real life than many virtual…