{"id":22,"date":"2026-04-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:00:00","slug":"brno-meetup-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"What we learned at the Brno event managers&#8217; coffee, April edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our April Brno meetup brought together eighteen event managers from corporate, agency, and nonprofit teams. The conversation was supposed to be about networking tools. It quickly became about something else: procurement.<\/p><p>Three takeaways stood out. First, almost everyone is paying for tools they don&#8217;t fully use. Second, the buying process is broken \u2014 long demos, sales calls, and unclear pricing are pushing teams toward simpler, self-serve options. Third, integration matters more than features.<\/p><p>The next Brno meetup is May 27 at Cafe Atlas. Reply to this post if you want to come.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen organizers, two hours, and a surprising amount of consensus on what&#8217;s broken in event tech procurement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventmanagersclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}