Cambridge, MA – November 12, 2024 – Wicket, the leading facial authentication platform provider, announced today that it has been named a Cool Vendor in the “2024 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Event Technology Tools” Report. In the report, Gartner noted that “Longer check-in processes for event attendees negatively impact the attendee and registration experience at hosted user events with large audiences and when there is a limited team capacity for scaling check-in.”
Wicket improves the live event experience by drastically reducing the on-site check-in and session access times while simultaneously bolstering event security and reducing badge sharing.
Wicket natively integrates with leading event management platforms, and event attendees can opt-in to facial check-in by providing a selfie during event registration. When they arrive on-site, attendees can skip the typical cumbersome on-site registration look-up and ID verification process by simply glancing at a Wicket sensor. Wicket validates their identity and notifies the event management platform to print or prepare the attendee’s badge. Wicket has been used at conferences with 1,000 to 45,000 attendees and has been proven to speed up on-site check-in four-fold.
Beyond check-in, Wicket speeds up session access, allowing event managers to control and track session attendance and eliminate badge sharing or fraudulent access. VIP, back of house, and restricted areas can also be controlled with Wicket, bolstering event security.
“We’re proud to be named a Gartner Cool Vendor,” said Alastair Partington, CEO of Wicket. “Our mission is to enable sensational event experiences, and for large conferences and trade shows, the first experience attendees have is on-site check-in. Our clients have seen a significant reduction in event check-in times, and event attendees consistently rank the facial check-in process as one of the best event experiences.”
Gartner, Cool Vendors in Event Technology Tools, By Amy Jenkins, Precious Ozokpo, Susan Graeme, 1 October 2024.
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ABOUT WICKET
Wicket (www.wicketsoft.com) is a computer vision AI company with offices in Cambridge, MA and Doylestown, PA. Wicket has developed and deployed software products for some of the biggest sports and entertainment customers in the United States. With a portfolio of issued and pending patents, Wicket’s Facial Authentication platform includes products for facial ticketing, facial access control, facial credentialing, VIP management, and security alerting for sports & entertainment, conferences & events, retail, education, hospitality, and enterprises.