Custom Development
MTB Events
MTB Events runs Meet the Buyer events across the marine and aviation industries, bringing suppliers and buyers together at gatherings worldwide, from Malta to Nashville. The software that makes each event run, matching the right people and managing every delegate, is built, hosted and managed by Strategies.
About
MTB Events
A Meet the Buyer event lives or dies on logistics: the right suppliers matched to the right buyers, schedules that work, delegates managed from registration to the event floor. MTB Events needed bespoke software to orchestrate all of it, and one partner to keep that software running flawlessly at every event, anywhere in the world. Strategies builds the platform, hosts it on our secure UK infrastructure, and manages it day to day, so MTB can focus on running world-class events rather than the technology behind them.
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The challenge
Complex events, run like clockwork
Meet the Buyer events are intricate to coordinate. Every delegate needs registering and managing; buyers and suppliers need pairing into meetings that actually make commercial sense; and schedules have to hold together across events staged in different countries throughout the year. Off-the-shelf event tools couldn’t handle MTB’s specific matchmaking model, and with events running internationally, the platform behind them had to be reliable wherever and whenever it was needed.
The solution
Bespoke software, fully looked after
We built MTB a dedicated events platform designed around exactly how their Meet the Buyer model works, with a delegate portal that handles registration, scheduling and the supplier-to-buyer matching at the heart of every event. Because we host it on our own enterprise-grade UK infrastructure and manage it ourselves, the same team that built the software keeps it running: monitored, secure and supported, so it performs reliably at every event on the calendar. Alongside the platform, MTB’s public site keeps the industry engaged with an events calendar, galleries and a busy news feed.
The impact
One partner, every event, year after year
MTB Events runs a full international calendar across marine and aviation knowing the technology underneath simply works, event after event. Delegates register and get matched smoothly, the MTB team manages everything from one platform rather than juggling suppliers, and a single partner takes care of development, hosting and support together. It’s a long-running partnership built on software that quietly does its job every time.