The conference app for government and the public sector
Public sector procurement screens on compliance before capability, and event67 fails several of the standard screens. This page leads with those rather than with features, because that is the fastest way to be useful.
A planning figure for a departmental or municipal conference. Public hearings usually sit well below this and often inside the free tier.
Public sector events, from staff days to hearings
A public sector event app covers the gatherings an agency, department or municipality runs: staff conferences, professional development days, public hearings and consultations, and inter-agency meetings. event67 provides the programme, question collection with upvoting, a moderation queue and analytics. It has no streaming, no VPAT, no single sign-on and no compliance certifications, and in this sector any one of those can be disqualifying.
Staff conferences and professional development
A departmental conference behaves like any other: tracks, sessions with speakers and rooms, workshops with real seat limits enforced on the server, and per-session feedback. Per-event moderator roles let a divisional coordinator run their own day without access to the agency's account, and team chat and billing carry audit trails.
Public hearings and consultations
Questions collected during the notice period and ranked by upvote give a chair a defensible order and give officers time to prepare real answers. The visible ranked list is what makes an ordering feel legitimate rather than arbitrary. Moderation decisions are not logged, though the reports archive keeps every question with its vote count.
Inter-agency and stakeholder meetings
Smaller, cross-organisational, with a directory that lets people from different bodies actually find each other. Invites reach only imported addresses and event sites are not indexed by search engines, so a working group is private without configuration.
Community engagement events
Neighborhood sessions, town halls and open days usually sit under fifty activated attendees, which means they cost nothing. Questions submitted in advance with voting change the character of these meetings more than any other single feature.
The record afterwards
Every question with its vote count, every poll result and every moderation action stays in the reports archive for the event. Publishing answers to what the panel did not reach is the cheapest and most visible way to demonstrate that a consultation listened.
What changes for public engagement
The order of questions stops being contested
Taking the top question because the room voted for it is a different conversation from taking the question of whoever reached the microphone. In public engagement this is the substantive change, not a feature.
Access is scoped and logged
Per-event moderator roles keep a coordinator inside the event they are running, and team chat and billing carry audit trails. That is usually the control an internal audit asks about.
The long tail costs nothing
Each event carries its own free fifty activated attendees. For a body running many small community sessions a year, most of them fall inside the free tier outright.
The cost is capped and predictable
The per-event price stops rising at a thousand activated attendees, which for budgeting against an uncertain public turnout is more useful than a rate.
Small engagement events stop needing a budget line
The events a public body runs most often, meaning ward sessions, drop-ins and community forums, are precisely the ones too small to justify software. Under fifty activated attendees each is free with the whole feature set, so the question stops being whether the budget exists and becomes whether questions collected in advance would improve the meeting. Usually they would.
The compliance screens event67 does not pass
Read this list before anything else. Several of these are absolute for federal, state and many municipal procurements, and none is something we are working towards.
- No video streaming or broadcast. Many open-meetings requirements now expect a public livestream, and event67 does not provide one.
- No VPAT and no accessibility conformance report. There is a WCAG AA contrast check in the theme editor that warns and confirms before a save and never blocks one. That is a starting point, not conformance documentation.
- No compliance certifications asserted here, and no government-specific authorisation of any kind. If your procurement requires a named authorisation, treat that as a no and ask us directly rather than assuming.
- No single sign-on and no identity-provider integration.
- No public-records retention scheme, no records-request workflow and no legal hold.
- No voting, balloting or recorded decisions. Live polls are opinion instruments only.
- No anonymous questions. Every question carries the asker's identity, which for a sensitive hearing can suppress participation.
- No ticketing or payments.
- No data residency menu published here.
What a 300-attendee conference costs
Three hundred attendees activate. Fifty are free and the rest are billable once for the whole event, however many days and sessions it runs.
- activated attendees
- 300activated attendees
- billable, after the first 50 are free
- 250billable, after the first 50 are free
- for the whole event, at $5.00 each
- $1,250for the whole event, at $5.00 each
Community sessions under fifty activated attendees cost nothing, and most public meetings sit there.
What does exist, described honestly
A short list, deliberately, because a longer one would mean claiming things a procurement officer cannot verify.
| Control | What exists |
|---|---|
| Audit trail | Every administrative and moderation action is logged, though moderation itself is not logged. |
| Roles | Four levels: super admin, organization admin, moderator and attendee. Scope is per event. |
| Event record | The reports archive keeps every question with its vote count, every poll result and every photo for the event. |
| Notice delivery | Invites are branded and delivery is tracked per recipient. Whether that constitutes statutory notice is a determination for your own counsel. |
| Indexing | Event sites are noindex and nofollow. Nothing about your event is discoverable through search. |
| Accessibility | Contrast checking only. No conformance claim, no audit, no VPAT. |
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What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
Does event67 meet open-meetings requirements?
That is not a claim we will make, and a vendor who makes it about your jurisdiction should be treated carefully. In most jurisdictions the streaming requirement alone means event67 can be part of a process rather than the whole of it. What it provides is the agenda, question collection with voting, a moderation queue and an archive.
Do you have a VPAT or a FedRAMP authorisation?
No to both. There is a WCAG AA contrast check in the theme editor that warns and confirms before a save. There is no conformance report, no third-party audit and no government authorisation. If either is mandatory, event67 cannot be procured for that requirement.
Can the meeting be streamed?
No. There is no video streaming of any kind. Run the broadcast on your existing platform and use event67 alongside it for the agenda, the questions and the record.
Can residents ask questions anonymously?
No. Every question is attributed to the person asking. For a hearing on a sensitive local matter this materially changes who participates, and it should be weighed before adopting the tool.
What is the record of the meeting?
The reports archive holds every question with its vote count, every poll result, every photo and every moderation action for that event. It is not minutes and it is not a certified record; it is a complete account of what the floor raised.
Where is the data held?
We do not publish a data-residency menu on this page, and inventing one would be worse than saying so. Ask us directly during evaluation and we will answer precisely.
Who owns the record of a consultation?
You do, in the sense that the reports archive sits in your organisation's console and holds every question with its vote count, every poll result and every moderation action. What it is not is a records-management system: there is no retention schedule, no legal hold and no records-request workflow, so if the record has to satisfy a statutory retention obligation you will need to export and keep it yourself.
Can several departments use one account?
Yes. Organization admins and per-event moderators mean a department or a ward team runs its own events without access to anyone else's, and team chat and billing carry audit trails. That delegation is usually the control an internal audit asks about first.
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