Navan has integrated AI-powered event planning platform BoomPop into its Meetings & Events platform, enabling use of BoomPop's sourcing and meetings management capabilities within Navan, the company announced.
BoomPop, which last year was named the winner of Phocuswright's Innovate: Launch competition, functions as a planning co-pilot, with users able to use natural language inquiries to get suggestions of dates, locations and venues and then source venues, negotiate requests for proposals and manage agendas and room blocks within the platform. With the Navan integration, users can perform those actions through the Navan Meetings & Events platform and manage venue invoices and contracts alongside travel and expense data.
Navan said last year it facilitated 30,000 events through its self-serve travel platform, and while it could manage individual traveler logistics, the sourcing for room blocks and venues had remained a manual process.
"Most companies remain trapped in a web of emails and spreadsheets, a time-consuming process that results in a poor experience for high-stakes events like sales kickoffs and team offsites," Navan SVP and general manager of meetings and events Galen Grady said in a statement. "At Navan, we’re creating a single ecosystem where our customers can manage the entire event lifecycle."
Navan said BoomPop's capabilities within its meetings and events platform currently is in beta for customers in the United States. Navan said it will have a "full launch in the near future."