A conference organizer should be focused on bringing people together. Instead, the job often means juggling registration systems, booth layouts, spreadsheets and teams racing against the clock. Nextech3D.ai is developing agentic AI capabilities for its event operating system to simplify that work: organizers describe what they need, and the software helps build layouts, analyze event data and recommend pricing decisions. The opportunity starts with an existing business. Through September 23, 2026, Nextech3D.ai reported approximately $1 million in new customer contract value and 180 new customer contracts, alongside approximately 80% software gross margins. In this AGORACOM interview, CEO Evan Gappelberg and new SVP of Sales Chad Prezlomski explain how they plan to bring the evolving AI capabilities to that customer base, with Gappelberg increasing his equity exposure through salary conversion and open market purchases.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Talk To Your Event Software: Management describes AI capabilities demonstrated internally that let organizers request booth layouts and analyze event data using natural language. Gappelberg also outlines pricing recommendations, with organizers approving proposed changes.
- 180 New Customer Contracts: Nextech3D.ai reported approximately $1 million in new customer contract value from January 1 through September 23, 2026, excluding renewals and upsells. Its August update reported a 77% increase in average contract value versus the comparable 2025 period.
- CEO Commitment: Gappelberg received 7,420,880 shares at a deemed price of $0.10 per share to settle $742,088 in accrued salary.
- Enterprise Sales Experience: Chad Prezlomski joins as SVP of Sales after helping scale event technology company Splash to approximately $39 million in revenue before its acquisition by Cvent. His focus is winning enterprise business and expanding existing customer relationships.
- A Customer Base To Build On: Gappelberg says the platforms serve more than 800 organizers and support approximately 6,000 events annually, with Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amgen among the company’s customers.
STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS
The challenge in event planning is connecting all the moving parts. Registration, exhibitor sales, floor plans and post-event reporting can sit in separate systems. Prezlomski describes organizations using multiple tools to assemble a single event program, then struggling to turn the resulting data into decisions that improve the next conference.
Nextech3D.ai’s strategy brings AI into its Map D, Eventdex and KraftyLab portfolio. The company previously announced a unified event operating environment with a shared data and intelligence layer. Its latest agentic development is intended to make those workflows easier to direct through ordinary language.
Gappelberg offers a practical example from an internal demonstration: ask the AI to create booths of specified dimensions, set aisle widths and adjust the layout around larger sponsor spaces. He also describes recommendations on whether booth prices should change based on supply and demand. The organizer reviews the proposal and authorizes the software to act.
The longer term opportunity is to make each event more informed by what came before. Prezlomski envisions recommendations for layouts and registration informed by insights from previous conferences. Those broader capabilities remain part of the development roadmap, while customer presentations are already underway.
That gives the sales effort a concrete starting point. Nextech3D.ai has existing products, customer relationships and event workflows into which it can introduce new capabilities. Prezlomski’s task is to demonstrate their value to enterprise buyers and turn that interest into additional business.
CEO EVAN GAPPELBERG:
“We are bringing AI into an established platform. Real customers, real workflows, real commerce.”
Gappelberg’s investment commitment reflects his confidence in applying AI to the company’s existing event software businesses. His salary conversion and open market purchases increase his exposure to the outcome. Delivering that outcome now depends on product execution and customer adoption.
INVESTOR TAKEAWAY
Nextech3D.ai enters its next phase with reported commercial traction and a clear business problem to address. Event organizers want less time spent coordinating software and more useful insight into what makes their conferences work. The company is developing AI capabilities around those needs while pursuing growth across an established customer base.
The reported software gross margins provide context for the existing business. The new AI capabilities must now demonstrate their own customer value, while Prezlomski works to build repeatable enterprise sales and expand relationships with current accounts.
The next milestones are tangible: product demonstrations, additional contracts and evidence that customers are adopting the new capabilities. Together, those developments will show how effectively Nextech3D.ai can turn its AI event planning strategy into sustained commercial progress.
Watch the full AGORACOM interview for Gappelberg and Prezlomski’s discussion of the technology, customer opportunity and enterprise sales plan.
Last modified: October 13, 2026
