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EventsBeta Is Reimagining Event Discovery in a Community First Era

Massih Medi by Massih Medi
January 17, 2026 - Updated on January 20, 2026

EventsBeta Platform

With event marketing on the rise and Gen Z increasingly seeking experiences, events are becoming more important than ever. Platforms such as EventsBeta are emerging to address this shift, featuring more than 100 events across 20 cities globally while helping users discover events and organizers reach the right attendees.

The online events space remains highly fragmented. Attendees navigate multiple platforms, while organizers struggle to stand out with disconnected tools and face ongoing challenges securing sponsors. Creators, founders, and community builders are hosting more events than ever, from meetups and panels to demos and niche conferences, but many still rely on scattered channels to promote them. Social posts vanish in feeds, newsletters have limited reach, and most event platforms prioritize listings over meaningful outcomes.

The platform positions itself as both a discovery engine for attendees and a growth tool for event organizers, with a focus on increasing ticket sales and helping organizers connect with sponsors, especially for community-driven and emerging events.

A Discovery First Approach to Events

At its core, EventsBeta functions as an event discovery platform. Unlike traditional event directories that prioritize volume, EventsBeta focuses on relevance and quality by surfacing curated events across tech, startups, communities, and emerging ecosystems.

For attendees, this means finding events that are more niche and value driven, easier to browse and compare, and not buried beneath large scale conferences.

For organizers, discovery is only the starting point.

Helping Organizers Sell More Tickets

One of the biggest challenges for event organizers, particularly independent hosts and community builders, is distribution. Even well produced events struggle to reach the right audience at the right time.

EventsBeta is built with that problem in mind. By aggregating events into a single discovery layer and aligning them with relevant audiences, the platform aims to increase organic visibility beyond social media algorithms, reduce reliance on paid advertising, and drive more qualified traffic to ticket pages.

Rather than competing with ticketing platforms, EventsBeta complements them by focusing on the discovery phase that happens before a purchase decision is made, where most events either gain momentum or stall.

Connecting Sponsors With the Right Events

Sponsorship is another area EventsBeta is targeting. For many organizers, securing sponsors is time consuming and often unclear. For brands, finding the right events, especially smaller events with highly engaged audiences, is equally inefficient.

EventsBeta is positioning itself as a connector between the two by giving sponsors a way to discover relevant events and audiences, helping organizers showcase sponsorship opportunities earlier in the planning process, and creating a more structured way for sponsors and events to find each other.

The longer term vision appears to focus less on cold outreach and more on alignment, matching brands with events where the audience fit is already clear.

Built with Community in Mind

What stands out about EventsBeta is who it is built for. The platform is designed around community led events, founder meetups and panels, industry specific gatherings, and newer experimental formats.

These are often the events that generate the strongest connections, yet they typically lack the tools and visibility needed to grow.

Event platforms are not new, but EventsBeta is emerging at a time when communities are becoming more decentralized, organizers want more ownership over their audiences, and sponsors are prioritizing engagement and authenticity over scale.

By combining discovery, ticket growth, and sponsor visibility into a single platform, EventsBeta is attempting to shift the event ecosystem in favor of smaller, higher quality experiences.

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Massih Medi

Massih Medi

Massih Medi is a physicist turned entrepreneur, focused on genAI tech and education. He's the founder of Lemma Alpha, enabling recent graduates, students, and career-transitioning individuals to unlock future-proof careers in the post-AI era by training foundational skills and leveraging genAI. The Lemma Alpha community and platform further helps individuals build work experience and enter the job market in new novel ways.

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