Harbourfront Tech Expo
Hundreds of exhibitors, thousands of buyers and six halls — one seamless show floor powered by Lanternfly.
Overview
Run by Harbourfront Exhibitions Group across 2022–2024, the expo pairs a 300-booth show floor with a hosted-buyer programme and a two-stage conference — all ticking on shared Lanternfly data.
- ✓Organisers: Harbourfront Exhibitions Group
- ✓Editions: 2022, 2023, 2024
- ✓Solutions: Registration, Onsite, Exhibitors & Sponsors
The challenge
Opening-morning peaks of 4,000 arrivals per hour, 300 exhibitors needing lead tools that actually worked, and buyers expecting curated diaries — with no appetite for rented scanners or paper forms.
The approach
36-lane check-in
Kiosks across three entrances with offline fallback kept opening morning under control.
App-based lead retrieval
Every exhibitor scanned badges from their own phones — leads synced to their CRM the same day.
Hosted-buyer diaries
300 buyers received curated 1:1 schedules built with business matching.
Results & outcome
Zero downtime
12,000 attendees badged across three editions without a single check-in outage.
Exhibitor rebooking up
Same-day lead delivery turned sceptical first-time exhibitors into returning partners.
Meetings that mattered
Thousands of buyer–seller meetings tracked from invite to handshake.
Harbourfront “The onsite hardware simply worked. 12,000 attendees badged across six halls with zero downtime — our exhibitors noticed the difference immediately.”
Daniel OkaforDirector, Harbourfront Exhibitions Group