For a long time, the Exhibitor Center and the Web Event App looked and behaved like two different products — different top bars, a stray home icon, and that jarring moment when switching between them launched a brand-new browser tab. Exhibitors noticed. Many didn't even realize the Exhibitor Center existed. We've unified the two into a single, coherent experience: same top bar, same navigation logic, same tab.

What's new

The Exhibitor Center top bar is now built from the exact same components and design as the Web Event App — same height, fonts, colors, and spacing. Stand them side by side and the only difference an exhibitor will spot is that the EC hides the notifications and messages icons.

How it works

The new top bar gives exhibitor members three ways to move around, all without leaving the tab they're in:

• Event / Exhibitor Center toggle — a pill-style switch sits in the center of the bar. One click moves between the live event app and the Exhibitor Center, in the same tab, with the browser back button working exactly as expected. Only exhibitor members with EC access see it — regular attendees never do.
• Event switcher dropdown — clicking the event name opens a dropdown of every event the member has access to, split into Upcoming / Current and Past events, each row showing the event name and date, with a checkmark on the active one. This replaces the old standalone EC event-list page entirely.
• Switch exhibitor — members tied to more than one exhibitor company at the same event get a Switch exhibitor option in the sidebar, complete with company logos, so they can hop between booths without logging out and back in.

Key behaviors

• Unified profile dropdown — the avatar menu in the EC now mirrors the Event App exactly: profile, Edit profile, Settings, Contact Support, Interface language, Resource center, Plan an event, Legal, and Log out. Logging out signs the member out of both surfaces at once.
• No more orphan pages — direct access to the deprecated EC root event list now redirects to the member's most relevant event.

Why organizers will love it

Navigation and UX complexity has consistently ranked as a top exhibitor pain point — "clunky," "over-complicated," "two environments when one would do." Fragmentation between the EC and Event App was the headline complaint. By making the two feel like one application, you remove the friction that kept exhibitors from discovering and using the Exhibitor Center in the first place. The payoff: better exhibitor adoption, fewer "where do I go?" support tickets, and stronger exhibitor satisfaction and ROI — without you touching a single setting.