Group Tracking App for Conferences & Expos
Find your team between sessions without wasting half a day.
What it is
Teams, friend groups, and event staff spread across a convention venue show up on one live GPS map in BuddySOS, and a one-tap SOS reaches the group fast when someone needs them. It works for large industry conferences and smaller conventions alike.
Big conventions and conferences (Comic-Con, CES, SXSW, Dreamforce) spread across multiple halls, hotels, and offsite venues. Keep each person locatable in real time and stop wasting break time hunting each other down.
A conference schedule is built to keep people apart. Sessions run in parallel across halls, they end at different times, and the break between them is short enough that finding your group eats most of it. Nobody designed it that way. It is what happens when a venue runs six tracks at once.
Venue geography compounds it. Large conventions spill into adjacent hotels, overflow halls, and offsite parties, and the hall numbering rarely tracks the walking distance between them. Two rooms with neighboring numbers can be ten minutes apart.
The messaging layer is the last piece. A team at a conference is usually also in a work thread that is busy for reasons unrelated to lunch, so 'where is everyone' scrolls out of view before half the group has seen it.
Why standard apps fall short here
- Sessions end at slightly different times, and coordinating lunch for the group eats into the break itself.
- Venue maps are dense and confusing for first-time attendees.
- Exhibitor teams rotate between a stand, meetings, and the halls, and the stand cannot be left uncovered while someone goes looking.
- Offsite evening events scatter the group across a city none of them know well.
- Texts get lost in larger work threads.
- Big convention crowds are physically tiring, and it is easy to get separated in the crush.
What BuddySOS gives you
- The live map shows which hall and which floor each group member is on.
- Pins carry name, distance, and direction, so you know whether someone is one hall over or across the site before you start walking.
- Tap a pin for walking directions or to call that person.
- A group switcher keeps a work team and a friends group separate at the same event.
- A one-tap SOS reaches the group the moment someone needs help.
- The team stays private, invisible to other attendees at the venue.
- Battery Saver Mode covers long convention days without hammering the battery.
Built for events like these
Questions about BuddySOS for conventions & conferences
Is BuddySOS useful for a small team at a conference?
Yes. Most groups using BuddySOS at conventions are 3 to 10 people. The app keeps each person locatable and gives you a one-tap way to find the team between sessions or at the after-hours mixer.
Does the map work inside a convention center?
BuddySOS needs a data connection and a GPS fix, and both can be weaker inside a large hall than they are outdoors. A pin that cannot get a fresh fix holds its last known position rather than disappearing, and venue wifi helps.
Can we keep the work team separate from other groups?
Yes. Join more than one group and a switcher at the top flips between their maps. Each map shows only the members of that group, so a work team and a friends group at the same event never see each other.
What happens to the team's location after the event?
Sharing stops when you turn it off or leave the group, and BuddySOS keeps no location history. There is no record of where the team went during the week.
Free for groups. Forever.
BuddySOS is free on iOS and Android. Download it tonight, be ready for your next event by the weekend.