ZOHO ManageEngine User Conference 2026

ManageEngine User Conference 2026

Six presentation stages built in a single day, for a room of 300+ CIOs who notice everything.

Client

Zoho ManageEngine (a division of Zoho Corp.)

Event

ManageEngine User Conference 2026 (#MEUserConf)

Year

2026

Format

2-day B2B technology conference

The mark of exceptional event production is making extraordinary complexity feel completely effortless.

For Zoho ManageEngine's User Conference in Bengaluru, MadMaze planned, built, and ran a two-day technology summit in a working hotel, delivering six stage-and-LED setups in a single build day, showcasing the capabilities of a corporate event management company in Bangalore trusted for high stakes enterprise conferences.

Event At A Glance

Client	Zoho ManageEngine (a division of Zoho Corp.)
Event	ManageEngine User Conference 2026 (#MEUserConf)
Format	2-Day B2B Technology Conference
Dates	19–20 February 2026
Venue	Hilton Bengaluru Embassy Manyata Business Park
Audience	300+ CIOs, CISOs, and IT Heads
Setups	6 Stage + LED Zones, Registration Bank, Exhibition Area
Build	Full Multi-Zone Setup Completed in 1 Day
MadMaze Scope	Planning, Production, Staging, Audio, AV, Branding, Entertainment, Show-Running

Project Summary

ManageEngine is the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corp., whose software is used by more than 280,000 organizations worldwide, including nine of every ten Fortune 100 companies. Its UserConf series brings customers together to meet the teams behind the products, engage in AI-driven leadership discussions, and get hands-on with the platforms they run, drawing an audience of CIOs, CISOs, and senior IT heads.

The Brief

ManageEngine engaged MadMaze as its event management company in Bangalore for User Conference 2026, entrusting the team with planning, producing, and executing every production deliverable across a two-day conference for more than 300 CIOs, CISOs, and senior IT leaders. The scope included staging, audio, audiovisuals, venue branding, entertainment, and live show-running, all to a production standard that reflected the ManageEngine brand.

A technology conference is a credibility exercise. Every screen and transition had to reflect the reliability that ManageEngine sells to its own customers.

Challenges

This was not open ground with room to breathe. It was one hotel that asked to behave like a purpose-built conference centre, which created three problems worth solving well.

Six builds, one shared venue

Six stage-and-LED setups for parallel tracks, plus a registration bank and an exhibition zone, had to rise inside shared corridors, power lines, and load-in windows, each with its own AV signal path and go-live time. The difficulty was not any single stage; it was sequencing all of them so that no build blocked another.

A Discerning Audience

300+ CIOs and IT heads notice a screen that won’t switch or a mic that drops. For a brand built on uptime, a visible failure on stage would quietly contradict the pitch, so the production had to disappear behind the content.

Two-day production in 24 hours

The full multi-zone setup had a single build day ahead of a two-day event, a timeline that left no margin for rework and required every crew member and vendor to hit their slot with quality precision.

The Solution

01

Two recces, one locked design

ManageEngine engaged MadMaze well ahead of the dates, and the lead time was used deliberately. The team ran two separate recces at the Hilton, mapping every zone, power point, and load-in route before designs were finalized in direct consultation with MadMaze, so the approved plan already matched the room.

02

One crew lead per zone

The venue was divided into bounded zones, each with a dedicated MadMaze crew member accountable for finishing on time. This distributed ownership allowed six setups, registration, and the exhibition area to progress in parallel rather than in sequence, and closed a full multi-zone build inside one day.

03

Production built for a tech brand

MadMaze delivered staging, audio, and audio-visuals across all six setups, plus venue branding and entertainment. The builds were heavily customized: bespoke registration booths, a custom photo booth, and a kinetic LED wall gave the conference a distinct identity rather than a standard ballroom look.

04

Solving the late call on the ground

On-site, the client requested a stronger brand presence with additional beach flags. MadMaze designed, printed, and deployed the new branding collateral at short notice without disturbing the live schedule, turning a late request into a solved problem.

Behind The Experience

Delegates experienced a conference that felt purpose built, where every stage, screen, branded touchpoint, and transition worked together without missing a beat. What they did not see was the day before, a compressed single-day build where zone leads ran their areas in parallel, AV paths were tested across six setups, audio was checked stage by stage, and fresh branding was produced and installed as the venue transformed into a technology summit.

Result

Both days ran without a visible operational glitch. The clearest measure came from the client directly: ManageEngine noted this was the first time a partner had completed the setup on schedule, a marked change from previous vendor experiences.

At the close, the client named individual MadMaze crew members on stage during the vote of thanks and recorded a video testimonial, an endorsement that carries weight from a company that is itself a benchmark for reliability. From two-recce planning to zone-owned execution, the conference reinforced why enterprise clients rate MadMaze among the corporate event management companies in Bangalore trusted with rooms that cannot afford mistakes.

Explore Our Work

MadMaze is a corporate event and exhibition management company in Bangalore that plans, produces, and runs large-format events end-to-end, from staging and AV to branding and show-running.

Official event page: UserConf Bengaluru 2026 .