ASEAN Records is proud to officially recognise Evend for achieving the milestone:
First Verified Venue-and-Vendor Event Booking Platform with Two-Sided Identity Verification, Legally Binding Smart Contracts and Secured Payment Protection
(15 verified vendors and venues across 7 event categories; launched 2026).
This recognition highlights Evend’s pioneering approach to transforming the event services industry through verified participation, secure transactions, and contract-backed bookings that strengthen trust between organisers, venues, and service providers.
Building Trust into Every Event Transaction
Founded in Malaysia, Evend was created to address longstanding challenges in the events industry, including fraudulent bookings, payment disputes, last-minute cancellations, and limited transparency between organisers and service providers.
The platform introduces a structured booking ecosystem where both clients and vendors undergo identity verification before a transaction takes place. It also integrates legally binding smart contracts, milestone-based payments, secured payment protection, transparent pricing, and standardised workflows to reduce risk and strengthen accountability throughout the booking process.
By combining artificial intelligence with practical industry experience, Evend enables organisers to identify suitable service providers while giving vendors greater confidence that bookings are genuine and payments are protected.
Advancing a Safer and More Transparent Event Ecosystem
With 15 verified vendors and venues across seven event categories, Evend establishes a new model for digital event commerce built around financial security, operational transparency, and fair access.
The platform supports competition based on service quality rather than business size, giving both established providers and emerging vendors an equal opportunity to be discovered and trusted.
More than a booking platform, Evend aims to serve as the infrastructure layer for secure event transactions, empowering talent, protecting customers, and raising standards across the events industry in ASEAN and beyond.
A Milestone Moment of Acknowledgement
The ASEAN Records certificate was officially presented on 23 July 2026 at The Estate on Federal Hill, marking the formal acknowledgement of Evend’s record achievement.
The recognition was received on stage by Sharothvarman Gurumurothy, Founder & CEO of Evend, and Rachel Joe, Co-Founder & COO of Evend, representing the vision and leadership behind the platform’s mission to build a safer, more transparent, and trusted event booking ecosystem.
Voices of Leadership
Reflecting on the recognition, Sharothvarman Gurumurothy, Founder & CEO of Evend, shared:
“This recognition is more than a milestone for Evend—it is a milestone for the entire events industry. We founded Evend with a simple belief: every event transaction should be built on trust, transparency, and accountability.
By combining verified identities, secured payments, and legally binding agreements into one platform, we are helping organisers and vendors work together with greater confidence.
We remain committed to building technology that empowers businesses, protects customers, and raises the standard of digital event commerce across ASEAN and beyond.”
About Evend
Evend is a Malaysia-incorporated event technology company, starting from Malaysia to serve the Southeast Asian market, and the world’s first AI-powered vendor and venue booking platform designed to create safer, smarter, and more transparent event transactions.
Built by industry professionals, a team of top-tier AI specialists, and technology consultants with over 15 years of combined experience, the platform integrates AI-powered Vendor Smart Match with an AI agent that understands each customer’s needs and patterns, identity verification, legally binding smart contracts, milestone-based payment protection that protects customers from vendor no-shows, and transparent workflows to simplify event bookings, reduce disputes, and minimise operational and financial risks.
Driven by the vision of becoming the trusted infrastructure layer for global event transactions, Evend continues to advance digital innovation that empowers organisers, venues, and service providers through secure and reliable event commerce.
For more information, please visit: https://evendasia.com/
