Every way to get 1:1 meetings with IT and Security buyers, compared
If you sell to enterprise IT and Security leaders, there are four ways to pay for a seat across the table from them: virtual meeting platforms, hosted-buyer summits, analyst-run communities and conferences, and executive dinner programs.
This guide lists the established options in each, with the facts that matter when you choose: what the meeting looks like, whether the buyer is identified, whether the buyer chose to be there, who controls the match, and how you pay.
Every claim here was checked against the provider's own website in July 2026, with sources linked. Where a provider does not publish a fact, we say "not published" rather than guessing. Terms change; verify current details with each provider.
Fourteen ways to buy a meeting, side by side
| Option | Meeting format | Buyer identity | Buyer eligibility | Buyer opt-in and incentive | Who controls the match | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DoGood | Virtual, 1:1 | Identified (name, title, company, contact) | 89% Director or above; 50% at organizations of 5,000+ employees | Opt-in; completed meetings earn points for charitable donations, gift cards, or cash | Mutual: member chooses the meeting, vendor sets ICP and accepts or declines | Up to $1,200 per completed meeting, down to $770 at volume and by ICP |
| SageTap | Virtual, 30 or 45 min | Anonymous by default; buyer may share identity after the call | Security and technology executives; no company-size bar published | Opt-in; buyers earn credits per session, redeemable for peer calls or, for some members, cash withdrawal | Mutual: vendors run campaigns, buyers apply or accept invites | Vendor credits plus subscription; rates not published |
| LeadrPro | Virtual demo; no fixed length, most 30 to 60 min | Identified; plans include name, company, title, seniority, LinkedIn | Not published: no seniority, title, or company-size bar stated | Opt-in; payouts to buyers start at $75 per completed demo | Mutual: buyers request or accept, sellers approve each request | Monthly plan from $49 to $199, plus a per-completed-demo charge; per-demo rate not published |
| Quartz Network | In-person 3-day summits plus online editions | Identified attendees | Senior level, North America; 100+ employees or $50MM+ revenue | Invited; travel and hotel hosted; members earn rewards for meetings taken | Sponsors handpick from attendees; executives are informed ahead and state their challenges at registration | Sponsorship tiers with 15 to 120 guaranteed meetings; rates not published |
| GDS Group | In-person 2.5-day summits plus virtual | Identified attendees | Not published in delegate terms | Invited; hosted (accommodation, meals, flights up to $300/£250); delegates commit to a set number of meetings | GDS proposes matches from attendee project intelligence; sponsor confirms; delegates may request vendors without guarantee | Sponsorship with contractual meeting counts and a substitute-meeting guarantee; rates not published |
| SINC | In-person 2.5-day forums (65 to 85 VP+ execs), dinners of 8 to 12, virtual roundtables | Identified attendees, Director level and above | Director level and above; individually vetted and invited, no walk-ins | Individually vetted and invited, no walk-ins; hosting terms not published | Sponsor submits target accounts and ICP; SINC maps the overlap against its exec database | Diamond to silver tiers list guaranteed meetings; counts and rates not published |
| The Millennium Alliance | In-person 2 to 3 day invite-only assemblies; single-sponsor event days interleave 1:1s, workshops, roundtables | Identified attendees; 97% VP level or above | 97% at VP level or above, per the provider | Invited or application-based; no buyer incentive published | On single-sponsor event days Millennium recruits 40 to 50 executives to the sponsor criteria and sets a 1:1 with every attendee | Sponsorship; rates not published |
| CDM Media | In-person summits, 70+ senior attendees; pre-scheduled 25 to 30 min 1:1s | Identified attendees with purchasing authority | Senior executives with purchasing authority; no threshold published | Pre-qualified attendees; no buyer incentive published | Sponsor vets the registration list and picks who to meet; CDM recruits to the sponsor ICP | Sponsorship packages; rates not published |
| Executive Leaders Network | In-person summits; pre-booked 20-min 1:1s, plus dinners where a sponsor hosts a table of six | Identified delegates, director level and above with budget responsibility or influence | Director level and above with budget responsibility or influence over spend | Invited delegates; delegate data passed to sponsors where the delegate consented | Mutual interest: sponsor requests plus delegate requests, reconciled by ELN | Four tiers carrying 8 to 10 guaranteed 1:1s and full delegate data; rates not published |
| Midsize Enterprise Summit | In-person; 25-min boardrooms with peer groups of 8 to 10, plus 15-min speed networking | Identified attendees | Senior IT and IT-security leaders; qualification criteria behind a login | Hosted attendees apply and qualify; airfare, hotel, and meals covered | Organizer assigns leaders to peer groups by focus; vendors pick which boardrooms to meet | Platinum, gold, and silver sponsor tiers; rates not published |
| Apex Assembly | Virtual and in-person summits, roadshow and private dinners; 30-min pre-scheduled 1:1s | Identified attendees, invitation-based membership | Not published: no seniority or company-size threshold stated | Invited; members get a $50 gift card per virtual 1:1 they attend | Member submits a meeting-request form; Apex arranges the introduction | Sponsorship; rates not published |
| Gartner conferences | In-person; sponsor one-on-one meeting rooms, roundtables, demos | Identified attendees | Paying attendees; no eligibility bar | Attendees pay to attend and set their own agendas | Booking mechanics for sponsor meetings not published | Tiered exhibitor and sponsor packages; rates not published |
| Evanta, a Gartner company | In-person community summits; sponsor-hosted boardrooms (up to 15 execs) and breakouts | Identified members | C-level; each application vetted against stated criteria | Vetted membership (C-level at $500M+ revenue or 1,000+ employee orgs) | Community governing bodies help decide which vendors sponsor; no published sponsor 1:1 program | Sponsorship; rates not published |
| Executive dinner programs | Private dinner, 8 to 15 executives, vendor hosts; some add 1:1s or short rotations | Identified attendees | Varies by provider; Elite states CIO, CISO, CTO, VP and Director level | Invitation-based peer events; no buyer incentive published | Provider recruits the room to the sponsor profile; some let the sponsor approve the guest list first | Per-event sponsorship; rates not published |
Virtual meeting platforms
These book individual video calls between your team and a buyer, priced per meeting or per credit.
DoGood
DoGood books 1:1 meetings between B2B vendors and named IT and Security leaders. The buyer is identified before the call: name, title, company, and contact, vetted at the account level. Members opt in around initiatives they are actively working on and choose which meetings to take; vendors set their ICP and accept or decline each match. Completed meetings earn members points, redeemable for charitable donations, gift cards, or cash. Meetings run up to $1,200 each and down to $770 at volume, depending on the ICP you are targeting, and you are charged only for meetings that complete. Of the member base, 89% hold a Director title or higher, 89% are at organizations of 750 employees or more, and half are at organizations of 5,000 or more.
SageTap
SageTap describes itself as a private peer intelligence network for security and technology executives. Sessions run 30 or 45 minutes on Zoom. The buyer joins under an alias, camera optional, and decides after the call whether to share their name, email, and employer with you; if they decline, they stay anonymous. Buyers earn credits for each session they take; the credits are redeemable for calls with other members, and per SageTap's help center, "some early-adopter sages can also withdraw credits for cash." Vendors run persona-based campaigns and spend credits per session, with per-session cost varying by the buyer's seniority and the scheduled call length; credit pricing is not published.
Sources: sagetap.io,for-sages,help center
LeadrPro
LeadrPro is a marketplace where buyers take paid product demos. Its buyer FAQ states that demos have no fixed length and most run 30 to 60 minutes, that the platform is free for participants with no limit on how many demos they take, and that payouts start at $75 per completed demo, released after the buyer fills out a short feedback form. Buyers are told there are no contractual obligations, and a demo can be cancelled inside a 24-hour courtesy window. No seniority, title, or company-size requirement for buyers is published. On the vendor side, buyers review your profile and request a meeting with their availability, and you approve the ones that fit. Vendor pricing has two parts: a monthly plan, published at $49, $99, and $199 per tier with a 14-day free trial, and a charge per completed demo on top of it, described as "only pay for demos completed." The per-demo rate is not published. Every plan includes the lead's name, company, title, seniority, and LinkedIn, and a no-show can be rescheduled up to three times.
Sources: buyer FAQ, vendor hub, pricing
Hosted-buyer summits with scheduled 1:1 meetings
These fly buyers to a venue, cover their stay, and schedule vendor meetings into the agenda. This is where "speed dating with buyers" actually lives in enterprise IT, though the market has standardized on pre-scheduled 20 to 30 minute 1:1s rather than rapid rotations. The trade: meetings are contractually guaranteed, and attending buyers accept meetings partly as a condition of the hosted trip.
Quartz Network
Quartz Network runs 3-day invitation-only summits (for example its CIO Visions series). Sponsorship guarantees 15 to 120 meetings; sponsors handpick attendees to meet, and every executive selected is informed ahead of time. Attendees get hotel and meals covered, state their current challenges at registration, and earn rewards for meetings taken.
Source: Quartz Network sponsorship
GDS Group
GDS Group runs 2.5-day summits (CIO, Security, and others). Meeting counts are contractual per the order form, with substitute meetings if any cancel. GDS proposes a meeting list from attendee project intelligence; the sponsor reviews and confirms. Delegates are hosted (accommodation, meals, flights up to $300/£250) and agree to participate in a set number of meetings as part of attending.
Sources: sponsor terms, delegate terms
SINC
SINC runs 12 forums a year: 2.5-day gatherings of 65 to 85 VP+ executives across its CIO/CTO, CISO, data and AI, and marketing communities, alongside dinners of 8 to 12 leaders, 60 to 90 minute camera-on virtual roundtables, and single-sponsor golf and dining formats. Attendees are Director level and above, individually vetted and invited, with no walk-ins. Matching is account-based: you hand SINC your strategic account list and ICP, it cross-references that against its community database to find the overlap, and the two of you build the engagement plan from the accounts that matched. Forum sponsorship runs in four tiers from Diamond to Silver, each listing guaranteed meetings without a published count. Sponsors receive post-event lead reports with status tracking. Whether attendee hosting is covered is not published.
Sources: partner page, forums
The Millennium Alliance
The Millennium Alliance runs invitation-only assemblies at hotel venues, including CIO and CISO tracks, and states 125+ assemblies and over 20,000 1:1 meetings annually across its calendar, with 97% of members at VP level or above. How meetings are assigned at a shared assembly is not published. Its separate Event-as-a-Service product is published in detail: Millennium secures 40 to 50 executives against criteria you set (industry, company size or budget, job title), organizes a 1:1 with every attendee alongside your own workshops and roundtables, and gives you editorial control of the agenda. Afterward you receive executives' contact details, a needs-analysis workbook covering project budget and timeline, attendee feedback, and scheduled follow-up meetings. Its privacy policy names event sponsors as a category it may disclose personal information to.
Sources: assemblies, Event-as-a-Service, privacy policy
CDM Media
CDM Media runs summits of 70+ senior attendees, available in more than 100 cities. Sponsors get pre-scheduled 25 to 30 minute one-on-one meetings with executives they select from the registration list, which they can vet before the event. CDM recruits the room to your ideal customer profile, working from employer size, revenue, industry, and existing technology platforms, and its relationship managers approach the executives who are most engaged. Attendees are described as senior executives with purchasing authority. Its privacy statement says an attendee's personal information is shared with fellow event attendees; it does not name sponsors as a separate recipient category.
Sources: summits, custom summits, CIO series,privacy statement
Executive Leaders Network
Executive Leaders Network pre-books 20-minute meetings agreed in advance with delegates, matched on mutual interest between sponsor requests and delegate requests. Delegates are director level and above with budget responsibility or influence over spend. Four published packages carry 8 to 10 guaranteed 1:1 meetings each, a pop-up stand, and speaking time at the top two tiers; all four include full delegate data after the event. Book early and ELN will target senior leaders matching your ICP or work from your ABM list. Its privacy policy passes delegate data to sponsors where the delegate consented, and retains data for up to five years from the last interaction.
Sources: Meet the Buyer, privacy policy
Midsize Enterprise Summit
The Channel Company's Midsize Enterprise Summit uses a boardroom model rather than pure 1:1s. IT leaders are assigned into peer groups of 8 to 10 by business focus and technology interest, and vendors select which boardrooms to meet for 25 minutes each. A separate speed networking block puts attendees in small groups with two sponsoring companies for 15 minutes each. Attendees apply and qualify, then attend hosted: roundtrip airfare, accommodation, and meals covered. The security edition seats up to 90 senior IT security leaders and the fall edition up to 150 senior IT leaders, and sponsors are promised a 60% new-attendee commitment. Sponsorship runs in platinum, gold, and silver tiers, with contents not published. The Channel Company shares registration data with sponsors only where the attendee gave explicit consent at registration, and states that consent is not a condition of attending.
Sources: Midsize Enterprise Summit, IT Security agenda, why sponsor, hosted attendee terms, privacy policy
Apex Assembly
Apex Assembly runs virtual and hybrid summits, in-person roadshow dinners, and private dinners across its CIO/CTO, CISO, CDO, and CMO communities, attended by invitation. It also publishes a standing 1:1 program: 30-minute pre-scheduled meetings, in person or virtual, between members and its sponsors. Members book by submitting a form and Apex arranges the introduction, and a member receives a $50 gift card for each virtual meeting they attend. Sponsors get intelligence surveys on attendee concerns before the event. Its privacy policy states that partners, including sponsors and exhibitors at conferences you attend as a registered delegate, may be given access to your name, address, telephone number, and email. Attendee seniority and company-size thresholds are not published, and neither are sponsorship package contents.
Sources: member 1:1 meetings, event calendar, value of sponsoring, privacy policy
Also in this market: HMG Strategy runs summits for IT and security leaders where a sponsor is one of 10 to 15, and describes sponsor contact with attendees as visiting booths or meeting in lounge areas, with registration data released only where the attendee opts in. It publishes no scheduled or guaranteed meeting program, which is why it is not a row above.
Sources: become a partner, privacy policy
Analyst-run communities and conferences
Gartner conferences
Gartner conferences (IT Symposium/Xpo for CIOs, Security and Risk Management Summit for CISOs) sell exhibitor and sponsor packages that can include one-on-one meeting rooms, sponsored sessions, and executive roundtables. Attendees are paying conference-goers who set their own agendas. Note the naming trap: "Gartner One-on-One" refers to attendee meetings with Gartner analysts and is not available to exhibitors; sponsor meetings with attendees are a separate deliverable. Booking mechanics and pricing are not published.
Source: Gartner exhibiting opportunities
Evanta, a Gartner company
Evanta runs vetted, invitation-only CIO and CISO communities with summits, boardrooms, and dinners in about 90 regions. Sponsors host closed-door boardrooms of up to 15 executives and breakout sessions, typically co-led with a practicing executive. The communities' governing bodies of member executives help decide which vendors can sponsor. Evanta's peer-to-peer 1:1 meetings are between members; no sponsor 1:1 program is published.
Source: evanta.com/partnership
Beyond events, Gartner does not operate a program that brokers standalone vendor-buyer meetings. Gartner BuySmart is a buyer-side evaluation tool, and vendor briefings are meetings with analysts, not buyers.
Executive dinner and cocktail programs
A sponsoring vendor underwrites a private dinner for a curated room, usually 8 to 15 senior executives, framed as an off-the-record peer conversation rather than a pitch. Much of this market is agency-run and custom, pricing is quoted per program, and what you keep afterward differs enough between providers to be worth asking about first.
ConvergeX Connections
ConvergeX runs invite-only CxO dinners across North America, EMEA, and APAC, stating eight to fifteen guests as the working size, in a private dining room under the Chatham House Rule. It maps your target accounts and recruits the table by phone, LinkedIn, and email against your ICP, supplies a moderator to run a no-pitch conversation, and hands your team context on every guest for the follow-up. It states that it guarantees post-event meetings on every dinner and re-runs the dinner at its own cost if none result. Its privacy policy says it may share names, phone numbers, email addresses, and job titles with its affiliates, partners, and clients; it does not name event sponsors as a separate category. Pricing is not published and is stated to depend on the seniority of the room, the city and venue, and the group size.
Sources: executive dinners, privacy policy
Elite B2B Events
Elite B2B Events runs a recurring calendar of CIO and CISO gatherings in cities including Chicago, Boston, London, Dallas, and the SF Bay Area. The published agenda runs 5:30pm to 9:00pm: cocktails, then meet-and-greet sessions it describes as brief speed-dating scenarios lasting five minutes each, then a closed-door dinner discussion. Attendees list their current challenges and priorities on the registration form so the provider can tailor the discussion. Attendance is by invitation with places strictly limited, and attendees are CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, and VP and Director level technology leaders. Its privacy policy states an attendee's personal information is shared with fellow event attendees. Sponsor deliverables and pricing sit behind a password-protected partner page, so they are not publicly verifiable.
Sources: Elite Gatherings, privacy policy
Executive Leaders Network dinners
ELN runs two dinner formats. Its Meet the Buyer dinner brings together 30 senior IT leaders and combines a networking reception, 1:1 strategic meetings, and a dinner where each sponsor hosts a table of six senior leaders. Its private dinner product is bespoke: you define the audience and the theme, ELN acquires delegates against your target profile, and every attendee is signed off by you in advance, with three sponsor representatives per 15 delegates. Venue and catering are included, and ELN prepares and delivers contact data afterward for follow-up.
Sources: Meet the Buyer dinner, private dinners
Four questions separate these options
The formats differ more than the vendors within each format.
1. Is the buyer identified?
SageTap buyers join under an alias and decide after the call whether to share their name. Everywhere else the person is identified, but at different moments: LeadrPro and DoGood name them before you accept, while summits and dinners identify people once they are in the room with you. If you need to research the account before the conversation rather than during it, that timing is the thing to ask about.
2. Why is the buyer in the room?
Four different reasons, and they are not interchangeable. LeadrPro pays buyers per completed demo, from $75. Apex Assembly gives members a $50 gift card per virtual meeting, and Quartz Network members earn reward points. SageTap buyers earn credits, and DoGood members earn points, both redeemable for cash among other things. At hosted summits like GDS Group the compensation is the trip itself, and delegates agree to a set number of pre-assigned meetings as a condition of attending, with GDS charging up to $1,750 if they leave early. At Gartner conferences and Evanta the buyer paid to be there for their own reasons and owes a sponsor nothing.
3. Who controls the match?
Quartz Network and CDM Media let you handpick attendees from the list. GDS Group and SINC build the meeting plan with you from their own account data. Executive Leaders Network matches on mutual interest between what you ask for and what delegates ask for. On the three virtual platforms both sides have to agree: the buyer requests or accepts, and you approve. Whether the buyer can decline you is the part worth checking, because it is what separates a meeting someone chose from a meeting someone was assigned.
4. What do you keep when it ends?
The widest gap on this page. Millennium Alliance states that single-sponsor event days hand back executive contact details plus a needs-analysis workbook covering budget and timeline. Executive Leaders Network gives sponsors the agreed delegate data afterward, and SINC provides post-event lead reports with status tracking. The Channel Company releases registration data only where the attendee gave explicit consent, and says that consent is not a condition of attending. LeadrPro plans include the lead's name, company, title, seniority, and LinkedIn. DoGood meetings are with a named buyer whose contact details you keep. And some options leave you with a room you rented for an evening and no contact data at all, which is worth establishing before you sign rather than after.
A virtual platform, with the buyer named
Category one, on the facts in the table above. Full billing mechanics, what is and is not chargeable, and the questions a finance team asks are on the pricing page. Vendors like Clarity Security and Fable Security have built qualified pipeline from these conversations. Read the Clarity story or the Fable story.
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Common questions
What are the alternatives to SageTap?
Alternatives fall into four groups: other virtual meeting platforms (LeadrPro, DoGood), hosted-buyer summits with scheduled 1:1s (Quartz Network, GDS Group, SINC, Millennium Alliance, CDM Media, ELN, Midsize Enterprise Summit, Apex Assembly), analyst-run communities and conferences (Gartner conferences, Evanta), and executive dinner programs.
Does Gartner set up meetings between vendors and buyers?
Only through events. Gartner conference sponsors can get one-on-one meeting rooms with attendees, and Evanta sponsors host closed-door boardrooms with community members. Gartner has no standalone program that brokers vendor-buyer meetings, and Gartner BuySmart is a buyer-side evaluation tool.
What is a hosted-buyer summit?
An event where the organizer covers the buyer travel and stay, and the buyer agrees to take a set of scheduled vendor meetings, typically 20 to 30 minutes each, during the event. Sponsors buy guaranteed meeting counts.
Which options pay the buyer to take meetings?
LeadrPro pays buyers per completed demo, about $75. Apex Assembly gives members a $50 gift card for each virtual one-on-one they attend. Quartz Network members earn rewards for meetings taken. SageTap buyers earn credits per session, redeemable for peer calls, and its help center notes that some early-adopter members can also withdraw credits for cash. DoGood members earn points per completed meeting, redeemable for charitable donations, gift cards, or cash. Hosted summits compensate with the trip itself.
What do you keep after the meeting ends?
It varies, and it is worth asking before you sign. Millennium Alliance states that sponsors of its single-sponsor event days receive executive contact details plus a needs-analysis workbook. ELN gives sponsors the agreed delegate data after the event. The Channel Company shares registration data with sponsors only where the attendee gave explicit consent at registration, and says that consent is not a condition of attending. SINC provides post-event lead reports with status tracking. DoGood meetings are with a named buyer whose contact details you keep. Some options leave you with a room you rented for an evening and no contact data at all.
Facts checked July 2026 against each provider's public website. Details change; confirm current terms with each provider.