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.
Fourteen established providers run those four formats. The table below sets all of them side by side on 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. The three virtual platforms are written out underneath.
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.
The summits, analyst communities, and dinner programs are written out in full, alongside the four questions that separate one format from another, in the full guide to choosing a buyer-meeting program.
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 cash | 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 |
SageTap, DoGood, and LeadrPro
These three book individual video calls between your team and a buyer, priced per meeting or per credit. They are the closest substitutes for each other on this page.
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." How many members that covers is not published. 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
Summits, analyst communities, and dinners
Hosted-buyer summits fly buyers to a venue and schedule vendor meetings into the agenda. Analyst-run communities sell sponsor boardrooms and meeting rooms alongside their conferences. Executive dinner programs underwrite a private table of 8 to 15 leaders. Each of the eleven providers in those three formats is written out, with sources, in the full guide, next to the four questions that separate one format from another: whether the buyer is identified and when, why the buyer is in the room, who controls the match, and what you keep once it ends.
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.
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.
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.
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.