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GroupConsulter EventManager: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

EventManager is event management software from GroupConsulter AG in Berikon, Switzerland. It covers online registration with custom forms and payment by credit card, TWINT or invoice, invitations, confirmations, tickets and certificates, participant management with statistics and export, check-in with access control and badge printing, and a modular event platform with programme, speakers, downloads, livestream, voting, chat and feedback forms. It supports on-site, hybrid and virtual events. The company also provides voting systems for general meetings and audio-visual technology as services alongside the software.

GroupConsulter AG is a Swiss company; no foreign parent is stated. According to the company, it develops its software in Switzerland, hosts customers' data in Switzerland under Swiss law and provides support from Switzerland. The data centre operator is not named in the public pages, so ask the vendor. Switzerland is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision. Registrations hold personal data, and access control and voting add further sensitive records, so confirm hosting location, retention and the processor agreement before use.

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Sovereignty score
67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-380
    Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
CHVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Scheduling & Booking
Type
Product
Website
groupconsulter.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to GroupConsulter EventManager

The European alternatives to GroupConsulter EventManager come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with GroupConsulter EventManager

GroupConsulter EventManager is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

GroupConsulter EventManager hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

GroupConsulter EventManager is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs GroupConsulter EventManager together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to GroupConsulter EventManager?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to GroupConsulter EventManager include agenda.ch, Agendize and Aïkku PLANN. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to GroupConsulter EventManager?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to GroupConsulter EventManager include Aïkku PLANN and Baïkal. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is GroupConsulter EventManager GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

GroupConsulter EventManager is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes GroupConsulter EventManager an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Scheduling & Booking

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