Live engagement for community events
Turn every meetup into a conversation.
Norse Nexus puts live polls, trivia, Q&A, door prizes and real networking in every attendee's pocket. You run the room from your phone, and the results show up on the big screen as they happen.
Free for attendees. Free for community organizations.
Made for the groups that make a business community work
Why community organizations use Nexus
The coffee is good. The connections should be better.
Chambers, roundtables and startup coffees bring the right people into the same room every week. Most of them still leave with a pocketful of paper cards and a few names they'll forget by Friday. Nexus is the layer that turns attendance into participation, and participation into lasting relationships.
Everyone gets a voice
Live polls, moderated Q&A and emoji reactions let the quiet folks in the back row weigh in, not just the first hand up. Speakers get real-time signal on what the room actually thinks.
Networking that sticks
Attendees build a digital business card once and swap it with a tap. Every card they collect lands in My Contacts, so the follow-up email actually gets sent.
Energy on demand
Trivia, buzzword bingo and door-prize drawings break the ice before the program and keep people around after it. Results go straight to the projector, so the whole room plays along.
Minutes to set up
Create an event on your phone, share the six-character join code or QR, and you're live. No kiosk, no clipboard sign-in, no special equipment beyond the screen you already have.
Your brand on the big screen
Add your organization's logo, the event's logo and your sponsors. The projection screen rotates them between activities, giving the partners who keep your group running the visibility they deserve.
Free for your organization
Norse Technologies provides Nexus at no cost to nonprofit and community organizations in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. It's our way of investing in the community that invests in founders.
How it works
From "welcome, everyone" to fully engaged in three steps
Create your event
Name it, add the venue and your logos, and invite co-hosts as session moderators. Everything happens in the same app your attendees use.
Attendees join in seconds
They scan the QR code on the screen or type the event code, sign in with an account they already have, and they're in.
Run the room
Launch a poll, call a bingo word or draw a door prize with one tap. Every phone updates instantly and the projector shows the results live.
For attendees
Walk in, scan, and you're part of it.
No app-store scavenger hunt in the lobby and no new password to remember. Attendees open Nexus, scan the code on the screen and land on their event's home, where whatever the host launches pops up on its own.
- Join by QR or event code. Works in the room or remotely, for hybrid gatherings.
- Sign in with what you already use. Apple, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon or email.
- Activities arrive automatically. When the host launches a poll or trivia round, it opens on every phone.
- Ask the speaker anything. Submit questions any time during a session. Moderators approve them before they go up on screen.
For organizers
The whole program, in the palm of your hand.
The Organizer Dashboard is mission control for your event. Launch activities from the Session Dashboard, push the projection to any screen, and talk to the entire room at once.
- Broadcast messages. Send a scrolling marquee ("Parking lot B is open") or an important pop-up to everyone checked in.
- Session moderators. Hand a session to a co-host who can approve questions, launch polls and run that session's activities.
- Reusable content. Build trivia sets, bingo word lists and ice-breaker questions once and reuse them every month.
- One-tap Quick Launch. Thought of a poll mid-panel? Type it and launch it on the spot.
Eleven ways to engage the room
Every activity your event needs, already built
Mix and match across the morning. Each one runs live on attendees' phones and on the projection screen at the same time, and the outcomes are saved so you can see what resonated.
Live Polls
Ask a question, watch the bars move. Prepare polls ahead or launch one on the fly.
Moderated Q&A
Attendees submit questions; moderators approve, decline and mark them answered.
Reactions
A stream of emoji reactions on the big screen so speakers can feel the room.
Stack Ranking
Let the crowd rank pitches, priorities or perks and see the consensus form.
Trivia
Auto-advancing multiple-choice rounds with a live leaderboard. Bring your own question sets.
Buzzword Bingo
"Synergy!" Cards fill in as the host calls words. A guaranteed laugh during keynote season.
Door Prizes
Random, fair drawings from everyone checked in, revealed with a flourish on screen.
Business Card Exchange
Swap digital cards with a tap; every one lands in My Contacts.
Speed Networking
A timed race to meet the most people, with badges and a Hall of Fame.
Social Networking
Ice-breaker prompts that send people across the room with something to talk about.
Event Boards
Moderated Announcements, Job Board and Give / Get postings for the whole community.
On the big screen
The projector becomes part of the show.
Open the projection view on any laptop or display and Nexus takes care of the rest. Poll bars grow as votes arrive, trivia leaderboards reshuffle, the door-prize winner is revealed, and approved questions line up for the speaker.
- Branded idle screen. Between activities, the screen shows your organization and event logos, what's up next and a big "Scan to join" QR code.
- Sponsor rotation. Thank the partners who make your events possible, automatically.
- Community boards on loop. Approved announcements, job openings and Give / Get posts cycle on screen while people mingle.
What's your biggest challenge this quarter?
Networking and community
The conversation keeps going after the room empties
Nexus isn't only for the hour you're together. The connections made and the opportunities shared stay with your members long after the last cup of coffee.
My Card and My Contacts
Members create a professional digital card with their role, company, contact details and links. Cards they collect at events build a personal contact list that travels with them from meeting to meeting.
Job Board and Give / Get
Startups post open roles. Members post what they can offer and what they need: a warm intro, a beta tester, a mentor. It's the "who do you know?" moment from the end of every pitch, captured and searchable.
Announcements
Members share upcoming fundraisers, workshops and meetups with the group. Organizers review every post before it's published, so the boards stay on-topic and spam-free.
Privacy and security
Enterprise-grade underneath. Effortless on top.
Your members trust you with their time and their contact details. Nexus is built on the same secure identity platform Norse uses for its business clients.
- Secure single sign-on. Members sign in with an account they already trust, so there's no new password to manage.
- Members control their data. A plain-language privacy notice is in the app, and members can delete their account and data from the Account screen at any time.
- Moderation built in. Questions and board posts are reviewed before they go public.
Built by Norse Technologies
Impressed? That's rather the point.
Nexus is more than a gift to our community. It's a working demonstration of what Norse Technologies builds for clients. The live polls, the real-time leaderboards, the room-scale networking and the projection screens are all custom software, designed and engineered by our team in West Fargo, North Dakota.
Cross-platform apps
One codebase on iOS, Android and Windows, like the app in your hand.
Real-time cloud back ends
Azure-native services that push live updates to every device in the room at once.
Secure identity
Single sign-on across seven providers, account lifecycle and privacy controls, done right.
The Norse ADAPT platform
Our reusable microservice platform for shipping complex software faster. Nexus runs on it.
If your business needs a mobile app, a customer portal or a line-of-business system that works the way your team does, try Nexus at your next event, then let's talk about what we could build for you.
See it for yourself.
Nexus will be a free download on iPhone, Android and Windows. Want it at your next Chamber breakfast, roundtable or startup coffee? Reach out and we'll help you set up your organization.