Navan, the business travel and expense platform, has launched Navan Events. The unified platform, said the announcement, streamlines venue sourcing, attendee travel and financial reporting for corporate meetings and events.

Legacy event management relies on manual processes and patchwork tools, according to the announcement, creating administrative friction and compliance challenges. Navan Events, said the announcement, aims to solve these problems by centralizing the entire event lifecycle into one seamless experience.

Galen Grady, senior vice president and general manager of Navan Events, said, “Nothing replaces real, in-person connections, but planning and coordinating events can be a major time suck.” Customers, he said, want the same seamless experience for managing meetings as they do for all their other needs. “Enter Navan Events,” said Grady, “which brings all those scattered pieces together in one place, whether you’re planning a 10-person team offsite or a massive customer conference.”

The platform delivers these capabilities, according to the announcement:

• End-to-end management: Integrates venue sourcing, hotel RFPs, attendee registration and travel management within a unified solution. Admins can track approval flows for budget forecasting and individual attendee travel spend.
• AI-powered planning: Features an intelligent event assistant to guide planners through sourcing and negotiations.
• Premium service and support: Provides direct access to Navan’s specialized corporate meetings and events team for support with event sourcing, contract negotiations or full service on-site management.

Navan Events is now available in the US, UK and European markets, with plans to launch in other markets soon.

Navan also announced that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Smartrips, a Brazilian TMC. The transaction, which is expected to close in the second quarter of fiscal year 2027, will mark Navan’s first acquisition as a public company and extend the company’s footprint deeper into Latin America.

Following the integration of Smartrips, according to the announcement, Navan customers with operations in Brazil will no longer need to direct local teams to partner sites or off-platform booking systems; instead, employees can seamlessly book, manage and track all Brazilian travel directly within the core Navan platform.

Brazil is a Top 10 global market and the largest for corporate travel in Latin America, according to Navan, accounting for an estimated 40% of travel spend in the region.