What is Dryfta?
Dryfta is the all-in-one event management platform built for academia & nonprofits. We have created this suite of tools through years of collaboration with academic stakeholders, nonprofits, and general participants. Thus, it is our primary mission that we help academic conferences, both in-person and virtual, become more engaging and profitable. Read this blog post about the pain points that Dryfta solves.
Our vision
As we move forward, being an enabler of academic events, our natural course of action would be to launch a publishing & monetization platform for knowledge producers, essentially covering the rest of the entire academic research lifecycle.
Clients we work with
Why Dryfta?
Dryfta focuses on providing universities & nonprofits with an all-inclusive event management platform to manage their events and conferences. It provides event organizers with the ability to organize events and conferences using one platform with centralized & singular data. We’re also among the top few event platform providers that meet the industry requirements regarding security, platform robustness, and unique features set.
A robust business continuity plan
One of the fundamental reasons why the Dryfta event platform is the perfect choice for your organization is its robust business continuity and sustainability plan. Through its Business Continuity Plan (BCP), Dryfta provides complete control in the hands of its customers by having its source code and assets, including user data, stored on cloud servers (powered by Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud) and data storage systems (powered by Amazon S3). Source code escrow is available for enterprise customers with more than 250 events per year.
Our fanatic support
Dryfta provides support through multiple channels: Support desk, which is available 24/7 with a response time of 4 hours for non-urgent tickets and 2 hours for urgent tickets. InstaSupport provides instant support through live chat messaging and is open five days a week. Extensive knowledge base to find answers to your questions quickly. Video library with video tutorials of over 100 videos.
Support is paid for with every subscription/contract. 2 free training sessions of 1 hour each is included with every account.
Customers in Europe
For our European customers, our server and database node is hosted in Amazon Web Services’ London data center. All digital assets are stored on Amazon S3 in its Frankfurt data center.
What is with the name?
Devising a name for our event platform was pretty simple. You see, conferences produce knowledge. Every conference you go to, you learn something new, stumble upon new findings & trends, and you acquire new knowledge.
Therefore, to name our platform, we needed to find a verb, an activity that is the core of every conference. So, we gave it a thought: At a conference, the most frequent activity we do, apart from scoffing biscuits and persistently trying to look all pretty and sophisticated, is we meet, and we discuss. And out of those discussions, we produce new knowledge. So, the first idea was loud and clear. The verb should be Discuss.
The second part of naming our event platform was to choose a language for the verb, Discuss. Now, when it comes to discussing and rewarding new findings and achievements, it would not be unwise to say that the Nobel prize immediately comes to mind. In the contemporary world, the Nobel prize is the ultimate validation of anyone’s profound knowledge. And Sweden is the country which gives out the Nobel prize. So, the second idea was loud and clear too. The language for the verb, Discuss, had to be Swedish!
Dryfta (pronounced Dree-f-ta) is Swedish for the English word, Discuss.