Powerful, Enterprise-Grade Event Management Software
Sell tickets & Collect registration fees online
Full-Service Abstract Management Software: Collect âž© Assign âž© Review âž© Decide âž© Notify
Customizable forms to collect & review abstracts, symposia, proposals & grants
The Complete Event Schedule Builder to Create Virtual & Hybrid Sessions
Create Event Schedule with Slides, Group Chats, Survey forms & more
Engagement Tools to Host Virtual Conferences & Online Community Website
Engage attendees & Produce knowledge with online networking portal
Event agendas or the systematic way in which you accommodate all the sessions and activities you’ve planned for your event or conference is far more important than you think. If, thus far, you have been allocating events to the schedule based on singular reasons such as the speaker’s convenient time, you’re damaging the event’s potential.
Conference organizers who invite abstract submissions for their events know the struggle all too well. With submissions pouring in from across the globe, keeping a close watch on abstracts as they come in is close to impossible. Your team of professionals simply cannot manage to deal with hundreds of abstracts at the same time. They are prone to making errors and missing out on certain pitfalls.
Event professionals from around the globe are acknowledging the fact that event management as they know it has begun to change substantially. The ways in which events were formerly conducted are also now evolving for the better. We’re experimenting with online events and how to make them on par with the offline experience. We’re also increasingly embracing the hybrid form of hosting academic events and conferences.
Students, fresh talent, entry-level professionals and veterans, everyone alike are perpetually told that ‘networking is king’. Chances are you’ve been instructed the same at some point in your career. If you haven’t, you probably will soon enough. For emphasis, there is nothing wrong with networking. And as cliché as it may sound, your network is certainly your net worth.
The event day you’ve gone over in your head more times than you can count, finally goes live. The floors are open, speakers are rolling in and audiences arrive bright-eyed and curious, looking forward to productive days ahead. However, even though the general spirit at the venue is high in the morning, you see that it gradually tumbles down as noon strikes. And even more post lunch, with some attendees struggling to keep their eyes open. Let’s face it: attendee engagement often takes a dip.
The event management industry now has much more choice than ever. You can choose between things like manual spreadsheets and automated dataflow mechanisms. You can choose between the hustle or the convenience, the overwhelm or the smarter way ahead to save your resources. Everything has, quite literally, changed dramatically over the past couple of decades in the event management space.
Thousands of researchers worldwide scramble to turn in their abstracts and research papers just in time for any one event. This is just how incredibly valuable research-driven conferences and academic events are for rising academicians, enthusiastic students and mid-career professionals.
Entering new horizons as an event organizer can bring exciting new possibilities. You’re finally landing those big international conferences, signing contracts with overseas speakers and coordinating some high-profile multinational corporate gatherings. You’re scaling up the ladder and things seem to be progressing just fine. However, for nearly every cross-border event that you take on, comes with it a persistent headache: international payment processing.
As an event professional, you may have planned roughly dozens of events spread through the years. But you know that the struggle to achieve ‘good enough’ attendance rates always stays raw and real. The truth is simple: great events don’t market themselves.
Conference organizers today watch submission numbers the way investors track the prices of their shares in the stock market. Similarly, when abstract submission numbers drop by double digits, panic sets in for conference planners. On the other hand, when they do climb, there is perhaps no better feeling in the world.
You became an academic conference organizer because you believed in bringing researchers together. You wanted to create spaces where abstract ideas could collide and collaborations could form. You saw yourself shaping programs that would contribute to scaling up a field and subsequently, broader mankind.
Planning an event from A to Z is as multifaceted and minute as a task can get. One can never truly map out the process. Seemingly small and miscellaneous subtasks crop up as you seem to complete each milestone. And only after this does an event professional get to building and launching a mobile event app.