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
There is a moment that most academic conference organizers know well. A reviewer who cannot find their assigned papers. An author who cannot tell whether their submission went through. A program chair rebuilding their workflow from scratch, again, because the interface refused to cooperate. For years, that moment arrived inside EasyChair.
The role of the corporate event planner has changed fundamentally over the last few years. Many of these changes have been driven by the advent of contemporary technology, such as artificial intelligence and data technologies. From the perspective of the attendees as well, performance expectations are greater than they have ever been.
Let’s cut to the chase: what is a symposium? To answer this question, you’ll first need to understand what a symposium is not. A symposium is not a place wherein attendees gather arbitrarily and gratuitously. While one may argue that, ‘Well, no gatherings are uncalled for! Everything holds a purpose.’ However, symposiums hold a particular kind of weight and importance that other closely associated conference formats don’t. A conference is often massive, sometimes with people packed to the brim. The takeaway is, therefore, limited in individual scope. It is more passive than active. Some participants run the show, while most others watch the show run.
Businesses, organizations and pretty much any entity that sells a product or service for-profit warrants visibility. A spectacular product that never reaches the right audience is simply a failed invention. A life-changing service that no one signs up for is, yet again, a failed proposition. What distinguishes success and failure for players across industries has a lot to do with how and where they position themselves.
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Signing up for an event should be exciting rather than tiring. Your registration portal should be able to sustain the enthusiasm that a user entered in with. And not kill it altogether. An event registration that lags, reloads several times or asks for insignificant information, is a sure shot route to disappointment. A user will exit your registration tab just as quickly as they logged into it. Therefore, it is important to be introspective with the kind of event registration platform you will be using for your event.
Most event teams do not go looking for a new platform in the middle of a planning cycle. The switch happens after a live event exposes a gap that no workaround can fix. Something like a check-in system that cannot keep pace with peak arrivals or even a badge-printing machine that jams under pressure. These are operational failures that happen in front of the very audience that you and your team spent months building for the event.
Pop-up events are now one of the most cost-effective ways to create brand buzz. According to a Google survey cited by Zendesk, brands that ran pop-up activations reported a 46% increase in sales, a 51% rise in market visibility and 66% greater brand awareness compared to periods without a pop-up presence.
Picking the right webinar platforms is one of the most consequential technical decisions a marketing or events team makes and it is also one of the most under-researched. Most teams default to whatever video conferencing tool they already use for internal meetings and discover the limitations of that decision at the worst possible time, live, in front of an audience they worked weeks to attract.
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There is a point in every poorly planned online networking event that most of us may have encountered. The host cues to something like ‘go ahead and introduce yourself in the chat.’ Following this, dozens of names appear in the chat simultaneously and almost nobody is able to follow them. The next 15-30 minutes then whittles away in the kind of polite, structured silence that feels busier than it is.
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Conflict management is perhaps the single most valuable skill that any professional leader can develop. This is particularly relevant in the event management space, which is prone to several different kinds of conflicts. Managing conflicts is never about allowing them to arise at all, no.
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The global conference management software market was valued at USD 6.89 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach USD 17.33 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 8.6 percent, according to Grand View Research. Within that broader market, the academic conference segment is undergoing its own particular reckoning. We are witnessing more and more event organizations switching to abstract management tools than ever before.
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The pandemic brought with it the popularization of the ‘virtual’ format. Virtual offices. Virtual classes. Little did we know that this ‘accidental’ switch was here to stay. The virtual format remained and revolutionized the way in which the world approached meetings and events. Gradually, businesses and institutions began realizing that the virtual format was indeed sustainable. For employees and companies alike. For event organizers and attendees alike.
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