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Event Software Security Review Checklist for Universities

A good event software is one that guards your secrets to the grave. No snitching and most definitely no information leaking. Fresh data coming in from 2025 by App Performance Club show that 70% of all event planners have been hit with a breach of their consumer data. Well, 70 is a big number. So it is not about if but when your event software may be hit with a contravention. And when it does, will your software security review be prepared to handle it? Or will it give in and fall through like 70% of event planners? Are you going into this statistic, or are you maneuvering to remain out of it and secure your data?

Conference Session Chair Checklist

The role of a conference session chair is often overlooked and to a degree, underestimated. And no, this is not about a chair in the literal sense. While we agree that seaters do play an important role in making the conference pleasant for attendees, a conference session chair means something different altogether. None of your attendees want whiplash-like symptoms from spending hours on an uncomfortable chair. But what they also don’t desire is a conference session chair that is as perplexed as they are.

Conference Accessibility Statement Templates

A form field on your conference registration form that asks, “Do you have special requirements?” leaves people guessing what the question means. They may be wondering if it is safe to disclose and who might be on the other end of the support system. Will this individual even understand my accessibility needs? is a question that pops up far too often.

Generative AI Policy Template for Conference Submissions and Peer Review

Artificial intelligence has integrated itself into every aspect of the world and its working. Event management is not an exception to this. However, with the idea of revolutionary tech like AI also comes ethical considerations. Your conference’s AI policy is what draws the line, where you think it should be stenciled and to what extent. A conference AI policy template is at the top of the list for many organizations now functioning at the peak of generative AI.

Should your authors be allowed to use AI in their submissions at all?

How to Merge Duplicate Contacts in Dryfta Event CRM

One person can end up with two contact records for perfectly ordinary reasons. They may register with a second email address, return as a speaker after attending an earlier event, or have an assistant create an account for them. Soon, their tickets, submissions, meetings, and messages sit in different profiles.

Dryfta’s Event CRM helps administrators review and merge duplicate contacts into one primary record. This guide explains how the merge works, which record to keep, and what to check before you confirm it.

Enable Authorized Check-ins to Prevent Attendees from Checking-in Remotely

As an organizer, if you wish to allow attendees to check-in to a program session only once they’re physically present at the venue, you can use the authorized check-in solution from Dryfta. The authorized check-in prevents attendees from checking-in to sessions remotely.
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Event Schedule : Complete Guide for Creating an Event Schedule

There are a lot of details to nail down when you are organizing an event or conference. What structure do you use, how do you handle a networking event, how long should speakers be on for, and how many intervals should you include? These are all excellent questions that deserve an answer, and while there is no single ideal way to run an event, you can use scheduling best practices to create event schedule for your next conference and ensure your guests get what they need out of their attendance.
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AI-Assisted Abstract Review for Research Conferences

AI-assisted abstract review uses software to support defined parts of a conference review process, such as submission checks, topic classification, reviewer assignment and advisory analysis. It should not replace expert assessment of scientific merit or a programme committee’s final decision.

That distinction matters when a university, scholarly society or research conference receives hundreds or thousands of submissions. The administrative burden is real, but so are the consequences of a poor reviewer match, an exposed identity, a missed conflict of interest or an unexplained rejection.

The useful question is not, “Can AI review abstracts?” It is, “Which tasks can it support, who checks the output and what evidence will the committee keep?”

Integrate Dryfta with HubSpot Using Zapier: A Complete Guide

If you are organizer who has been manifesting better data organization for your event, this blog is the sign you’ve been looking for. With greater ambitions for your event company also comes the necessity to segment and arrange your data better. Perhaps you’ve been exporing your options for a while now. In this piece, we’re offering you one more to add to your list. You can integrate Dryfta with HubSpot using Zapier so that your selected event contact data reaches HubSpot without a manual CSV import. A controlled one-way workflow forms the safest starting point, built around a verified Dryfta contact trigger, an optional formatting or filter step, and a HubSpot find or create and update action.

Event Platform Migration: Moving Event Platforms Without Losing Conference History

Moving on is never easy. And that’s true of event platforms migrating all their data into a new system. The goodbyes can be messy and sometimes hard to come to terms with. Your team may have spent years or perhaps even decades settling into the familiarity of an event management platform. They know it like the back of their hand. Therefore, in short, event platform migration can be a tough choice to make. However, it can be your new beginning, too.

It can be frightening to look at all the data you’ll have to transfer into your new platform of choice. You are at risk of dropping the ball at any point in time. The bandwidth for mistakes to occur, for any data to be lost or compromised during event platform migration, remains broad. Yes, things can go sideways.

How to Test Abstract Forms for Accessibility

Accessibility, when installed only superficially into your event management experience, is merely an oxymoron. It claims to be within reach for all but still falls short in important places, ultimately rendering it futile. This is the story of many abstract forms today. Designers believe they have created it with accessibility and PwD in mind, but only upon use do they realize that there are gaps leaking through. Abstract submission form accessibility is, therefore, only complete when you’ve tested it thoroughly before it goes live for the public. It is certainly not a great feeling for individuals to realize halfway through filling your abstract submission form that the form fields never truly accounted for their special needs.

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