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.
“We regret to inform you that we need to withdraw our accepted abstract.” This sentence catches many organizers off guard, even though accepted abstract withdrawal happens on a fairly regular basis across scientific conferences of every size. And abstract withdrawal after acceptance is not always intentional, no. Most times it’s due to something unforeseen. The presenter may have fallen ill or could be unable to make it to the conference, or perhaps their work has been accepted elsewhere.
When the call is for an abstract but you submit an entire paper. You may not be the brighter crayon in the box but this is a rather honest mistake to make. Abstract vs full paper: what is the distinction really? Is an abstract more of a trailer into your paper or is it the first page of your final paper?Â
What non-profit organizations do day in and day out is work, rally toward a cause. A movement. A people. Much of the work of non-profits is targeted at advocacy, whether that be rights advocacy, environmental advocacy or even legislative advocacy. Most non-profits organizations, at least the ones that are creating real change, run on consistent funding and volunteer support. Without the two, a non-profit and its vision is bound to fail. In fact, many do every year. Only a fraction of all non-profits actually make it in the long run. So what could possibly multiply a non-profit’s chances of making it in the world today? Among the things that help are advocacy tools for non-profits.
Traditional event management tools are only tapping a fraction of the potential of advocacy-driven features. Advocacy tools, often used to garner public support toward civic causes or social movements, are powerful avenues for event professionals to intensify and catapult reach. Business advocacy, particularly in B2B events, can also benefit from advocacy tools for associations. These include tools such as a stakeholder mobilization software or even a plug-in that can further an event’s engagement metrics. Advocacy tools are necessary and in action, they’ve proven worthy additions to conventional event management softwares and tools.
Money is decisive of all things event management. And event management software pricing models are among factors that you need to plan if you want the ball in your court. If you want to be a compelling event planner, it is time to take charge of your money. Don’t be a cheapskate but also don’t commit daylight robbery with exorbitant ticket prices. Your buyers are smarter than you think them to be. And almost all of them are eyeing the best ticket for the right event and at the right price.
But the event management software pricing models you choose should not have you feeling the pinch. Fortunately, the skies are looking bright for event professionals in 2026.
The time period between putting out a call for papers to published proceedings can be a few months. But look closer and you’ll see weeks where event planners are burnt out and running on fumes, trying to have it all under control. Managing an academic conference workflow with an entirely manual workforce is like having a lot on your plate and not quite knowing how to empty it. Well, for everyone in academic event management, we have some incredible news. You don’t really have to do it all on your own. Automated software tools and technologies now exist that make end-to-end academic conference management possible.Â
Do you like being all over the place? At work? At home? Or at school? Perhaps you are much of the time. But do you truly enjoy it? We reckon you don’t. And it’s likely that you’re taking (or thinking of) actionable steps to change your ways. So why then are you and your team still succumbing to the hidden costs of separate abstract and registration tools?Â
Artificial Intelligence. AI. Automation. Words that appear almost everywhere. You go to the grocery store and find an AI-based self-checkout more sophisticated than anything you’ve ever seen. AI is listing your groceries and according to many, about to take all of our jobs. Well, that’s not what this blog is about. In the event management space, artificial intelligence is creating ripples of positive, upwards movement. Event professionals get to automate tasks that were previously tedious and impossible to work through without losing one’s mind. There are these AI tools for event planners that aren’t usurping any meaningful jobs. The human intent, the core purpose and objectives of the event, the things that make the event or conference truly yours is something that AI will be unable to replicate. Not now, not ever. Event management is a human business that caters to a human audience. So for as long as you are not expecting to host a conference for a bunch of humanoid robots, one can ascertain that the job of event planners shall remain important. And needed.
You’ve just planned on hosting an event or conference. In no time, your registration tab goes live. And your event officially begins. The first registration, perhaps a demo or a dummy filled in by someone from your team, is what breaks the duck. However what often follows is hollow silence until the next registration comes in. And they don’t come in a few minutes or a few hours for most event organizers working in smaller volumes, for those just starting out. It takes days, sometimes weeks. Weeks of anticipation and agonizing waiting, wondering if enough people will turn up for the show to even happen in the first place. Forget an audience.Â
When you’ve settled into a routine way of working and your stratagem has turned static, upscaling can feel like resistance. However, such resistance and aversion to change is what often precedes true development.
As a modern event planner, one ought to keep consistently raising the bars. And hitting them. Bars that are raised but without practical effort amount to nothing more than another unchecked item on your company’s 10-year vision. Say you are an academic event organizer and hope to augment your presence and operations. The upper hierarchy has finally approved bigger, better events. However, you may find yourself constrained by limited resources and a fiscal inability to draw in more. You want to manage hundreds of thousands of abstract submissions for a mega event headlined by a prestigious educational institution. But you can’t afford to hire hundreds of new employees to manually sift through submissions that run in the 1000s.
When event planners find themselves wanting to manage abstract submissions at scale, what do they do?Â
A medical congress is not, in any meaningful sense, a standard conference. It asks organizers to coordinate hundreds of scientific abstracts through formal peer review, to run dozens of sessions in parallel, to satisfy regulatory requirements for continuing education credits, to uphold strict standards of data security, and to manage sponsorship arrangements that often carry significant financial stakes.