This month’s Dryfta updates focus on making virtual delivery simpler, attendee navigation faster, and admin controls tighter across matchmaking, submissions, and ticketing.
Category: Blog
10 Conferences Leading Innovation in Higher Education
When I ask you to think of innovation in higher education, chances are, you are visualising large university classrooms and laboratories, and fairly so. These are the places where most present-day researchers and experienced professionals began their journey. This is where ideas sprout and innovation begins.
Why Are Event Organizers Using Interactive Event Schedules?
Academic events have now moved beyond the concept of printed agendas and static timetables. Organizers deal with complex event lifecycles with diverse session types, parallel tracks and virtual participants. At the heart of the successful events lies a feature that is transforming how event planners work and how attendees experience events. This is the interactive event schedule feature.
How to Overcome Challenges in Abstract Management
Abstract management is one of those tasks that appears simpler than it is in practice. The closer one gets to the field, the tougher the process seems. This may be true of perhaps a lot of fields. But abstract management is particularly prone to this kind of underestimation.
10 Abstract Management Software for High-Volume Submissions
Managing abstract submissions has turned into a real operational workload for academic conferences, research summits, and corporate events, especially as submission volume rises and the review timeline shrinks. Abstract management systems exist for exactly this reason.
Choosing The Right Speakers for Your Event- An Effective Guide
Imagine you walked into an event hoping to hear insightful details from the speakers, but sat through endless presentations with no interactions. You wouldn’t want your attendees to feel the same about the events you put together. And the most effective way to organize a high-quality event is to invite good speakers.Â
Comparing Between Symposium and Conference in Detail
When experts gather for presentations, discussions, and networking, they typically choose between a symposium and a conference. Although they seem to be the same event on the surface, they have different formats based on their purposes and participants.
Manual Abstract Management and Its Hidden Costs
Conference organizers across the globe share a common headache. The process of managing academic abstracts manually has transformed into an overwhelming burden that drains resources and threatens event quality. Every year, thousands of research conferences struggle with the same problem that refuses to go away.
Common Abstract Mistakes To Avoid During Submissions
In academic and professional writings and submissions, an abstract plays a very important role. It provides the essence of a research or scientific paper, report, thesis, or presentation. Its main purpose is to give a complete summary or overview of the project to the reader. It gives a glimpse of the objectives, methods, key findings, and conclusions of the study carried out by the scholars.
Dryfta vs Whova vs Cvent- Best Virtual Events Platforms
Virtual and hybrid events have become a core part of conferences, academic meetings, and professional events today. These events allow the participants to attend from anywhere. They also help the organizers save money and venue costs, along with other miscellaneous costs. However, with this shift, there comes a bigger responsibility for the event organizers, which is to choose the right platform. Continue reading
9 Types of Virtual Events in 2026(+ Real Resources)
Events that are conducted exclusively online were a far-fetched possibility for most event management organizations prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Particularly for event professionals in regions where the larger industry still remains growing and emerging, taking the plunge meant risk. However, a global lockdown left the event management sector, like most other industries, with no other choice for the months to come.
Top 7 Event Ticketing Platforms for Your Next Event
Well-managed ticket sales are a big part of what makes an event successful. As 2026 gets closer, one thing is clear: using the right tech is no longer optional if you want to stay competitive. For most events, ticket revenue funds everything else, making the setup behind it a core part of your event’s success. Review our selection of 7 leading event ticketing software solutions to choose the one that best supports your event.