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How to Choose the Best Event Management Software
The academic world isn’t short of conferences. From research presentations and forums to seminars and webinars, these are just a few of the many events that require careful preparation and flawless coordination to ensure everything goes smoothly. However, managing an academic conference using traditional techniques can prove to be not only time-consuming but inefficient. Adopting the latest technological innovations has been a blessing. The academic event management systems help the organizers ease the whole process of conducting and executing a conference.
10 Best Ways to Build a Thriving Academic Event Community
How does an academic event grow from a simple gathering into a strong community you feel part of right away? Academic events bring people together to share ideas and learn. A strong academic event community makes these events even better. It helps its members settle in right away, with clear steps and simple layouts guiding them throughout the process. These practices help the teams maintain order and keep things easy for all users from start to finish.
Practical Early Bird Event Registration Strategies for University Events
Organizing a university conference can be exciting, bringing in many new possibilities. You’re finally getting that symposium approved, securing speakers you’ve admired for years or hosting your department’s flagship annual event. However, for half of all event organizers in universities, come unpredictable attendance numbers and budget uncertainty.
10 Must-Have Tools for Academic Conference Planning
Planning an academic conference isn’t just picking a date and locking down a venue. It’s a full-on adventure that needs sharp coordination, constant communication, and smooth execution from start to finish. If you use the proper academic conference tools, you will drastically cut down your working hours and reduce the chance of errors. These tools also make it easy to manage registrations, abstract reviews, scheduling, attendee engagement, and report generation. Continue reading
Effective Academic Event Check-in Strategies for Organizers
What do you think is the one thing that your conference attendees wouldn’t appreciate about your event? If your answer is long queues outside the event venue, then you’re probably still stuck with traditional ways of event check-ins. As with all aspects of organizing an event, the check-in process has also evolved. Organizers today don’t shy away from exploring various digital tools for a smoother attendee check-in process at events.Â
How to Encourage Interaction Between Speakers and Attendees
According to a survey by Umbrek, only about 40-70% of your audience are active attendees. The other half leave your event without ever speaking to the speakers they came to hear. This is the grim reality when event planners fail to encourage interaction between attendees and speakers in their events.
How to Integrate Event CRM with Registration and Abstract SystemsÂ
Integrating your event CRM is the final and most important step in your journey toward data-driven event planning. Many organizers tend to disregard this decisive process. Perhaps they think to themselves, “I’ve set up my registration system and abstract management portal, what else matters now?” Yes, the most difficult part of getting your systems operational is behind you. But your integration approach can either make or break your ability to understand what’s actually happening with your event.
11 Collaboration Tools For Effortless Event Planning
According to MoldStud, teams​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ that employ the proper digital tools can finish event-planning tasks 30% quicker. This shows how much event-planning tools can help a team work better together. In the case of event planning, you are essentially juggling tasks, deadlines, communication, vendors, the speakers, and hundreds of other details. If you don’t have the right tools, things will spiral out of control very quickly. But in the case of planning events, the right tools can help you achieve your objectives without stress. Continue reading
Tips for Managing Reviewer Fatigue in Large Conferences
Reviewers are the most important factor, without whom any large conference cannot work. They read, assess, and score the hundreds of submissions that come in. But as the number of submissions grows, so does the problem. Reviewer fatigue affects them deeply. Reviewers feel drained, lose focus, and become less consistent in their evaluations. Any conference organizer must take care of this fatigue to maintain quality, fairness, and reviewer satisfaction. Continue reading
A Step-by-Step Checklist to Plan Seamless Hybrid Events in 2026
Thinking of planning your next hybrid event? We have a statistic that you’ll probably find insightful. According to Statista, 74.5% of event planners prefer hosting hybrid events as of 2025. Hence, you are in the correct direction if you think choosing hybrid events is the way forward.Â
17 Event Management Automation Tech Tips You Must Know
In only a few years, event management automation has managed to work its way up to become one of the most rewarding solutions for professional event organizers. And it only keeps getting better. According to Market.us, the number of planners adopting automated systems has increased multifold in the last two years.