Blog | Dryfta - Part 2

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

Authors and reviewers should not have to interpret a vague sentence about using AI “responsibly.” They need to know what they may do, what they must disclose, and what they must never place in an outside tool.

This guide helps conference chairs turn those questions into a clear working policy. It focuses on the decisions that matter most: language assistance, substantial writing or research support, reviewer confidentiality, human responsibility, and the conference’s own use of AI-assisted review tools. Continue reading

10 Must-Have Marketing Tools to Promote Your Event

Planning an event often means using several tools for email, social media, paid ads, and registrations. Keeping track of them all can get difficult as the event grows.

Event marketing software helps manage these activities more efficiently. For complex events, Dryfta can work well as an integrated event marketing solution, especially when marketing needs to work closely with registration and other event processes.

Specialist tools may still be a better fit for specific marketing channels. The right choice depends on your event needs, workflow, and budget.

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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How to Measure Event ROI: Formula and Metrics

ROI or return on investment is a key marker for event planners when it comes to a plethora of considerations. It is the numbers that yield as ROI that will ultimately decide the future course of your organization. Show the returns must shown, more than told.

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.