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Event Platform Migration: Moving Event Platforms Without Losing Conference History

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.

SSO for University Conferences: A Comprehensive Guide

No one enjoys logging in multiple times within a single interface. This is the core reason why university conference SSO, or single sign-on authentication, exists. To break down, in practical terms, what SSO really means, let’s look at an analogy that university goers find most relevant. They go through it on the daily. The university you attend is likely to have allotted a physical or digital identity card for you that the institution expects you to use throughout your time there. There may be an individual or something automated like a biometric system that verifies, authorizes, and lets people into campus.

Dryfta vs Cvent-Which Event Management Tool Works Best?

Are you still juggling registration and check-in by hand? Time to switch gears. A good event management tool helps event teams manage everything from registration and check-in to guest movement with ease.

Transform Your Event Agency with Dryfta’s White-Label Event Management Software

In the ever-evolving world of events, agencies and businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to stand out. Imagine having a state-of-the-art event management software, fully customized to reflect your brand, without the hassle of building it from scratch. With Dryfta’s White Label Event Software, you can make this a reality. Designed to empower event agencies and businesses, this platform allows you to create a professional, branded event experience—completely free of Dryfta’s branding.

Let’s explore what makes Dryfta’s White Label Event Software a game-changer and how it can help you save time, cut costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.

What Event Data Should You Delete After a Conference?

What do you do when something that has given you a lot to remember…finally ends. How to you decide what to keep and what to discard? And no, this isn’t about your last failed relationship. The similarities can be quite uncanny but what we’re talking about are events. Conference data retention, or choosing what to retain from the bulk of that which remains after an event.

Conference Decision Log for Exceptions & Approvals

A late abstract. A remote presentation request. A refund outside the usual policy. A sponsor wanting to swap a promised benefit. A room change an hour before the session starts.

If you organize conferences, you’ve probably dealt with all of these.

And honestly, making the decision is one thing. However, remembering why the decision was made, who approved it, what rule was changed, and what needs to happen next is another.

That’s why a conference decision log is so useful.

How to Build a Reserve Reviewer Pool for Abstract Review

You have an academic event coming up and you and the team are now working through the toughest, often trickiest part of the planning: abstract management. All academic and scientific events hope for their selected submissions to be the best out of the lot. So, you set up a three-step review process. But the catch is that you have a reserve reviewer pool that doesn’t quite match the workload your team is looking at. Therefore, you are forced to find qualifies reviewers in the last minute when you realize that the magnitude of your submissions far outweigh the reviewer reserve in hand. Suffering from success, eh?

QR Code Self Check-In: A Simpler Way to Check In to Sessions

Getting attendees into a conference session should be simple. With Dryfta’s latest update, it now takes just a few seconds.

Event organizers can generate a unique QR code for each session and display it at the session venue. When attendees arrive, they scan the QR code with their phone, enter their email address, and check in.

Risks of AI in Event Management: Why AI Needs Support

Long before delegates arrive, an event can become difficult to control in ways that are easy to miss.

A speaker has not completed registration. An abstract still needs the right reviewer. A payment does not match its invoice, and moving one session creates three new clashes. None of these jobs is unusual, but together they can consume a team’s attention.

The risks of AI in event management become clear when a tool is asked to take responsibility for all these connected jobs. A single incorrect assumption can move from an abstract or registration record into a payment decision, reviewer assignment or published schedule.

How to Build a Conference Operations Dashboard

Is your room always messy despite you making a mental note to keep it tidy and organized? Does your living space become cluttered all over again only a few days after tidying it? And do you hate it? You probably do. This curse of having things all over the place is something that the majority dislikes. And wants to fix. But mostly they don’t know how to. Anything changes that they do make become lost to routine and the demands of everyday life. Data generated in your conference works similarly. No event planner enjoys having to work with information that’s in disarray. Information gets held up in silos and the team is left scatterbrained in trying to simply make sense of operations.

Recurring Event Ticketing Software: Passes & Subscriptions

You probably didn’t start a recurring event thinking, “I can’t wait to build the same registration page again and again.” Yet that’s exactly what many organizers end up doing. Copy the event. Change the date. Create another attendee list. Repeat.

Then your inbox gets a whole lot busier. “Can I switch sessions?” “Is my pass still valid?” and before long, your team is spending more time on admin than the event itself. That’s when recurring event ticketing software starts earning its place.

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