Powerful, Enterprise-Grade Event Management Software
Sell tickets & Collect registration fees online
Full-Service Abstract Management Software: Collect ➩ Assign ➩ Review ➩ Decide ➩ Notify
Customizable forms to collect & review abstracts, symposia, proposals & grants
The Complete Event Schedule Builder to Create Virtual & Hybrid Sessions
Create Event Schedule with Slides, Group Chats, Survey forms & more
Engagement Tools to Host Virtual Conferences & Online Community Website
Engage attendees & Produce knowledge with online networking portal
Ticketing, as users expect, ought to be the simplest part of your event management work stream. Ask why? Well, modern ticketing platforms and the rise of online-only bookings for events have made simple ticketing a norm out of necessity. If you are an event planner, make a virtue out of this necessity. Ticketing platforms that function like clockwork, smooth and fuss-free and similarly convenient to install, set up, and sustain. Doesn’t that sound like a win-win? Continue reading
When you plan an event, you do your best to make it unique for our attendees. But the process of selling tickets to guests can be a struggle. It takes time and effort to make the online ticketing platforms process work. Also, ticketing has become increasingly expensive for event organizers, with many opting to accept less ticket sales in order to compensate for the high fees.
It is the norm of the scientific world to share findings with fellow members of the world of research, innovation, and discovery. And what better way to do so than to get your research outcomes published in a prestigious academic or scientific journal for scholars around the globe to read.
Let’s own up to it. Half of us haven’t the slightest inking as to what B2B is. Or what a B2B event is for matter. And let alone an even chunkier word ‘B2B event marketing.’ Don’t worry though, from this moment onward, you’re going into society as someone with an understanding of what a B2B event is and how this connects to marketing. Because we’re about to tell you. Buckle up and read on.
Not long ago, an enterprise event team was preparing for a large international conference. Speakers confirmed their sessions, registrations kept increasing, and the schedule became more complex than expected. The problem started when the team realized the event platform they chose was designed for smaller marketing events, not large enterprise programs. Even simple tasks started taking longer than expected, while many features felt unnecessary for the type of event they were trying to manage.
Virtual events now play a much bigger role in the B2B industry. The reality is, busy enterprise executives join virtual events because they want immediate access to industry insights without spending much time and money on travel. And guess what? B2B virtual events help exactly with that.
That is why digital engagement nowadays has become a key part of building a more consistent sales pipeline. On top of that, hybrid-first event strategies help brands connect both online and in-person audiences through a unified experience.
So, if you wish to unlock the full potential of these virtual events for your brand, keep reading.
Cloud-based event management platforms like ConfTool are helping numerous event organizers from around the world run their events. Professionals planning academic conferences, in particular, have ratified ConfTool’s stature as a trusted tool in the scholarly community. It handles core event management functions like abstract submissions, peer review workflows and basic registration for academic and scientific events skillfully. At least it has for a long time.
The things that come for free can seem like a lottery win at first glance. On first use. Imagine receiving all you need and for a price tag that reads zero. Free. Completely free of cost. Microsoft CMT is one such free jackpot. It is a conference management toolkit that is accessible in the market for free. Microsoft says, “No worries, it’s on the house.”
An outstanding, even potentially groundbreaking research paper, sometimes simply never materializes. Perhaps the author may never get down to writing it and the paper remains an idea. Or even worse, a promising paper, written and pruned, simply never reaches the right platform. There is a particular kind of disappointment that comes in circumstances such as this. It is also one that conference organizers, just as much as promising authors, know all too well. You’ve spent weeks if not months planning a research conference. Building something you believe in. You’ve dedicated your time and effort into perfecting it. However, once the Call For Papers is ready to go out, you’re confronted with a bitter realization: that submitters didn’t nearly believe in your research conference as much as you did.
Planning an academic conference is no joke. Platforms like Fourwaves are widely trusted for these events, valued for their abstract management and scholarly workflows. But as your event grows, things can get tricky. Dealing with multi-track schedules or sudden price spikes from high submission volumes can feel like a battle. And that’s why many organizers are actively searching for all-in-one conference management solutions that can handle modern academic events.
In this blog, we’ll break down the best Fourwaves alternatives and help you figure out which platform actually fits your next academic conference.
Plenty of event planners today realize halfway through that the service they signed up for does not meet their needs. And their attendees’ expectations. In this view, the team is forced to reckon with the reality of the software they have been working with. Sometimes costing tens of thousands of dollars, discontinuing a service is never easy. And never the first choice, at all. However, circumstances outgrow our events and we look for alternatives. It is with this thought that we have set out to discuss some of the brilliant vFairs alternatives.
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