A Simple Guide to Building Your Academic Conference Website

 

A Simple Guide to Building Your Academic Conference Website

An academic conference is not simply an event involving a hotel, speakers, and participants; it lives online before, during, and after the event. A sophisticated conference website is no longer a “nice to have” feature. An essential aspect of your infrastructure is providing credibility, communication, marketing, logistics, and long-term community building. Continue reading

How an Event CRM Transforms Academic Conference Management 

 

 

How an Event CRM Transforms Academic Conference Management

Organising an academic program is often a juggling act. There are abstract submissions to manage, reviewers to solicit, participants to register, and schedules to keep. When you consider managing payments, possible hybrid formats, and the need for real-time communications, even the most seasoned organizer can feel overwhelmed. This is when an Event CRM proves useful. 

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Decoding Academic Event Registration for Attendees

How to Simplify Academic Event Registration and Ticketing

All year round, the brightest minds from across the globe come together for the sake of academia. Scientific inquiry brings together researchers, students, faculty members, and industry professionals to share knowledge and progress in their fields. Even when organizing a small departmental symposium or a large international conference, registration and ticketing can quickly become overwhelming.

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The Role of an Event Platform for Academic Conferences

Event Platform for Academic Conferences

Universities and Research Institutions are considered the ocean of knowledge and innovation. It’s where learners gather to enhance their skills and boost their learning journey. These educational institutions also organize academic conferences, workshops, webinars, seminars, cultural festivals, and other events.

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Tapping Into Event Data For Organizers That Goes Beyond Attendance

 

How to Tap Into Event Data For Organizers: Success Beyond Attendance

For most event organizers, one number that truly matters is the number of attendees at the event. The most important metric for the success of any event is the number of people in attendance. As an event manager, your joy must be through the roof as registration numbers climb, but when they don’t go as planned, panic sets in.

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How to Attract More Attendees to Your Conference

How to Attract More Attendees to Your Conference


You’ve secured world-class speakers, best in the industry. The agenda is packed with variety and depth. The logistics are planned almost flawlessly. All set for the big day, yet the registration desk isn’t nearly as excited, sparse participation has dampened the mood.

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Top Event Management Features Every Conference Organizer Should Know in 2026

Top Event Management Features Every Conference Organizer Should Know in 2025

Online event management software first began to emerge in the 1990s, enabled by the rise of the internet. Three decades later, in 2026, event management looks radically different. Organizing events and conferences has evolved in ways once considered futuristic. The pioneers who conceptualized and believed in online event management would regard the path we have trodden today in online softwares as entirely achievable. However, the rest would have deemed it almost utopian.

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Student’s Guide to Event Success: Planning and Organizing Events in Universities

Home > Blog > All in one Event Management Software > Student’s Guide to Event Success: Planning and Organizing Events in Universities

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Events are an important part of your university experience. They provide opportunities for you to connect with other students, faculty and staff. They also help you develop skills that will help you in your future career.

However, when planning an event, it’s important to set your expectations correctly. You want to be able to plan a successful event, but at the same time you don’t want to put too much pressure on yourself.

To plan and organize successful events, follow these steps:
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National LGBTQ Health Conference 2019 by Emory University – A Case Study

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National LGBTQ Health Conference is an interdisciplinary forum that provides an opportunity for presentation and discussion of current health research and programs for LGBTQ adults and adolescents with the overall goal of addressing health inequities for this highly impacted group.

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Used Dryfta for: Collecting abstracts, Sending email campaigns, Assigning abstracts to reviewers & conducting Peer review, Creating Event website, Selling tickets through credit card payments, Program schedule building & management, and Engaging attendees on Dryfta event apps.

Here’s a quick interview with April Winningham, Conference Coordinator, about her experience with using Dryfta event platform for National LGBTQ Health Conference
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Questions to Ask When Choosing a University Event Software

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The academic world isn’t short of events. From presentation of research, forums, seminars, conferences, there are so many things that need thorough planning and impeccable organization in order to ensure that everything runs like clockwork.

However, organizing an event using the traditional methods can prove to be tedious, time-consuming and to some extent, inefficient. It’s a good thing that technology has been able to lend a hand to all event organizers in the form of academic event management software.

So, what exactly are these university event management platforms? The cloud-based event software for universities assist event planners in structuring their academic event functions and help them to execute their agendas systematically.

They help to keep track of the guest list, collect registration fees through credit card payments online, initiate abstract submissions and assign these submissions to reviewers, build interactive program schedule available on website and mobile apps, reach out to all your possible guests and attendees and many other useful features.

With so many choices out there, it could be quite a task to pick out the best one for your event organization needs. With these tips on how and what to look for, you wouldn’t need to spend precious time cracking your head to find the most suitable event software for the event that you have in mind.

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Dryfta has Won Accolades for its Event Management Platform

Dryfta earned recognitions lately after having gone through a review of trusted B2B directory FinancesOnline.com. The results were very positive – our event management software emerged with a score of 8.0 out of 10 and a perfect user satisfaction rating of 100%. We were also mentioned as one of the top SaaS software solutions on their platfrom.

Reviewers observed how our platform specially designed for universities and non-profits is able to help users conceptualize, plan and manage events within a cloud based environment. The software experts further noted the comprehensive features and event management capabilities of Dryfta to facilitate planning events and turning them into successful events.
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Organ Preservation Alliance is using Dryfta Event Platform to Manage its Annual Summit

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The Organ Preservation Alliance has partnered with Dryfta to host its annual Organ Banking Summit. The Summit on Organ Banking through Converging Technologies integrates several areas of science and engineering with the aim to tackle mutliple public health challenges.

Dryfta is used by companies & universities to build their event registration website, sell tickets online, collect abstract submissions & assign them to reviewers for review, send email campaigns, create event schedule, accept donations, design badges & participation certificates, and manage attendee data using a full-stack event CRM. All from one dashboard.

To set up call for papers using abstract management system, Organ Preservation Alliance team has first completed the initial setup of the abstract submission system and then went on to add custom fields to collect abstracts through their abstract submission form and review abstracts through the review submission form.
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