As we head into the final stretch of the year, we’re excited to share some powerful new features that have just been added to Dryfta. These updates are designed to make your event planning more efficient and your events even more impactful.
Tag: Agenda builder
JHPIEGO | Transforming the Attendee Experience with Dryfta
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IMNHC 2023 marks the third major conference from Johns Hopkins University, with over 2,000 attendees, to utilize the Dryfta event platform. The ICFP 2022 and SBCC Summit 2022 are the other two comparable large-scale conferences co-organized by JHU and hosted on Dryfta.
JHPIEGO, an international health nonprofit affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, is a global force in healthcare initiatives focused on improving maternal and newborn health. Hosting the International Maternal and Newborn Health Conference (IMNHC) is a critical event for JHPIEGO, attracting healthcare experts, academicians, and enthusiasts globally. Prior to using Dryfta, the event faced intricate challenges, from abstract submission to attendee engagement, often relying on fragmented systems that lacked efficiency and cohesion.
University of Pennsylvania – Case Study
Great, comprehensive conference planning platform
The Ethnography in Education Research Forum at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education invites submissions for its 2019 Annual Meeting and the celebration of the Forum’s 40th anniversary. The Forum welcomes scholars at all career stages seeking a supportive venue for sharing their ethnographic work at various stages of development.
Used Dryfta for: Collecting abstracts, Sending email campaigns, Assigning abstracts to reviewers & conducting Peer reviews, Creating Event website, Selling tickets through credit card payments, Creating Program schedule.
Here’s a quick interview with Mary Yee, EdD, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, about her experience with using Dryfta event platform for Ethnography in Education Research Forum 2019
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National LGBTQ Health Conference 2019 by Emory University – A Case Study
Dryfta is a great event platform for conferences
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.
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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10 Reasons for Using an Event Management Software
Let’s admit it, automating any process does dig deep into your pocket. There is also considerable time and effort involved in getting your programs, systems, and workforce to amalgamate with any platform to deliver quantifiable benefits that make the entire rigmarole worth your time. Having said that, once the foundations are laid is when the paybacks of your efforts begin to take shape.
The event management ecosystem is no different. There are tremendous benefits in terms of time management, manpower investment, reduction of the probability of error and overall output that your event can benefit from if you were to consider engaging an event management platform. In this article, we will touch upon various nuances and features of event management platforms that can help you break the profit ceiling.
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
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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Agenda Conflict Management – Manage Conflicting Sessions in Program Agenda
Import your program sessions or add them manually using Quick add button to prepare your program schedule. Once your program schedule is ready, click on Conflicts button to view conflicts between sessions. Each session which is conflict with another session is listed there along with the reason for the conflict.
Conflict management system checks for conflict between venue and time and corresponding speakers. An admin has the option to resolve the conflict by changing the venue, or adjusting the time slot of the session in conflict.
Admin has the option to override conflicts and schedule the sessions as is. This would, however, displays different sessions in program schedule with same venues at the same time slot or same time slot at the same venue.
Program Changelog – Track Changes made to your Program Schedule
Until now, you were able to create program schedule, list speakers, check-in attendees to sessions et al. With this new update, admin would now be able to track all the changes made to the program agenda.
Changes are now logged and displayed under Program builder tool’s Program Changelog. This helps admins know what changes are made when and by whom which further helps bring accountability among the team members.
The changes that are logged include changes in sessions, speakers, session notes, time slot changes, venue changes, format and track changes.
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The Reason We Stopped Our Free Plan
Dryfta is an all-in-one event management platform for universities and non-profits. Until a few months ago, we had a free plan for event organizers to host events for up to 30 registrants. With access to all features. Without any time limitation on usage. It was a plain, simple free plan. Until we realized it wasnt. We were giving up too much for nothing.
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How Autodesk is using Dryfta to Manage Autodesk University Conferences
When Autodesk team initially thought about using Dryfta to manage their events, they were primarily interested in using our abstract management and peer reviews system to host their call for papers for 12 conferences across the globe including Australia, Brazil, Middle East and ASEAN countries.
Later, after we walked them through an extensive demo and explained them about our various other offerings, they decided to use Dryfta for other more important requirements including tasks workflow and management for speakers, program/sessions management, and a multi-lingual platform with support for RTL languages. Except a few customization, they have used almost all of our features as is.
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National Health Service Health & Environment Conference – A Case Study
Great Product – Simple to Use and Creates a very professional event platform
NHS Highland Research, Development & Innovation Conference was organized by Centre for Health Science, Inverness. The themes for 2016’s Annual Conference focus on the impact that Specific Aspects of the Environment has on our Health.
Used Dryfta for: Event registration, Creating Event website, Speakers & Attendees lists, Abstract management, Program schedule with Session check-ins, Event app, Photo Gallery
Here’s a quick interview with Alan Whiteside, Innovation Consultant,NHS Highland, about his experience with using the Dryfta event platform for NHS Highland Research, Development & Innovation Conference 2016.
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