Tag: Agenda builder

Agenda Conflict Management – Manage Conflicting Sessions in Program Agenda

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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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Build Event Schedule for Your Conferences

Got workshops & presentations lined up for your conference? Get Dryfta Event Platform to add your programs including keynotes, lunch intervals and presentations.

It lets you to add workshops & presentations, rooms & session venues, multiple tracks, multiple formats, speakers and moderators, fetches abstract summary from accepted abstracts automatically and has a built-in session timing conflict prevention system.

Attendees are able to add these sessions to their personal schedule and also be able to check-in to these sessions, share these sessions on their social networks, share photos and engage in live discussions.

Here’s an example of what event organizers can build using Program Builder: https://symposium.dryfta.com/en/program-schedule

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If you have a feature request, we’re all ears. You can submit your feature requests on our support desk.

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