Powerful, Enterprise-Grade Event Management Software
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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
Academic event management systems are everywhere. Universities are racing to adopt them, administrators are allocating budgets and vendors are proclaiming the dawn of a new era where software handles everything from submissions to post-event analytics.
For event organizers in 2025, social media is one of the greatest tools for promotion. And not surprisingly, tons of conferences are now turning to digital platforms to drive registrations and build buzz. At first glance, it may appear that posting updates and hoping for the best is enough, but conference promotion now demands much more than that.
Getting your event attendees to show up once is hard enough, but getting them to come back over and over again is a different challenge altogether. If you are an academic event professional who believes that bringing in as many new faces as you can into the conference room is what equates to success, you may be mistaken.
The academic world isn’t short of conferences. From research presentations and forums to seminars and webinars, these are just a few of the many events that require careful preparation and flawless coordination to ensure everything goes smoothly. However, managing an academic conference using traditional techniques can prove to be not only time-consuming but inefficient. Adopting the latest technological innovations has been a blessing. The academic event management systems help the organizers ease the whole process of conducting and executing a conference.
According to a survey by Umbrek, only about 40-70% of your audience are active attendees. The other half leave your event without ever speaking to the speakers they came to hear. This is the grim reality when event planners fail to encourage interaction between attendees and speakers in their events.
In only a few years, event management automation has managed to work its way up to become one of the most rewarding solutions for professional event organizers. And it only keeps getting better. According to Market.us, the number of planners adopting automated systems has increased multifold in the last two years.
Virtual events: two words that have become part of our everyday vocabulary in the modern digital space. The rapid adoption and subsequent evolution of virtual event platforms in only a few years is remarkable. Despite video conferencing technology being available for public use for over a decade, a fully immersive virtual event was always a fairly distant concept for most people.
An event management platform that meets all the goals of your event, sets it up for success, right from the beginning. Narrowing down on the right event management platform that ticks all the boxes can make or break your event’s performance. That being said, what the right event management platform should not do is break your bank.
An event or conference website is the first handshake between your event and your future attendees. If it’s awkward, slow, or confusing, people are going to take a hard pass. But if the event website design is clear, fast and easy to use, visitors will sign up faster than you can say ‘keynote speaker.’ Building an event website interface that drives registrations demands some non-negotiable design elements. A smooth one sets the tone and makes the audience eager for more.
You likely spent a lot of time, energy, and money on this event, and now that it’s over, you think your job’s done. That’s where you’re wrong! The real work is about to begin now. You can deepen relationships, share content again, and convert the attendees into a community of loyal followers after the event. There are post-event engagement strategies that you can instantly implement to keep up with the good vibe of any event, whether it is online, offline, or a combination of both. Continue reading
Research conferences have long depended on printed programs that everyone carries until they start to fall apart midway through the event. It made sense once. Before digital tools took over, a neatly bound program felt like a mark of professionalism. Yet, that routine now feels impractical in a world where schedules shift by the hour and participants expect updates at their fingertips. Universities and academic organizations have begun realizing that mobile event apps can do what printed booklets never could: keep pace with the real rhythm of conferences.
Most event organizers will admit that organizing an event, whether modest or large-scale, is a challenge. It takes time, effort and money to put up a good show for those who sign up. Much early into planning an event, all professionals involved in budgeting come to realize that the financial estimates are hardly set in stone. They’re changing almost every other day. What looks reasonable on paper is rendered logistically impossible in execution. All thanks to inflation and prices that go up and come down at any minute.