Event management

What Gets Lost Between Annual Conferences: How Organizing Committees Can Preserve It

A new chair opens a shared drive during a conference committee handover. The new team members receive the drive that everything from holds contracts, schedules, spreadsheets and email exports to meeting notes. The archive, from the outset, appears complete. It is when the new chair gets to work that they begin to realize the utter disarray.

Teams then find themselves asking questions that no one seems to be able to really answer. Why did the venue layout change? Which file is final? Who controls the registration account? What work is still open?

Dryfta vs Cvent-Which Event Management Tool Works Best?

Are you still juggling registration and check-in by hand? Time to switch gears. A good event management tool helps event teams manage everything from registration and check-in to guest movement with ease.

What Event Data Should You Delete After a Conference?

What do you do when something that has given you a lot to remember…finally ends. How to you decide what to keep and what to discard? And no, this isn’t about your last failed relationship. The similarities can be quite uncanny but what we’re talking about are events. Conference data retention, or choosing what to retain from the bulk of that which remains after an event.

Event Management and Planning – The Ultimate Guide

According to studies, over 44,554 event managers are currently employed in the United States, with 63.8% of the workforce identifying as women and 36.2% as men, highlighting the scale and diversity of the profession. Event management continues to grow as a dynamic field that blends strategy, creativity, and execution to deliver impactful experiences.

Top Scientific Event Management Software Platforms

It is a big deal to plan a scientific event, symposium, conference, or academic meeting. You should have proper event management software to ease your trouble of managing registrations, collecting and reviewing abstracts, handling event workflows, constructing schedules and keeping track of attendee engagement.

11 Collaboration Tools For Effortless Event Planning

According to MoldStud, teams‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ that employ the proper digital tools can finish event-planning tasks 30% quicker. This shows how much event-planning tools can help a team work better together. In the case of event planning, you are essentially juggling tasks, deadlines, communication, vendors, the speakers, and hundreds of other details. If you don’t have the right tools, things will spiral out of control very quickly. But in the case of planning events, the right tools can help you achieve your objectives without stress. Continue reading

10 Best Event Scheduling Software for Universities to Use

University events today are no less sophisticated than full-blown professional gatherings of the highest order. The agendas for many varsity-organized events are now just as packed as those of corporate events. This is, in part, a reflection of serious business taking place within these venues. College students and graduate researchers have much to say, share and do for the world ahead of them. Certainly, no one is too young to make a difference, as the popular adage goes. Event scheduling softwares for universities have thus turned into powerful tools at enabling these gatherings as opposed to minimizing them in impact, scale and intensity. It’s 2026 and university events demand the kind of advanced and state-of-the-art event management infrastructure that other, more purportedly serious kinds of events possess. As event organizers, your job is to be where the gatherings are. And no one gathering is one too small and no one university event is insignificant.

Top 10 Cost-Effective Event Management Platforms in 2026

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 low cost 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.

Onsite Event Operations and Management: Complete Guide

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At 8:30 a.m., the registration line is moving. Seven minutes later, one badge printer stops. A speaker arrives without the latest slides. A workshop reaches capacity. Then a sponsor asks where its lead scanner is. None of this is unusual. What matters is whether the team spots each problem early, knows who owns the response, and fixes it without creating another one. This is what onsite event operations look like in real time.

Onsite event operations solve this exact problem. They turn months of planning into a clear, workable event day. The job covers more than check-in. It connects people, rooms, schedules, equipment, attendee data, vendors, communication, and contingency plans while the event is live.

This guide gives you a practical way to build that system. It covers the work to complete before doors open, the decisions that matter during the event, and the records worth reviewing once everyone has gone home.

Writer’s note: Good event operations do not prevent every surprise. They make the next sensible action obvious when a surprise occurs.

Event Monetization- Why It Matters More Than Ever

Event organizers do not depend on ticket sales alone anymore. People who organize events need to have plans to make money from their initiatives. If you are in charge of conferences, trade shows, or events that happen online, making money from events is really important to being successful in the long run. Continue reading

How to Manage Conference Speakers: A Practical Guide for Organizers

Organizer guide showing how to manage conference speakers, including deadlines, session details, and AV requirements

Knowing how to manage conference speakers requires planning beyond the invitation. A speaker can accept months before an event and still arrive without the right schedule, slide format, travel details, or technical support. Good event speaker coordination turns that early commitment into a prepared, confident appearance.

This guide explains how to manage conference speakers after they confirm. It covers ownership, deadlines, information collection, communication, accessibility, technical checks, event-day support, and follow-up. The aim is not to send more messages. It is to make each message timely, specific, and easy to act on. Continue reading

Dryfta vs Whova vs Cvent: Best Virtual Event Platform?

Virtual and hybrid events have become a core part of conferences, academic meetings, and professional events today. These events allow the participants to attend from anywhere. They also help the organizers save money and venue costs, along with other miscellaneous costs. However, with this shift, there comes a bigger responsibility for the event organizers, which is to choose the right platform. Continue reading

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