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Your task: organize a conference. Your tool of choice: Microsoft Excel. Say what? You’re neither a formula wizard nor a master of spreadsheet gymnastics? How many days would you survive in that jungle of tabs?! Better idea: stop worrying about formula errors and broken cell references! Use this well-thought-out Excel template for your conference planning. Available for free download. How can you successfully manage attendee data, payments, and abstracts with it? And where does your conference face the risk of an Excel meltdown? That’s what this post is all about.

Over the past few weeks, several organizers who have used WinCongress software to manage their conferences for years have reached out to us. Development of the software has now been discontinued, leaving customers wondering how to manage their future events.

Our Buyer's Guide explains the key factors you should consider when choosing your conference platform. Afterward, you can compile your own checklist to download.

Organizing an academic conference takes time—time you often don't have alongside your research and teaching. Conference software can help. Here are 9 tips on how to find the right one.

On January 14, 2021, the Giftedness Promotion Congress of the University of Teacher Education FHNW kicked off. Not in person as planned, but fully digital for the first time. This was a real challenge for the organizers of the three-day event, but one they mastered successfully in every respect—as we can already reveal. Our software supported the team throughout the process.

Live content brings a virtual conference to life, but the entire program doesn't necessarily have to be live. Presentations and other parts of the program can be recorded and uploaded before the conference begins. Furthermore, many organizers choose to keep live elements in their program while still offering participants the opportunity to watch all concurrently streamed sessions at their own pace later on.