Step 5 · Program
Conference program software
What is conference program software?
Conference program software turns accepted abstracts into a schedule: it groups oral presentations into timed sessions and posters into poster sessions across the conference’s tracks, rooms and days, then checks the result for double-booked rooms and presenting authors due in two places at once. The finished program becomes the agenda the website, the app and session check-in use.
The program is built from what peer review accepted, and it is written into your event’s one agenda — the same agenda the website, the app, session check-in and credits already read.
At a glance
- Program built from accepted presentations
- Tracks, rooms, days, daily hours and session length in one setup
- Oral talks in timed sessions, posters in poster sessions
- A proposed program from AI or from a fixed rule, never applied without you
- Room double-bookings and presenting-author clashes refused
- Manual placement and reordering
- One agenda for website, app, check-in and credits
Fix the frame first
- Tracks
- Pre-filled from your call for abstracts, so the program uses the same tracks authors submitted to.
- Rooms
- Up to 50.
- Days
- Up to 14, inside your event’s dates.
- Daily hours
- The window sessions may use each day, 09:00 to 17:00 by default, in the event’s time zone.
- Session length
- 60 or 90 minutes.
- Talks per session
- From 1 to 12 — six 15-minute talks fill a 90-minute session.
What goes in: accepted presentations
Each accepted abstract is already a presentation, marked oral or poster. The program screen shows how many are accepted, how many are still unscheduled, and how many sessions and tracks you have. Orals go into talk sessions; posters go into poster sessions. Switch a presentation from oral to poster and it leaves its talk session so it can be placed with the posters — it is never left in the wrong kind of session.
A proposal you inspect before anything changes
Choose “Build program with AI” and AI proposes sessions using your tracks, presentation types, rooms and author conflicts. A fixed rule can propose one too. Either way the result is a draft: you read it, change it or discard it, and nothing reaches your agenda until you apply it. Presentations the proposal could not fit are listed, not dropped.
Prefer to do it by hand? Create sessions yourself and place presentations one by one, in the order you want.
The rules a program has to pass
Every proposal — from AI, from the rule, or edited by you — is checked before it can be applied, and each problem comes back as a plain sentence:
- No room holds two sessions at the same time.
- Every session sits inside a configured day and its hours, in the event’s time zone.
- No presenting author is in two overlapping sessions. Authors are matched by name and, where given, email address.
- Orals only in talk sessions, posters only in poster sessions.
- Each presentation appears once, only if it is accepted, and never more talks in a session than you allowed.
One agenda, everywhere it is read
Applying a program creates ordinary sessions in your event’s agenda — with track, room and time — alongside anything you created by hand, such as keynotes and breaks. That agenda is what your conference website shows as the schedule, what the conference app shows attendees, what session check-in scans against and what CME credits are counted from. There is no second schedule to keep in step.
If a presentation stops being accepted — it is withdrawn, or reopened for review — it is taken out of its session automatically, and the session itself stays.
Building one for the first time
How to build a conference program covers the decisions behind the frame — how long talks should be, where posters go, when to publish. Once the program is set, the abstract book can be ordered the same way.
Frequently asked questions
Does AI publish the program?
No. AI writes a proposal. Nothing reaches your agenda until an organizer applies it, and every proposal is checked for room and author clashes first.
Can we mix program sessions with keynotes we created ourselves?
Yes. Program sessions are ordinary sessions in the same agenda, and proposals treat your existing sessions as occupied room time.
What happens if an accepted paper is withdrawn after the program is built?
Its presentation is taken out of its session in the same step. The session stays, so you can fill the slot.
Your conference starts with one sentence.
Describe your conference in a sentence. AI proposes the event and its website, and your workspace suggests the academic modules to switch on. Nothing is public until you publish.
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