Your team just got early access to the future of event operations — preview what's coming, enable new capabilities before they're released, and share feedback that shapes the product directly.

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Early Access is organized into two tracks. Choose the one that fits your team's needs.

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See what's actively in development and toggle features on for your org in one click. Stable enough for daily use — polish still in progress. No approval, no waiting.

Inside the Preview section, users can activate features directly and click on each card to explore more details, capabilities, and use cases.

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Request access and we'll reach out within 2 business days to schedule a time to chat, walk through known gotchas, and gather your feedback directly.

For Beta features, the experience works similarly. By clicking on the card, users can explore feature details and request access directly through the interface to join the waitlist.

Access requests submitted through the waitlist are typically reviewed within 2 business days.

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Meet your new event ops team. Sessionboard Event Agents handle the tasks your team repeats every event — speaker follow-ups, session data, submission scoring, and communications — automatically, inside the platform.

The first Event Agents are live now. Try them and tell us what you'd automate next.

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Questions or need help enabling a feature?

Our Customer Success team is ready to walk you through it.

Following our April launch, we're hosting a live walkthrough of Sessionboard's new Enterprise Abstract Management. 🚀

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Manage abstracts, posters, and research independently. No more forcing every format into one structure.

Want the full overview? Read more here.

Big month! We've been heads-down shipping the features you've been asking for — from smarter security to global language support and faster team workflows. Here's everything that just landed in Sessionboard. 🚀

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Protect your account with an authenticator app or email code. No extra tools needed.

Sensitive speaker and session data stays secure without adding friction for your team.

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Test your form and conditional logic before submissions open. What you see is what applicants get.

Catch layout and logic issues early — before they become a support headache.

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Snap sessions to 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, or 60-minute intervals in Agenda Settings.

No more manual time adjustments. The agenda works the way your event does.

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Move speakers from discovery to confirmed in one place. Assign sessions, bulk-delete, add manually, preview forms.

Replace fragmented, manual workflows with a scalable system built for high-volume speaker sourcing.

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Speakers and contributors can now respond in their own language — Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, and more.

People give richer answers when they're not translating their thoughts first.

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Update tasks across all portals from one view. Resync everything with one click when things drift.

Save hours of repetitive work on large, multi-portal events.

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Choose which fields show up — and in what order — in your Add Session and Add Abstract sidebars.

Your team sees what's relevant, not everything at once. Faster entry, fewer mistakes.

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Set the "From Name" at organization or event level. Defaults to the org or event name, fully customizable.

Why it matters: A familiar sender name builds trust and gets your emails opened.

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Control how dates appear in exports, per org or per event. Optionally split date and time into separate columns.

Less cleanup after every export. Your data lands ready to use.

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Bring over images, users, forms, and configurations from any event in your organization in a few clicks.

Stop rebuilding the same setup from scratch every time.

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Questions? Send us a message @ support@sessionboard.com — we're happy to help.

Happy April! The first three months have flown by. We have been heads down on some exciting new updates that we are sharing today. Let's dive in!

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We’ve introduced new default roles at the Organization level — with clear access boundaries and field-level permissions aligned with the Event experience.

The new Program Manager role is designed for external collaborators, automatically granting scoped access when assigned to a program.

Easily manage who can view and edit data across your organization, while safely collaborating with external partners.

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The Connections tab now shows all related program activity, including Awards submissions and Interest Form entries, directly on the contact profile.

Quickly understand a contact’s full history without switching between modules.

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We can now enable or disable AI features across the entire organization. When disabled, all AI features that interact with customer data are turned off, with clear indicators across the platform.

Meet data governance requirements with a single, reliable control over AI usage.

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Set your preferred date and datetime format at the Org or Event level,

Avoid formatting issues and streamline your data workflows.

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Customize the “From Name” for emails sent from the platform at both Org and Event levels.

Deliver more professional, consistent communication that builds trust with recipients.

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We have some more exciting updates coming out over the next few weeks -- hint: AI, MCP, Reporting, Dashboards, Scheduled Reports, Email Campaigns and more. Stay tuned. And please keep posting your ideas to our Feedback Portal. We read all of them!

— Josh Parolin, Co-Founder & CTO, Sessionboard

You can now collect speaker interest year-round using Speaker Interest Forms inside Speaker CRM.

Capture speaker profiles or full session proposals anytime and automatically store submissions in Speaker CRM, helping your team build a continuous pipeline of speakers across events.

Available for all Speaker CRM customers. Interested in Speaker CRM? Or already have it and want to learn more? Send us a message to learn more.

It's been a busy few months, and I'm excited to share what the team has been building.

This update covers some of the biggest changes we've made to Sessionboard in years — including a completely rebuilt admin experience, two new products, and a long list of enhancements across the core platform and integrations. Here's everything that's new:

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We rebuilt the Sessionboard admin experience from the ground up. This has been two-plus years in the making, and we took every piece of feedback seriously as we designed it. The goal was simple: help you find what you need faster, with fewer clicks.

A few highlights:

We're actively gathering feedback over the next month and will keep iterating. If something feels off or could be better — let us know here.

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We launched our Awards product in January. Sessionboard Awards supports the full awards lifecycle — payment processing, multi-round judge review, public voting, and more. If your organization runs an awards program (and statistically, most of you do), reach out to your Customer Success rep to learn more.

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You can now build forms at the organization level to collect speaker interest across all your upcoming events. Speakers can indicate which events they'd like to present at, and you can optionally collect abstract or session information at the same time. A simple but powerful addition for teams managing multiple events throughout the year.

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All of these are available in the new Admin UI:

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If you've read this far, I'll let you in on some secrets: Beyond continuing to ship the enhancements you've been requesting here in the feedback portal, we've got some exciting things in the works — improved Abstract and evaluator support (2.0 version of our current Submission/Evaluation product), AI Agents, MCP Server, marketing tools, transcription support, and more. It's going to be a big few months.

Massive high five to the Sessionboard team on all this progress -- but most of all, massive THANK YOU to you, our partners and customers. The future of Sessionboard continues to be built with your feedback, every day.

Keep the feedback coming. This community is one of the best inputs we have, and we read everything.

— Josh Parolin, Co-Founder & CTO, Sessionboard

Managing complex events often requires moving between multiple screens, which can slow down your workflow. Previously, viewing specific record details required navigating away from your main list and adding steps to simple tasks. We updated the admin interface to reduce this complexity and improve application speed.

Key updates include:

To experience the refreshed UI, simply log in to your Sessionboard account starting Monday, January 26. We will continue adding screenshots to this post throughout next week to give you a preview of the upcoming enhancements.

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Happy mid-December! We are hard at work on a few forthcoming features and enhancements. Here is one that has requested for a long time.

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Previously, when adding a new Contact or Group, we would show every field that exists in the "Add" modal. This was overwhelming and made adding new records an inefficient process.

We now allow you (the Event Admin) to control what fields should show on an event basis when adding new Contacts or Exhibitors/Sponsors.

By default, when adding a new contact, the fields that show are now:

On the Layouts settings page, you can show/hide more fields and and the order of those fields that you would like to show.

Want to show more fields? Here's two ways to get there:

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Today, when you manually add or import contacts (e.g. Speakers) into your event, you need to then manually give them access to the Portal. We have introduced an option to automatically give contacts access to the portal when you add them. This is helpful for events that have a manual flow of adding new speakers, for example.

You can enable this on the Record Settings page: Settings -> Record Settings

The setting is: Automatically provision contact portal access

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Have a feature or enhancement you'd like to see on Sessionboard? Submit your feedback to us and help us continue to build the best speaker and content management solution for your team: https://feedback.sessionboard.com/

Happy December! Where has the year gone? We've got a number of exciting updates this month and into the new year for you.

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You can now control what fields an admin user can view and/or edit based on their permission role.

This is helpful for event teams that want to invite more people to help manage their events, but lock down what they can view or edit.

This feature is currently in Early Access and will be available to everyone soon. If you would like to start using it for your event, please reach out to your Customer Success manager.

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We're excited to announce that the AI Agenda is now available to all customers who have Sessionboard Studio enabled!

With AI Agenda Builder, you can quickly generate a draft agenda from your sessions, apply smart rules, review changes, and commit what you like.

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When generating Session reports in the "Reports" module, you can now opt to include Evaluation Plan fields in the report. For any Evaluation Plan that you include in the report, we will aggregate all the responses for each field and put them in a cell for you.

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Have a feature or enhancement you'd like to see on Sessionboard? Submit your feedback to us and help us continue to build the best speaker and content management solution for your team: https://feedback.sessionboard.com/

We've rolled out a few enhancements to the product while we're wrapping some larger new product features that will be released soon. Please see the updates below:

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You can now enable/disable whether a Call for Paper submission form should auto-redirect the submitter to the portal -- or if the user should be required to click the button to move forward. This is helpful if you show a lot of information on your Confirmation page that you want the user to be able to read.

When you have Unique Contact functionality enabled for your organization, you now have a few new options in your Call for Paper submission forms. Previously, when you added an existing contact to a submission form, they would always receive a notification and the submitter could not edit any of their information. Now, you can choose to:

(1) Enable/disable the ability for the submitter to edit the added contact's information and

(2) Enable/disable whether the added contact should receive a notification

When previewing a portal on behalf a person or group, you can now click into a Portal Form to preview what fields and values are shown. Previously, you could not click into forms when previewing a portal.

When you set an extended due date on Portal Forms, the original due date will now remain showing on the Portal Form. This will maintain consistency with how the portal form is shown in the portal tasks list.

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Have a feature or enhancement you'd like to see on Sessionboard? Submit your feedback to us and help us continue to build the best speaker and content management solution for your team: https://feedback.sessionboard.com/