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Describe the report you want in plain English. Sessionboard generates the SbQL query and returns your data, formatted, filterable, and ready to use.

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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/

We’ve rolled out a set of updates focused on better communication and workflow clarity! From new Additional Contacts options to refined email sending and smarter integration management, these improvements should help make life a litter easier.

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You now have a dedicated view of all additional contacts. Previously, there was no great way to see all of these additional contacts in one place. Now, you can filter, sort, export, select and email them directly.

To access the view, in your Events sidebar: Contacts -> Additional Contacts

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More additional contacts love! You can now import up to 3 additional contacts per contact that you import. This makes it easier to import the details of assistants, collaborators or others that need to have access to someone's profile on their behalf.

To access this, you can go through the process of importing any contacts (e.g. speakers, chairpersons, etc.) and you will see the option to map to the follow Additional Contact details:

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When sending messages via Sessions, you now have improved ways to send to different subsets of your participants. You can now send messages for selected sessions to:

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When sending emails to contacts, we have added increased flexibility for how you can include additional contacts. You can now select from the following options:

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You can now connect multiple instances of your Bizzabo accounts under one organization. This is helpful for larger organizations that may have multiple Bizzabo accounts.

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When viewing submissions to your Portal Forms, you can now Show/Hide additional fields that were not originally included on the form.

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In order to accomodate some forthcoming functionality around managing your events as part of "Portfolios", we've moved event filtering into a modal. This will provide greater filter capabilities as we move forward.

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To mimic the Event Navigation and allow us to add more capabilities to the Speaker CRM, we've re-worked some of the Organization navigation.

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For events that prefer to use the Session Client ID (instead of our Session ID) when displaying sessions to portal users, you can now do that via the portal settings. To enable it, toggle on the "Use Session Client ID" setting.

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When creating portals, you can now set a title for portal users to see. By default, the portals have shown the title "Home" -- you can now override this with anything you want.

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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 Halloween from the Sessionboard team! We have some updates to share with you below.

Additionally, here's a few things we are working on this quarter (amongst other top-secret features 🤫):

Are you interested in an hosting your Awards / Scholarship / Nomination submission process through Sessionboard? Reach out to Josh @ josh@sessionboard.com - We'd love to interview you and learn more about your process.

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Related Feedback: https://sessionboard.canny.io/feature-requests/p/add-a-physical-save-button-in-the-speaker-profile

This improvement is based on feedback from our customers in the Feedback Portal. We added a "Save" button to the Contact and Group profiles to save changes after you have made them. Previously, changes would save automatically when clicking out of a form input, which was not very user friendly or predictable.

Contact Profile data that will now save with the "Save" button:

Group Profile data that will now save with the "Save" button:

Session Profile data that will now save with the "Save" button:

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For a given task (e.g. custom task, form, document request) in a portal, you can now explicitly extend the due date for just that task. Previously to do this, you'd need to do a blanket extension for all of your portal tasks, or change the due date on a task.

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You can now reference global fields across your Applications and Portal Forms (e.g. for groups, contacts and sessions). Previously some of these instances were limited to Event-only field (e.g. Portal Forms for Sessions was limited).

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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/