Currently the exhibitor and speaker admin areas are contained within the main portal theme. Customer feedback has shown this can be hard to understand where settings are and content width causes readability issues for some.To make this a better experience, we’re creating new experiences that are tailored towards the exhibitor and speaker to make is clearer what they need to do and where settings are.

In Review

Break out Exhibitor and Speaker Sections Into Their Own Portal

Currently you have to create scheduling rules per room. This can be inefficient when scheduling common block rules across rooms.We’re breaking the scheduling rules out to root level so they can be applied to multiple rooms at once, or individual. This should ease the admin burden placed on conference admins during setup when using this feature.

Separate Scheduling Rules From Rooms

Improvements to the call for content admin evaluation and approval flow<ul><li>Implement a kanban based board for content sorting</li><li>Implement a first round scoring system</li><li>Implement anonymized submission evaluation</li><li>Improve commenting and collaboration</li><li>Implement voting system</li></ul>

Call For Content Evaluation Improvements

Allow attendees to add themselves to a waiting list when sessions are fully booked. If space becomes available attendees on the waiting list will be emailed to inform them there’s a spare seat. Seat will be offered to the first attendee to claim the seat

Waiting list for fully booked sessions

We’re bringing the ability for attendees to ask questions to speakers live in an interactive way as well as allowing speakers to launch live polls during their session

In Progress

Session Live Q&A and Polls

We’re redesigning the front end to be more intuitive for users with different roles. Expect quite a substantial change to what was once offered

Front End Redesign

Enable the kiosks to print bulk badges sorted by exhibitor name

Check-in Kiosk Bulk Badge Printing Sorting

Improvements to the mobile app user interface to bring customer feedback into active use.<ul><li>Improve session browsing capability to show upcoming and past sessions separately</li><li>Make scanned leads more prominent in the app so exhibitors can find them easier</li><li>Improve homepage design to make navigation easier</li><li>Add speaker listings and profiles</li><li>Allow exhibitors to start email conversations from scanned leads</li></ul>Features being deprecated<ul><li>Removal of edit bio from app. Users will need to use the web portal for profile editing except for name, job title, and company name.</li></ul>

Mobile App Improvements

<ul><li>Conference Admin sub button text colour clashing with button background</li><li>Issue with reg field completed indicator not respecting completed fields when no custom reg fields configured</li><li>Issue with Country field being required in My Profile when not set</li><li>Issue with ticket available from date not respecting timezone</li><li>Issue with custom reg field textarea type not displaying</li></ul>

Bug Fixes Aug 2024

The ability to configure a room to be hidden from the conference wallboard when you don’t want it to be shown publicly.

Completed

Hide Rooms From Event Wallboard

Conference admin controllable feature to toggle ON/OFF whether they want to allow attendees to double book themselves on to sessions happening at the same time or restrict them to only 1 session within a specific time slot.

Add to Agenda Restrictions

Allow the exhibitor admin to submit and manage their assigned session in exhibitor admin.<ul><li>Add session title, description, and upload presentation</li><li>Register and manage speakers</li></ul>

Exhibitor Admin Submit Session

Add the ability for the conference admin to add ‘all event sessions’ to their agenda. These are speakerless sessions that can be used to designate all hands events like lunch, exhibition, social events etc.

Add General Sessions To Agenda

Allow the conf admin to re-enable a cancelled attendee ticket

Allow Conf Admin To Reactivate Cancelled Ticket

Add pay by invoice payment method. Allow conf admin to create invoice template and allow attendees to select invoice as a payment method

Pay by Invoice

The ability to assign discount coupons to exhibitors for exclusive use. Track usage and show who has signed up using their code to the exhibitor admin.

Exhibitor Coupons

Update default login dashboard for conference admin to showcase event performance across their event

Reporting Dashboard

Allow attendees to publish their personal resume page that will list their attended and to-be attended conferences, sessions, and average feedback

Speaker Resume Page

Native WordPress plugin that allows event admins to embed their speakers, exhibitors, and sessions to their WordPress site.The system updates content automatically ever hour unless manually forced. Features include<ul><li>Search and Filter</li><li>Exhibitor image carousel with configurable parameters e.g. show x number, show x category</li><li>Agenda list page shortcode</li><li>Session detail page</li><li>Speaker list shortcode</li><li>Exhibitor list shortcode</li><li>Exhibitor detail page</li></ul>

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