How A Conference App Changes The Way People Network and Build Business

The first problem they must solve is to provide visitors with the maps of the venue where they hold a conference. As usual, today it is not a problem to find a good conference hall in any large city. It is possible even to book the hall in local theatre or city mall if organizers have a plan to hold a conference for a few thousand of people. So, when people arrive at the place indicated, they can lose themselves in the large building. Venue map on the website can solve this problem, you say. Well, the website will not help if there is no Internet connection. And even if somebody proposes paper maps to everybody visiting a conference, no one will want to carry a lot of papers with themselves. But the mobile app for conference is the solution. The user can find all information right there quickly and easily.

Unfortunately, the same situation occurs with paper agenda and business cards. It is rather a widespread situation when after the conference it's MC  gives a business card to all visitors who asked for it, but then some of them can lose this card. That is painful, isn't it? But all contact details of the narrator or details of any other important participants stored in conference app will help avoid this. As for agenda, of course, everybody can see it on organizer's website, but the app will provide much more convenience. Attendees can see detailed agenda and schedule when each item of the conference will be discussed.

The conference was really valuable and helpful for all attendees. They started discussing some mutual problems with each other, sharing business cards and so on. But see what's happened - one visitor talked to a few dozens of other visitors, but he or she cannot remember now what they talked about with the owner of that or this card. How can it be fixed? With the development of your conference management app, all people can share cards virtually and write all details right there.

It can be rather difficult to allocate the time for each item to be discussed at their conference. Sometimes it can be longer that is unlikely to be pleasant for attendees. Or it can be much shorter, that is also unacceptable for the conference. That is why organizers can adjust time frames in their app allocated for each item, and it will help them optimize the discussion time.

For example, 30 persons applied for visiting an upcoming conference. But did all of these 30 individuals visit the meeting? I am sure not. And the first reason is their busyness. They simply forgot about the conference since they were very busy. Your mobile app will let them avoid it in future - organizers can send push notifications to all potential visitors specifying the date, time, and venue. And it is better to do it twice - 24 hours before the start of the conference. and 2 hours before.

Sometimes people cannot visit a conference not because they forgot about it. Due to some objective reasons, it may occur that they need to stay at home or they feel sick or they went on a business trip. Is there any alternative? Yes, it is a live streaming. If a conference organizer app has a live streaming feature, it is possible to adjust conference streaming in a real-time mode.

Even if people watch live streaming, they can see badly everything MC is writing on the whiteboard. So it means they will not get a full info. In the mobile app, you should add a digital whiteboard to write down all keynotes and important ideas spelled out at the meeting.

All professional conference organizers should have the opportunity to create a personal profile to create their own agenda concerning each conference, while visitors can create their profile to sign-in and register for the conference, and collect all meetings they visited. Also, this personal profile will help distinguish all users personally.

As we noted above, people don't like wasting time while looking for the location of the conference in the large city mall. Think about it beforehand. Add maps of the venue where the conference will take place, and thus it will always be on hand. Mind to add not only map of the hall but all map of all surroundings like nearby streets and districts.

If organizers already have a website, they can make it possible for users to use the same registration data to sign in to app account. Also, you can simplify it adding a social sign-in when people can log in using social media accounts. As organizers may orient on specialists in specific fields, you'd better add Facebook and Linkedin platforms to use for sign in.

Make it possible for users and organizers to share all interesting news from your app to their social media accounts when you plan to arrange conference app development. Also, consider allowing users to share the information with each other. Your app can become some kind of small social media environment where attendees discuss the results of last visited conference, for example.

Well, actually, this feature can be referred to the optional features, but in fact, your app will gain the lead among users if you add a live streaming feature. It will increase the number of potential visitors for any conference. 

It will be important since both organizers and attendees as well usually want to know who will visit the conference. It will help them determine whom they can build valuable connections with on the conference and prepare some questions or offers.

Organizers will send all alerts about important events to their visitors, or about any changes in the program, and visitors will always stay up-to-date.

All news regarding conferences, any changes, updates etc. should be displayed in one news feed on the app homepage.

Of course, if organizers start a serious conference, they should provide all their visitors with a reliable Internet connection in the venue. But all important information in your app regarding location maps, agenda, number of visitors etc. should be available in an offline mode as well.

This feature should be created personally for you, and it requires backend development to let you control your app for conferences from web panel. Here you will be able to add some changes and maintain the app as an administrator.

App users may need to upload some files with the presentation of the upcoming event, so you'd better add this feature to make an app better. Also, you should add a text reader.

Upon the conference finishing, you can make it possible for attendees to chat with organizers or speakers to discuss the results of the conference and perspectives.

When holding a conference, people like to see figures, not only letters. So you can add an additional category with interesting statistics, polls or surveys to give people useful info or organizer can use it to ask visitors some questions to understand what they should improve in future.  

It can be simple touristic info containing interesting data about the city where the conference is held. And you can add a Wikipedia API with the main information about the majority of cities in different countries.