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Your Entire Awards Program All in One Place

Simplify awards, grants, and scholarships. Collect entries, manage judges, and showcase winners—all within the platform you already trust.

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Dashboard interface for Global Excellence Awards 2026 submissions with menu options and open programs for awards applications.
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How This Tight-Knit Association Saved 177 Organizer Hours Managing 59 Speakers
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Informa Markets
Informa Market’s World of Concrete Chooses Sessionboard to Streamline Speaker and Content Management
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Campus Safety Conference (CSC)
Case Study: How CSC Cut Their Agenda Launch Time By 83% With Sessionboard
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Diversify Case Study
From Pain To Proficiency In Speaker
Management: Why Diversified Communications Chose Sessionboard
View case study
Case study
Clarion Events Case Study
How Clarion Events Saved 3,013 Organizer Hours On Just Four Events
View case study
Case study
ACES
How This Tight-Knit Association Saved 177 Organizer Hours Managing 59 Speakers
View case study
Case study
Informa Markets
Informa Market’s World of Concrete Chooses Sessionboard to Streamline Speaker and Content Management
View case study
Case study
Campus Safety Conference (CSC)
Case Study: How CSC Cut Their Agenda Launch Time By 83% With Sessionboard
View case study

Sessionboard Awards:
 From "Nice to Have" to "Must Have"

See in action how Sessionboard can help your organization work faster.

Collect, Review, and Celebrate

Configurable scoring rubrics allow for weighted criteria. Easily move top scorers from "Round 1" to "Finalist" status with a single click.

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Gold trophy with colorful confetti above a checklist interface showing completed tasks with blue checkmarks.
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Make Confident Decisions

Empower your judges with tools that make scoring fair, fast, and transparent.

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Comparison of finalist scores for Ashley Nguyen and William Baxter across Innovation, Impact, and Execution with William scoring higher overall.
Great for your entire portfolio

Empower your judges with tools that make scoring fair, fast, and transparent.

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Elevate the Standard of Your Awards Program

Configure dynamic scoring rubrics, manage multiple rounds with a single click, and maintain full control of the process with a platform built for professional results.

Smart Entry Portals

Launch branded, user-friendly submission portals in minutes. Let entrants save drafts, upload large files, and track their own status without emailing you.

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Launch branded, user-friendly submission portals in minutes. Let entrants save drafts, upload large files, and track their own status without emailing you.

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Effortless Judging

Assign judges to specific categories or tracks automatically. Reviewers get a simple, side-by-side view of entries and scoring criteria—no training required.

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Assign judges to specific categories or tracks automatically. Reviewers get a simple, side-by-side view of entries and scoring criteria—no training required.

Dynamic Scoring & Rounds

Configurable scoring rubrics allow for weighted criteria. Easily move top scorers from "Round 1" to "Finalist" status with a single click.

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Configurable scoring rubrics allow for weighted criteria. Easily move top scorers from "Round 1" to "Finalist" status with a single click.

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Automated Communication

Keep everyone in the loop. Automate "Submission Received," "Judge Assignment," and "Congratulations" emails to save your team hours of manual work.

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Keep everyone in the loop. Automate "Submission Received," "Judge Assignment," and "Congratulations" emails to save your team hours of manual work.

Our mission at Sessionboard

“We're on a mission to unify the event experience. Sessionboard Awards ensures that the people you celebrate are managed with the same care and efficiency as the people who speak.”

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Chris Carver
Co-Founder and CEO
at Sessionboard
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SPEAKER INTELLIGENCE

Build a Smarter Speaker Network

Turn Awards into a Permanent Asset Sessionboard automatically adds wins to speaker profiles in your CRM. Build a searchable record of top-rated talent and easily source proven champions for your next event.

Profile cards showing award ratings for Amara Jones, Lisa Chen, Evelyn Hayes, and Kael Barron with star ratings and 'View profile' links.Profile cards showing award ratings for Amara Jones, Lisa Chen, Evelyn Hayes, and Kael Barron with star ratings and 'View profile' links.
A FULLY INTEGRATED SUITE OF MODULES

Your Awards Shouldn't
Be an Island

With Sessionboard’s modular approach, your awards program connects directly to your event data. Customizing it to fit your needs today, with the features to help you scale seamlessly in the future.

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Modernize Your Awards Program,
Start Today.

See how real teams centralize submission data, streamline evaluation workflows, and select winners faster with Sessionboard.