Sessionboard vs ePosterBoards.
ePosterBoards rents the screens — 47-inch monitors, kiosks, setup crews, and onsite technicians who keep a physical poster hall running. What it does not carry is the program: abstract acceptance, author uploads with consent, a searchable gallery your members can open from anywhere, and the engagement report your committee asks for. Sessionboard runs that whole layer, whether or not there are rented screens in the room.
SIDE BY SIDE
Where each one does its work.
Read from the approved comparison, not from a feature checklist. Where we could not verify a ePosterBoards capability from their own material, the cell says so.
| Capability | Sessionboard | ePosterBoards |
|---|---|---|
| Onsite hardware and staffing | The gallery is a web link, so it runs on any monitor, kiosk browser or attendee phone; hardware and onsite staffing stay with your AV partner. | Large-format monitors, kiosk builds, stands, shipping, setup and breakdown labor for the physical hall. Technicians in the room handling last-minute uploads, formatting fixes, and presenter support during sessions. Pre-conference templates and formatting assistance for PowerPoint, Keynote, and Prezi ePosters. |
| Posters and ePosters | Poster tracks in the same call, review plan and portal; ePoster gallery with search and audio walkthroughs. | varies |
| Call for papers including poster tracks | Submission forms with logic per track and format; abstracts, disclosures and files on one submission. Returning speakers arrive with their history. | varies |
| Review rounds and committees | Review plans with rounds, committees, rubrics and conflict-of-interest rules. Your team changes forms and review steps without a services ticket. | varies |
| Author portal and readiness | Branded speaker portal with task lists, agreements and e-sign; the Coordinator agent reminds whoever is late. | varies |
| Poster sessions on the program | Agenda builder with speaker and room conflict detection; program site, embeds and the Attend app update as it changes. | varies |
| Transcription and media library | Live Transcribe in the room or from Zoom, ON24 and Goldcast; transcripts, captions, clips and quote cards in a library searchable across events. | varies |
| Author share kits with attribution | Share kits with tracked links for speakers, sponsors and attendees; registrations traced back to the share. | varies |
| CE credit | Attendance and credits hand off to your LMS; transcripts can feed learning objects where configured. | varies |
| Registration | Stays where it is. Accepted sessions and speakers sync to Cvent, Swoogo, Bizzabo and others. | varies |
Where ePosterBoards fits best: one-off meeting with no requirement for a persistent online gallery or engagement reporting. What often stays with ePosterBoards for now: rented monitors, kiosks, and onsite technicians for the physical hall this cycle. This page compares workflow and product fit, not a feature checklist.
WHERE IT DIFFERS · POSTERS ON THE RECORD
Posters run through the same call, the same review and the same portal.
Poster abstracts come in on the same forms as platform sessions, go through the same review plan, and authors upload in the portal where they already keep their bio and headshot. Titles, authors and program numbers are current by construction, with no export into ePosterBoards.
- Poster submissions
- Shared review plan
- Author portal
- Program numbers
GROWSA poster program with one source of truth
WHERE IT DIFFERS · A GALLERY THAT STAYS UP
The hall closes. The gallery does not.
The ePoster gallery publishes with search, audio walkthroughs and Q&A, runs on any monitor, kiosk browser or phone, and stays open all year. Every view comes back as a signal on the person who looked, and multi-event organizers keep a poster library across annual meetings.
- ePoster gallery
- Audio walkthroughs
- Searchable archive
- Engagement signals
GROWSA poster program that keeps working after the meeting
Questions, answered
Is Sessionboard a replacement for ePosterBoards?
They cover different layers. ePosterBoards rents onsite display hardware with technicians; Sessionboard runs the poster program — acceptance, uploads, consent, the published gallery, and analytics. Meetings that want rented screens onsite often run both, with Sessionboard's gallery on the kiosk browser and on every attendee's phone.
Can Sessionboard's gallery run on onsite screens?
Yes. The gallery is a web link, so it runs on any monitor, kiosk browser, or attendee device. QR signage connects the physical hall to the same gallery remote attendees use.
What happens to the poster program after the meeting?
It stays live. The gallery persists after the hall closes, members browse it year-round, and multi-event organizers keep a poster library that carries across annual meetings.
How do posters get into the gallery?
Authors upload in the same speaker portal they use for bios and headshots. Accepted abstracts already carry titles, authors, and program numbers, so there is no spreadsheet import step.
Can we export everything later?
Yes. Submissions, scores, speakers, agenda, transcripts and media export by CSV, program book export, the public API and webhooks.