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“Sessionboard has been one of our most successful investments this year, making our team more efficient and allowing us to focus on the most critical components of our events.”
Win the program layer against Cadmium — committee ops, speaker CRM, transcription, and peer marketing.
Cadmium — their scope
Program, CRM & marketing
CadmiumCD, now Cadmium, bundles registration, exhibits, the eventScribe app, Abstract Scorecard, Conference Harvester, and CE on Elevate or EthosCE. Sessionboard replaces the abstract and speaker half of that bundle: call for papers, multi-round review, speaker portal, transcription, and attendee content — while registration and CE credit stay where they are.
Match your role to the job Sessionboard solves — program ops, content reuse, or marketing attribution.
Review rounds still coordinated in email — you need self-service workflow changes without opening a vendor ticket.
Speaker bios and materials re-keyed from Cadmium exports every cycle — you need one faculty CRM from acceptance through show day.
Faculty won't promote sessions with generic share buttons — you need Advocacy tracked links at acceptance and Dispatch for internal teams.
Post-meeting clips trapped in AV folders — you need transcription, Attendee Hub, and Create on the session record you already manage.
“Sessionboard has been one of our most successful investments this year, making our team more efficient and allowing us to focus on the most critical components of our events.”
“Sessionboard saves significant planning time and makes it easier than ever for speakers and sponsors to participate in our clients' events.”
“We used Sessionboard daily. It served as our source of truth for tracking speakers, sending emails, and accessing reports. The ability to set a weekly digest email was a huge time saver.”
“Honestly, I loved it! Getting everything out of the spreadsheet. It collects all the information and gives you a visual of who you might want to invite.”
What Cadmium is strong at, and what Sessionboard adds for program, speakers, and content.
One vendor contract when procurement wants registration, exhibits, and CE credit on EthosCE or Elevate in the same deal.
Floor planning and attendee mobile when those modules are already contracted and working.
A known brand on renewal cycles. Familiarity is not a committee workflow.
Multi-round review, chair workflows, conflict of interest (COI) capture, and scoring rubrics — in the product, not in shared drives after acceptance.
Portal, materials, and agenda state on one graph — without re-keying Cadmium exports each cycle.
Live transcription, Media Library, clips, Attendee Hub, Create, Advocacy peer shares, and Dispatch for internal teams — on sessions you already run.
Every captured session becomes a branded recap on its own shareable web page, with print PDF and LinkedIn carousel exports. Admins approve from one review queue, then launch a tracked Advocacy campaign on it in one click.
Program, speaker CRM, content — plus Advocacy and Dispatch marketing tools competitors treat as afterthoughts.
Call for papers (CFP), multi-round review, chair workflows, conflict of interest (COI) tracking, and published agenda — work competitors leave in spreadsheets.
One faculty record: portal, bio, materials, and communications across years — not a fresh CSV every submission cycle.
Live transcription, Media Library, clips, Attendee Hub, and Create on the session record you already manage.
Peer shares from speakers, sponsors, and faculty — tracked links to registration when sessions are accepted or confirmed.
Internal team distribution — automated share recipes for staff when content is ready, beside Hootsuite or Sprout for always-on social.
Event MCP
Sessionboard connects to the assistants your team already uses through MCP. Sessions, speakers, and committee data stay in Sessionboard — Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot read it live.
Which accepted speakers still haven’t submitted bios before we publish the app?
12 accepted speakers are missing bios. 4 also lack headshots. Top gaps: Dr. Rivera (keynote), Panel B moderators (2), Workshop track (3).
See how Sessionboard fits beside your existing stack.
What often stays on Cadmium for now, and what Sessionboard usually runs.
Evaluating Sessionboard against Cadmium for the program layer.
CadmiumCD is the original name of the company now trading as Cadmium, whose product line includes eventScribe for the attendee app, Abstract Scorecard for abstract collection and review, Conference Harvester for speaker and presentation collection, and Elevate and EthosCE for continuing education. Many teams still search the old product names because that is what their contracts say.
Sessionboard covers the same job — call for papers, submission, and scored review — and continues past the decision into speaker portal, materials collection, scheduling, and poster sessions on one record. Abstract Scorecard hands the program build back to you; that handoff is where most committee time disappears.
Conference Harvester collects presentations, bios, and disclosures from confirmed speakers. Sessionboard does that from the same record the abstract was accepted on, so presenters are not asked to re-enter details they already submitted, and chasing is automated rather than manual.
No. Most teams add Sessionboard for the program layer while registration and CE credit stay on Cadmium. Replacing eventScribe or the exhibit modules is rarely the reason anyone calls us.
CE credit reporting stays on your learning management bundle. Sessionboard handles abstract intake, speakers, and live content — and can feed learning-object data from transcripts where configured.
Yes. One annual meeting or specialty track is the common entry point beside an existing registration stack.
Yes — live and batch transcription, quote extraction, clips, and Create outputs are native. No separate Conference AI subscription required.
Each captured session gets an AI recap an admin reviews, edits, and publishes to a branded web page attendees and faculty can share. Publishing also files the session's best quotes into your quote library, so next cycle's marketing starts from a full corpus instead of AV folders.
Pricing follows meeting and abstract volume — request a demo for a scoped quote.
Talk through your event workflow — abstracts, speakers, content, and marketing on one program graph.
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