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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.”
Self-service committee ops and modern speaker workflow — compare Sessionboard and CTI cOASIS.
CTI — their scope
Program, CRM & marketing
Sessionboard is abstract submission software with guided self-service for chairs and reviewers, plus speaker portal, transcription, and Attendee Hub on the same program record. CTI cOASIS fits anchor-scale congresses with analyst-led configuration — not mid-size societies that need to change a form this week and capture content after acceptance.
Match your role to the job Sessionboard solves — program ops, content reuse, or marketing attribution.
Chairs and reviewers still coordinate in email — you need committee ops on the program graph, not another submission form.
Speaker data resets every submission cycle — you need one faculty record from acceptance through show day.
Social shares without registration attribution — Advocacy tracks peer links; Dispatch covers internal team distribution.
Transcripts and clips live in a separate tool — you need capture, Attendee Hub, and Create on the session record.
“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 CTI Meeting Technology is strong at, and what Sessionboard adds for program, speakers, and content.
Documented volume on flagship multi-congress relationships when dedicated CTI project management is part of the contract.
Named support for societies that prefer services-led changes over committee self-service.
Decades serving the same anchor accounts — stability for teams that value the relationship over UX refresh.
Chairs and staff change forms and review workflows without waiting on a configuration analyst.
Multi-round review, conflict of interest (COI) capture, and chair tools in a current web app — worth comparing beside today's portal.
Speaker portal, live transcription, Media Library, Attendee Hub, and Advocacy on one program record — not export-and-pray after review.
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 CTI Meeting Technology for now, and what Sessionboard usually runs.
Evaluating Sessionboard against CTI Meeting Technology for the program layer.
Tools for call-for-papers intake, peer review, and program committee ops — on Sessionboard, extended through speaker portal, transcription, and attendee delivery on one record.
CTI offers a dedicated ePoster Upload module per congress. Sessionboard runs poster tracks on the same program graph as platform abstracts — review, speaker portal, Attendee Hub, and content reuse without a separate poster silo.
No. This page compares workflow and product fit — not vendor stability.
Yes. Most migrations move abstract intake, review, and speaker workflow first — registration stays put.
Yes — COI capture, multi-round review, chair assignments, and rubrics are core. So are transcription, clips, and Attendee Hub after acceptance.
Cadmium is a suite play. Sessionboard focuses on abstract ops, speaker comms, and the content stack beside registration you already run.
Pilot one meeting or track, import historical speaker data where needed, and run parallel during an active call for papers (CFP) when possible.
Talk through your event workflow — abstracts, speakers, content, and marketing on one program graph.
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