Sessionboard vs ePosterBoards

ePosterBoards rents the screens — 47-inch monitors, kiosks, setup crews, and onsite technicians who keep a physical poster hall running.

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Quick answer

ePosterBoards is a rental service — monitors, kiosks, and onsite technicians for the physical poster hall. Sessionboard is the program software: call for papers, committee review, author uploads with consent, a searchable published gallery on one link, and per-poster engagement analytics. Many meetings rent screens onsite and run the program on Sessionboard.

Sound like your team?

Match your role to the job Sessionboard solves — program ops, content reuse, or marketing attribution.

Poster program chair

The rental covers the hall week — acceptance, uploads, and program reconciliation still happen by hand in spreadsheets.

Scientific program director

Screens show posters onsite; nobody can say afterward which posters were viewed or what attendees searched for.

Education director

Consent, disclosures, and withdrawals are your problem — hardware vendors don't touch compliance.

Communications lead

When the meeting ends, the monitors ship back — and the poster program disappears with them.

Why teams choose Sessionboard

Where ePosterBoards stops, and where program teams keep going with Sessionboard.

ePosterBoards — where it ends

  • Onsite hardware and logistics

    Large-format monitors, kiosk builds, stands, shipping, setup and breakdown labor for the physical hall.

  • Onsite technical staffing

    Technicians in the room handling last-minute uploads, formatting fixes, and presenter support during sessions.

  • Presenter formatting help

    Pre-conference templates and formatting assistance for PowerPoint, Keynote, and Prezi ePosters.

The narrow case

  • The buy is physical hall equipment — monitors, kiosks, and onsite staffing for the session days
  • Presenters bring finished slides on a flash drive and the program lives entirely elsewhere
  • One-off meeting with no requirement for a persistent online gallery or engagement reporting
The way forward

Sessionboard — program, CRM & content

  • Posters on the program graph

    Poster tracks in call for papers, shared multi-round review with platform abstracts, and program numbers that stay current — no re-import.

  • Published gallery on one link

    A branded, searchable virtual poster hall attendees open from anywhere — before, during, and after the meeting, not just in the room.

  • Consent and compliance in the product

    Versioned publication consent at upload, disclosure display, embargo with teaser mode, and withdrawn abstracts excluded automatically.

  • Engagement your committee can read

    Poster opens, dwell time, most-viewed posters, author questions, and zero-result searches per gallery.

When Sessionboard wins

  • Posters share a call for papers with platform sessions and need the same review rounds
  • The society wants a searchable online poster hall members can open all year, not only hall hours
  • Consent, disclosures, embargo, or withdrawal handling must be enforced before anything publishes
  • The committee expects engagement data — views, dwell time, and what attendees searched for

What Sessionboard owns

Program, speaker CRM, content — plus Advocacy and Dispatch marketing tools competitors treat as afterthoughts.

Program layer

Call for papers (CFP), multi-round review, chair workflows, conflict of interest (COI) tracking, and published agenda — work competitors leave in spreadsheets.

Speaker CRM

One faculty record: portal, bio, materials, and communications across years — not a fresh CSV every submission cycle.

Content marketing

Live transcription, Media Library, clips, Attendee Hub, and Create on the session record you already manage.

Advocacy

Peer shares from speakers, sponsors, and faculty — tracked links to registration when sessions are accepted or confirmed.

Dispatch

Internal team distribution — automated share recipes for staff when content is ready, beside Hootsuite or Sprout for always-on social.

Event MCP

Ask your AI about the event — not a spreadsheet export

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.

  • OAuth sign-in — no API keys to copy or rotate
  • Live program graph — sessions, speakers, review rounds, readiness gaps
  • Works beside registration and capture tools you already run
Sessionboard Event MCP
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Where Sessionboard displaces ePosterBoards

What winds down on their contract, and what your team gains the day Sessionboard turns on.

ePosterBoards — their lane

  • Rented monitors, kiosks, and onsite technicians for the physical hall this cycle

Sessionboard — your advantage

  • Call for papers including poster tracks, review, and author readiness
  • Author uploads with consent, the published online gallery, and QR signage links
  • Engagement analytics, post-meeting access, and the year-over-year poster library

Frequently asked questions

Evaluating Sessionboard against ePosterBoards for the program layer — not a forced rip-and-replace.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes — versioned publication consent at upload, disclosure fields on the poster page, embargo with teaser mode, and automatic exclusion of withdrawn abstracts.

ePosterBoards prices as an equipment and staffing rental per meeting. Sessionboard pricing follows meeting and submission volume — request a demo for a scoped quote.

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