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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.”
Linklings has run submission and review for technical conferences for over 20 years, and review is where it stops adding value.
Linklings — their scope
Program, CRM & marketing
Sessionboard is the Linklings alternative for technical and scientific conferences: call for papers (CFP), blind multi-round review, and conflict-of-interest tracking, plus the speaker CRM, portal, live transcription, and Awards that Linklings does not offer. Linklings covers submission and review; speaker operations, faculty history, and content capture need other tools.
Match your role to the job Sessionboard solves — program ops, content reuse, or marketing attribution.
Blind review, rebuttals, and conflict-of-interest tracking run natively in Sessionboard, so review rigor is no longer a reason to stay.
Every Linklings cycle restarts from a blank import. A speaker CRM keeps bios, materials, history, and consent across editions.
Accepted presenters get a portal with tasks, AV specs, and automated reminders. Nobody chases attachments in email until the meeting.
Sessions end and the content evaporates. Live transcription, Media Library, and Attendee Hub turn the program into an asset.
“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.”
Where Linklings stops, and where program teams keep going with Sessionboard.
Twenty years of single- and double-blind review, rebuttals, and reviewer discussion workflows for the review phase of technical conferences.
Committees at SC, SIGGRAPH, and similar conferences have run their review cycles on it for years.
Signage, space planning, and student volunteer tracking, useful if a review vendor also handling signage matters to you.
Call for papers (CFP), custom forms, multi-round blind review, rebuttal workflows, conflict-of-interest tracking, and committee assignment run natively. Switching costs zero review rigor.
Faculty, bios, materials, communications, and participation history persist across editions and events. Returning speakers see prefilled profiles, and the committee sees who delivered.
Accepted presenters get tasks, deadlines, AV specs, and uploads in one portal with automated reminders. Linklings has no equivalent; this work lives in email.
Live transcription, captions, Media Library, AI clips, Attendee Hub, and Create run on the session record. The program becomes a year-round library instead of ending at the closing keynote.
Committees change forms, workflows, and reports themselves the moment they need to. Vendor-managed systems put a person between you and every tweak.
Awards programs, tracked peer shares from speakers and sponsors, and registration attribution reuse the same contact records. No second system, no re-import.
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 — no rip-and-replace required.
What winds down on their contract, and what your team gains the day Sessionboard turns on.
Evaluating Sessionboard against Linklings for the program layer — not a forced rip-and-replace.
Yes. Call for papers (CFP), custom submission forms, single- and double-blind review, rebuttals, conflict-of-interest tracking, and committee workflows are native. Committees switch without giving up review rigor, and gain the speaker CRM, portal, and content layer that Linklings does not offer.
You can run the split mid-contract, and accepted submissions import cleanly. Most teams consolidate at renewal instead: two systems mean two logins, two imports, and a seam in the data exactly where speaker handoff happens. Since Sessionboard runs the same blind review natively, the second system stops earning its keep.
Now, in parallel. Speaker CRM, portal, and content capture do not touch the review contract, so this year's faculty data can build value immediately while review finishes where it is. By renewal the committee is already working in one system and the consolidation decision makes itself.
Yes, natively: blind review modes, conflict-of-interest tracking, rebuttal workflows, and multi-round decisions. Bring your current review configuration to the demo and we will rebuild it live.
It becomes the starting point. Past participation, bios, and materials import into the speaker CRM, so returning faculty see prefilled profiles instead of a blank form.
Linklings does not publish pricing; quotes follow scope and services. Sessionboard pricing follows meeting and submission volume, and a scoped quote takes one demo. Put it beside your renewal before you sign it.
Talk through your event workflow — abstracts, speakers, content, and marketing on one program graph.
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