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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.”
Map Your Show is the trade-show operating system — floor plans, exhibitor sales, and now a conference management module for proposals and schedules.
Map Your Show — their scope
Program, CRM & marketing
Sessionboard competes with Map Your Show on the conference and program layer only — call for papers, multi-round review, poster tracks, speaker portal, transcription, Attendee Hub, and Advocacy on a session-forward graph. Map Your Show floor plans, exhibitor sales, and attendee discovery stay in place; Sessionboard is where committee and speaker depth live when a floor-first bundle is not enough.
Match your role to the job Sessionboard solves — program, content, or marketing attribution.
MYS conference module covers proposals and rooms — 500+ abstracts, poster tracks, and chair self-service still feel like spreadsheet work.
Review rounds need conflict of interest capture and rubrics — not only numeric grading inside the floor platform bundle.
Speaker portal and materials chase happens outside MYS — you need acceptance-through-show-day workflow on one graph.
Session promotion without registration attribution — Advocacy needs tracked links from program events, not generic agenda shares.
“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 Map Your Show session management does well — and where Sessionboard is the better fit for program teams.
Booth inventory, floor plans, exhibitor portal, and lead retrieval in one platform organizers already run.
Call for proposals, session scheduling, and room conflict checks connected to the wider show platform.
Procurement prefers one contract when the educational track is bundled with the exhibition.
Abstracts, posters, reviewers, and speakers — not exhibitor-record backward.
Multi-round review, chair workflows, conflict of interest (COI) capture, and poster tracks at congress scale.
Poster submissions share CFP, review, speaker portal, and Attendee Hub with platform sessions — not a bolt-on author list.
Live transcription, Media Library, clips, Attendee Hub, Create, Advocacy, and Dispatch on the session record.
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.
Sessionboard connects to the assistants your team already uses through MCP (Model Context Protocol). Sessions, speakers, and agenda data stay in Sessionboard — Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot read it live.
Sign in with OAuth — no API keys to copy. Ask about session status, speaker readiness, committee progress, or agenda gaps in plain English.
Registration and capture tools stay in place. Sessionboard holds the program graph — sync transcripts and media back when you run another vendor beside us.
See how Sessionboard fits beside your existing stack — no rip-and-replace required.
Honest split: what stays on their contract vs what moves to Sessionboard when you need program depth, speaker CRM, and content marketing.
Evaluating Sessionboard against Map Your Show session management for the program layer — not a forced rip-and-replace.
No. This comparison is the conference and program module only. Floor plans, exhibitor contracts, and lead retrieval stay on Map Your Show for most trade-show customers.
Yes — session and speaker field mappings exist in Sessionboard for MYS sync. Program teams often run depth in Sessionboard and publish agenda context to MYS for attendee-facing discovery. Ask your rep for current sync scope on your show code.
Some organisers arrive with session management bundled into the floor platform first. Compare whether committee depth, poster lifecycle, speaker CRM, and post-acceptance content are included — or whether you need program-native tooling beyond proposal intake and scheduling.
Yes — poster tracks run through the same call for papers, review, speaker portal, and Attendee Hub as platform sessions. See digital posters solution and ePoster vendor comparisons.
Registration may stay on Cvent, RainFocus, or your AMS beside MYS. Sessionboard owns program operations between acceptance and content reuse.
Sessionboard Advocacy assigns tracked peer shares from speakers and sponsors with registration attribution — fired from program events, not generic agenda share buttons.
Talk through your event workflow — abstracts, speakers, content, and marketing on one program graph.
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