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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.”
Convention Data Services powers registration and operational workflows many associations trust as CDSreg.
Program, CRM & marketing
Convention Data Services — events & platform
Convention Data Services (CDSreg) provides registration and operational event services for associations and show organizers. Sessionboard is the program layer for call for papers, committee review, speaker CRM, transcription, Attendee Hub, and advocacy when registration stays on CDS.
Match your role to the job Sessionboard solves — program, content, or marketing attribution.
Registration stays on your incumbent platform — but program and speaker ops should not stop at CSV export.
Another point tool mid-contract — Sessionboard public API keeps the program graph authoritative.
Capture vendor locked for the season — write transcriptions and media back via API instead of re-keying.
Rip-and-replace is a non-starter — you need displacement on program depth while registration stays put.
“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.”
Keep Convention Data Services mid-contract when you need to — Sessionboard owns call for papers, speaker operations, and content marketing on the program graph.
Attendee registration, badges, and operational reg services on CDSreg.
Teams and PCOs trained on CDS workflows for recurring annual meetings.
Tickets and attendee records remain on CDS for contracted events.
Multi-round review, COI, and chair self-service on the program graph.
Materials, bios, and agenda truth — not re-keyed from registration exports.
Transcription, Attendee Hub, Create, and Amplify on session records.
Program and session data live in Sessionboard — with optional sync to and from Convention Data Services.
Integration status: CDSreg ↔ Sessionboard — program import paths available; confirm connector scope for your account with Sessionboard sales engineering.
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.
Sessionboard already includes transcription, attendee experiences, and content marketing. A separate subscription makes sense only in narrow cases.
How Sessionboard works beside Convention Data Services.
No — registration coexistence is the common pattern. Sessionboard replaces spreadsheet program ops beside CDS.
Confirm connector scope with Sessionboard sales — program layer can start via import while reg stays on CDS.
CDS remains system of record for tickets and attendee reg. Sessionboard owns sessions, speakers, and content.
Sessionboard CFP and review replace email-and-export workflows — the primary wedge beside registration vendors.
Pilot one annual meeting program layer while registration stays on CDSreg.
Talk through your event workflow — abstracts, speakers, content, and marketing on one program graph.
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