Sessionboard + Freeman Orchestrate

Program truth on Sessionboard, onsite presentation delivery on Orchestrate. One speaker record from CFP to lectern.

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NAEYC
Informa
Clarion Events
Financial Times
Dynatrace
ACEP
AVIXA
NACD
ASHG
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Google
Docebo
NRECA
CyberRisk Alliance
AdventHealth
Questex
IAAPA Expo
NAEYC

Quick answer

For medical and scientific meetings where Freeman runs the AV stack: Orchestrate handles the Speaker Ready Room, slide verification on session-room hardware, and lectern delivery. Sessionboard owns call for papers (CFP), abstract review, speaker CRM, and the published agenda, and takes recordings back onto the session record via public API.

Sound like your team?

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

Registration owner

Registration stays on your incumbent platform — but program and speaker ops should not stop at CSV export.

Marketing ops

Another point tool mid-contract — Sessionboard public API keeps the program graph authoritative.

AV / production

Capture vendor locked for the season — write transcriptions and media back via API instead of re-keying.

Executive buyer

Rip-and-replace is a non-starter — you need displacement on program depth while registration stays put.

What Sessionboard delivers natively

Keep Freeman Orchestrate mid-contract when you need to — Sessionboard owns call for papers, speaker operations, and content marketing on the program graph.

Freeman Orchestrate — their lane

  • Speaker Ready Room operations

    Onsite check-in, slide review on hardware identical to session rooms, and technicians who resolve compatibility issues hours before the talk.

  • In-room presentation delivery

    Secure network transfer of final files to the right room and lectern at the right time, with A/V staff in most presentation rooms.

  • Onsite live captions

    Machine-generated captions delivered in real time to session rooms when Freeman runs the AV stack.

  • Freeman AV integration

    One vendor for staging, room monitors, lectern hardware, and the file pipeline feeding them, at 140+ annual events.

Sessionboard — built in

  • Call for papers and abstract review

    CFP forms, multi-round committee review, scoring, and disclosures, the pipeline that decides who is on stage before Orchestrate ever sees a file.

  • Speaker CRM across years

    Speaker history, contact hygiene, task tracking, and portal, so the same faculty record serves this meeting and the next one.

  • Agenda build and publish

    Session scheduling across tracks and rooms with the metadata (titles, speakers, times, rooms) that Orchestrate's onsite pipeline consumes.

  • Content marketing after show day

    Media Library, transcription, Attendee Hub, branded session and event reports, and clips from the recordings Freeman captures.

  • Public API

    write:media, write:transcriptions, and session recordings bring show-day output back onto the session record. Documented at apidocs.sessionboard.com.

How the data flows

Program and session data live in Sessionboard — with optional sync to and from Freeman Orchestrate.

  • Sessionboard runs CFP, review, and speaker confirmation, then publishes the agenda: sessions, speakers, times, and rooms.
  • Speaker and session data exports to Orchestrate so its portal shows each presenter their assignments and upload tasks.
  • Speakers upload final slides to Orchestrate remotely or in the Speaker Ready Room; Freeman technicians verify files on session-room hardware.
  • Orchestrate delivers verified files to the lectern; Freeman AV captures the session.
  • Recordings and media return to Sessionboard sessions via public API (write:media, write:transcriptions) for Attendee Hub, reports, and clips.

Integration status: Data moves via agenda export from Sessionboard and public API write scopes for media coming back. No contract between Sessionboard and Freeman is required. Full API reference: apidocs.sessionboard.com, including the media and transcription upload guide.

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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Which accepted speakers still haven’t submitted bios before we publish the app?

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12 accepted speakers are missing bios. 4 also lack headshots. Top gaps: Dr. Rivera (keynote), Panel B moderators (2), Workshop track (3).

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Native first — add their tool only if you must

Sessionboard already includes transcription, attendee experiences, and content marketing. A separate subscription makes sense only in narrow cases.

Keep Freeman Orchestrate only when

  • Freeman is the contracted AV vendor and Orchestrate runs the Speaker Ready Room at your convention center
  • Thousands of presentations need onsite verification on session-room hardware before delivery
  • Live in-room captions ride on the Freeman AV stack this season

Sessionboard alone — usually the answer

  • CFP, abstract review, and speaker management should live with the society year-round, on Sessionboard rather than an AV vendor's portal
  • Faculty history and disclosures need to carry across annual meetings, and Speaker CRM holds that record
  • Post-event content (transcripts, Attendee Hub, session reports, clips) should build on the session graph, and Media Library ingests Freeman's recordings
  • Agenda changes must propagate to every downstream tool from one source of truth

Frequently asked questions

How Sessionboard works beside Freeman Orchestrate.

No. This page documents coexistence: how meetings run CFP, review, and speaker management on Sessionboard while Freeman Orchestrate handles onsite presentation delivery.

Orchestrate collects and delivers final presentation files onsite. Call for papers, committee review, scoring, disclosures, and speaker communications happen earlier in the cycle, and that is the layer Sessionboard owns.

Export the published agenda with sessions, speakers, times, and rooms, the exact metadata Orchestrate's presenter portal keys on. Your Freeman project team loads it on their side.

Ingest them into Sessionboard Media Library via public API. Transcription, Attendee Hub replays, branded session reports, and clips all build from there on the session record.

No. Speakers still check in onsite and review slides on session-room hardware. What changes is upstream: one speaker record from submission through acceptance, so the data Orchestrate receives is clean.

Onsite delivery stays with your AV vendor as long as Freeman runs your rooms. The consolidation question is upstream, moving CFP, review, and speaker CRM off legacy tools onto Sessionboard. See the Cadmium and CTI compare pages.

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