Sessionboard + Guidebook

Guidebook makes it fast to launch branded event apps and web agendas for associations and campuses.

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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

Guidebook is a mobile event app platform with drag-and-drop CMS for associations, universities, and mid-market conferences. Sessionboard holds call for papers, committee review, speaker portal, and agenda truth — reducing spreadsheet exports into Guidebook builds when program teams change sessions or speakers.

Sound like your team?

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

Association program manager

Guidebook agenda built from exports — Sessionboard should publish authoritative session data.

Speaker operations

Speaker changes after Guidebook publish — originate updates in Sessionboard first.

IT / AMS owner

App is separate from abstract workflow — unify faculty CRM before attendee-facing publish.

Marketing lead

App engagement without faculty Advocacy — Sessionboard adds tracked promotion from acceptance.

What Sessionboard delivers natively

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

Guidebook — still owns

  • Event app CMS

    Drag-and-drop mobile app and web agenda builder.

  • Attendee mobile UX

    Guidebook owns app store deployment and in-app engagement.

  • Mid-market time-to-app

    Fast launches for associations and university events.

Sessionboard — built in

  • Abstract and speaker program

    CFP, review, portal, and program build before app publish.

  • Speaker CRM

    Faculty records persist across annual Guidebook events.

  • Content and Advocacy

    Transcription, Attendee Hub, and tracked shares beside the app.

How the data flows

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

  • Sessionboard publishes program — sessions, speakers, rooms, times.
  • Export or integration updates Guidebook agenda — Guidebook owns app shell.
  • Last-minute changes managed in Sessionboard — republish to reduce stale app data.
  • Optional links to Sessionboard-hosted replays from Guidebook sessions.

Integration status: Guidebook owns the app; Sessionboard supplies program data via export or integration your team configures.

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
You

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

Assistant

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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When both make sense

Sessionboard already includes transcription, attendee experiences, and content marketing. Keep Guidebook when you still need a specific piece of their product.

Keep Guidebook when

  • Guidebook app already chosen for association or campus events
  • Formal abstract review happens outside Guidebook today

Sessionboard is enough when

  • Program team still maintains master agenda in Excel parallel to Guidebook
  • Need multi-round review, speaker portal, or post-event content library

Frequently asked questions

How Sessionboard works beside Guidebook.

Guidebook — Sessionboard feeds program data; it is not a mobile app replacement.

No — coexist. Sessionboard replaces upstream spreadsheet program ops.

Yes — full CFP and committee workflow in Sessionboard before Guidebook publish.

Same pattern — even mid-size meetings benefit from one faculty CRM across years.

Whova is compare/displacement; Guidebook is coexist — Sessionboard is program layer for both patterns.

Using Guidebook for your event app?

Talk through your event workflow — abstracts, speakers, content, and marketing on one program graph.

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