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Sympozio

The congress platform

Everything an academic congress needs, in one system.

Registration, attendee tiers, the programme, on-site check-in and structured networking — built for scholarly events and the institutions that convene them.

One system instead of six

Most congresses are still assembled from parts: a spreadsheet of registrations, a separate list of who paid for the dinner, printed badges, a mail-merge for every announcement and a programme that is out of date the moment it goes to print.

Sympozio replaces that arrangement with a single platform. Registration, entitlements, the programme, on-site operations and attendee networking share one data model, so a change made once is true everywhere — including on the phone of the volunteer at the door.

It is white-label and reusable: the same platform serves the next congress, and the one after that.

Three connected surfaces of the Sympozio platformA schematic illustration: an organiser console shown as a browser window, a participant application shown as a phone, and an on-site staff application shown as a phone with a scanning reticle. Connecting lines indicate that all three share one data model.

Three surfaces, one platform

Organisers, on-site staff and attendees each get an interface built for what they actually do — over one account system and one set of data, with invite-only, tiered access.

Web

The organiser console

Set up the event and run it from behind the scenes: invitations, tiers, programme, institutions and staff.

  • Issue single-use invitation codes individually or in bulk
  • Define entitlements and bundle them into named tiers
  • Build the programme, publish announcements, manage institutions
  • Follow live counts of registrations, sessions and roles
Phone-first

The on-site staff app

What the registration desk and floor volunteers use during the event, on the phone already in their pocket.

  • Scan a QR badge with the camera, or enter a code by hand
  • Check a participant in with one tap, recorded once
  • See at a glance what each attendee is entitled to
  • Claim help requests and resolve them in the app
Installable

The participant app

The attendee's companion before, during and after the event, installable without an app store.

  • Browse the programme and build a personal agenda
  • Carry a digital badge and a shareable contact card
  • Arrange colleague meetings within the networking windows
  • Control precisely what other attendees can see

What the platform does

Capabilities an academic congress actually needs, rather than a general-purpose event tool bent into shape.

Invitations, not open sign-up

The event is closed by default. Organisers issue single-use codes as a code, a join link or an email — one at a time, or hundreds at once for a delegation.

Tiers and entitlements

Describe what a ticket includes — seminars, meals, the gala dinner, workshops — and bundle those entitlements into named tiers. Redeeming a code applies the right access automatically.

Check-in and door control

Each invitation code is what the QR badge encodes. Scanning it verifies registration in seconds and shows staff exactly what the attendee is signed up for.

Structured networking

Attendees suggest, accept and decline colleague meetings inside the windows the organiser defines, with availability and conflict handling.

Announcements that arrive

Publish an update once. It appears as an in-app banner and is delivered as a push notification with a deep link to the relevant page.

Privacy by design

Granular per-attendee controls over directory visibility, contact sharing and messaging. Email and phone numbers leave the server only when the attendee chooses to share them.

The full capability list
  • Installable PWA
  • Web push notifications
  • GDPR-aligned by design
  • argon2 and hardened authentication
  • Deployable on AWS

How Sympozio handles security and personal data

Planning a congress?

Tell us about the event — its size, its format and when it runs — and we will show you how Sympozio would handle it.

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