What's New at Sessionboard
It's been a busy few months, and I'm excited to share what the team has been building.
This update covers some of the biggest changes we've made to Sessionboard in years — including a completely rebuilt admin experience, two new products, and a long list of enhancements across the core platform and integrations. Here's everything that's new:
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✨ New Admin UI
We rebuilt the Sessionboard admin experience from the ground up. This has been two-plus years in the making, and we took every piece of feedback seriously as we designed it. The goal was simple: help you find what you need faster, with fewer clicks.
A few highlights:
- Cleaner, faster navigation across the entire admin
- Now available in 4+ languages, with more on the way
- A modern foundation that lets us ship updates and improvements much faster going forward
We're actively gathering feedback over the next month and will keep iterating. If something feels off or could be better — let us know here.
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🏆 Introducing: Sessionboard Awards
We launched our Awards product in January. Sessionboard Awards supports the full awards lifecycle — payment processing, multi-round judge review, public voting, and more. If your organization runs an awards program (and statistically, most of you do), reach out to your Customer Success rep to learn more.
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📋 Introducing: Year-Round Speaker Interest Forms
You can now build forms at the organization level to collect speaker interest across all your upcoming events. Speakers can indicate which events they'd like to present at, and you can optionally collect abstract or session information at the same time. A simple but powerful addition for teams managing multiple events throughout the year.
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🔧 Core Platform Updates
All of these are available in the new Admin UI:
- Agenda settings in-context— Control your agenda settings directly from day, week, month, and room views without leaving the page
- Session card color customization— Color-code agenda cards by track, tag, or other properties
- Custom fields on session cards— Display up to 3 additional properties (speakers, track, language, etc.) directly on agenda cards
- View filters within agenda— Switch views and apply filters without navigating away
- Language variant fields on forms— Add language variants to fields on Call for Papers, Application, Intake, and Portal forms
- Show session tasks on subsessions— A new portal setting to surface session tasks within subsessions
- Event search— Search across sessions, contacts, and files within an event
- Duplicate portal tasks, forms, and file requests— No more rebuilding from scratch
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🔗 Integration Updates
- Cvent— Subsessions now sync to Cvent
- Swoogo— Deleting sessions or contacts in Sessionboard now removes them in Swoogo accordingly
- Gleanin— Moderators, chairpersons, tracks, and tags now sync to Gleanin
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What's coming next
If you've read this far, I'll let you in on some secrets: Beyond continuing to ship the enhancements you've been requesting here in the feedback portal, we've got some exciting things in the works — improved Abstract and evaluator support (2.0 version of our current Submission/Evaluation product), AI Agents, MCP Server, marketing tools, transcription support, and more. It's going to be a big few months.
Massive high five to the Sessionboard team on all this progress -- but most of all, massive THANK YOU to you, our partners and customers. The future of Sessionboard continues to be built with your feedback, every day.
Keep the feedback coming. This community is one of the best inputs we have, and we read everything.
— Josh Parolin, Co-Founder & CTO, Sessionboard