Running a conference is a schedule problem

Guides for the people who organise academic and professional conferences — the call for papers, abstract management and peer review, the venue and the budget, sponsorship, the programme, and everything that has to be finished before the doors open.

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The conference back-planner

Put in the date of your event and get the schedule that runs backwards from it — when the call for papers has to open, when abstracts close, when the programme has to be out, when badges go to print.

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  • Fifteen milestones, working back from your date
  • Lead times scale with the size of the event
  • Every milestone links to the guide for that step
  • Runs in your browser — nothing is sent or stored

Corrections & contributions

Organised one differently?

Conference practice shifts — hybrid formats, review models, what sponsors will pay for. If a guide here is out of date, or you have run an event that worked in a way we have not covered, the editorial team would like to hear about it.

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