What might go wrong when organizing conferences? Spectacular events, accolades pouring in from every direction and the good feeling of orchestrating something of great significance – all these expectations often fall short of reality. The reality of event planning could not be further from the truth and can best be summarized as “boundless exhaustion”. It’s high time for a few rays of hope and solutions to five problems that you, as an organizer, don’t take with you when planning your next event.

When organizing a conference, handling numbers always gives you the greatest pleasure? Are you not afraid of invoices containing typos? Are you happy to allocate every day the registration fees received on your account to the correct booking?

In discussions about hybrid conferences, it never takes long before the topics of technology and costs come up. That also seems to be the reason why opinions don’t seem to vary much: for lots of planners, “hybrid” implies expensive and time-consuming. Is it even possible to put on a successful hybrid event without technical expertise and exploding costs? It is, as we recently learned.

The software for managing your attendees forwards completed registration forms to you? Good. But hopefully that’s not the full range of features, is it?
A software for your attendee management should consist of a few more features to support both you and everyone who attends your event.
We’ll show you which criteria are crucial to consider.

The payment service provider PayPal is withdrawing from the Russian market due to the war against Ukraine. Conference organizers should therefore be prepared for problems, provided that participants from Russia can also register. What considerations should be taken into account? And what should happen with registrations from Ukraine?