From Pain To Proficiency In Speaker Management: Why Diversified Communications Chose Sessionboard

Diversified Communications, a global company responsible for running major tradeshows and conferences all across the world, has chosen Sessionboard as their partner and platform for speaker and content management.

As part of this exciting announcement, our team flew out to Portland, Maine where Diversified Communications is headquartered in order to launch a company wide platform onboarding and training. We decided to find out more about what led Diversified Communications to select Sessionboard as their speaker management solution. So we sat down with Stephanie Scherer, Director of Systems and Project Management, to learn more.

In this interview with Stephanie you will learn:

• What their speaker management process looked like before Sessionboard...
• What they we're looking for in a solution and why the chose Sessionboard...
• What excites them most about the platform...

Describe your previous speaker management process...

"So our previous process for managing speakers was painful. It was incredibly inefficient, incredibly manual. It was a combination of spreadsheets and tears."

"So our previous process for managing speakers was painful. It was incredibly inefficient, incredibly manual. It was a combination of spreadsheets and tears."

What we're you looking for in a speaker and content management solution?

"We were looking for a solution that would help us with our call for speakers process. We really wanted something that would have a portal that speakers could log into to complete any action items or that they could go to to get additional information. We were looking for something that had great planning tools, calendar building, as well as the ability to email with our speakers and send out automated reminders just to keep them on task and up to date."

Why did you choose Sessionboard?

"So we conducted a pretty extensive RFP process, and the reason that Sessionboard stood out was the combination of the great functionality, the intuitive, easy to use nature of the platform, as well as the awesome customer service. It was apparent that Sessionboard was really going to be our partner and not just a vendor."

"It was apparent that Sessionboard was really going to be our partner and not just a vendor."

What excites you most about using the platform?

"We're really excited about the ability to use Sessionboard as our CRM for all speaker and conference content. We think it's going to give us a ton of efficiency. We're not going to have to go look at various spreadsheets and find information from different places. It'll be a single source of truth for all of our speaker information and it will help us build session programming because we have all that info all in one spot."

ABOUT DIVERSIFIED COMMUNICATIONS

Diversified Communications is a leading international media company with a portfolio of face-to-face trade exhibitions and conferences, online communities and digital and print publications.

As producers of these market-leading products Diversified Communications connects, educates and strengthens business communities in over 14 industries including food and beverage, healthcare, natural and organic, business management and technology.

Established in 1949 and headquartered in Portland, Maine, USA with divisions and offices around the world, Diversified Communications remains a privately held, third generation, family-owned business.

For more information, visit: www.divcom.com

ABOUT SESSIONBOARD

Sessionboard is a next generation speaker & content management platform that simplifies the complex workflows and disjointed communications that exist around speaker and content management. From call for papers, abstract evaluation, awards, applications, agenda building, speaker onboarding and communication, Sessionboard helps event organizers work smarter, move faster, and improve their ROI.

The results? A faster-growing event, more productive staff, seamless collaboration with speakers and more time back to do what you do best—building epic experiences.

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