The EventPoint Attendee Calendar tool consolidates agenda items, sessions, and keynotes into a single intuitive view. Integration with the EventPoint Mobility Enabled Website tool and most industry standard PIM products (Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, etc.) round out a comprehensive offering designed to simplify the agenda process for both event administrators (or planners) as well as attendees.

• Provides attendees with the convenience of pre-planning their event schedule
• Provides event planners with valuable feedback regarding session interest
• Integrates with the EventPoint Session Attendance Monitoring tool for post-event data analysis,

Attendees have something to say. Let them be heard. The EventPoint Attendee Discussion Board tool facilitates communication between attendees, speakers, and show management. The Attendee Discussion Board tool allows users to post messages within a thread, reply to postings, and allows designated users to create new discussion threads. Discussion threads may be public (open to anyone) or private (open only to designated roles). This provides the perfect mechanism to facilitate group-only discussions or event-wide discussions revolving around particular tracks and other focused agendas.

Administration of the Attendee Discussion Board tool is done through a web browser. An event administrator can easily associate a particular message category with a topic or a group of topics or sessions in the EventPoint system. Users may subscribe to the Attendee Discussion Board in order to be notified of new postings or replies.

EventPoint’s Attendee Networking tool provides an easy to use mechanism to bring people and ideas together at key industry events. Attendee Networking provides attendees the ability to search for peers based on a particular profile and request onsite meetings with one or more people. Attendee Networking integrates with 3rd party and EventPoint registration systems, allowing users to customize their profile based on categories and data fields managed by event administrators. Additionally, Attendee Networking meetings are displayed on the attendee’s Attendee Calendar. Attendee Networking is a perfect solution to facilitate communication and networking between attendees at an event.

Attendee Networking allows attendees to:

• Identify, and request meetings with industry experts to discuss areas of interest
• Schedule appointments to meet representatives from exhibitor companies
• Extend invitations to prospective customers to see individual product demonstrations or meet high level company executives
• Seek out industry colleagues with like professional interests

Highlighted features include:

• Integrated email notifications
• Integrated schedule integration
• Optional field customization (to specify dress codes, special circumstances, etc.)
• Highly customizable attendee user interface

The EventPoint Attendee Portal provides event attendees a one-stop location for accessing all content and logistics information related to the event. Session content, exhibitor preferences, travel and hotel information, and other event content can be presented to the attendee in a seamless and integrated display, as well as serving as the event “news source” during the onsite portion of the event. The web editing tools provide event administrators direct control over the content and timing of the content offered, allowing for the preparation and staging of several months worth of content prior to publishing.

The EventPoint Attendee Registration tool puts the configuration and deployment of simple registration sites into the event administrator’s hands. More complex registrations sites with logic branches and multi-profile deployments can be built using the tool as well. The native integration between the Attendee Registration tool and other EventPoint tools reduces 3rd party integration costs and ensures a seamless event experience for attendees, speakers, and staff.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is becoming a new standard for published news feeds on the web. Using the RSS extensions to the EventPoint Content Editing tools you can define your own RSS items for publication through the EventPoint Attendee RSS Feeds tool. The editing interface is simple – you enter the Title and Description fields, set a date range for publication, and the RSS manager automatically updates the event feed as necessary. Attendees can consume these feeds into newsreaders or any custom application that uses the RSS standard format.

The Attendee RSS Feeds tool may be configured to publish custom content (news), session data, or both.

The EventPoint Attendee Schedule Builder tool provides attendees with a robust, yet simple, interface for the creation of a personal schedule while at the event. The catalog portion of the Schedule Builder tool allows the attendee to filter the session list by Track, Timeslot, Speaker, and other categories defined by the event content administrators. A simple one-click mechanism adds a session to the attendee's calendar. Attendees can easily add the new calendar items to their Microsoft Outlook calendars as well. Additional agenda items, meetings, and other appointments may be included at the discretion of the event administrator (or planner).

The EventPoint Mobile Session Scheduler (formerly “Julian”) is EventPoint’s Windows Mobile 5.0 application, providing attendees the ability to take the Event Agenda Manager, Session Catalog, Attendee Calendar, and Speaker & Session Evaluation tools offline. The application installs quickly and easily on all devices supporting Microsoft’s latest operating system for PDAs and Smart Phones.

The EventPoint Mobility Enabled Website tool typically deploys with a custom home page, session catalog, attendee calendar, and session evaluations – all custom formatted for the mobile devise's (PDA) screen.

The EventPoint Session Catalog tool provides a searchable interface for attendees to view and filter session content. Large events tend to categorize content into horizontal and vertical groups. The EventPoint Session Catalog allows event administrators to specify which of these categories, along with optional speaker, timeslot, and keyword filters, to publish to the session catalog for attendees to use for searching and filtering content.

• The Session Catalog tool may be deployed with or without the ability to schedule sessions, allowing for the creation of Public and Attendee-Only catalogs
• The catalog may be deployed with default and/or custom fields
• Integration with the EventPoint Speaker & Session Evaluation tool
• An optional mini-calendar may be embedded into the Attendee-Only version of the catalog

The EventPoint Side Meeting Manager tool is a critical value-add for your attendees during your event. Events are a great time to get together groups that otherwise may not be able to meet on a regular basis. The Side Meeting Manager tool provides a configuration and management tool to keep track of auxiliary meetings and the availability of rooms, days, and times for the duration of the event. An integrated Meeting Request Form with an interactive grid provides attendees (or qualified meeting requestors) with a quick and easy way to request a meeting room while specifying A/V, F&B, and other necessities. The admin interface makes it easy to approve or decline meeting requests while involving venue contacts as necessary in the automatic email notifications generated by the system.

• Deploy with default and/or custom fields
• Specify Audio/Visual, Food/Beverage, and other meeting necessities
• Personalize email notifications based on meeting status
• Include integration communications with venue staff