I’ve been to several regional and national SharePoint conferences in the past couple of year at which SharePoint itself was underutilized or not at all used for many of the actions of planning and carrying out the delivery of the conference. Are there any free/shareware or commercial SharePoint apps / extensions / packages available to give conference organizers and attendees the tools they need for a successful conference?
Speaking as an attendee going beyond static speaker/session info to things like:
* personalized sessions schedule
* session reminders and alert notifications of last minute changes or additions
* sessions / speakers / conference feedback and rating
* browser and mobile device support
If there is nothing out there I’m planning to offer to work with my local SharePoint Saturday organizing committee (and the community) to build something like this for event in 2014.
I also guess your requirements are somewhat different for SP Saturdays ? If you just need to show speakers, Agenda, location, sponsors, then standard SP is good to go the whole way! If you want to do some of the other please give me a shout! I am sure both myself and Raphael (Extradium), would be willing to offer up a few licenses depending on what you need.Â
We could even chat about expanding the SP24 platform to help out…Â
