Apple's announcement of the new operating system iOS 9 will offer great benefits for your conference attendees that are using an event app. Let's review some of the exciting upcoming improvements that are going to make a difference to your users. Longer Battery Life A device's battery is your weakest link in taking advantage of [...]
Your attendees use your conference app 60 to 100 or more times during the event while also using their email, social networks, phone, maps, photo, and dozens of other apps. That takes energy and dead batteries create unhappy attendees. With a simple solution however, you can keep your attendees happy, keep your meeting app up [...]
At medical and scientific conferences, the majority of attendees tend to be physicians who already use iOS devices and could soon be receiving an Apple Watch from their hospital. With the focus on health-related functionality, the Apple Watch is generating buzz in the healthcare industry: an app for doctors to talk to each other easily, [...]
If you are using Google forms for your conference surveys, you can enhance the form submission experience by sending a confirmation email that may contain more information about your next meeting. Simply follow the steps in the video below to have your form send an email to the respondent upon submission. Try it out and [...]
A wide variety of event apps and third party technology can help meeting planners and event professionals to increase efficiency, stay better organized, and create a more engaging experience for attendees. Below you'll find a list of apps or meeting and event technology that caught our attention - we'll keep adding over time so bookmark [...]
You may have seen in the news that a new security vulnerability, called the 'Freak' security flaw, has been found in the SSL encryption that browsers and websites use to transmit secure data and impacts 10% of the internet’s top sites as well as Safari for iOS and desktops, Chrome for Android and desktops, Internet [...]
Yesterday, the FCC released an enforcement advisory that Wi-Fi blocking, with which Marriott made news last year, is prohibited and everyone interfering with personal networks or hotspots will be investigated. Read the notice This is great news for event professionals and meeting planners since too many venues are still charging extremely high fees for dismal [...]
The EventPilot meeting app makes it easy for event attendees to plan and easily navigate conference exhibition halls in order to maximize face-time with vendors Santa Rosa, Calif. - January 13, 2015 - ATIV Software, publishers of the leading mobile conference app for medical and scientific meetings -- EventPilot -- announced today the availability of [...]
From "Headache" with generic event app to success with specialized medical meeting app The World Transplant Congress (WTC) is a joint meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), The Transplantation Society (TTS) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST). At the meeting, 7,000 surgeons and healthcare professionals gather to present over 3,000 research [...]
FCC fines Marriott for blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Marriott made big news for our industry this month: Hotels are not allowed to block personal hotspots and Marriott got fined $600,000 for doing so. The hotel charged exorbitant fees of $250-$1,000 per device to use the Gaylord Wi-Fi service in [...]
Meeting planners can use the scientific and medical conference app EventPilot to drive attendee engagement with leading Layar Augmented Reality Santa Rosa, Calif. - October 16, 2014 ATIV Software’s EventPilot conference app offers the latest in event technology with the integrated world leading Layar Augmented Reality (AR) SDK. Meeting planners can create a seamless Augmented [...]
With innovative iBeacon™ location-based features, EventPilot medical meeting app in top four meetings & events industry technology awards Santa Rosa, Calif. - October 14, 2014 - The EventPilot medical conference app received an honorable mention today as number three in the top four event technologies in the 2014 EIBTM Technology Watch Award for the meetings [...]
Watch proximity to a beacon trigger alerts in EventPilot Apple's iBeacon™ technology is built into our EventPilot conference app and is available as an add-on module in all of our editions. The Location Alerts module allows meeting professionals to set up notification messages that are not just timed, but are triggered if the attendee is [...]
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the global community for mobile content and commerce, selected the sustainable EventPilot paperless meeting app as finalist in 2014 Meffys awards Santa Rosa, Calif. - September 23, 2014 - ATIV Software’s EventPilot conference app today was named finalist for the 2014 Mobile Entertainment Forum Meffys Awards in the category Mobile [...]
The only conference app specifically designed for medical and scientific meetings Find out what makes our scientific meeting app different. Finding Sessions is Key to Success Attendees install apps for one reason: to build their schedule. We ensure that EventPilot helps attendees find exactly what they are looking for, even if they make spelling errors. [...]
Exciting new ways to communicate with your attendees using iBeacon™ and Beacons or GPS Our dev team has been working hard to bring the latest in event technology to your conferences. We have implemented push notification support for indoor and outdoor locations, so that you can send location relevant messages to your attendees directly from [...]
To successfully implement a conference not only requires a great app people would want to download, but also that attendees actually know about it. Since they are usually busy professionals just like you and I, they probably don't have their mind freed up for your conference until they are on their way to your venue. [...]
The Apple Developer Program allows you to publish apps and install a proof version on your own devices before submission. All you need is a login (Apple ID) and completing an enrollment. Once the enrollment is complete, Apple will process the forms and send you an activation notice when they approve your application. Apple makes [...]
With EventPilot, you have a lot of flexibility to add event related content from housing information to event hours to bus schedules or emergency contacts. Adding this content as HTML directly within your native event app offers great benefits: offline viewing searchable - included in Global Search accessible either via banner on NOW screen or [...]
New Video Tutorial: What content goes where in the app The EventPilot conference app is a highly advanced mobile event app with many fields you can populate and customize. In this tutorial, we cover the different core detail views and which data field appears where in the view. Data items can either be added and [...]
