Attendee Mobile
Gather Digital is the leading provider of iPhone and mobile web apps for conferences, reunions, and events. With our modular app system, you can choose the capabilities that best suit your event. We would be excited to learn more about that event—call us today at 919-932-4266, fill out our contact form, or email us: contact@gatherdigital.com.
Comprehensive Suite of Mobile Apps for Your Event
Reach all your attendees
Complete Design and Management System
You’re in control — updates sync automatically
Design your app on the Gather Digital web site. When you’re ready, we’ll handle all the aspects of building and submitting your apps. Don’t worry if a session is rescheduled—changes are easy to make and instantly updated on the apps. Optional modules allow attendees and exhibitors to update their information.
Your Conference Handbook: Turbocharged
Boundless Info and Powerful Interactivity
Key Features of Attendee Mobile
| Key Information | With events, info, and more, attendees can drill down on speaker and session information and follow links to additional material. |
| Customizable MySchedule | With this powerful planning tool, attendees may browse and pre-select the sessions most interesting and relevant to them. |
| Messaging & Meeting Requests | With our in-app messaging system, attendees can network and send meeting requests to each other. |
| Attendee Profiles | To further support networking, attendees can create their own profile, either from their desktop on our web site, or within the app itself. |
| Internal and External Maps | Event sessions can be linked to location maps, either to Google Maps or to a zoomable internal map of a hotel or conference center floor plan. |
| Social Networking | Our integrated Twitter capability allows the event planner to have existing twitter fields scrolling on the app home page, as well as the option to allow attendees’ tweets to appear there as well. |
| Robust Content Integration | Existing content—from your web site or RSS feeds—can be added via the News or Links modules. |
| Searchable & Sortable | Categories Attendees, sessions, and exhibitors/sponsors can be categorized in any way you define (attendee industry, session track, sponsor type) to allow for powerful searching and sorting. |
| Surveys | Get feedback just when attendees are primed to give it—at the end of each session. Our customizable surveys allow ratings for sessions, speakers, and more. |
| Exhibitor Suite | The exhibitor suite includes an exhibition hall floor map with persistent drop pins and zoom capability. You may choose to empower your exhibitors with self-serve exhibitor profiles where exhibitors can add their own events, such as scheduled demos, that an attendee can add to his/her MySchedule. |
| Sponsorship Opportunities | With our discrete menu, we’ve reserved a significant portion of the app home page for sponsorship opportunities. Spotlight one sponsor, or select a rotating system. |
| Online Reporting & Analysis | Gather Digital works with Google Analytics—the de facto web standard—to provide you customizable reports on page views, devices, usage, and more. |
Alumni Mobile
Gather Digital’s Alumni Mobile solution helps organizations and universities put their general web site information on smart phones. When members, customers or alumni visit the organization or university web site, they are automatically served a mobile version appropriately formatted with the right navigation features for their particular smart phone (iPhone, Blackberry, any Android phone such as the Droid or Google Nexus One, Palm Pre, etc.) Our iPhone App provides your constituents who own iPhones (or iPod Touches) with an even better experience when they download it from the Apple iTunes Store. Using the Alumni Mobile solution, your Organization will be able to deliver your institutions’ existing news/RSS feeds, twitter feeds, email communications and other resources, including requests for donations, tickets for events, and member services, directly to your constituents’ mobile devices. All while avoiding re-entering the underlying content.
Timely Info on Demand, But No Demands on Your Time
With the advent of social networking, demands on your marketing, alumni and development offices have increased dramatically. Not only must they provide e-mail, print, and web content, but now they have to tweet about it, provide Facebook updates, and network on LinkedIn. With Gather Digital’s Alumni Mobile solution, you can leverage all this work you already do without any new time required. Our Online Management Dashboard, accessible on our site through your browser with a login/password, lets you enter your existing content sources and addresses—your RSS feeds, your twitter account, etc—and we’ll take things from there, automatically updating the mobile sites and apps. Set it and forget it, as they say.
Capitalize on the Mobile Opportunity
Smart phone, app phones, and other mobile devices have created powerful new opportunities to facilitate stewardship and development with your members, customers and alumni. With Alumni Mobile not only can you provide compelling resources, but you can reach your constituents when they are most receptive to your messages, during their "browse-time.” However, shrinking your current Web site won’t entice these anytime, anywhere users—institutions will not only need to rethink content, navigation, and functionality but also have the technology to present different views for different devices. With Gather Digital’s Alumni Mobile solution, you can leverage content from across your institution to provide the ultimate information resource for your users in just the right format. And because we offer Alumni Mobile on a “Software as a Service” basis, there is no software that you need to install, maintain or manage. We’ve designed our architecture to give you the most power for the least cost and effort.
Increase affiliation, communication and participation with Gather Digital’s Alumni Mobile solution.
CDM Media
CDM Media is a leading B2B technology marketing and media firm that specializes in reaching an elite audience of CIOs and IT executives through high-level, exclusive conferences. CDM’s goal was to enhance the overall experience of both attendees and sponsors by:
- Allowing attendees to network through messaging both before and during the conference
- Providing each attendee with an individualized schedule, custom-tailored by CDM
- Expanding the event sponsors’ toolsets, so that they could better communicate with attendees and tell a deeper, richer story about their own products.
In addition to meeting these goals with Gather Digital’s Interactive Package as well as the 1:1 Meetings module, CDM also improved attendee feedback through real-time mobile surveys on sessions and the event in general. By the third event in the series with Gather Digital, CDM Media eliminated the paper agenda while increasing overall attendee satisfaction. Gather Digital has provided 11 mobile apps to date for CDM Media.
RFMA
The Restaurant Facility Management Association (RFMA) unites leading professionals to continually improve customer service in the restaurant management industry. The RFMA 2012 conference attracted a large number of exhibitors with a wide variety of products and services. RFMA aimed to enrich their annual RFMA conference by:
- Helping attendees to easily understand, search, and sort through a complicated exhibitor tradeshow with over 225 vendors, categorized by almost 100 different services
- Allowing each exhibitor to specify their representatives and communicate with attendees by messaging
- Facilitating networking through a listing of attendees, sorted by relevant factors such as region and number of units
Using Gather Digital’s Attendee-to-Attendee messaging feature, Exhibitor Suite, and Power Filters, RFMA was able to serve the attendees of RFMA 2012 by providing an accessible mobile application that met all of the above goals and allowed attendees to network, navigate the exhibitor tradeshow floor, and obtain conference information with ease.
IDG World Expo
IDG World Expo produces and holds a variety of prominent technology conferences each year. IDG first used the Gather Digital mobile app suite for their MobileNext Forum in November 2011. They then selected Gather Digital again in January 2012 for MacIT, an IDG conference targeted at professionals that make extensive use of Apple devices in their corporations. IDG wished to make their MacIT conference an optimal experience by:
- Allowing attendees to easily navigate and choose from the many concurrent and breakout sessions
- Displaying a large variety of presentation materials in the mobile application for easy access by attendees
- Respecting attendee’s privacy by allowing them to opt into being shown on an attendee list with built-in messaging
- Showcasing the event’s sponsors in a prominent location on the mobile application
- Providing a fully native iPad and iPhone app to reflect the conference focus
Gather Digital’s mobile application suite for the MacIT conference allowed IDG to achieve all of their goals for this conference. The app contained PDFs of all presentation materials, to be viewed easily by attendees on the go. As a result, over 90% of the conference’s attendees used the app.
SAS
SAS is a leading corporation that uses cutting-edge, innovative technologies to create analytic solutions for businesses worldwide. SAS uses Gather Digital mobile applications for a wide assortment of events, from customer-facing executive conferences to training programs to the JMP annual Discovery Summit. Each event’s mobile application required slightly different capabilities to fit the event’s purpose. For its conferences, SAS wanted to:
- Have one platform from which to design its different apps
- Enable networking for its attendees through attendee profiles, attendee messaging and the use of social media
- Assist attendees of training conferences in filtering through training sessions based on difficulty level, topic, and other factors
- Consolidate multiple events into one convenient application for one of its series of conferences that is hosted three times a year in the US, Asia and Europe
The Gather Digital Online Dashboard content management platform and the resulting mobile applications met all of these objectives. In the Online Dashboard SAS was able to allow different business and event managers design their particular conference app, with buttons and features appropriate for their event. The Premier Business Leadership Series multi-event app was able to house several SAS events in one easy-to-access application. For the training events, Gather Digital’s Power Filter capability allowed for easy sorting of agenda sessions based on a variety of factors. And attendees were able to communicate from the app using Attendee-to-Attendee Messaging and the Share This social media button that let attendees tweet, email and post to Facebook from the app. Because of the flexibility and modularity of the Gather Digital solution, SAS has used Gather Digital mobile apps for 9 events to date, the most recent of which had over 90% usage by attendees.
NATCA
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) is one of the strongest and most influential labor unions in the federal sector. It represents more than 20,000 air traffic controllers, engineers and other safety-related professionals. The Communicating for Safety conference was the first of three meetings being organized by NATCA during early 2012. To enrich the CFS event, NATCA was looking for:
- An integrated mobile platform that could be used for multiple events throughout the year
- A mobile solution that offered attendees customizable schedules for more than 40 sessions in three days
- A sponsor recognition program that allowed NATCA to highlight sponsors by creating sponsor levels, adding company logos and images and including information, such as website, Twitter feeds and descriptions
With Gather Digital, NATCA was able to reuse information across separate events while providing their attendees an event app with customizable schedule capabilities, sessions packed with speaker information, photos, locations with external and internal zoomable maps, as well as social media utilization through Twitter, Facebook and Share This with in-app email. NATCA is continuing to use Gather Digital’s mobile application for the other two conferences being held in the first half of 2012.
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is one of the top business schools in the United States. HBS has used Gather Digital’s mobile app solutions for their Alumni Reunions since Spring 2010. HBS’s goals for its reunion mobile apps were to:
- Employ a platform that would let the reunion planners avoid double entry of information, such as speakers, locations, and links to resources, across the different class apps. They also wanted to reuse information from year to year.
- Use the app to create buzz about the reunions before the event and allow alumni to register through the app
- Customize the agenda and attendee list for each of the returning classes
- Pull in social media, such as Twitter
- Communicate key information and updates about their reunions effectively to a large number of attendees
Several features of Gather Digital’s mobile applications helped HBS to optimize the reunion experience. The multi-event application allowed HBS to conveniently include multiple class reunions in the same app, individualizing items such as the agenda and attendees list while keeping other information the same across the class reunions. HBS was able to include in the Gather Digital mobile app its own Twitter feeds, as well as a dedicated hashtag that let alumni tweet about the reunion. And the Message feature allowed the Alumni Department to easily correspond with all attendees using the application.
HBS will continue to use Gather Digital mobile applications for its Spring 2012 and Fall 2012 Reunions.
