Information is a pre-approved event supplier at UBC. Here's an 8min tour of the platform.
Fourwaves is a Canadian company dedicated to academic and research conferences. The platform can be used for events of any size for:
- A professional looking and easy to edit event website. It can be a simple landing page with basic event information or a complete white labeled event website.
- A registration module with unlimited customizable questions, conditions and logic, with online payments (connected to your internal UBC account through TouchNet/Workday). You can easily manage refunds, promo codes, automated confirmations emails.
- An abstract submission for call for papers/abstracts/sessions. You can manage multiple submission deadlines, abstract word limit, collect content (posters, powerpoints, pre-recorded videos) and send notification emails to presenters easily.
- Peer review module to evaluate/judge on submissions and presentations. You can customize the reviewing form and assign submissions to reviewers by topic. You can easily find the top scored presentations and even share feedback to presenters.
- A complete event schedule with single track of multi-track conferences. You can place the accepted presentations in sessions to build the program that participants can browse ahead of the event or through their mobile phone the day of.
- Live app for virtual and hybrid events that allows easy access to livestreams, private messaging and more. It has the best virtual poster sessions experience with integrated video conversations, laser pointer and share screen capabilities.
- Name tags and program booklet generator, mass email communication tools, reports and more.