What is a conference app?

A conference app is the digital companion to one event. It is scoped to that conference — its days, its rooms, its speakers, its attendees — which is what separates it from a general calendar or a messaging tool that happens to be used at an event.

In practice at an event

Attendees open it most often for one thing: what is on next and which room it is in. Around that sit the features that make the rest of the event work. They star sessions into a personal agenda, ask questions during a talk and upvote other people’s, answer a poll, look up somebody they just met, add a photo to the shared album, and read announcements from the organizer.

On the organizer’s side the same product is a console: sessions and speakers are entered there, invitations go out from there, the check-in desk works from it, and the engagement numbers come back through it during the event rather than after.

What to look for

The schedule has to be correct and changeable during the event, because a conference app that sends someone to an empty room is worse than a printed programme. Beyond that, the questions that actually separate products are whether the app carries your event’s name in the app stores, whether notifications open the exact thing they are about, and whether session capacity is enforced when an attendee signs up rather than reconciled afterwards.

How event67 handles it

event67 is a conference app in this sense: a branded companion app for iOS, Android and web, published under the event’s own name, paired with an organizer console. It covers the schedule and personal agenda, the attendee directory with in-person QR connections, live Q&A, polls and reactions, session feedback, a moderated shared photo album, sponsor pages and deep-linked notifications. It does not sell tickets, print badges or stream video, so it sits alongside a registration system rather than replacing one.