Symposium by ForagerOne

The simplest way to host amazing academic events.

Symposium is an all-in-one events platform designed for research organizations. With all the functionality you need and without the hassle of complex event management software, you can focus on bringing your community together to do what matters: share, inspire, innovate.

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Uniquely built for content sharing

Curate all types of content for asynchronous presentation and discussion

With Symposium, organizers can easily collect, review, and share content in a variety of presentation formats for asynchronous viewing and discussion. It’s the easiest way to bring your community together from around the world, at their convenience, to share the diverse perspectives and ideas that make conversations rich.

Presentations and Commenting

Showcase posters, slide decks, 3D models, essays, reports, exhibits, performances, demos, and more. Participants can come together around content and have lasting conversations via threaded comments.

Abstract Management

A multi-stage workflow for organizers to receive, evaluate, and accept content for presentation at your event. You can recruit reviewers, match reviewers with submissions, create evaluation forms, collect feedback, and advance submissions to the next stage.

Symposium is an innovative tool that will fundamentally change how research is disseminated.

Christina Hassija

California State University San Bernardino

Fully integrated live session features

Make connection and conversation easy through seamless live interactions

Our live session features enable organizers to host video conferences, virtual tables, webinars, and live streams directly within the browser on Symposium, without the need for any third-party applications. Live sessions are equipped with a variety of inbuilt features to make sessions engaging and productive.

Video conferencing

Ideal for meetings and group discussions involving all participants.

Virtual tables

Built for networking, as well as topic-based small group discussions.

Webinars and live streams

For keynotes, panels, and more in both virtual and hybrid settings.

Designed to maximize visibility and engagement

Take your events to new heights with unlimited reach and extended interactions

Symposium makes it easy for attendees to participate in events, engage others, and sustain interactions that lead to meaningful connections, from wherever they are. You can better involve your organization’s internal community, as well as external partners, donors, recruiters, prospective students, and others.

Secure Public & Private Events

With flexible viewing settings, you can restrict access or make your event visible to the world.

Flexible uptime and digital repository

Keep events and content up for as long as you’d like to sustain continuous interaction. You can also archive events after they have ended within Symposium’s digital repository to preserve a record of event content.

With Symposium, our annual exposition garnered a ~10x increase in traffic relative to our previous in-person sessions. We were able to better involve students on our sister campus in Qatar, and engage prospective students and families in ways that were previously not possible.

Megan Wood

Northwestern University

An all-in-one solution

Equipped with a rich feature set to meet your varied needs

Registration

Create a custom registration page and custom forms on Symposium to simplify your organizing experience along with the registration and event access for participants.

Judging workflow

An end-to-end workflow to help you easily recruit judges, assign them to submitted presentations, create and assign evaluation forms, and moderate and share judging feedback with presenters.

Donations engine

A non-intrusive mechanism for you to fundraise and accept gifts from your attendees, partners, and other stakeholders to fundraise for your program or organization, directly from your event site.

Data and analytics

Gain insights on presenters, participants, and the interactions during each event to benchmark, strategize, and build even more successful events.

Abstract booklet

Conveniently compile a booklet of abstracts and other content from submissions to your event, which you can then customize and publish.

What was an emergency solution quickly became a tremendously valued opportunity to transform our symposia going forward, even when we're back to face-to-face events. We hope to complement traditional presentations with Symposium to expand the audience, engagement, and accessibility for our entire campus community.

Jenny Shanahan

Bridgewater State University

Don’t take our word for it

Organizers achieve so much more with Symposium

Missy Thompson’s case for hybrid events—how she bolstered a sense of community, enhanced the event experience, and created opportunities for marketing at Fort Lewis College

Missy Thompson

Fort Lewis College

“Having the virtual aspect has provided the opportunity for us to showcase works with alumni, donors, key stakeholders, graduate school recruiters and family/friends of students. It has also offered greater flexibility and leaves us with a centralized repository of student work that provides great marketability.” — Missy Thompson

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Creating more meaningful experiences by escaping the confines of traditional, strictly in-person experiences, while saving 33% for John Carroll University

Erica Kennedy, Carole Krus & Anita Iveljic

John Carroll University

“[Student presenters] still interact with their audience - and judges! - through discussion rooms or chat functions, gaining experience in new forms of interaction that will be a part of academic and work cultures for the foreseeable future. We have been able to recruit judges for our events from literally all over the world, allowing experts in their fields and local community members to interact with and mentor our students.” — Carole Krus

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How Anne Pate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University transformed the learning process for her class during the COVID-19 pandemic and developed practices to improve student outcomes

Anne Pate

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

“Having the presentations available asynchronously via Symposium has provided me with more flexibility in my schedule to allow for a more structured learning process while developing the presentations and applying the knowledge to real-world datasets.” — Anne Pate

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How Northwestern University grew participation by 20x, reduced cost by 60%, and took their programming to new levels by rethinking their annual expo experience with Symposium

Megan Novak Wood & Peter Civetta

Northwestern University

“We are projected to still save $3,000 from our pre-COVID format, while functionally offering more programming than we did prior to the pandemic.” — Peter Civetta

“I no longer have a day and a half long process of manually sorting the [judges’] paper comments … With Symposium, it takes me about 3 hours … I’ll never go back to the old format for judging.” — Megan Novak Wood

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Missy Thompson’s case for hybrid events—how she bolstered a sense of community, enhanced the event experience, and created opportunities for marketing at Fort Lewis College

Missy Thompson

Fort Lewis College

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Creating more meaningful experiences by escaping the confines of traditional, strictly in-person experiences, while saving 33% for John Carroll University

Erica Kennedy, Carole Krus & Anita Iveljic

John Carroll University

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How Anne Pate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University transformed the learning process for her class during the COVID-19 pandemic and developed practices to improve student outcomes

Anne Pate

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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How Northwestern University grew participation by 20x, reduced cost by 60%, and took their programming to new levels by rethinking their annual expo experience with Symposium

Megan Novak Wood & Peter Civetta

Northwestern University

“We are projected to still save $3,000 from our pre-COVID format, while functionally offering more programming than we did prior to the pandemic.” — Peter Civetta

Read Article

Missy Thompson’s case for hybrid events—how she bolstered a sense of community, enhanced the event experience, and created opportunities for marketing at Fort Lewis College

Missy Thompson

Fort Lewis College

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Creating more meaningful experiences by escaping the confines of traditional, strictly in-person experiences, while saving 33% for John Carroll University

Erica Kennedy, Carole Krus & Anita Iveljic

John Carroll University

Read Article

How Anne Pate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University transformed the learning process for her class during the COVID-19 pandemic and developed practices to improve student outcomes

Anne Pate

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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Build amazing virtual and hybrid experiences

Power all your events with Symposium

Symposium is a versatile platform, capable of hosting all kinds of events. Customize your event to create a unique and impactful experience for all your participants.

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