Sessionboard
Sessionboard connects speaker, session, and event-content workflows for conference, association, and corporate event teams.
What Sessionboard is
Sessionboard connects speaker, session, and event-content workflows for conference, association, and corporate event teams. Program management includes calls for papers, abstract handling, peer review, AI reviewers, ePoster galleries, and speaker portals. Awards tools support nominations, judging, scoring, custom rubrics, multi-round review, and winner showcases. Content Marketing provides live transcription, clips and quotes, content repurposing, advocacy campaigns, and brand kits. Every plan includes roles and permissions, built-in AI tools, speaker and agenda management, core integrations, email and SMS, security, and Speaker CRM. Integrations include Cvent, Bizzabo, Salesforce, Zoom, Swapcard, Swoogo, iMIS, and WordPress, among other event, CRM, learning, and media tools. The API syncs sessions, speakers, contacts, sponsors, and exhibitors, with search and write endpoints, real-time webhooks, and SbQL reporting. Sessionboard states it has SOC 2 Type II certification, TLS 1.2-or-higher transit encryption, AES-256 at rest, and logical customer-data separation. Pro covers a single event; Enterprise adds cross-event portfolio capabilities. Pricing is available through sales and depends partly on team size and support tier.
Good
- Covers calls for papers and peer review
- Includes speaker and agenda management
- Supports live transcription and content repurposing
- Public API with webhooks and reporting
- SOC 2 Type II certification
Watch out
- Pricing is available only through sales
- No free plan
- Pro is limited to a single event
- Advanced capabilities require Enterprise
Who it suits
Sessionboard suits conference, association, and corporate event teams managing speakers, submissions, agendas, awards, and content. It also fits teams needing event integrations and API synchronization.
Verdict
Sessionboard brings program, awards, content, and speaker workflows together with integrations and an API. Buyers should contact sales to match event scope, team size, and support needs to a plan.
Plans and prices
From Sessionboard's own pricing page, checked 14 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Priced on request | cross-event portfolio · everything in Pro · cross-event CRM · measurement/reporting · content planning · AI agents · CRM integrations · advanced advocacy |
| Pro | Priced on request | single-event scope · Speaker CRM · speaker/content management · live transcription · content tools · brand kits · speaker advocacy |
The facts
Each one read from Sessionboard's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Money
- Agenda planning
- The agenda builder provides drag-and-drop scheduling, filtered views and conflict detection for speakers and rooms.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: free access
- Capterra states that a free trial is unavailable, and the official pricing page presents only contact-sales Pro and Enterprise plans.checked 14 Oct 2026
What it does
- AI data handling
- AI features send only required fields to enterprise AI APIs, use encrypted transport and state that customer data is not used to train provider models.checked 14 Oct 2026
- AI evaluation
- AI reviewer personas can score submissions alongside human evaluators, with their feedback retained in review records.checked 14 Oct 2026
- API
- The public API supports syncing sessions, speakers, contacts, sponsors and exhibitors, with search and write endpoints, real-time webhooks and SbQL reporting.checked 8 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- API access uses OAuth 2.1 or scoped tokens, and webhook notifications are available for real-time changes.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The product is presented for conference, association and corporate event teams managing speakers, submissions, agendas and event content.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Awards
- Awards workflows include nominations, judging, custom rubrics, multi-round review and winner showcases.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Communications
- The platform supports email and SMS templates, reminders and automated communications.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Content marketing
- Sessionboard can create live transcripts, clips, quotes, summaries, branded assets and advocacy campaigns from sessions.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Data protection
- The security page says data in transit uses TLS 1.2 or higher, data at rest uses AES-256, and customer data is logically segregated with a unique key.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Developer documentation
- Public API documentation covers authentication, rate limits, webhooks, MCP and SbQL, with JavaScript and Python examples referenced in the help center.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- The product runs on AWS in the continental United States and Ireland, while Google Cloud is used for specified AI services rather than primary application hosting.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Included features
- The pricing page lists roles and permissions, built-in AI tools, speaker and agenda management, core integrations, email and SMS, security and Speaker CRM as included with every plan.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Infrastructure
- The service runs on Amazon Web Services in the continental United States and Ireland for EU hosting.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include Cvent, Bizzabo, Salesforce, Zoom, Swapcard, Swoogo, WordPress, Canva, Adobe Express and many event, CRM, AMS, LMS and media systems.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The reviewed official pages do not state an open-source licence or publish product source code.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: outage troubleshooting
- Sessionboard directs users to its status page for incidents and notes that corporate or venue networks may block or throttle required domains.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing transparency
- Capterra lists the starting price as “Get Price,” while Sessionboard’s own pricing page requires contacting sales for both plans.checked 14 Oct 2026
- MCP server
- Sessionboard provides an MCP server with 27 read, write, analytics and agenda tools, token scopes and audit logging.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Notable news
- Sessionboard announced a partnership with Emerald on February 19, 2025 to centralize speaker, content and session workflows.checked 14 Oct 2026
The company
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn lists headquarters at Atlantic Beach, Florida, United States.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Sessionboard as a privately held company with 11–50 employees.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Founded
- LinkedIn lists the company as founded in 2022.checked 14 Oct 2026
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