The operating system forEvery event you run.

Whether you’re running a recruitment fair, a conference, a professional development programme, or something entirely your own, Slate keeps the whole event moving in one place. Organisers and participants can see what’s happening, what’s next, and where they need to be, without chasing updates across spreadsheets and email.

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The problem

Nobody struggles with the event itself

The programme, the speakers, the room: that is the work you signed up for, and it is usually the part that goes well. The harder part is everything around it: registrations, schedules, reminders, changes, questions, and keeping everyone on the same page.

It all falls on the same two or three people, and none of it shows up in the photos afterwards.

The event ends up spread across a lot of places

There’s a spreadsheet for the delegate list, another place for registrations, somewhere else for payments, and usually a document with the latest running order.

The website has one version of the programme. The email has another. Someone has the updated list, but not everyone knows who.

Most of it becomes repeat work

As the event gets closer, the same information gets checked and copied over again. Changes have to be passed around. Confirmations have to be chased. Last year’s contacts are sitting in last year’s files, while this year starts from scratch.

By the final week, a surprising amount of the work is just keeping everything in step.

The day is the hardest part to see

Once the event starts, information gets harder to keep track of. Check-in is happening at the door, but the main list is somewhere else. Someone walks in without a badge, so a new one gets made on the spot. A session fills up, but nobody knows until people start looking for seats.

The picture only arrives once the day is gone

Questions about a stand or speaker end up on someone’s phone. The numbers everyone needs are only clear once the day is over and everything has been reconciled.

They are guessing as much as you are

Every gap in the operation shows up first as a question you have to answer in person, and each one costs somebody their morning.

The confirmation email is the only record, and it is three weeks down an inbox.
The programme changed after the PDF went out, and the PDF is what they have.
Nothing says which room, and the signage assumes they already know.
The queue at the registration desk is the first thing they see.

The answer

One system, so nothing has to be kept in step

It is all the same problem. The event lives in several places at once, and someone has to hold them together by hand.

Slate is one place. Marketing, registration, the venue, the programme, check-in, badges and the numbers afterwards are one event, not seven tools meeting in the middle.

01Planning
There is one version of the event, and everyone is working from it.
02Coordination
Change something once and everyone has it. No round of corrections to send after.
03Event day
You can watch the room fill while it is happening, instead of counting it up after.
04Reporting
The numbers are ready when the day ends, not the following week.
05Attendees
Your attendees know where to be without asking you.

Where you fit

Two ways to run an event

Whatever you call it, most events fall into one of two shapes. A recruitment fair brings two sides together, while everything else is built around a programme of sessions, people and places.

You are bringing two sides together

Recruitment fairs

People looking for opportunities create profiles, while organisations in your network share the roles they’re hiring for. Your job is to bring them together and make sure everyone has what they need before the day.

Profiles submitted for your approval
Vacancies posted by participating organisations
A stand for each organisation, with their representatives assigned to it
Free or paid tickets, with paid sessions where needed
Interviews booked into time slots

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You are running a programme

Conferences, training days, hackathons

You have people to register, sessions to organise and a full day to keep moving. Slate keeps it all together, from the first sign-up to the certificate at the end.