For academic and professional conferences
The call for papers, the reviewing, the programme and the registration desk. One tool, one price per conference.
Open a call, run blind peer review, decide, build sessions with presenters and discussants, take registrations into your own Stripe account, and publish a programme you can embed on your website.
Free for up to 25 submissions, with unlimited reviewers and sessions. No card needed. Larger conferences from $199 per event.
Call for papers
Custom submission forms, tracks, keywords, manuscript upload, author lists that become the programme.
Find out morePeer review
Single or double blind. Assign reviewers, track conflicts, weighted scores, committee notes, one-click decisions.
Find out moreAI reviewer (optional)
One more reviewer that scores every paper on your own criteria, so you can cross-check the human reviews. Never shown to authors.
Find out moreProgramme
Rooms, sessions, chairs, presenters and discussants. Publish a web programme the moment decisions go out, or embed it on your site.
Find out moreRegistration and fees
Priced registration types, coupons, and submission fees paid straight into your own Stripe account.
Find out morePriced per conference, not per year
A department that runs one meeting a year should not pay a subscription. Plans are tiered by submissions; reviewers, tracks, sessions and organizers are unlimited on every plan.
Built for how academic conferences actually run
Double-blind review with an anonymized manuscript, discussants on every paper, a cap on papers per presenter, and a check that everyone in the programme has registered.
One account, every hat
The same person is an author at one conference, a reviewer at another and the chair of a third. Each role has its own home, and switching is one click.
Call for papers
A public page authors trust, and a form that collects what you need
Your call for papers, published
Dates, rules and fees are laid out automatically. You write the rest: topics, submission guidelines, special sessions, committee, FAQ, terms. Every conference gets a clean public address.
A submission form you shape
Tracks, keywords, and your own fields: a JEL code, a data statement, a PhD-student flag, a choose-one or choose-several question. Authors upload the manuscript and, for blind review, an anonymized copy.
Author lists that become the programme
First name, last name, affiliation, presenter and corresponding author, for every co-author. Co-authors with an account see the paper on their own dashboard.
Authors can fix things
Until the deadline they edit the paper, swap authors and upload new versions. Earlier versions are kept. After acceptance they upload the final version.
Submission fees, if you charge them
Paid by card at submission into your organization's own Stripe account. Coupon codes for your students and speakers. A cap on how many papers one person may present.
Nobody is turned away at the deadline
If submissions run past your plan, authors keep submitting and you are told. You top up when it suits you.
Reviewing papers
Assign, collect and decide without a spreadsheet
Single, double or open review
Under double blind, reviewers are served the anonymized manuscript and never see the author list.
Reviewers in minutes
Invite by email with one click; they can be assigned papers before they have even signed up. Send the invitation yourself if you prefer.
Conflicts caught, not guessed
Authors can never be assigned their own paper. Reviewers declare conflicts with one click and are withdrawn automatically.
Your criteria, your weights
Start with four sensible scored criteria or define your own, with a weighted average on every paper. Reviewers can attach an annotated manuscript.
Decisions in bulk
Sort by score, select above a threshold, record one outcome, and email every author their decision with the reviews attached. Nothing is sent until you press send.
A reviewer inbox
Reviewers see every request across every conference in one place, with due dates in their own timezone.
An optional AI reviewer
Switch it on and every paper also gets a review from the model, scored on the same criteria. Details below.
AI reviewer, an optional add-on
A cross-check on the human reviews, not a replacement for them
One more reviewer
The model reads each manuscript (the blind copy where there is one) and scores it against your review criteria, with a recommendation, comments and a note for the committee. It shows up beside the human reviews, marked AI.
Spot the outliers
The decisions table shows the human and AI scores side by side and flags papers where they disagree. Compile decisions on human scores, AI scores or both, by mean, median, minimum or maximum.
Authors never see it
AI reviews are excluded from decision emails and from the author's page. Whether the call for papers mentions AI assistance is your own switch, with wording you write.
Off by default, paid per paper
Nothing runs unless a chair switches it on and buys credits. One credit per paper; a file with no readable text costs nothing.
Run it when you choose
At the close, or as papers arrive. Each paper is scored independently with the same instructions, so the standard is the same either way.
Your data stays yours
Manuscripts go to the model provider with no training on them and no retention, and only when you press the button.
Programme management
From accepted papers to a timetable, with the clashes caught for you
Rooms, sessions, chairs
Create sessions with a room, a time and a chair, and place accepted papers in them. Presenters default to the author who ticked the box.
Discussants as a first-class role
Assign a discussant to each paper and change it later. The discussant sees the paper they discuss and nothing else.
Clashes refused, not discovered
Nobody can present, discuss or chair in two sessions at the same time, and no room can be double-booked. The message appears next to the row you were editing.
Parallel sessions, side by side
A timetable shows what runs against what, and every session names the ones it overlaps.
Is everyone registered?
One list of every presenter, discussant and chair with their registration status. Remind all of them in one click; release a place if they miss the deadline.
A programme you can embed
Publish it on your conference address, or paste one line into your own website and it stays current as you edit.
Registration and money
Take registrations into your own account, not ours
Registration types
Regular, student, early bird with a deadline, speaker for free. Optional capacities. Attendees register with the same account they submit or review with.
Paid straight to you
Fees go by card through Stripe into your organization's own Stripe account. ConferenceSlate never holds the money; refunds are yours to make.
Coupons
Percentage or fixed amount off, limited uses, expiry, for submission fees or registration or both. A code that covers the whole price skips the card entirely.
The attendee list, exportable
Names, affiliations, types, what was paid, dietary notes. CSV for badges and catering.
Eight currencies
Plans and fees in USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD, NZD, SGD and JPY. Buyers choose; invoices are in the currency paid.
Timezones handled
Deadlines are entered in the conference's zone and shown to every author and reviewer with their own local time alongside.
From nothing to a published programme
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Create the conference
Name, dates, timezone, review model. Set up the organization that owns it so the conference outlives this year's chair.
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Open the call
Write the public page, add tracks and fields, set fees or not, press Open. Send authors the link or put it on your own website.
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Review and decide
Invite reviewers, assign, collect scores, decide in bulk, email the decisions.
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Build and publish
Sessions, discussants, registration check, programme published and embedded.
Run your next conference on it
Free for a workshop or PhD symposium. When the big meeting comes round, pay once for the event. Every plan includes every feature; only the number of submissions changes.