Odoo Conference Management
A Conference management software is a solution which helps to digitalise the preparation of conferences by semi automating the process flows.
BroadTech has developed a Software solution for academic conferences, using Odoo, which provides the following functions:
- User Portal
- Paper submission
- Assignment of papers to reviewers
- Email notifications to submitters and reviewers
- Paper management
- Registration and Payment
- Paper Presentation Management
- Conference review and reporting
The solution is mainly focusing on improving the activities managed by a PCO and help him perform his roles in a better manner. A Professional Conference Organiser (also called a Professional Congress Organiser, a PCO, and a conference manager) specialises in planning and executing conferences on behalf of academics, researchers and associations
The system for academic conference management mainly handles the following user roles
- Authors
- Technical Program Committee Members (TPC)
- Reviewers
- Chair
- Admin (PCO)
The flow of events can be described as follows
- Author sign up through the portal. Login into the system to create and submit the paper. The submit action would trigger a notification email to the author as well as the TPC
- TPC does log in and check the submitted papers. He adds reviewers to each paper. The action would send an email notification to the reviewer.
- Reviewer does login into the system and sees the assigned papers. He can accept or decline the paper. Accepted papers can be reviewed with feedback
- Chair examines the reviews and approves the papers
- Author receives a notification to make payment and proceed
- Author gets invited
- Author presents paper as per the schedules
- Reviewer evaluates the presentation and sends report to the author and chair
Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) shall remain as the superuser or admin of the system with all the privileges.