Awards, Abstracts, Grants, Scholarships & More
Wednesday will be dedicated to managing awards, abstracts, grants, scholarships & more. Come learn how hundreds of the leading associations like AAAS, AGA, AANS save time, frustration, and money by consolidating their application and review programs and using OpenWater as their single software provider.
Events
Start planning events with confidence in 2021, hear what we have learned from hosting over 250 large-scale conferences in the past year. Thursday will be dedicated to the changing landscape of events in the association space and discuss how OpenWater’s Event Cloud has become a leading platform in 2021.
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Conference Schedule
Wednesday - June 23 (Application & Review)
9:45 AM ET
Networking
Join OpenWater staff, conference speakers, and other attendees for a chance to network and grow.
10:00 AM ET
Opening Plenary
As the CEO of OpenWater, Tim has been vital in getting the right people in place to work with OpenWater's users. In this plenary address, Tim will tell the story of how OpenWater developed the platform that has allowed so many organizations to manage complex award programs and host events that delight attendees and sponsors.
10:45 AM ET
What you need to know about the Application & Review Platform
Explore the tools that make OpenWater's customers successful. We dive into the newest features that make managing awards, grants, abstracts, and scholarships even better.
11:15 AM ET
Roll Up Award Programs - With VisitEngland and American Adversting Federation
Learn how VisitEngland and the American Advertising Federation uses OpenWater to manage their regional and national award programs. Learn how OpenWater enables multi-tiered organizations to consolidate (or roll up) their awards into a manageable structure. Learn how our software is used to streamline nationwide and chapter programs in OpenWater, including the options and tools used to help build and support them.
11:15 AM ET
Data Management & Reporting
Optimize program reporting that will keep the board and your boss happy. Learn how OpenWater's premade "canned" reports pull the data that stakeholders need. Alexis and Mary Rose will train you on how to pull reports, as well as how to customize submission forms for excellent and efficient reporting. Bring questions for Q&A at the end of the session.
11:15 AM ET
Developer Power Hour - With CIMIT (Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & Technology)
Join OpenWater API integration specialist Jackson Clarke as he explains how he helps our customers automate and improve their workflows, through integrating OpenWater API with other software like OAuth, SAML, Salesforce, MemberClicks, MemberSuite, Netform, and Fonteva. Follow Jackson as he details how OpenWater uses single sign on (SSO) to support CIMIT (Consortia for Improving Medicine with Innovation & Technology). If you’re looking to expand your knowledge about api calls, lookup and pushbacks join this session.
1:00 PM ET
Customization with Widgets
We use widgets everyday on our phones and on our desktops. Adding them to your OpenWater instance is an easy way to customize your programs. In this workshop you will see how some of OpenWater's customers have customized their programs using widgets. Findlay will start us out with the demonstration and then the OpenWater team will open up the Breakout Rooms to let attendees practice in a sandbox environment. Come early as space is limited in this session due to the hands-on nature of the workshop.
1:00 PM ET
ASAE's Case Study
Searchable, Cleaner, Simple, Seamless. Come hear about how OpenWater saved an awards program that could no longer be housed on an association’s website. Instead, ASAE built an awards program on the OpenWater platform that maintained the user experience and opened up innovative opportunities to expand the program and other ASAE leadership and professional advancement programs.
1:00 PM ET
What don't I know about the Application & Review Platform.
Did you get up and running with OpenWater and then stop exploring the platform? This session will submerge you in the OpenWater Platform to demonstrate more of the capabilities and more of the tips and tricks of super users of the platform.
2:00 PM ET
Making Recognition Memorable
Nothers The Award Store presents an informative Session of ‘Making Recognition Memorable’. CEO and Founder, Jim Nother, will ensure every participant knows the difference between promotional product providers and awards specialists and will explain why this matters. Learn how to get the ‘gift of time’ when planning and implementing your Awards programs and how to build an Awards and Recognition RFP that gets results. The 11 Steps to a Successful Recognition Program will be yours! This session will save you time, money and help you make your recognition dollars work for you.
Thursday - June 24 (Events)
9:45 AM ET
Networking
Join OpenWater staff, conference speakers, and other attendees for a chance to network and grow.
10:00 AM ET
Plenary
Join OpenWater's CTO as he gives a glimpse into how OpenWater has become the end to end events solution for large scale conferences. Kunal will discuss how OpenWater’s Event Cloud platform merges the experience between virtual and in-person to create the hybrid experience association members are craving.
10:45 AM ET
Navigating the Virtual Conference with AAG, COE & NCJFCJ
David Noyes has participated in hundreds of virtual conferences and has advised countless associations on how to execute a large scale virtual conference. David will walk you through the lessons learned from some of our most innovative customers such as AAG, COE (Council for Opportunity in Education), and the National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges.
11:15 AM ET
Virtual Events Best Practices
OpenWater staff has helped countless organizations execute flawless virtual events. So, who else knows what the best have done to ensure that the conference goes off without a hitch?
11:15 AM ET
Attendee Engagement
Every conference session is a learning experience. So why not utilize the best practices from adult learning designers to truly engage and excite your attendees. Using experience drawn from live, hybrid, and virtual events programming, you will walk away with actionable steps to take at your next conference.
11:15 AM ET
What Virtual Conference Sponsors Really Want
We'll walk through OpenWater’s experience transitioning from sponsoring 10+ in-person events to virtual sponsorship in 2020|21. Jordan and I will discuss what makes a virtual conference sponsorship package attractive to sponsors. At the end of the 20-minute presentation, we'll reveal three tweaks to your OpenWater’s Event Cloud instance in order to generate more revenue from existing sponsors.
1:00 PM ET
Virtual Events Best Practices
OpenWater staff has helped countless organizations execute flawless virtual events. So, who else knows what the best have done to ensure that the conference goes off without a hitch?
1:00 PM ET
Production Do's & Dont's
We made it, the fateful day of your conference. You've dotted you I's and crossed your T's and with the help of your handy OpenWater representatives, you're ready to engage your audience. Now what? Over the next 30 minutes, we are going to discuss the Productions Do's and Don'ts during your live conference. In this session, you'll learn how to engage your audience in a live setting as well as pre-recorded. What to do about noisy users disrupting Zoom chat and more!
1:00 PM ET
What don't I know about the Event Cloud Platform.
Did you get up and running with OpenWater and then stop exploring the platform? This session will submerge you in the OpenWater Platform to demonstrate more of the capabilities and more of the tips and tricks of super users of the platform.
2:00 PM ET
How to Boost Event Registration Revenue with Data
In-person events are on their way back. And so is their revenue. With the pandemic almost behind us, we can start adding in-person events back in the mix and with that, look for ways to maximize our attendance and revenue across all events. During this session, you’ll learn how to use engagement data to reach new attendees, leverage data to provide personalized and relevant communication, uncover registration trends by event categories and customer segments, understand and analyze event loyalty, and determine who is most likely to attend your events.
