A robust conference organizing tool
I used Whova as an attendee of a recent conference. It was a wonderful platform to sign up for workshops, connect with other attendees, …
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What is Whova?
Whova, headquartered in San Diego, provides what they describe as Intelligent Event Technology Solutions by creating authentic audience participation and engagement and simplifying the entire event process from planning to registration, networking, and follow-up. Whova's mobile engagement apps support both…
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- Mobile Application (44)8.686%
- Networking (48)8.383%
- Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile (41)8.383%
- Audience engagement (45)7.878%
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What is Whova?
Whova is an all-in-one event management solution that makes events modern and trendy, attracts and engages attendees, and helps event organizers save time on managing event logistics. Whova’s platform consists of an award-winning event app, efficient online registration, powerful event marketing, and time-saving event management tools.
Among Whova's customers are American Express, US Bank, PwC, Microsoft, Hilton, Lego, IKEA, L'Oreal, American Marketing Association, Harvard University, NASA, plus countless other organizations from over 100 countries.
Whova has powered over 30,000 in-person and virtual/hybrid conferences, including association events, education events, government events, corporate events, trade shows, expos, and community gatherings.
Whova Features
- Supported: Mobile Event App
- Supported: Event Ticketing/Registration
- Supported: Virtual/Hybrid Event Platform
- Supported: Event Management
- Supported: Attendee Engagement
- Supported: Attendee Networking
- Supported: Event Marketing
- Supported: Vendor Lead Retrieval
- Supported: Sponsor & Exhibitor Digital Booths
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Revolutionize event management and networking through Whova's event app and management solution. Whova won the Best Event Technology Award from 2016 to 2020, and has been used at over 30,000 in-person, virtual, and hybrid events worldwide.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
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Whova, headquartered in San Diego, provides what they describe as Intelligent Event Technology Solutions by creating authentic audience participation and engagement and simplifying the entire event process from planning to registration, networking, and follow-up. Whova's mobile engagement apps support both on-location events and virtual events.
Reviewers rate Mobile Application highest, with a score of 8.6.
The most common users of Whova are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Whova is a versatile platform that has been utilized in various conferences and conventions, including events such as the NGO67 conference on the status of women with the United Nations, the annual sales conference, the Human Trafficking Summit, the Florida Festivals and Events Convention and Trade Show, and the KombuchaKon 2022 convention. Users have reported finding Whova helpful for messaging, communication, finding meetups, and accessing event information. It provides a reliable platform for attendees to navigate conference sessions, connect with speakers, ask questions, and engage through posting pictures and comments. Additionally, Whova assists users in tracking their own schedules, accessing surveys, generating interest in products, making connections with other companies, attending informative meetings remotely, and viewing recorded content. Users appreciate Whova's thoroughness, simplicity, and great functionality. The platform serves as a valuable tool for conferences by allowing businesses to exhibit their products and capture leads. It also enables attendees to stay organized with their sessions, connect with other participants through shared profiles and interests, and access conference calendars. Some users have mentioned difficulties in accessing contact information for all attendees in one place. Nevertheless, Whova is highly recommended for coordinating big events due to its user-friendly design and format. It has also been successfully utilized for virtual conferences worldwide, bridging gaps between participants and providing a sense of connection. Whova facilitates engagement between delegates and presenters while offering accessibility options such as dark mode and detailed control over notifications.
Users have provided several recommendations for using Whova in conference and event settings. The most common recommendations include using Whova for conferences with multiple concurrent sessions and networking. Reviewers suggest that Whova is well-suited for events and conferences with up to 1,000 attendees. Users also recommend exploring the implementation of Whova at Social Media Marketing World, a specific event where the app was used effectively. Overall, users endorse Whova as a user-friendly and useful tool for conferences and events, specifically highlighting its strength in handling complex schedules, facilitating networking, managing large attendee numbers, and fostering anticipation before events.
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April 23, 2024
A robust conference organizing tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Presenting agenda and allowing sign-ups
- Connecting workshops to digital resources
- Making connecting to people you meet easy.
- I felt there were too many generic notifications sent during the conference.
April 03, 2024
[...] Midyear Conference
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Creates easy & efficient connection opportunities (e.g. messaging) between industry colleagues across different organizations/entities.
- Allows for personalization of conference events/agenda
- Provides standardized platform for all event attendees along with updated alerts/notifications throughout event.
- Create more options for 'opt-in/opt-out' opportunities with certain features, messaging, etc.
April 01, 2024
The app to stay organized for a large conference
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Notifies you of messages
- Keeps you organized
- Allows you to interact with others in a safe manner
- I would like to be able to hide or reorder the community boards so that I can keep what I am interested in on top.
- I would like to see it not allow the same topic be created on the community board but rather notify you that a board has already been created and ask you if you would like to join that conversation.
- I would like to be able to color code the agenda so that I can mark the classes I'm interested in, but won't have time to attend (but and go back to if they are virtual later). Then when I am at the conference, I can see the class I am supposed to go to, and not have to keep reviewing the agenda at a later time.
- I would like to have had a quick how to guide on how to use the Whova app. Actually, I just found it. I think it should be on the home page as a thumbnail so its in your face for those that didn't venture around the app.
- I would like to be able to mass download all the documents at the end of the conference.
March 26, 2024
My Whova Experience.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Assistance in Networking
- Keeping the attendees aware of all events taking place at the conference.
- Sharing photographs.
- Sharing Content
- Either than just sharing photographs provided by the attendees Whova can manager to share photographs provided by the organizers as well. Encourage them to do it. For instance photographs of where the next events will take place in hotels facilities.
March 18, 2024
App that rocks!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Notes feature, works well and stores all in one place.
- Networking opportunities, there a variety of ways to network through this platform.
- The points system makes using the app exciting! Definitely activated the reward center of my brain!
- More sorting features for posted social polls, once I created one it was difficult to find it again in the sea of others posted. So perhaps a section for polls that were created by me?
March 18, 2024
Good Application for Events
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Agenda
- Contact exchange between users
- Contests
- As a speaker retrieving the polling data was a bit tough sometimes.
- As a user/attendee sorting the posts would be nice if we could filter out topics that are not interesting to us
- Time lag between the message in the app and the email sent would be eliminated if a notification was sent when someone messaged you
March 12, 2024
Whova review for [...] Conference 2024
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- ease of navigation
- clear instructions to maneuver within the app
- quick response time for technical difficulties/ questions.
- I am not particularly educated when it comes to platform creation, I personally did not have much difficulty navigating. I think the only confusing issue that arose was that of the QR code. Now this may not have been specific to Whova, but more of the [...] conference in general. Once I figured out that the QR code was not necessary I had no further issues.
March 10, 2024
A Review on a Product I Don't Usually Use
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Easy to use platform
- Easy to connect with others
- Maybe have a video showing where everything is so people know where to go to find certain things. I was able to find everything, but, in my experience, it took a bit of playing around to figure it out.
February 08, 2024
Whova
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Connect attendees
- allow push notifications for announcements
- The menu could be more concise. Sometimes there are too many layers.
December 18, 2023
This is the Best Way to Virtual Conferencing - And That's From a Longtime "Conference Junkie"
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- The Leaderboard. Whoever (Whova-ever?) came up with it is a genius. I LOVE it.
- The ability to connect with & message attendees is something I've not seen in other platforms
- The dashboard is remarkably user-friendly
- The reminders and updates were welcome, esp. in my busy world,
- The fact that I was "already in the system" and didn't have to start fresh was a BIG positive.
- I don't have enough experience to make a proper determination. I can't think of anything.
November 29, 2023
Whova Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Whova provides tools for event organizers to streamline various aspects of event management, including registration, ticketing, agenda creation, and speaker management.
- Whova's networking features facilitate interaction between attendees. They can connect with each other, set up meetings, and exchange contact information.
- Attendees can access presentation materials, videos, and other event-related content within the app, enhancing their overall experience.
- Whova's focus is primarily on virtual and hybrid events. Enhancing features for managing purely offline events or providing solutions for events that require a combination of online and offline management would be valuable.
- Some users have noted that further enhancements, such as improved screen reader support and keyboard navigation, would make the platform more inclusive.
November 21, 2023
Almost Perfect!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Agenda
- Exhibitors information
- Speakers Bios
- A directory of all participant's' names and contact information in one place
November 17, 2023
User-friendly and engaging App
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Scanning delegates at the event - With the possibility to collect additional info via notes
- Engaging with clinicians
- Booking delegates
- Book scientific sessions
- Keep a track of number of leads collected
- Download the leads
- Ensure that accurate details are collected for customers/delegates at the event
- Make work email address mandatory
- Autocorrect was initially not functional - this could be incorporated
- Setting up to collect Leads can be assigned directly to one person - It was done at the event
November 16, 2023
Whova for an online event
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Video streaming of class sessions
- Chat features with other conference attendees
- Schedule of sessions with diverse start and end times
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- facilitated the sharing of research, perspectives, and resources on topics of interest
- enabled easier connection to new and existing relationships with conference delegates and speakers
- allowed me to catch up on content I missed due to time conflicts for concurrent sessions
- accessibility for disabled people and people with disability - visible and hidden e.g. dark mode, fonts and text size, layout, notifications
November 11, 2023
Quick & Easy Check In
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Easy to use
- Doesn't glitch or slow down, allowing for a quick check in
- Intuitive
- Photos with the attendee names
- no complaints
- excellent app!
November 11, 2023
Whova...effective conferencing
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Personalizes
- Messaging others
- Map view
- listing of presentations/sessions
- I can't think of anything as it has all the things I needed for the conference
November 01, 2023
Whova Conference Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Session availability
- Location
- Timing of events
October 27, 2023
Whova is a one stop shop for all your conference needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Comprehensive app for all my conference needs in one place.
- The ability to add polls for all kinds of real-time data.
- Posting pictures and videos and linking it to my LinkedIn page.
- Having the agenda of the conference at my fingertips for easy access.
- The ability to build out your schedule.
- It was great linking my LinkedIn page, but it would have been better to post automatically across all platforms.
October 24, 2023
Whova Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Organization of materials/information
- Promote networking and professional dialogue
- Provide live updates in real time
- Prioritize push notifications to reduce noise
October 16, 2023
Whova works wonders
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Post events
- Provide details of speakers
- RSVP
- Review other attendees
- Allowed for connecting with others attending the same event
October 13, 2023
Direct from EMBAC Conference in Scottsdale!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Listing additional resources
- Listing the agenda by sessions and times per day
- Building a contact directory in real time
- Real-time alerts/notifications so you can respond quicker!
- Improve how to rack actual attendance for "Answer a survey" for the Leaderboard. It is currently constructed on an honor system. One could answer a survey for a session they did not attend to get the points!
- Letting conference registrants know how long the event will be available through the app.
- Instructions on how to export Bookmarked attendees and Handouts. I had to go online to find out how to export the handouts.
October 13, 2023
Great event app
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- All in one place
- See the attendees profile
- Interact with other attendees
- Simplification
- Categorizations
- Organization
October 13, 2023
Whova was an amazing app to use for our conference!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- The user interface was easy to use
- The events coordinated by conference attendees happening outside of the conference were easy to find
- The event schedule was easy to see
October 10, 2023
EOS Berlin
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Helped prepare me for the summit
- Allowed enough time for me before the summit to navigate and learn
- See who was there at the summit
- See the agenda
- Have a clear one point to go to for all information
- Have an area for general notes - beyond just notes taken for the presentations
- Have a star/tick list for those people you have connected with
- Combining the connections you make with Linkedin directly