Your AMS records everything about your members like their history, credentials, engagement, and even preferences. However, most associations leave that data locked in their Association Management Systems (AMSs), while their event and education platforms operate in a separate silo. This session explores what it looks like when those systems share information, strategies leading associations are implementing to close that gap, and what it means for the member experience when they do. 

Key Takeaways

• The real cost of disconnected AMS and event tech, and why it shows up in member churn, not just staff hours.
• A practical checklist for evaluating whether your current systems are integration-ready, plus the exact questions to ask vendors before you sign another contract.
• What a connected member record makes possible: pre-filled registrations, automatic CE credit sync, and personalized session recommendations based on member history.
• How leading associations are closing the AMS-to-event-tech gap right now, with examples you can adapt for your own tech stack.

Building a conference schedule by hand means weighing hundreds of decisions at once: which sessions compete for the same audience, which speakers are overextended, which topics cluster too heavily in one time slot. Most teams get it right eventually, but it takes days of work that could be spent elsewhere. 

Eventscribe Schedule Builder changes that equation. In this session we'll show you how it turns your existing Eventscribe Speaker Management data into a conflict-free, optimized agenda in minutes, factoring in speaker availability, topic overlap, audience competition, room setup, and nearly any custom rules that matter to your program. You'll see it in action, including what happens when something changes mid-process, and how planners stay in full control of every placement from start to finish. 

Learning Objectives: 

1. See how Eventscribe Schedule Builder builds an optimized, conflict-free agenda from your existing session data, simultaneously factoring in speaker availability, topic overlap, audience needs, track, and more. 
2. Understand how the scheduler gets you to a strong first draft in minutes, and how planners refine, pin, and override placements to make the final schedule their own. 
3. Learn how re-optimization works when something changes, whether that's speaker availability or a room shift, so your team spends minutes adjusting instead of hours reworking. 

Sponsorship revenue shouldn't feel like starting from scratch every year. Yet for many associations, that's exactly what it is: a cycle of chasing new prospects, softening the ask, and hoping for renewal.

In this session, corporate sponsorship expert Lori Zoss Kraska, MBA, CFRE, shows you what actually makes corporate partners want to come back. Whether you're heading into budget season with shaky sponsor commitments or want to build something more lasting, this session gives you a practical framework for turning one-time sponsors into long-term partners.

Key Takeaways

• Why sponsors actually walk away, and why the reason is rarely the price tag.
• The proof points corporate decision-makers need to see before they approve a second investment.
• A framework for moving the conversation from a transactional ask to a value-aligned partnership.
• How to keep the relationship alive between events, so renewal isn't riding on one big ask each year.
• How to identify the ROI metrics your sponsors actually track, and how to put them front and center.