Recommended for First Time Conference
My organization chose Pathable for our first ever virtual conference. Pathable is very easy to learn and use. They have on-demand video tutorials available to administrators, attendees and panelists. Their in-person (in-Zoom?) customer service and training is also very well done - knowledgable, friendly and very responsive to questions between Zoom sessions. Pathable can be used in conjunction with an event registration applications like Eventbrite, however we used our own database for attendees. Our database was easily modifiable to provide the data necessary for populating all aspects of the Pathable software: Attendees, Panelists, Hosts, Agenda, etc. We did not use the Sponsor or Exhibit Hall options for our conference.
86% of our attendees rated the experience either Excellent or Good. None rated it Below Average or Poor. Pathable is integrated with Zoom for either webinars or meetings. We utilized both. From an administrative perspective, this integration worked well. From an attendee perspective, some commented that they wished that the Zoom chat and the Pathable chat were integrated into one chat platform. Overall, attendees found that the Pathable platform was easy to navigate and was better than other virtual conference platforms they had experienced this past year.
From an administrative and support perspective, I give Pathable 5 stars. From an attendee perspective I would give it 4.5 stars (which is not an option, unfortunately). Overall, my 4 star rating is base on attendee comments and the one missing element of having a fully integrated registration module that would make this an almost perfect One-Stop solution for your virtual conference.