The Conference App Built for Scientific Research Events

HEPCon started in high-energy physics. It handles the real complexity of research conferences — massive timetables, LaTeX-heavy content, Indico sync, and parallel tracks with hundreds of contributions.

HEPCon conference app showing a physics session with LaTeX-rendered abstract

Built for the Complexity That Generic Event Apps Can't Handle

Most conference apps are built for corporate meetings with 30 sessions and a keynote speaker. Scientific research conferences are a different category entirely — thousands of contributions, hundreds of authors per paper, ten parallel tracks running simultaneously, and a community that expects LaTeX to render correctly on their phone.

HEPCon was developed with the high-energy physics community in mind. Events like ICHEP, TWEPP, CHEP, and EPS-HEP shaped the feature set from the ground up. Your attendees use Indico every day. Your abstracts have equations. Your timetable is a living document that changes until the morning of day one. HEPCon handles all of it.

  • Native Indico integration — not a CSV workaround, a live sync
  • LaTeX rendered in titles, abstracts, and author lists on iOS, Android, and web
  • Parallel tracks, plenary sessions, and poster halls imported as-is
  • Offline-first — works in underground halls, shielded labs, and congested networks

Works with Indico, EasyChair, ConfTool, OpenConf, and structured spreadsheet exports. See pricing →

What HEPCon renders correctly

Session: "Electroweak Precision Measurements at the HL-LHC"

Track: Top & Electroweak  ·  Room: Auditorium B  ·  09:30

Abstract: "We present updated constraints on $\sin^2\theta_W$ from $pp \to Z \to \ell^+\ell^-$ at $\sqrt{s} = 14\,\text{TeV}$…" (full 400-word abstract, rendered)

Authors: A. Bergström, T. Nakamura, C. Vázquez + 47 more (full collaboration list)

What You're Left Managing When Indico Is Your Only On-Site Tool

  • Attendees navigate by memory or paper printout. Indico's mobile view is functional but not designed for the moment-to-moment decisions at a live conference — which parallel session to attend, which poster to find, which room changed. Delegates revert to printed booklets that are already out of date.
  • Room changes and cancellations spread through the corridor, not the app. When a speaker cancels or a session moves, you update Indico — but attendees only find out if they happen to reload the page. The information desk becomes the real-time communication channel.
  • LaTeX breaks in every app that isn't built for it. Titles like "Measurement of $R_{D^{(*)}}$ with hadronic $\tau$ decays" show raw code or garbled text in generic event apps. That gets screenshotted and shared.
  • Personal schedules don't survive a WiFi outage. Congress centres, underground facilities, and shielded labs kill connectivity. Delegates who bookmarked sessions on the web view lose access exactly when they need it most.
  • Poster halls are impossible to navigate without a map and a name search. A 400-poster session with no filtering by topic, author, or location means delegates walk the floor at random or skip it entirely.
  • The programme is finalised 48 hours before the event and changes every hour after that. Last-minute speaker substitutions, session merges, and room reassignments leave the published PDF immediately wrong. There is no push mechanism to correct it.
HEPCon solves all of these — without asking you to change how you manage the programme in Indico. Try free with your Indico event →

Built for the Way Scientific Conferences Actually Work


Native Indico Sync

Point HEPCon at your Indico event URL. Sessions, contributions, speakers, rooms, and tracks sync automatically — including updates during the conference. No export, no manual entry, no second system to maintain.

LaTeX & Technical Notation

Equations, Greek letters, superscripts, and subscripts in session titles and abstracts are parsed and rendered natively on iOS, Android, and the web agenda. No clean-up pass needed before publishing.

Push Notifications for Live Changes

Room moves, cancellations, and emergency announcements reach every attendee immediately — on device, not via the information desk. Update Indico or send directly through the organiser dashboard.

Designed for the Scale of Major Research Conferences

Thousands of Contributions

ICHEP runs over 1,000 contributions across plenary, parallel, and poster sessions. HEPCon handles the full timetable without performance degradation — search, filter, and personal schedule bookmarking all work at scale.

Large Author Lists

Collaboration papers with 50, 100, or 3,000 authors are imported and indexed correctly. Attendees find a presentation by any author name — even for contributions with full collaboration credit lists.

Parallel Track Navigation

Ten simultaneous sessions, each with multiple contributions. Attendees filter by track, topic keyword, or speaker and build a personal agenda that fits their specific research interests.

Poster Hall Support

Poster sessions are searchable by title, author, topic, and board number. Floor maps attach to the session view so delegates move from the plenary hall to the correct poster cluster without asking at the desk.

Offline for Secure Facilities

The full programme is cached on device after the initial sync. Underground accelerator halls, shielded laboratories, and congested congress centre networks are not a problem.

Slides and Materials

Link slides, proceedings, and supplementary documents directly to each contribution. Attendees access them before, during, and after the conference from the same session view — no separate Indico tab required.

Where HEPCon Goes Beyond Indico


Three shipped capabilities aimed specifically at how physics, chemistry, and research-driven communities actually navigate a programme.

Search abstracts by meaning, not keywords

Semantic search runs across the full programme — sessions, contributions, posters, speakers, even sponsors — with LaTeX-rendered titles indexed correctly. A delegate searching "transformer-based jet tagging" finds a talk titled "Attention layers for boosted decision tree classifiers" because the two phrases mean the same thing.

When the organizer enables it, an optional AI assistant answers natural-language questions over the abstracts ("What sessions cover dark-matter direct detection?") with verbatim quotes from the source material. The model is forced through a structured tool call so it cannot fabricate references — only real retrieved sources can be cited.

How Ask the conference works →

Speaker profiles enriched from INSPIRE-HEP

For physics events, HEPCon maps Indico authors to their INSPIRE-HEP records during ingestion; the enrichment data lands on the person doc and surfaces on the speaker profile. Useful for delegates who recognise the work but not always the name behind it.

The enrichment pipeline is registry-driven, so additional identity sources — ORCID, arXiv, OpenAlex, DBLP, Scholar — slot in without touching the speaker page. New providers are a configuration change, not a rewrite.

Speakers seen across the conference series

When the same researcher speaks at multiple events on the platform, their person page shows “Also at other events” — every contribution they have made across the series, with role badge and event name.

Tap a cross-event row and the cursor flips to the other conference, deep-linked straight to the talk. Identity matching uses ORCID, INSPIRE-HEP, or email — whichever stable keys the person doc carries. High value for societies running an event portfolio over multiple years.

Cross-event person resolution →

The Communities That Run on HEPCon


Returning customer across the HEP series: LHCP (4 editions: Bologna 2018, Belgrade 2023, Boston 2024, Paris 2026), CHEP (4: Sofia, Adelaide, Norfolk, Bangkok), ICHEP (2: 2022, 2024). See case studies →

  • High-energy physics and particle physics conferences (ICHEP, EPS-HEP, DPF, Moriond)
  • Detector and instrumentation workshops (TWEPP, TIPP, PIXEL)
  • Computing and software conferences (CHEP, ACAT)
  • Chemistry, mathematics, and interdisciplinary research symposiums
  • National and international research institute annual meetings

What Delegates See on Their Phones


The full Indico timetable — searchable, offline-ready, with rendered equations — in the pocket of every attendee from day one.

HEPCon app home screen showing physics conference programme

Full timetable with track filters and session search

HEPCon app showing physics session detail with LaTeX abstract

Session detail with rendered abstract and full author list

Proof from Scientific Conferences

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ICHEP 2026

2026 • Natal, Brazil

~1,000 (est.) attendees · 1023 contributions

HEPCon carried ICHEP to South America — the third ICHEP edition in the app after Bologna 2022 and Prague 2024. 552 attendees used it across a 1,023-contribution programme in 192 sessions, saving 1,624 talks to personal schedules.

ICHEP particle physics flagship conference Brazil CERN Indico parallel sessions conference series

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LHCP 2026

2026 • Paris, France

~350 (est.) attendees · 10 tracks · 344 contributions · 66 posters

HEPCon delivers the official LHCP 2026 mobile and web agenda in Paris — the fourth LHCP edition supported, after Bologna 2018, Belgrade 2023, and Boston 2024.

LHCP LHC Large Hadron Collider Paris Sorbonne ATLAS CMS ALICE LHCb Indico

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EuNPC 2025

2025 • Caen, France

800 attendees · 6 tracks · 150+ sessions · 300+ posters

EuNPC 2025 leveraged HEPCon for streamlined agenda access, Indico synchronisation, and offline-ready mobile navigation for the European nuclear physics community.

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Trusted by many

15,000+ attendees served since 2018 — from CHEP and ICHEP to research days

Trusted by EUSPR Trusted by AESOP Trusted by CERN Trusted by DESY Trusted by Fermilab Trusted by in2p3 Trusted by JACOW Trusted by INFN Trusted by KEK

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