The Conference App for Scientific & Academic Programmes

Your Indico, EasyChair, or ConfTool programme on every attendee's phone: LaTeX typeset in titles and abstracts, parallel sessions side by side, exhibitors on the floor plan, offline in the basement room. Committee edits sync to the app, and you can preview each change and undo it. EDAS and OpenConf exports, or any spreadsheet, are built for you within 48 hours.

552 attendees used it at ICHEP 2026 · CHEP 2026: 596 contributions in 94 sessions · IFToMM Rotordynamics 2026: 138 contributions from EasyChair

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

Most conference apps are built for a corporate meeting: thirty sessions and a keynote. A research conference is another category, with hundreds or thousands of contributions, collaboration author lists, ten parallel tracks, and abstracts full of equations.

HEPCon grew up in high-energy physics, where ICHEP, CHEP and LHCP shaped it: a timetable that changes until the morning of day one, LaTeX in every title, and a programme that has to work in a basement lecture hall with no signal. Engineering and instrumentation symposiums run in the same app, from the RPC 2026 detector conference to IFToMM Rotordynamics 2026, synced from its EasyChair smart program.

  • Live sync from your Indico, EasyChair, or ConfTool link, not a one-off import; an export or a spreadsheet is built for you within 48 hours, whatever its columns are called
  • LaTeX typeset in titles, abstracts and author lists on iOS and Android, offline too
  • Thousands of contributions: ICHEP 2026 ran 952 in 173 sessions, up to 12 in parallel, with search, filters and personal schedules at full speed
  • Collaboration papers with 50, 100 or 3,000 authors imported as they are, every author findable by name
  • Poster sessions searchable by title, author, topic and board number, with the hall on the floor plan
  • Offline in underground halls, shielded labs and congested congress centres: the whole programme is on the phone
  • Slides, proceedings and papers one tap from each talk, before, during and after the conference
  • Exhibitors on their own pages and a booth map, apart from the technical programme

Works with Indico, EasyChair, ConfTool, Confex, OpenConf, and a spreadsheet. See pricing →

Comparing with a general event platform? The Whova alternatives for scientific and academic conferences work through the two questions that decide it for a research programme: how the programme gets in and stays current, and what a programme of your size costs.

A talk from ICHEP 2026, with its LaTeX typeset


Studies of b→dℓ+ℓ− decays at LHCb

Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics  ·  Room #5  ·  Fri 31 Jul, 17:00

Quark transitions from the third to the first generation can occur through the flavour changing neutral current b→dℓ+ℓ− processes. With respect to the well-studied b→sℓ+ℓ− transitions, they are further suppressed by the small CKM matrix element involved, making them particularly sensitive probes for New Physics beyond the Standard Model. …

Felipe Luan Souza De Almeida, University of Barcelona

The title and abstract as written in the ICHEP 2026 programme, typeset from their LaTeX. The app renders them the same way on iOS and Android.

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

  • Delegates navigate by memory or printout. Your timetable's web page was made for planning, not for the decisions of a live conference: which of eight parallel sessions to walk into, where a poster hangs, which room just changed. So delegates fall back on a printed booklet that was out of date before the opening plenary.
  • Room changes and cancellations travel by corridor, not by app. You update the timetable the moment a speaker cancels or a session moves, and only the delegates who happen to reload the page find out. The information desk becomes your real-time channel.
  • LaTeX breaks in every app that isn't built for it. A title written as Measurement of $R_{D^{(*)}}$ with hadronic $\tau$ decays shows up exactly like that, or as garbled text, in generic event apps. That gets screenshotted and shared.
  • Personal schedules don't survive a Wi-Fi outage. Congress centres, underground facilities and shielded labs kill connectivity. Delegates who bookmarked sessions on the web view lose them exactly when they need them 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. Speaker substitutions, session merges and room reassignments leave the published PDF wrong at once, and there is no push path from the timetable to the people who planned their day around it.
HEPCon solves all of these without asking you to change how you manage the programme in your own system. Preview my programme — free →

From a Flagship to a Research Day


The same app at both ends of the scale. The structure already in your programme becomes the way attendees navigate it.

Engineering, instrumentation and technical symposiums

IEEE and ACM chapter conferences, detector and electronics workshops, and mixed academia–industry events.

  • Tracks as filters. When your tracks follow a design chain, from sensor to front-end to DAQ to controls, an engineer switches on just those tracks and follows a component from concept talk to integration review across the days. Vendor and demo sessions keep their own session type, so they filter in or out.
  • Exhibitors without noise. Exhibitors get their own pages and a pin on the floor plan, apart from the technical programme. Attendees hand over their contact at a booth by their own choice, and the post-event report shows each sponsor what its visibility returned.
  • Exports built for you. Programmes managed in EDAS or OpenConf come to us as an export, and a plain spreadsheet is just as welcome: AI maps its columns, whatever they are called. Either is in the app within 48 hours, formulas included.

IFToMM Rotordynamics 2026: 138 contributions, synced from EasyChair · RPC 2026, the detector conference: 81 contributions in 38 sessions, the first preview built by the organizers themselves from the programme link.

Workshops, schools and research days

Programmes under 50 contributions are free, and a spreadsheet is all we need.

  • Start from the sheet you already keep for posters or talks. Odd column names are fine.
  • Posters findable by student name or title, filtered by track and room, each with its location.
  • Poster awards: open and close voting, review the shortlist, publish the winners, export the results.
  • Judges save their posters to My Schedule and see any two that overlap.
  • Next year's edition from a new file, with the same setup.

GIREP-MPTL 2026: 296 contributions in 88 sessions, synced from Indico. See pricing →

Where HEPCon Goes Beyond Your Programme System


Three things no timetable system offers, built for how research communities actually navigate a programme.

Search abstracts by meaning, not keywords

Every abstract is searchable offline. Online, search also works by meaning across the whole programme: a delegate who types "machine learning for jet tagging" also finds the abstracts that describe that work in other words, whatever their titles say.

With the AI Help Desk add-on, delegates ask in their own words ("What sessions cover dark-matter direct detection?") and every answer shows its evidence: the passages from the abstracts it relied on, each one tap from its talk. It can only cite what's really in your programme.

How the AI Help Desk works →

Speaker pages linked to INSPIRE-HEP

For physics events that opt in, HEPCon matches the authors in your programme to their INSPIRE-HEP records after each import, whichever system the programme came from, and the match shows on the speaker's page. Delegates who recognise the work find the person behind it.

Nothing in the app is physics-specific apart from this lookup; other identity sources can follow when a community needs them.

Speakers seen across the conference series

When the same researcher speaks at several conferences in HEPCon, their page lists every talk across the series under "Also at other events", with their role and the conference name, and one tap opens that talk in its own conference.

Speakers are matched by ORCID or INSPIRE-HEP id, so a society running an event portfolio over several years builds a record that outlives any single edition.

Speakers across events →

The Communities That Run on HEPCon


Returning customer across the HEP series: LHCP (5 editions: Bologna 2018, Belgrade 2023, Boston 2024, Taipei 2025, Paris 2026); CHEP (4 editions: Sofia 2018, Adelaide 2019, Norfolk 2023, Bangkok 2026); ICHEP (3 editions: Bologna 2022, Prague 2024, Natal 2026). See case studies →

  • High-energy and particle physics conferences (ICHEP, EPS-HEP, LHCP, Lepton Photon, SUSY, Higgs, Top)
  • Heavy-ion and nuclear physics (Quark Matter, Hard Probes, EuNPC)
  • Detector and instrumentation conferences (TWEPP, VCI, RPC)
  • Computing, software and machine learning in physics (CHEP, ACAT, EuCAIFCon)
  • Engineering symposiums (IFToMM Rotordynamics)
  • Physics education conferences (GIREP-EPEC, GIREP-MPTL)
  • Medical societies and congresses (JASMEE), on their own page

Chemistry, mathematics and interdisciplinary research symposiums, and institute annual meetings, have the same programme shapes; nothing in the app is physics-specific apart from the INSPIRE-HEP lookup.

What Delegates See on Their Phones


The full programme, searchable, offline, with rendered equations, in the pocket of every attendee from day one.

HEPCon programme for 23 September at EuNPC 2025: eight parallel sessions from 14:00, each with its room

One day of the programme: eight parallel sessions side by side, each with its room

A talk page in HEPCon: title, time, room, and an abstract with its mathematics rendered

A talk with its abstract, the mathematics rendered

My Schedule in HEPCon warning that two saved talks at 14:00 overlap

My Schedule, with a warning when two saved talks overlap

Proof from Scientific & Academic Conferences


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RPC 2026 profile

RPC 2026

2026 • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

81 contributions · 38 sessions · 6 tracks · 26 posters

The eighteenth RPC conference, the first held in Brazil, ran its official app on HEPCon: 81 contributions in 38 sessions across three rooms at UERJ, synced from Indico Global. The organizers built the first preview themselves from the programme link; 31 attendees used the app during the week.

RPC resistive plate chambers detector physics instrumentation Brazil Indico Global self-serve preview

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ICHEP 2026 profile

ICHEP 2026

2026 • Natal, Brazil

952 contributions · 173 sessions · 19 tracks · 126 posters

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 952-contribution programme in 173 sessions, saving 1,624 talks to personal schedules.

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

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GIREP MPTL 2026

2026 • Rethymno, Crete, Greece

296 contributions · 88 sessions · 18 tracks · 77 posters

The physics-education research community came back: a year after GIREP-EPEC 2025 in Leiden, GIREP MPTL 2026 in Crete brought the community's next meeting to HEPCon — 296 contributions in 88 sessions, up to 9 in parallel, and 155 attendees on the app.

GIREP MPTL physics education education research Crete returning community CERN Indico

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Scientific & academic conferences, answered


Which programme systems does HEPCon read directly?

Indico, EasyChair, and ConfTool programmes sync from their public links: sessions, contributions, speakers, tracks and rooms are imported and kept in sync automatically, with nothing to export and no second system to maintain. A Confex meeting is read from its meeting link, and EDAS and OpenConf exports or any spreadsheet are built for you within 48 hours.

Does HEPCon render LaTeX in physics conference abstracts?

Yes. LaTeX notation in session titles, abstracts, and author lists is parsed and rendered natively on iOS and Android. Equations, Greek letters, subscripts, and special symbols display correctly without any manual clean-up.

Can HEPCon handle large conferences like ICHEP with over 1,000 contributions?

Yes. HEPCon is designed for high-density scientific programmes. Search, filtering, personal schedule bookmarking, and poster navigation all perform correctly at scale. Large author lists and collaboration credits are indexed and searchable by any author name.

Does HEPCon work offline at underground or shielded research facilities?

Yes. HEPCon is offline-first — the full programme is cached on each attendee's device after the initial sync. Sessions, abstracts, room assignments, and materials are all available without a network connection.

Can HEPCon handle IEEE and ACM conference programmes?

Yes. The EDAS and OpenConf exports common at IEEE and ACM chapter conferences, or any spreadsheet, are built for you within 48 hours, and a programme kept in one of the systems above syncs from its link. No API integration or custom development is required.

How does HEPCon handle parallel technical tracks?

Your programme's tracks, session types and rooms become filters. Attendees switch on the tracks they follow instead of scrolling a flat list of parallel sessions, and vendor or demo sessions can be filtered in or out by their session type.

Can we use HEPCon for a research day or student poster session?

Yes. Programmes under 50 contributions are free, and a spreadsheet is all we need. Posters are findable by student name or title with their location, judges see when two saved posters overlap, and poster awards run on the built-in voting, with the results exportable as CSV.

See Your Programme in HEPCon


Paste your programme link, or send an export, and see a working preview — LaTeX rendered, tracks mapped, and poster hall ready — before you commit to anything.

  1. 1 Paste your link We recognise the platform as you type.
  2. 2 Confirm by email One click, so only you can build your programme.
  3. 3 Open your programme Built in about 30 seconds, yours to share.
One row per talk. Columns: title (required), plus optional session, date (YYYY-MM-DD), start/end (HH:MM), speakers (semicolon-separated), affiliations, room, track, abstract. Odd column names? We map them for you. Download a template.
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An organizer also gets the organizer console: what we read from the programme, the sync, announcements, sponsors and branding.

No credit card required. Your preview is private and unlisted.

Rather see a live one first? Open ICHEP 2026 or CHEP 2026 in the free app (App Store, Google Play).

Evaluate free with your live data — the go-live decision is due one week before your event. No credit card required. Prefer a guided tour? Book a 20-minute call.

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