Can HEPCon handle long abstracts and panel discussions at humanities conferences?

Yes. HEPCon is designed for content-heavy programmes. Long abstracts (500+ words) render fully on small screens with optimised typography. Panel sessions are modelled with explicit Chair, Discussant, and Presenter roles — not flattened into a generic speaker list.

Does HEPCon support multilingual conference programmes?

Yes. HEPCon preserves diacritics, non-Latin scripts, and mixed-language session titles across iOS, Android, and the web agenda. European academic conferences with French, German, Arabic, or Cyrillic content are handled natively.

Can social science conference organisers use HEPCon without technical knowledge?

Yes. HEPCon imports your existing programme export from ConfTool, EasyChair, or a spreadsheet. No API integration, no developer involvement, and no second CMS to maintain. Share the file and your conference is live inside HEPCon within 1–2 business days.

Does HEPCon work in venues with poor Wi-Fi?

Yes. HEPCon is offline-first — the full programme, including long abstracts and session details, is cached on each attendee's device after first load. Heritage buildings, thick-walled university rooms, and congested venue networks are not a problem.

Conference App for Social Sciences & Humanities

Your Abstract Book, Reimagined for the Phone in Every Attendee's Pocket

In the Humanities and Social Sciences, the abstract is not a summary — it is the intellectual statement your participants came to engage with. Generic event apps truncate it to three lines, strip the nuance, and leave your community with a schedule that looks like a corporate calendar.

HEPCon is built to handle the content weight of your programme. Long abstracts render fully and readably. Panel discussions with Chairs, Discussants, and multiple Presenters are modelled correctly. Multilingual titles and non-Latin scripts are preserved. Share your programme export once and your conference is live inside the HEPCon app in 48 hours.

Long-form abstracts (500+ words) rendered readably on small screens
Panels modelled with Chair, Discussant, and multiple Presenters
Multilingual titles, diacritics, and non-Latin scripts preserved
Full-text search across abstracts — find concepts, regions, periods, or names instantly

Works with ConfTool, EasyChair, Excel, and custom programme exports. See pricing →

What HEPCon preserves

Panel: "Contested Archives and Digital Memory in Post-Conflict Societies"

Chair: Prof. A. Bergström · Discussant: Dr. N. Ifeoma

Paper 1: "Oral testimony databases and access rights in Rwanda" — full 600-word abstract
Paper 2: "Digitisation mandates and institutional memory" — full abstract
Paper 3: "Multilingual indexing across Arabic and French colonial records"

Why Generic Apps Fail Humanities and Social Science Conferences

Rich panel abstracts reduced to truncated one-liners. You curated panels with detailed intellectual framing — generic apps show three lines of the first abstract and a "Read more" that doesn't work offline.
Round tables, workshops, and screenings don't fit a "talk + speaker" template. Most apps model every session the same way. The Chair, Discussant, and Respondent roles that structure humanities discussions disappear from the interface.
Multilingual programmes break in apps built for English-only events. Accented characters, Arabic and Cyrillic titles, and mixed-language panels are corrupted or stripped in apps that weren't designed for international scholarship.

PDF programmes are beautiful but impossible to search on site. Attendees looking for panels on a specific region, period, or theoretical framework can't search a PDF. They flip pages and miss sessions they would have attended.
Historic and heritage venues have weak Wi-Fi. Many humanities conferences take place in university buildings with thick walls and limited connectivity. An app that requires a live connection fails exactly where your delegates are sitting.
Choosing between overlapping panels requires full abstracts, not titles. Humanities attendees make attendance decisions based on the argument of the paper, not just its title. That requires the full abstract to be readable at the decision point.

HEPCon gives your programme the presentation it deserves — without asking you to rebuild it in a second system. Try free with your programme export →

Designed for Intellectual Discourse, Not Corporate Schedules

Panels, Round Tables & More

Model sessions with a Chair, Discussant, and multiple Presenters explicitly, mirroring how humanities discussions actually unfold — rather than flattening them into a list of undifferentiated "speakers."

Thematic Discovery

Participants search the full text of abstracts for concepts, regions, periods, or authors, and save a personal list of sessions to follow a theme across the full event — not just the day's schedule.

Perfect for Historic Venues

Many humanities conferences take place in heritage buildings with thick walls and weak Wi-Fi. HEPCon stores the full programme on the device so the conversation never depends on the network.

Discovery for Programmes Built Around Argument, Not Schedule

Two capabilities specifically aimed at how humanities and social-sciences attendees actually choose between panels.

Find panels by concept, not exact wording

Embedding-based search runs across the full abstract text, not just titles. A delegate searching "colonial archives and access rights" finds a panel titled "Contested memory in post-conflict societies" because the abstracts argue about the same thing. Multilingual content is indexed correctly; non-Latin scripts survive intact through the embedding pipeline.

How semantic search works →

Conflict warnings for the panels worth attending both

Humanities programmes routinely place three overlapping panels on similar themes in the same window. Bookmark all three and HEPCon flags the conflict before the day starts: a summary banner ("You have 2 conflicts on Friday") and per-row badges make the trade-off visible. Back-to-back attendance is preserved — sessions that end exactly when the next one starts read as a clean schedule.

How conflict detection works →

The Communities That Run on This Kind of Conference

If your event is shaped by ConfTool or EasyChair, runs over multiple days with parallel panels, and serves an audience that reads abstracts before attending sessions — this is HEPCon's territory.

Sociology, anthropology, and political science annual conferences
History, literature, and digital humanities associations
Education research and public health conferences with CME-adjacent tracks
European academic association meetings with multilingual programmes

Proof from Social Sciences & Humanities

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AESOP 2025 conference app — offline agenda for 10+ tracks

2025 • Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

1000 attendees · 10 tracks · 250+ sessions · 200+ posters

HEPCon supported the AESOP 2025 congress with mobile-first access to complex thematic tracks, ensuring inclusivity and smooth navigation for urban planners and researchers.

AESOP urban planning social sciences Istanbul offline access multi-track sustainability

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Trusted by many

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

What Humanities Delegates See on Their Phones

Full panel structure, long abstracts, multilingual titles — exactly as submitted. Works offline in heritage buildings with thick walls and unreliable Wi-Fi.

HEPCon app home screen showing humanities conference programme

Programme overview with panels, workshops, and sessions

HEPCon app showing panel session with Chair, Discussant, and full abstracts

Full abstract with Chair, Discussant, and Presenter roles

Your Programme Deserves Better Than a Truncated App

Share your programme export and we'll publish your conference inside HEPCon in 48 hours — long abstracts, multilingual titles, and all the session structure intact.

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Evaluate free with your live data — the go-live decision is due one week before your event. No credit card required.