About Fourwaves
Learn about our mission and vision, and meet the team
Our mission
Scientific research helps us better understand our world. It unlocks new ways to preserve our ecosystems, develop novel therapeutics, and find evidence-based solutions to social and economic challenges.
Academic and scientific conferences are at the core of this progress. They allow members of research communities to meet, present early-stage research, exchange ideas, and network.
Our mission is to give these communities the best event technology, so conferences are easier to organize, ideas travel faster, and research networks thrive.
Our story
In 2012, in Canada, four PhD students in bioinformatics created a website to simplify the logistics of a symposium and give attendees easier access to its content. Other researchers heard about the platform and asked if they could use it for their own events.
After organizing, attending, and presenting at dozens of conferences themselves, the founders realized the important role these events play in breaking down silos in science, connecting researchers, and sparking collaborations. This is how the idea of making the software available to as many research groups as possible came to be.
Fourwaves continues to support academic and research communities across the world. It has always been more than software to us: it’s a mission to help these communities thrive.
With the right people, anything is possible.
Our team of professionals is distributed throughout the world from Canada to Belgium.
