March 2026 Product Update: Smarter schedule exploration, a personal agenda, plus a sneak peek at our upcoming mobile app

Here are the March product updates. Both features focus on one goal: giving conference participants a better, more intuitive way to explore the schedule and plan what they want to attend.

Explore sessions without losing your place

Navigating a dense conference schedule involves a lot of clicking. You click into a session, read the description, open an abstract, check a presenter's bio, and by the time you've done that a few times, you've completely lost your scroll position in the schedule.

You can now click any session in the schedule to open a side panel that shows the session description, presentations, presenter information, and abstracts, all without leaving the schedule page.

Benefit: Participants can explore the full program without losing context, making agenda-building faster and better informed.

How it works

• Click any session card in the schedule (grid view or list view) to open a side panel
• See the session description, time, room, and a link to the full session page
• Browse all presentations in the session with presenter names, affiliations, and times
• Click any presentation to see the full abstract and complete author list
• Click a presenter to see their headshot, full bio, and affiliation
• Navigate to a session or presenter page, then use your browser's back button to return to your exact scroll position in the schedule
• For large sessions like poster sessions, presentations load progressively via infinite scroll, no more 50-presentation cutoff

  

Build a personal agenda for your event

Until now, participants who bookmarked sessions and presentations in Fourwaves managed them separately, there was no single view of what they planned to attend. And for logged-out visitors, there was no indication they could save anything at all.

There is now a dedicated My Agenda tab on every event schedule page, visible to all visitors whether they're logged in or not.

Benefit: Participants can easily build, access, and manage their personal event schedule, combining sessions and presentations in one unified view.

How it works

• A "My Agenda" tab is always visible on the schedule page, whether logged in or out
• Logged-out visitors are prompted to sign in (with an automatic redirect back to My Agenda after)
• Add sessions using the Add to My Agenda button in the schedule side panel or on any session details page
• Add presentations using the Add to My Agenda button on any presentation page or in the schedule side panel
• Agenda items appear as cards grouped by start time, clearly differentiating sessions from presentations
• Filter your agenda by track, room, tag, or type (session vs. presentation)
• Cards show key details: time, room, track, presenters, and whether the session is virtual or currently live
• Click a presentation card to open the abstract directly in the side panel
• Already had sessions bookmarked? They've been automatically migrated to My Agenda, nothing is lost

  

New API endpoints: pull submissions and sessions

Since we launched the Fourwaves API in February, we have been expanding the data you can access. Two new additions are now available.

Benefit: You can now synchronize even more of your event data with external tools, membership systems, or custom dashboards, without any manual exports.

What is now available

• Pull the complete list of submissions for an event, including all form field responses
• Pull the complete list of sessions for an event, including all their details

These build on the API foundations introduced in February and are available now for all API users.

Coming this summer: The Fourwaves mobile app

We are building a dedicated mobile app for conference attendees, coming to the App Store and Google Play this summer.

What attendees will be able to do with the app

• Browse the full conference program
• Build and view their personal agenda
• Access all presentation materials and abstracts
• View the full participant list
• Access all content offline, even without a wireless connection at the venue

After the initial release, we plan to add:

• Direct messaging between participants, synced with the Fourwaves messaging center on the web
• Tools for organizers to check in attendees to events and sessions
• Push notifications so organizers can send announcements directly to attendees