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An event website builder that keeps you in control

Create a stunning event website with an intuitive builder to share event details, centralize forms, and publish an event schedule. Regain your autonomy, boost your efficiency, and delight your attendees.

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The easiest way to publish a modern, integrated event website

Regain your autonomy

Say goodbye to WordPress or Wix headaches and to your expensive web designer that takes days to respond. Edit your conference website with our intuitive drag-and-drop builder.

Boost your efficiency

Registration, abstract submission and scheduling are built in, so one platform runs the event and gives you back your time.

Delight your attendees

Make your participants happy by having everything in one place: event details, forms, schedule, presentation content, and networking tools.

Flexible editor, modern design

Our website builder is easy to use and lets you arrange your content in multiple ways while delivering a professional-looking event website. No design skills required.

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Modern event website built with Fourwaves

Conference-specific content blocks

Share speaker bios, sponsor logos, accommodation options, videos, and more. Organize your content into dedicated pages to help your attendees easily find the information they need.

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Conference content blocks on a Fourwaves event website

Your own domain name

Connect a domain you own and your event website loads at that address, along with its registration and submission forms.

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Domain name settings in Fourwaves beside an event website live on its own domain

More than a website

With built-in registration, abstract submission, and scheduling, Fourwaves simplifies your event management and delivers an exceptional experience for your attendees. No external plugins needed.

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Event website pages and navigation in Fourwaves

Something for everyone

No more technical headaches

Save time with an all-in-one platform that manages the event website, registrations, and abstracts, no external plugins required.

  • Update content yourself
  • Super-intuitive editor
  • Clean results on all devices
  • Real-time updates
  • Duplicate a previous website for a quick start
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Showcase your work

Display your biography, presentation details, and poster in a sleek and structured format.

  • Add your biography, photo, and presentation details
  • Share your work with the community
  • Engage with attendees interested in your presentation
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Maximize your experience

Say goodbye to confusion and wasted time navigating multiple sites. Register, submit and access all event details on one user-friendly platform.

  • Access the schedule and presentation content: posters, slides, videos
  • Join networking sessions and livestreams
  • Create your own agenda and receive reminders
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Features tailored for conferences

Designed specifically for conferences and academic events, Fourwaves offers an intuitive, integrated platform for your event website.

Drag & drop editor

Customize pages, sections, text, and images with ease.

Real-time updates

Make instant changes so attendees always have the latest information.

Mobile-optimized event website

The site reads well on a phone, a tablet and a laptop, with nothing to configure.

Built-in registrations and submissions

Manage registration, payments, and abstract submissions all in one place.

Private content and files

Restrict pages and content to registered attendees as needed.

Dynamic scheduling

Share a complete schedule and presentation content to engage your participants.

Archives and event duplication

Preserve past editions and clone a previous event for a quick start.

Multilingual support

Publish your event website in English and French without creating a second site.

Custom domain name

Publish the site at an address you own, instead of a fourwaves.com URL.

A modern website integrated to a complete platform

Fourwaves replaces your disconnected tools with a professional-looking event website that’s easy to configure, maintain, and reuse for future editions.

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Event website editor in Fourwaves

Flexible and easy to use

Don’t wait on external IT consultants. Update the website yourself in seconds.

Stays accessible after your event

Keep your event history intact with websites that remain online for as long as you need.

Flawless on all devices

Reach your audience wherever they are with a website that adapts to any device.

Why choose Fourwaves?

Without Fourwaves

  • Technical headaches and endless troubleshooting
  • Long delays before your site goes live
  • Dependence on external consultants or IT teams
  • Participants get lost juggling multiple platforms
  • Disconnected tools kill your efficiency
  • Costly hosting and hidden pricing surprises
  • Loss of your past event history

With Fourwaves

  • An intuitive drag-and-drop content editor
  • Publish instantly. No waiting, no bottlenecks
  • 100 % autonomy: you’re in full control
  • Happy participants who engage more
  • Efficiency gains that give you back precious time
  • No hosting fee surprises
  • Retain your complete event history

Adopted by leading organizations

The world’s top institutions trust Fourwaves to deliver exceptional events.

The Fourwaves platform has centralized everything into one convenient location, both for organizers and attendees. Our team is able to efficiently review posters submitted by investigators and make them public to view on the day of the event.
Todd Barnash - Office of Research, University of Florida College of Medicine
Todd Barnash

Office of Research, University of Florida College of Medicine

The platform is easy to use, reasonably priced and the support team is very helpful. We faced no technical challenges at all. Fourwaves is a pleasure to work with!
Randy Gollub, MD, PhD - Harvard Medical School
Randy Gollub, MD, PhD

Harvard Medical School

The conference concluded with great success, leaving sponsors, collaborators, and attendees highly satisfied. Based on my experience, Fourwaves is an excellent platform. Your work is exceptional!
Shoupeng Liu

Outreach and Strategic Partnerships in Asia, AAAS

The team at Fourwaves has been incredibly responsive to all of our technical support needs. They always approached every situation with a solutions-oriented mindset, which made a big difference. It’s been a real pleasure working with them.
Jillian L. Delos Reyes - Tulane University
Jillian L. Delos Reyes

Tulane University

The virtual event with the poster sessions went very well. Really well done, the platform is very useful and very well organized. The customer service is excellent.
Intissar Abbaoui

McGill

Fourwaves is a great interactive easy to use platform for small or large conferences. The team is prompt, friendly and very helpful.
Lani Hearn

University of Queensland

Our undergraduate student research conference was tremendously successful. Fourwaves played a key role in our success. A terrific product.
Donna Thompson

Mount Saint Vincent University

Fourwaves was the perfect platform for our event. It was exactly what we needed and within budget as well. Participants felt registration and submission of their abstracts was very easy without any complicated steps.
Julie Amato

University of Toronto

Our experience has been fantastic. Everyone reported a smooth experience from registrations, to submissions, and the event itself. We especially appreciated asynchronous engagements (upvoting, comments, etc). We are looking forward to next year’s event!
Lorien Lake-Corral - University of Maine
Lorien Lake-Corral

University of Maine

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Frequently asked questions

Building a Fourwaves event website takes no design skills: the editor is a drag-and-drop builder with pre-designed content blocks for speakers, sponsors, schedules, and files, so an organizer with no web or design experience publishes a professional conference website in an afternoon and updates it without a designer or IT ticket.

A Fourwaves event website can run on a domain you own, such as yourconference.org or events.yoursociety.org. The domain is connected directly, not forwarded to another address, so it stays in the browser bar on your website and on your registration and submission forms. Connecting it takes two DNS records at your registrar, and the HTTPS certificate is issued and renewed for you. Existing event.fourwaves.com links keep working and redirect to your domain. Without a domain of your own, your event website is live at a short URL based on your event acronym.

Your site remains accessible for as long as you wish, allowing you to archive past editions. If your plan expires, the site stays accessible, but you will lose access to paid features.

Fourwaves clones an event website for the next edition: you duplicate a previous event, including its website, forms, and settings, in one click, then update dates, speakers, and prices for the next edition. Past editions stay online, so an annual conference keeps its full history under one account.

The Fourwaves Conference App runs on iOS (16.6 or later) and Android devices, in English and French. Attendees who prefer not to install an app get the same program and participant directory on the mobile-friendly event website in their browser.

Fourwaves compares to Cvent and Whova as the platform built for academic conferences: abstract submissions, peer review, virtual poster sessions and the conference app are included on every plan, where general-purpose event platforms treat them as add-ons. Read the detailed comparisons: Fourwaves vs Cvent and Fourwaves vs Whova.

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More about conference website builders

What is a conference website builder?

A conference website builder is a tool for publishing the website of an academic conference, symposium, or research day without a web developer: the event description, important dates, speakers, program, registration form, abstract submission form, sponsors, and venue information, on one public site.

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A conference website builder is also called an event website builder, an academic conference website builder, or a conference website template. General-purpose builders like WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace produce a good-looking site but need plugins and manual updates for registration, submissions, and a schedule that changes weekly.

The Fourwaves event website builder is part of a conference management platform, so the registration form, call for abstracts, program, presentation pages, and participant list are pages of the site, not embeds from other tools. Organizers publish a working conference website in an afternoon, then edit it themselves for the life of the event. The same content also reaches attendees through the free conference app on iOS and Android, so the program and participant list they read on the website are on their phone, offline included.

How the event website builder works in Fourwaves

The Fourwaves event website builder works in six steps: start from a ready-to-publish site, add conference content blocks, publish in two languages, restrict private content, update in real time, then keep the site online after the event. Every form and program page is native to the site.

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  1. Start from a ready-to-publish site. Every new event comes with a website: home page, registration and submission forms, schedule, presentations, and participants pages. Add your banner, colors, and text, and the site is live at a short URL based on your event acronym. Connect a domain you own and the site runs at that address instead.
  2. Add conference content blocks. Drag and drop blocks for speaker bios and headshots, sponsor logos, accommodation and travel, videos, downloadable files, and photo galleries. Group the blocks into dedicated pages and sections in the navigation menu, so attendees find the venue, the program, and the call for abstracts without searching.
  3. Publish in two languages. Fourwaves event websites can be published in English and French from one site, with the same forms and program, rather than a duplicate site per language.
  4. Restrict private content. Limit pages, files, or presentation materials to registered attendees, so slides, posters, and recordings stay inside your community.
  5. Update in real time. Change a session time or a speaker and the website, program, and conference app update together. Nobody waits on IT or a web agency.
  6. Keep it online after the event. The website stays accessible for as long as you want, so past editions remain a public record for funders and future committees. Clone it in one click to start the next edition.

What is in a Fourwaves event website template?

Every Fourwaves event comes with a website template already built: a home page, a registration form, an abstract submission form, a schedule, a presentations page, and a participants page. Organizers do not pick a theme from a gallery and fill it in; they customize a working site that already holds the conference pages the event needs.

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Customizing the template means adding a banner and colors, writing the event description, and dragging in content blocks for speaker bios, sponsor logos, accommodation and travel, videos, files, and photo galleries. Pages are added, renamed, reordered, and grouped into navigation sections, and every page is mobile friendly without extra work.

The strongest template is the one you already ran: cloning last year’s event copies the site and its forms into the new edition, so recurring conferences start from their own layout instead of a blank page. The PROTEO research network has kept its annual symposium consistent this way since 2013, across rotating host universities.

How long does it take to create an event website?

A Fourwaves event website can be live in a few minutes, because when the event is created, it starts from a pre-built template. It has a short URL based on the event acronym you choose. What takes time is the content: most organizers have a site worth sharing in less than one hour, and connecting a domain you own requires adding two DNS records and minutes to hours of propagation.

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Nothing waits on a designer, a developer, or an IT support ticket. Changes are made in the drag-and-drop editor and appear immediately on the site, the program, and the conference app. You can even crop speaker headshots directly on the website editor.

Can you create a free event website for a conference?

Yes. The Starter plan is free and includes unlimited events, unlimited registrations, and 25 abstract submissions a year, so a small research day or a first edition can publish a complete event website, take registrations, and collect abstracts at no cost. Fourwaves charges 3% service fees on paid registrations, and organizers can pass those on to registrants.

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A free event website is a real published site, not a trial: the same editor, the same registration and program pages, and it stays online after the event. The paid plans add website content blocks and confirmation emails on Essential, unlimited website pages on Advanced, and a domain you own with no Fourwaves footer on Pro. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.

Can a conference website run on your own domain name?

A Fourwaves conference website can run on a domain the organizer owns, either a root domain like yourconference.org or a subdomain like events.yoursociety.org. That address stays in the browser bar across the public event: the website itself, the registration form and the abstract submission form. The domain is connected directly, not forwarded or redirected to a fourwaves.com address, so attendees only ever see the conference address.

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Connecting a domain takes two DNS records at the registrar: one CNAME that validates the HTTPS certificate, and one traffic record (a CNAME for a subdomain, an ALIAS or ANAME record for a root domain). Fourwaves issues the certificate and renews it automatically as long as those records stay in place. Sites are usually live within minutes, though DNS changes can take up to 48 hours with some providers. Existing event.fourwaves.com links redirect to the new address, so a call for abstracts already circulated keeps working.

One domain connects to one event, and the organizer buys and owns the domain, so it carries from one edition to the next. Without a domain of its own, an event website is published at a short event.fourwaves.com URL based on the event acronym. Which plans include a custom domain is on the pricing page, and the setup is documented step by step in the Fourwaves help desk.

Fourwaves event website vs WordPress or Wix for a conference

WordPress and Wix are the right tools for a permanent organization site. For a conference, they create three recurring problems: registration and abstract submission need paid plugins or third-party embeds, the schedule is edited by hand in a table, and the site depends on whoever holds the login when the organizing committee rotates.

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A Fourwaves event website solves all three because forms, program, and presentations are native pages, and the organization’s events stay under one account across years: the PROTEO research network has kept its rotating annual symposium consistent across host universities this way since 2013. Organizers who want to keep an existing website can use Fourwaves only for the registration, submission, or program modules and link to them. For a full comparison of academic platforms, see the best conference management systems.