ARVO enhances attendee experience with EventPilot® conference app for its 2013 annual meeting

April 11, 2013 - PRLog -- The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) partners with ATIV Software for a second year in a row to offer its 12,000 attendees the most sophisticated mobile conference app powered by EventPilot®. The EventPilot native app provides a robust mobile platform which supports large medical and scientific event programs with thousands of sessions, abstracts, and posters.

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“With hundreds of sessions and over 6,200 abstracts, EventPilot is the only mobile app that provides our attendees an organized and instant way to access our massive amount of educational information” said Brian Kirkland, Assistant Director of Education at ARVO. “EventPilot provides the necessary tools to maximize our attendees’ time at the conference.”

ARVO’s annual meeting is internationally known as the largest and most respected eye and vision research event in the world. The conference relies on EventPilot’s robust mobile platform to handle complex programs for medical meetings. It delivers cutting edge research quickly to attendees on their smart devices. With the EventPilot conference app, attendees can customize their daily schedules, utilize the advanced navigation, filters, and search functionality to access information quickly and all while being offline. Compatible devices include: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android Phones, Tablets, and Kindle Fire.

“Perfect Wi-Fi cannot be guaranteed at large events like ours” said Tim Maxey, Sr. Director of Information Technology at ARVO. “With EventPilot, our attendees don’t have to rely on internet access to receive the benefit of using a mobile conference app.”

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Features of the EventPilot mobile conference app include:

Offline Searchable Abstracts

Includes instant access to searchable scientific abstracts from session detail views.

Powerful Personal Scheduling Features

Enables attendees to easily fill their day by adding sessions to their visual color-coded schedule, see open time slots, or add personal meetings with exhibitors.

Easy Data Updates and Reminders

Provides just-in-time notifications to attendees about their scheduled sessions, program changes, and Twitter updates without ever leaving the first screen.

Integrated Note Taking to Stay Organized

Allows attendees to take notes directly within the app in context of sessions, speakers, or exhibitors.

Native Mobile Event App with True Offline Functionality

Ensures best performance, network independence, and device specific navigation users expect.

Availability

The free iPhone and iPad conference apps are available now in the App Store by searching for “ARVO2013”. The free Android event app is available in Google Play by searching for “ARVO2013”. A browser version for web-enabled devices is available.

About ARVO

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest eye and vision research organization in the world. Members include more than 12,750 researchers from over 80 countries. For more information visit http://arvo.org

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app that enables paperless events. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones and tablets, as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to learn about other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.