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Our pitch for Startup Weekend Melbourne 2013. Convener.Co matches academics and researchers with opportunities to publish their work.

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Conferences and calls. Together at last.

Lindsay Front End Dev & Biz Dev

Reema Data Research & Marketing

Joyce Strategy, Project Mgmt, Biz Dev & Marketing

Kav Front End Dev Extraordinaire

Mark Back End Dev

32 years

Problem

Today

How do you currently discover conferences & calls? Social media, Word of mouth, Professional associations, Specific websites, Emails, Listservs, Local network of e-learning at universities in Denmark, colleagues..., Newsletters, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, direct emails, hashtags, Association of Internet Researchers (air) email list. ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association email list. CSAA - Cultural Studies Association of Australasia list. MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (UK based) list, HDR lists from Deakin and Centre for Creative Industries, Social media, Word of mouth, Professional associations, Specific websites, Emails, Listservs, colleagues..., Newsletters, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, direct emails, hashtags, Social media, Word of mouth, Professional associations, Specific websites, Emails, Listservs, Local network of e-learning at universities in Denmark, colleagues..., Newsletters, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, direct emails, hashtags, Association of Internet Researchers (air) email list. ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association email list. CSAA - Cultural Studies Association of Australasia list. MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (UK based) list, HDR lists from Deakin and Centre for Creative Industries, Social media, Word of mouth, Professional associations, Specific websites, Emails, Listservs, colleagues..., Newsletters, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, direct emails, hashtags,    

How do you currently discover conferences & calls? Social media, Word of mouth, Professional associations, Specific websites, Emails, Listservs, Local network of e-learning at universities in Denmark, colleagues..., Newsletters, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, direct emails, hashtags, Association of Internet Researchers (air) email list. ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association email list. CSAA - Cultural Studies Association of Australasia list. MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (UK based) list, HDR lists from Deakin and Centre for Creative Industries, Social media, Word of mouth, Professional associations, Specific websites, Emails, Listservs, colleagues..., Newsletters, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, direct emails, hashtags, Social media, Word of mouth, Professional associations, Specific websites, Emails, Listservs, Local network of e-learning at universities in Denmark, colleagues..., Newsletters, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, direct emails, hashtags, Association of Internet Researchers (air) email list. ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association email list. CSAA - Cultural Studies Association of Australasia list. MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (UK based) list, HDR lists from Deakin and Centre for Creative Industries, Social media, Word of mouth, Professional associations, Specific websites, Emails, Listservs, colleagues..., Newsletters, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, direct emails, hashtags,    

“It’s pretty ad-hoc, really…”

Anually

89% Miss Out

30 Million

academics

100.000+ conferences

30 Million

academics

60 Million Publishing

opportunities

Our Competition

Our Competition

Our Competition

Need?

Find out

about CfPs!!

“Find by location

and date”

“Find by discipline

& keywords”

“Intuitive & easy to

use”

“Alert me”

“See who else

is going”

“Ability to

Track”

“Be smart and learn what is of interest to

me”

Convener.Co

Future

Crowd-sourced listings

Work with

users

Book-marklet &

email forward

Social snowball

effect

Last minute deals

Kick-start a conf

$200 Claim a

conf

$7/yr Alerts & Intelligence

Conferences and calls. Together at last.

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