Enter your event once. The website, slide deck, printed program, tickets, speaker share kits, and sponsor prospectus all build from the same source.
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Speakers, sessions, sponsors, and brand assets live in one place. Change a session time and the website, the slide deck, the printed program, and the emails all update from the same source.
A themed public event page, an auto-generated .pptx slide deck, and a printed program, run of show, and session boards. All rendered from your event data. No design work required.
Import your speaker list, generate personalized share kits, and send them all in one flow. Speakers get a branded page with ready-to-copy posts. No design work required.
Data you enter on the left flows automatically into everything on the right.
Here's how Quill Roster stacks up against the event production tools you'd otherwise piece together.
Speaker management, sponsor coordination, event websites, presentation decks, panel logistics.
| Quill Roster | Cvent | Swoogo | Whova | Sessionboard | EventCreate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event website builder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Speaker profile management | ✓ | ✓ | Limited | Limited | ✓ | Limited |
| Auto-cropped headshots across all assets | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Per-speaker branded share kits | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| AI-generated panel questions | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bulk panel email with cropped headshots | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Auto-generated presentation decks (.pptx) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Printed program, run of show, and session boards from event data | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| AI-drafted sponsor prospectus (web + PDF) with inquiry inbox | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Attendee surveys with AI question drafting | ✓ | Surveys only | Surveys only | Surveys only | — | — |
| QR ticket check-in | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | Limited |
| AI-generated spotlight email campaigns | ✓ | Limited | — | — | — | — |
| Speaker CRM across multiple events | ✓ | Limited | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Call for papers / submission grading | — | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Sponsor logo wall + asset management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Limited | ✓ |
| Google Drive auto-sync | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Built for events you've already curated (not call-for-papers) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Typical annual cost (USD) | $2,490/yr | Custom; real-scope deals typically $30K+/yr | Typically $15K+/yr | Quote-based; often $5K to $12K/yr | Custom (enterprise) | Free to $1,800/yr |
Real-scope Cvent deals routinely run $30K to $150K a year. Sessionboard is the closest direct competitor on speaker management, but it's built for large conferences running formal call-for-papers processes and plugs into Cvent or Swoogo rather than running events end to end. EventCreate covers the website but nothing downstream: no decks, no share kits, no campaigns. Quill Roster is built for curated events where you already know your speakers.
One platform for the whole event. Enter it once, and every deliverable flows from the same source.
I built Quill Roster because running events the old way was driving me crazy.
When I produced the Flourish Investor Forum, we were juggling a half dozen tools that didn't talk to each other. Every speaker bio, every session time, every sponsor logo got entered again and again. And every time one small detail changed, someone had to chase that change across every tool we used. It was a nightmare, and it burned hundreds of hours that should have gone into the event itself.
So I built the platform I wished we had. In Quill Roster everything lives in one place. You enter it once, and when something changes, you change it once. The website, the slide deck, the social posts, and the emails all update from the same source.
That's the whole idea. I hope it saves your team what it now saves ours.
Sam Devine
Founder, Quill Roster
Our specialists can run your event inside Quill Roster for you end to end: speakers, sessions, sponsors, the website, the deck, the printed program, and the tickets. Done for you.
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Lena watches the money. Banneker trains the people. Quill Roster runs the events. Ethel tells the story.
We carry the heavy stuff so the mission moves.