Accelevents vs Indico

Accelevents brings registration, sessions, virtual booths, networking, attendee engagement, and reporting into a platform for in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. Organizers can stream using Accelevents or connect Zoom for live sessions, and offer recordings on demand alongside scheduled participation. Attendees can chat, request connections or meetings, join timed one-to-one networking, and take part in workshops with up to 25 people on camera. The virtual event hub supports announcements, activity-based challenges, and leaderboards. During an event, organizers can track registration, attendance, and engagement in sessions and booths. Connections with Marketo, Salesforce, and HubSpot support exchanging attendee and registration data. Attendees can join through a browser or mobile event app, depending on event setup. The platform has a free plan, and listed paid plan sizes range from one event with 500 registrants on Professional to unlimited events on White Label. Continuing education features are available on Business, Enterprise, and White Label plans. Every plan includes 24/7 support, with an average response time of 21 seconds.

Indico is a free, open-source tool for organizing events, archiving materials, and supporting collaboration. It provides workflows for seminars, meetings, workshops, and conferences, and can bring an institute’s events together. For conferences, organizers can handle registration and abstract submission, store papers and other materials, and provide participant badges. Events use hierarchical categories, protections for resources, and roles within events. The room-booking module supports delegated management, booking approvals, and audiovisual equipment management. Indico integrates with Zoom so participants can join video conferences with a single click; listed plugins also cover PayPal payments and Amazon S3 event-file storage. It can be customized through configuration and plugins, and its HTTP Export API exposes category contents, events, rooms, and bookings. Indico is installed as a self-hosted instance. The project began in 2002, and CERN adopted it for event management in 2004 and has financed its development since. The maker describes room booking as suited to companies, research institutes, and universities.