Zulip for conferences and events
Conferences, workshops, hackathons. In-person, online, and anything in between.
Zulip Cloud Standard is free for
academic conferences and most other non-profit events!
Learn how the Recurse Center is using Zulip.
Make Zulip the communication hub for your event.
Zulip is the organized team chat app that is ideal for both live and asynchronous conversations. Post presentations and announcements, host Q&A sessions, and coordinate among organizers.
Use topics to organize the discussion
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Zulip topics create a separate space for each discussion or question.
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Make your event more inclusive by lowering the barriers for participants to ask questions, share ideas, and learn from experts.
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Take time to think. Discussions work great in real time or async, and conversations evolve into collaborations.
Discussions at conferences often happen in small groups — most people are not able to participate because they are not present, or are too intimidated to join. In the conferences we organized with Zulip, questions or ideas were spread openly. Anybody could get a chance to contribute, and to benefit from new ideas and opportunities for collaboration.
Zulip turned out to be a great asset that we plan to keep even when we go back to face-to-face events.
Your communication hub
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Share the agenda and presentations with drag-and-drop file uploads.
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Use emoji reactions for lightweight interactions. Have fun with custom emoji, or get feedback with a poll.
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Announce the schedule without worrying about time zones using global times.
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Make a video call with the click of a button.
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Use Zulip in your language of choice, with translations into 23 languages.
The fact that the chat serves as a repository of the scientific / academic exchanges is a big unanticipated bonus. Participants tend to log in after the event, sometimes repeatedly, to consult the messages and get in touch with others.
Lasting knowledge repository
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Make the Q&A a permanent resource for participants.
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Permanently link to a Zulip conversation or a message in context from emails, talk slides, or on the website for your event.
- Information is at your fingertips with Zulip’s powerful full-text search.
- Zulip is 100% free and open-source software, so you are never locked into a proprietary tool.
Powerful formatting
- Type LaTeX directly into your Zulip message, and see it beautifully rendered.
- Zulip code blocks come with syntax highlighting for over 250 languages, and integrated code playgrounds.
- Structure your ideas with bulleted and numbered lists.
- If you made a mistake, no worries! You can edit your message, or move it to a different topic or channel.
Set everything up ahead of time
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With multi-use invite links, there’s no need to create individual Zulip invitations.
- Signing up for Zulip is quick and easy. Participants can make an account, or log in with Google, Apple, etc.
- Automatically subscribe members to channels when they join, subscribe a group of users, or copy membership from another channel.
- Make an announcement channel where only organizers can post messages. Use private channels to plan the event.
Never miss a beat
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With apps for every platform, check Zulip at your computer or on your phone. Zulip works great in a browser, so no download is required.
- Zulip alerts participants about timely messages with fully customizable mobile, email and desktop notifications.
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Zulip works reliably for organizations with thousands of users online at once.
Learn about using Zulip for teaching and research communities. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. You can also drop by our friendly development community at chat.zulip.org to ask for help or suggest improvements!