A third content line: pre-recorded presentations. Authors upload a video against a window, and delegates watch it on demand — in the branded gallery or in the app.
What it is
An on-demand paper works like a poster whose artifact is a video. It carries its own authors — one marked primary, and every author may upload — a track, free tags, and a lifecycle of draft, published and withdrawn. The primary file is always a video; supplemental files of any type can ride alongside when you allow them.
Papers can also arrive from the Call for Abstracts: accepted — paper on demand is a decision in its own right, and converting a communicated acceptance creates the paper with its authors already attached and its authors' upload access already granted.
What it changes
The overflow problem gets a shape. Work that deserves a place in the program but not a slot in a room becomes a first-class published item rather than a consolation email — and the recording exists before the meeting starts, instead of depending on capture in the room.
The overflow track
The committee accepts forty talks for the rooms and another twenty-five as papers on demand, from the same call, the same reviews and the same decision board.
The hybrid catalog
Every on-demand paper published in the gallery a week before doors, so remote colleagues have the same program as the room.
The archive that outlives the meeting
Leave the viewer open for a month after the event; the papers keep playing after the poster hall is swept.
What you can do
- Create papers by hand or convert them from accepted abstracts, with the conversion guarded against doubles.
- Manage authors with one marked primary — every author gets upload access, not just the primary.
- Collect video uploads (MP4, MOV or WebM) against the upload window, with automatic versioning.
- Allow supplemental files of any type alongside the video, or keep the collection video-only.
- Publish and withdraw papers; only published papers with a ready video ever reach a viewer.
- Watch inline from the portal, the gallery and the app — streamed, with scrubbing, no download required.
- Feed the Paper Viewer's branded gallery, and the papers section of the Attendee App.
Settings
| Setting | What it controls | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Upload window opens / closes | When authors may upload. Blank at both ends means whenever the module is on. | Always open |
| Allow supplemental files | Extra files alongside the video — slides, a transcript, data. Supplemental files carry no format restriction. | Off |
| Maximum video size | Per-file cap in megabytes, 1 to 5,000. Separate from the Internet Uploads limit, because videos are a different order of magnitude. | 2,048 MB |
Nothing. The Call for Abstracts is one way papers arrive, not a prerequisite — you can run an entirely invited on-demand program.
The primary file is strictly a video — there is no PDF-paper mode. There is no review step for papers (review happens upstream, in the call), and no delegate Q&A on papers — a paper converted from an abstract keeps its discussion on the abstract entry. Paper readership is measured through the Paper Viewer and appears in the event's Analytics tab.