Santa Rosa, Calif. – May 22, 2013 ATIV Software in partnership with The Association for Psychological Science (APS) released the APS 2013 scientific conference app powered by EventPilot. The mobile conference app is built for large medical events and provides easy offline access to over 3,000 sessions and over 8,000 speakers. EventPilot offers APS’ 4,000 attendees an interactive and detailed mobile program covering the latest innovative research in psychological science.

The APS 2013 app is an organized and intuitive mobile event app for attendees looking to get the most from the multitude of medical educational sessions. Note-taking along with sharing and starring allow attendees to record, organize, and distribute personal information from a variety of sessions. The offline capabilities of EventPilot deliver content to users without delay.

Features of the EventPilot mobile conference app include:

Reliable and Integrated Offline Note Taking for Thousands of Sessions

EventPilot allows attendees to take notes directly within the app in context of sessions, speakers, or exhibitors – all while being offline or running the device in airplane mode to save battery power. All notes can be exported via an organized email report.

Rich Experience and Paperless Events

EventPilot supports paperless events by integrating handouts, scientific posters, note taking, rich media, and more to create a valuable reference app that is used by attendees long after the event.

Native Mobile Event App with True Offline Functionality

Native Android conference app, iPhone conference app and iPad conference app to ensure best performance, network independence, and device specific navigation users expect.

Availability
The free iPhone and iPad conference apps are available now in the App Store by searching for “25th APS Annual Convention”. The free Android event app is available in Google Play by searching for “25th APS Annual Convention”. A browser version for web-enabled devices is available.

About APS
The Association for Psychological Science is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level. For more information visit http://www.psychologicalscience.org/

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app that enables paperless events, and EventPilot Journal edition, a medical and scientific journal app. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones and tablets, as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to learn about other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

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Santa Rosa, Calif. – May 6, 2013 ATIV Software today announced the release of the educational journal app EventPilot Journal Edition, an extension to ATIV’s successful EventPilot mobile conference app. The journal app brings advanced functionality such as offline journal access, article-based notes/bookmarking, enhanced search/filtering and social media sharing to medical and scientific journals.

With convenient access to the latest research articles anytime and anywhere, EventPilot Journal allows associations and publishers to offer readers what they want, powerful, personalized mobile offline article access. This professional app is designed to allow journal browsing and article-based note taking whenever the user needs it. Article and app access can be controlled via subscriber authentication and downloaded full articles are stored on the device for offline reading.

“We wanted to bring the robustness and sophistication of EventPilot to journals and magazines where features and functionality of mobile journal apps is still in its infancy,” said Silke Fleischer, Co-Founder and CEO of ATIV Software. “EventPilot Journal Edition is a polished mobile app for associations who want to offer a high quality experience to their members.”

EventPilot Journal Edition Features

Hierarchical Navigation with Intuitive User Interface and Personalization
Browse articles by volume, category, or page flipping as you would with a print publication, plus the added benefit of quick access to your favorites. Easily navigate through the entire journal, bookmarked items, notes, or previously read articles.

Password Protection & Gated Articles
Limit access to the entire journal or to specific articles within the journal to subscribers only.

Quick Filter & Advanced Search
Filter issues by keywords, authors, bookmarks, or notes. Find articles of interest by searching across the entire journal for titles, authors, abstracts, or Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Limit results with the option to exclude keywords.

Offline Access
Download full articles for later offline reading. Review offline article summaries and abstracts at any time without having to rely on Wi-Fi.

Notes and Bookmarks
Take notes on articles and bookmark items of importance for quick future reference. Send an email with all notes and bookmarked articles.

Social Media
Increase the conversation about specific research articles in social media such as Twitter or Facebook.

Availability

EventPilot Journal Edition is available now for custom implementation for iOS 5.0 and higher as well as Android 2.3.3 and higher.

About ATIV Software

ATIV Software publishes EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app that enables paperless events as well as EventPilot Journal edition for medical, scientific, and educational journals or magazines. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to learn about other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

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Santa Rosa, Calif. – April 17, 2013 The Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) released its mobile conference program today in the sophisticated EventPilot platform by ATIV Software. EventPilot proves to be the perfect mobile app solution to handle the variety of medical course lectures, workshops, and numerous ePoster presentations, handouts, and abstracts. The unique native app eliminates the need for printed material and engages attendees through interactive functionality.

“EventPilot has blown us away with creating an app that allows users to engage and utilize information both during and long after the conference is over” said Holly Albert, Director of Meetings & Exhibits at AANA. “We are thrilled to offer this mobile conference app solution to our attendees. It’s exactly what they need to stay organized and make the most of our conference this year.”

Meeting planners and attendees alike find that the EventPilot mobile conference app is not just convenient but necessary for a successful event. The intuitive nature of the app eases finding and scheduling sessions or instantly accessing a large number of supportive educational materials. The easy navigation, quick search, and filters are a time-saver and help customize the user-experience. Compatible devices include: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android Phones, Tablets, and Kindle Fire.

“Medical events can sometimes be complex,” said Lauren Bouchard, Meeting Coordinator at AANA. “With EventPilot, our attendees can rest assured that they have all the information they need about the event in the palm of their hands.”

Features of the EventPilot mobile conference app also include:

Offline Searchable Medical Abstracts, Lecture Handouts, ePosters and Presentations

The EventPilot conference app includes instant access to searchable medical abstracts, lecture handouts, and presentations from session detail views. All medical ePosters are searchable by poster number.

Integrated Note Taking on Slides to Stay Organized

Attendees take notes directly within the app in context of research abstracts, presentations, sessions, speakers, or exhibitors. The original PowerPoint files are not distributed to attendees, thereby protecting the presenter’s IP.

Powerful Personal Scheduling Features

EventPilot enables attendees to easily fill their day by adding sessions to their visual color-coded schedule, see open time slots, or add personal meetings with exhibitors.

Availability

The free iPhone and iPad conference apps are available now in the App Store by searching for “AANA2013”. The free Android event app is available in Google Play by searching for “AANA2013”. A browser version for web-enabled devices is available.

About AANA

The Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) is an Accredited Council for Continuing Medical Education organization. AANA provides health care education opportunities for AANA members and other qualified professionals. For more information visit http://www.aana.org.

About ATIV Software

ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app that enables paperless events. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to learn about other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

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EventPilot enables the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) to provide instant and offline access to over 6,200 research abstracts and posters in a convenient mobile conference app to their attendees

Santa Rosa, Calif. – April 11, 2013 The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) partners with ATIV Software for a second year in a row to offer its 12,000 attendees the most sophisticated mobile conference app powered by EventPilot®. The EventPilot native app provides a robust mobile platform which supports large medical and scientific event programs with thousands of sessions, abstracts, and posters.

“With hundreds of sessions and over 6,200 abstracts, EventPilot is the only mobile app that provides our attendees an organized and instant way to access our massive amount of educational information” said Brian Kirkland, Assistant Director of Education at ARVO. “EventPilot provides the necessary tools to maximize our attendees’ time at the conference.”

ARVO’s annual meeting is internationally known as the largest and most respected eye and vision research event in the world. The conference relies on EventPilot’s robust mobile platform to handle complex programs for medical meetings. It delivers cutting edge research quickly to attendees on their smart devices. With the EventPilot conference app, attendees can customize their daily schedules, utilize the advanced navigation, filters, and search functionality to access information quickly and all while being offline. Compatible devices include: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android Phones, Tablets, and Kindle Fire.

“Perfect Wi-Fi cannot be guaranteed at large events like ours” said Tim Maxey, Sr. Director of Information Technology at ARVO. “With EventPilot, our attendees don’t have to rely on internet access to receive the benefit of using a mobile conference app.”

Features of the EventPilot mobile conference app include:

Offline Searchable Abstracts

Includes instant access to searchable scientific abstracts from session detail views.

Powerful Personal Scheduling Features

Enables attendees to easily fill their day by adding sessions to their visual color-coded schedule, see open time slots, or add personal meetings with exhibitors.

Easy Data Updates and Reminders

Provides just-in-time notifications to attendees about their scheduled sessions, program changes, and Twitter updates without ever leaving the first screen.

Integrated Note Taking to Stay Organized

Allows attendees to take notes directly within the app in context of sessions, speakers, or exhibitors.

Native Mobile Event App with True Offline Functionality

Ensures best performance, network independence, and device specific navigation users expect.

Availability

The free iPhone and iPad conference apps are available now in the App Store by searching for “ARVO2013”. The free Android event app is available in Google Play by searching for “ARVO2013”. A browser version for web-enabled devices is available.

About ARVO

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest eye and vision research organization in the world. Members include more than 12,750 researchers from over 80 countries. For more information visit http://arvo.org.

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app that enables paperless events. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones and tablets, as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to learn about other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

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Santa Rosa, Calif. – Feb 8, 2013 ATIV Software published the NAPO2013 Annual Conference app which is based on the EventPilot platform. It allows attendees to easily manage their event experience at their Annual Conference in New Orleans in April. The native app provides offline access to all event information, personal session schedules, note taking and way finding.

“Our conference attendees are professional organizers and productivity specialists,”” said Lucy Erdelac, Executive Director of the National Association of Professional Organizers. “”The EventPilot meeting app combines the features, information, and click-thru detail that NAPO Members really appreciate.””

The sophisticated mobile app allows attendees to efficiently access all color-coded tracks, sessions, speakers, and exhibitors. Using the personalization features combined with the innovative mobile PowerPoint slide viewer, EventPilot helps increase retention for attendees to make the most of the professional education offered at NAPO2013.

Features of the EventPilot mobile conference app also include:

Powerful Personal Scheduling Features

Enable attendees to easily fill their day by adding sessions to their visual schedule, see open time slots, or add personal meetings.

Offline Note Taking on Slides to Stay Organized

Attendees take notes directly within the app in context of presentations, sessions, speakers, or exhibitors. All notes can be exported via an organized email report.

Native Mobile Event App with True Offline Functionality

Native iPhone, iPad, and Android conference app ensures best performance, network independence, and device specific navigation users expect.

Availability
The free iPhone and iPad conference apps are available now in the App Store by searching for “NAPO2013”. The free Android event app is available in Google Play by searching for “NAPO2013”.  An online version for web-enabled devices is available.

About NAPO
The National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) is a professional
association of more than 4,000 organizers and productivity specialists. NAPO members
are dedicated to helping clients bring order and efficiency to their homes, offices, and
lives. For more information, visit http://www.napo.net.

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app for training, corporate event and association meeting planners. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to learn about other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

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Santa Rosa, Calif. – January 25, 2013 ATIV Software has been selected by the Green Meetings Industry Council (GMIC) to provide the mobile app for this year’s conference using the sophisticated EventPilot platform. For the first time, GMIC attendees will be able to access the educational presentation slides during sessions to take notes directly on slides within the app. This unique feature helps increase retention and eliminates the need for printed handouts.

“The conference attendees look at this event as the leader in producing sustainable events,”” said Greg Andrade, Director of Operations at Signal Event Group, who managed the vendor selection process for GMIC. “”We need to demonstrate the best when it comes to advancing sustainability in the meetings industry. EventPilot is an ideal technological solution to maximize attendee engagement while minimizing the conference footprint.””

Unlike event apps that are built around HTML 5, EventPilot is a truly native app that can take advantage of the power of today’s smartphones and offline capabilities. The PowerPoint slide viewer displays presentation handouts in context of the session without requiring Internet access. It allows attendees to take notes on slides, bookmark slides, and tweet slides. The app automatically organizes all conference notes into a comprehensive email report with slide thumbnails for later reference.

“EventPilot is designed not just as a digital conference program but as a productivity and learning tool,” said Silke Fleischer, CEO and co-founder of ATIV Software. “The powerful combination of offline access, personalization, and native navigation will give GMIC attendees a truly sustainable experience.”

Features of the EventPilot mobile conference app also include:

Offline Note Taking on Slides to Stay Organized

Attendees take notes directly within the app in context of presentations, sessions, speakers, or exhibitors. The original PowerPoint files are not distributed to attendees, thereby protecting the presenter’s IP.

Powerful Personal Scheduling Features

Enable attendees to easily fill their day by adding sessions to their visual schedule, see open time slots, or add personal meetings with exhibitors.

Native Mobile Event App with True Offline Functionality

Native iPhone, iPad, and Android conference app ensures best performance, network independence, and device specific navigation users expect.

Availability
The free iPhone and iPad conference apps will be made available in February.

About GMIC
The Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC) is the premier global community solely dedicated to sustainability in the meetings and events industry, not only through education but also by spearheading research, policy and standards. GMIC is a non profit professional meetings association with member representation in over 20 countries. For more information, visit http://www.gmicglobal.org.

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app that enables paperless events. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to learn about other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

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While Wi-Fi is required for social media use or accessing web pages, you have control over providing all event related information in an offline format and you can curb some of that Wi-Fi frustration with these tips:

• Offer attendees the EventPilot Standard app implementation – the entire event program is all included in the initial app download from the app stores. No need to wait for slow data updates: Attendees continue using the app normally while additional data updates, such as room or speaker changes, are retrieved whenever Internet is available, regardless of the connection speed.
• Check with your ATIV project manager how to include important information offline in the app, such as:
• hotel bus schedule,
• emergency information,
• important phone numbers,
• animated venue maps,
• how to access the Wi-Fi (if available).
• Ask us about pre-caching certain aspects of your app.
• Create a comprehensive app that includes all the event information so attendees can find what they need without having to access your website.
• Use HTML instead of PDFs for abstracts and scientific papers so they can be integrated natively within the app for instant offline access.
• Let attendees know if PowerPoint presentations are available in your app so they can download the slides for offline slide-note taking during the session.
• Advertise your app early so attendees already have it installed by the time they pick up their badge.

Santa Rosa, Calif. – November 12, 2012 – ATIV Software’s Silke Fleischer was named a winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the “Female Entrepreneur of the Year – Business Products” category in the 9th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Fleischer is one of the few female CEOs leading a successful high-tech startup in the competitive mobile app industry.

Silke Fleischer co-founded ATIV Software and published the sophisticated EventPilot conference app which received the GOLD Stevie® Award in 2012 American Business Awards℠. In addition to starting a rapid growth company in the male dominated mobile app development world, she implemented a completely remote business structure to keep the company footprint small while offering employees the greatest flexibility in working from anywhere in the world.

“Silke has an incredible life journey from growing up in a small town in East Germany to running a cutting-edge high-tech business that offers services to some of the largest medical and scientific association in the country,” said Eric Converse, CTO and co-founder of ATIV Software. “She has been leading the product management of our successful EventPilot conference app and is instrumental to the impressive growth of the company.”

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are the world’s top honors for female entrepreneurs, executives, and the organizations they run. The 2012 awards received entries from 17 nations and territories and more than 1,200 nominations were submitted this year for consideration.

Fleischer’s company, ATIV Software, publishes EventPilot, a native event and meeting app for large medical and scientific conferences and congresses. The app is designed to radically improve traditional print event programs and provide a paperless, interactive and personalized experience for attendees. As the Swiss Army Knife for event goers, EventPilot enables easy schedule personalization for complex medical programs, massive offline data handling of thousands of scientific abstracts and research papers, offline PowerPoint slide viewer with slide-based note taking, and access to up-to-date event information.

Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of Stevie Award winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Women.

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app for training, corporate event and association meeting planners. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones and tablets as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to check out the many other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The International Business Awards, The American Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

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Santa Rosa, Calif. – October 16, 2012 - The EventPilot conference app receives an honorable mention as the first runner-up in the EIBTM Technology Watch Award for the meetings and events industry. EventPilot increases session material retention and enables true paperless events by providing attendees with presentation slides that include note taking capability offline.

EventPilot is a native mobile conference app for iOS/Android phones and tablets, as well as web-enabled devices. The event app has made it possible for attendees to focus on the presenter’s message and simply follow along the presentation with a specially designed mobile PowerPoint slide viewer. Offline full color slide access ensures a great experience independent from the venue Wi-Fi. Attendees easily take notes on individual slides or bookmark important slides. At the same time, attendees do not receive the actual .PPT file which protects the work and concern of presenters.

“It is a great achievement to see our sophisticated event app technology recognized by industry professionals” said Silke Fleischer, CEO and co-founder of ATIV Software. “EventPilot stands out among conference apps because it is designed from an attendee perspective to provide just the right information at just the right time. Our meeting app acts as Swiss Army Knife that helps attendees stay organized and effective so they can focus their limited time on what’s most important – learning and networking at the event.”

The EIBTM Technology Watch is the most significant and longest running technology award for the meetings industry. The goals are to recognize technology innovation and to highlight significant trends impacting meeting planners, attendees and exhibitors at events.
The winner and five honorable mentions for were selected from a tie-breaking record 56 applications.

Details about EIBTM Technology Watch are available at http://www.corbinball.com/articles_technology/index.cfm?fuseaction=cor_av&artID=9023

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app for training, corporate event and association meeting planners. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones and tablets as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. It enables paperless events and is designed for large medical and scientific meetings. For more information and to check out the many other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

About EIBTM
EIBTM is one of the largest tradeshows in the meetings industry. The 2011 meeting had over 15,219 participants from over 90 countries. http://eibtm.com

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Santa Rosa, Calif. – October 12, 2012 – ATIV Software’s Silke Fleischer was named a Finalist in the “Female Entrepreneur of the Year – Business Products” category in the 9th annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business, and will ultimately be a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award winner in the program.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run – worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards.

Silke Fleischer co-founded ATIV Software and published the sophisticated EventPilot conference app which received the GOLD Stevie® Award in 2012 American Business Awards℠. In addition to starting a rapid growth company in the male dominated mobile app development world, she implemented a completely remote business structure to keep the company footprint small while offering employees the greatest flexibility in working from anywhere in the world.

“Silke’s tremendous dedication and work ethic, her passion for the environment and highest quality products have been instrumental in the success of our company and our conference app EventPilot,” said Eric Converse, CTO and co-founder of ATIV Software. “It’s impressive to see her life achievements from growing up in a small town in East Germany to running a cutting-edge high-tech business that serves some of the largest medical and scientific association events in the country. We are thrilled about her nomination for the Women in Business award.”

More than 1,200 entries were submitted this year for consideration in more than 90 categories. Finalists were chosen by more than 130 business professionals worldwide during preliminary judging. More than 90 members of the five final judging committees will determine the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award placements from among the Finalists during final judging

“We’re very excited about this year’s Finalists in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business,” said Michael Gallagher, founder and president of the Stevie Awards. “The judges have told me that they think this is the best and most inspiring crop of nominees we’ve ever had. We look forward to seeing the judges’ final decisions.”

Details about the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/Women.

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app for training, corporate event and association meeting planners. EventPilot enables attendees to stay organized throughout a conference on their mobile device and thereby reduces the massive paper-waste at conferences and meetings. The event app is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones and tablets as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to check out the many other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

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Santa Rosa, Calif. – September 18, 2012 - ATIV Software was presented with a Gold Stevie® Award in the Education & Reference App category for its conference app EventPilot in The 10th Annual American Business Awards last night.

EventPilot is a native conference and meeting app for iOS/Android phones and tablets, as well as web-enabled devices. The app is designed to radically improve traditional print event programs and provide a paperless, interactive and personalized experience for attendees. As the Swiss Army Knife for event goers, EventPilot enables easy schedule personalization, networking using digital business cards, and access to up-to-date event information.

“We are excited to have received this award as recognition of the hard work we put into developing the best conference app in the market,” said Silke Fleischer, CEO and co-founder of ATIV Software. “With EventPilot, attendees can instantly view thousands of sessions, personalize the app, and network with other attendees offline without relying on Internet access. EventPilot’s unique PowerPoint and scientific abstract viewer enables event planners to save money and reduce waste by going completely paperless. EventPilot is making a difference.”

More than 3,000 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. The category Education & Reference App is a new category in the program. Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 270 executives nationwide who participated in the judging process this year.

“We’re delighted that the first of our two American Business Awards banquets honored so many deserving organizations and executives,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards.  “It’s gratifying and inspiring to have received so many remarkable entries for this year’s competition.”

Details about The American Business Awards and the lists of Stevie Award winners who were announced on September 17 are available at http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2654_21618.cfm.

About ATIV Software
ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app for training, corporate event and association meeting planners. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android phones and tablets as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to check out the many other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.  Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.  Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

Sponsors and partners of The 2012 American Business Awards include American Support, Business TalkRadio Network, CallidusCloud, Citrix Online, Dynamic Research Corporation, iolo technologies, John Hancock Funds, LifeLock, PetRays, Primus Telecommunications Group, SoftPro, and VerticalResponse.

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Santa Rosa, Calif. – August 09, 2012 ATIV Software announces today that its conference app EventPilot is a PCMA Convene “Best in Show” winner in the category “Best Technology Tool.” Readers of PCMA’s award-winning publication Convene nominated the best services and venues in the meetings industry from which editors selected the top five in each category. Read the entry at http://content.yudu.com/A1xu8j/ConveneAugust2012/resources/68.htm

The EventPilot mobile conference app offers innovative mobile technology for meeting and event planners that make their life easier and their events greener while cutting costs. The native iOS and Android app helps eliminate paper waste and is specifically designed for very large datasets or complex conference schedules. EventPilot offers instant offline access to media rich mobile conference programs for some of the largest healthcare and scientific meetings with thousands of sessions and searchable medical abstracts.

“We are honored to see EventPilot selected as Best Technology Tool in our industry.” said Silke Fleischer, Co-Founder and CEO of ATIV Software. “It is a reflection of our passion for developing cutting-edge technology, creating solutions for paperless events, and improving the attendee conference experience.”

Features of the EventPilot mobile conference app also include:

Paperless Events with Unique PowerPoint Slide Viewer with Note Taking

Integrate all session PowerPoint presentations to build a mobile learning tool while reducing or eliminating paper waste. Attendees take notes directly on slides within the application.

Native Mobile Event App with True Offline Functionality

Native iPhone, iPad, and Android conference app ensures best performance, network independence, and device specific navigation users expect.

Powerful Personal Scheduling Features

Enable attendees to easily fill their day by adding sessions to their visual schedule, see open time slots, or add personal meetings with exhibitors.

Direct Database Integration, 24/7 Data Updates, and Instant App Solutions

Save time and reduce content errors by simply synchronizing thousands of sessions, speakers, or exhibitors and update the app data within seconds. The highly configurable EventPilot platform includes a variety of editions from instant native event programs to fully custom branded apps.

Learn more at http://content.yudu.com/A1xu8j/ConveneAugust2012/resources/68.htm

About PCMA

PCMA is the multi-channel professional resource and premier educator for leaders in the meetings, conventions, events and trade show industries. For additional information, please visit the PCMA Web site at http://pcma.org.

About ATIV Software

ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app for training, corporate event and association meeting planners. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to check out the many other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

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Santa Rosa, Calif. – August 8, 2012 ATIV Software offers the NCSBN 2012 conference program based on the EventPilot platform to enable a cutting edge conference experience at the NCSBN annual meeting. With the convenient native app, attendees are able to easily build and manage their personal agenda without requiring Wi-Fi access.

“The EventPilot meeting app is the most cutting edge native event app to deliver all conference information on mobile devices,” said Eric Converse, CTO and co-founder of ATIV Software. “EventPilot is specifically developed for healthcare and scientific meetings and is designed to help attendees focus on discussing important regulatory issues, save time planning their sessions, and stay organized with built-in session and exhibitor note taking.”

Features of the EventPilot mobile conference app also include:

Powerful Personal Scheduling Features

Enable attendees to easily fill their day by adding sessions to their visual schedule, see open time slots, or add personal meetings with exhibitors.

Offline Note Taking to Stay Organized

Attendees take notes directly within the app in context of sessions, speakers, or exhibitors. All notes can be exported via an organized email report.

Native Mobile Event App with True Offline Functionality

Native iPhone, iPad, and Android conference app ensures best performance, network independence, and device specific navigation users expect.

Availability

The free iPhone and iPad conference apps are available now in the App Store by searching for “NCSBN 2012”. The free Android event app is available in Google Play by searching for “NCSBN 2012”. An online version for web-enabled devices is available.

About ATIV Software

ATIV Software offers EventPilot, the customizable mobile conference app for training, corporate event and association meeting planners. EventPilot is available as a native app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android as well as a mobile web version for all other web-enabled devices including Windows Phone 7. For more information and to check out the many other features, visit http://www.ativsoftware.com.

The thought of going completely paperless can seem a little scary - attendees want and need their handouts. Going paperless doesn't have to mean you are taking something away from attendees. Digital content is not just greener but provides an unmatched convenience for attendees. Simply look at what's been happening in the publishing industry - this year, ebook sales have now surpassed even hard cover book sales. The easy access, light weight, ability to search, highlight or take notes adds value for users. If you offer the EventPilot conference app, just like with ebooks, you are greatly enhancing the attendee's experience with the countless benefits of convenient and interactive event apps. So, if you are thinking about taking the plunge to create a paperless event, the following ideas may come in handy:

Get attendees on board early

Communicating the environmental impact of all your printed materials early on can help you get attendee buy-in long before your event. Estimate your water, CO2, and waste savings from eliminating printing with our free green events calculator. Include it all - your brochure, program updates, daily news, announcement flyers, tote bag content, session materials, evaluation surveys, and more.

Reward attendees that support your efforts

Survey attendees during registration if they are going to be using a mobile device or need a printed version to access the event program. Also include the environmental impact information to help registrants making their decision. This instantly allows you to determine how much to reduce printing. Reward sustainability with a special icon or color on the attendee badge that publicly indicates their choice. Alternatively, an incentive such as a reduced registration fee may attract additional mobile use.

Provide a mobile app

While USB sticks and PDFs were a step in the right direction, they do not offer the interactive and personalized experience your attendees need while at the event. EventPilot on the other hand is not just a digital version of a printed program. It is designed as a Swiss Army Knife that

• gives attendees access to updated information when and wherever they need it,
• in a personalized and convenient format,
• without external limitations (such as requiring Wi-Fi) to work.

Make handouts even more valuable

The session handouts are one of the most valuable takeaways for your attendees. You can easily integrate PowerPoint presentation slides offline and allow attendees to take notes directly on the slides - just as they would have with printed materials. Mobile session handouts actually offer more value to attendees than paper could:

• Take notes you can export into an email report with the slide image attached
• Searchable and filtered by keywords
• Bookmark slides for later review
• Tweet slides - why not send a slide with your comment to Twitter?
• Light weight and convenient - no need to carry around stacks of paper
• Accessible in context of the session description and speaker bio/contact information

For medical meetings, you can easily include all of the scientific research abstracts directly within the app. Take a look at the ACC.12 app which includes thousands of abstracts offline.

Include evaluations and credit tracking

You can easily include session evaluations or forms to track education credits directly in your app. Not only is it paperless, it saves your team hours of work dealing with paper forms and it's convenient for attendees with easy access from the session description. Services like SurveyMonkey offer great mobile formatted surveys with powerful data analysis features.

Highlight daily news in your app

The home screen of your app is a great place to post a link to your daily news. Simply create a basic web page you can link to from within the app or your website. Include the following meta tags to make help make your page look good on a small screen:

In your HTML header, include the following two meta tags

<meta name='HandheldFriendly' content='TRUE' />
<meta name = 'viewport' content = 'width = device-width' />

Incentivize exhibitors

One major paper-waste-contributor and probably the most difficult to turn paperless is your exhibition. Ask your exhibitors to support your efforts by becoming a "Green Exhibitor" and leaving all paper at the office. Those exhibitors could be marked with a "Green Exhibitor" badge at the booth, listed in a special section within the app above all other exhibitors, and receive the option to include a trackable link to a YouTube video, interactive product fact sheet, or webinar signup form directly in the app. These interactive and immersive documents are more valuable for your exhibitors than a high gloss brochure in the trash can.
Alternatively, you could always incentivize exhibitors with booth discounts, a special booth placement, or charge an additional fee if they wish to bring paper or SWAG.

Reduce use of posters and signs

Instead of printing signs or banners, use projectors and monitors which you can also reuse at different events. Projectors and monitors can offer more flexibility and a more interesting animated way to display sponsor logos. Set up iPads with the app to display important messages at the registration desk. The displays can be turned off at night and the power use offset with green energy. To provide links to additional information, use QR codes on the screens (generate QR codes freehttp://qrcode.kaywa.com/). If you plan to print QR codes, use short URLs that simply redirect to a web page. You can change the redirection any time without having to reprint the QR code. Choose a conference app that has a QR code reader built-in, so your attendees do not have to download an additional app.

Tip: Display the short URL below the QR code - not all devices have cameras (e.g. Kindle Fire). Ensure free Wi-Fi is available where QR codes are being displayed, or attendees won't be able to access the information.

Create a paperless event archive

A well designed post show website with conference highlights, key tweets, and  links to presentations and handouts is a great paperless resource for attendees after the event. If possible, keep your event site as a permanent archive so attendees can still access slides and materials years from now.

Maintain integrity

If you communicate to your attendees that you are going paperless, any paper you distribute will be noticed. Be mindful of your words and actions.

What has been your own experience?

Do you have additional suggestions? Please let us know via the comments below what you would add to the list.