We had to let people register as coming to the event first and made one generic activity time block included with their admission item. I tried to use Session Groups and it looked terrible on the registration screen when you brought it in since it can't be formatted nicely.
We sent a Session Ranking Survey for the generic activity/session to the registrants that said yes they could attend. It included 6 questions with all of the same topics listed on each question and let them pick which ones were their top 6 choices.
Once we had all of the responses, we had to move the people to their preferred sessions/times manually for each unique activity/session to make sure we had capacity per room/time.
I hope this makes sense. I believe we had two surveys included for free in our license package. One for an individual session feedback/ranking and another for the entire event's feedback.
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Alexis Terzo
Senior Associate
Farallon CapitalUnited States
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