For the communities M Events serves, the annual congress is often the most significant professional gathering of the year. The program is their map through it. It's where a researcher finds the session that reframes their next study, and where a clinician catches the abstract that shifts their practice. We rebuilt the PAG to honor that. A more capable, more consistent experience, designed to get out of the way and let the content do its work.
A New Program At a Glance
The new PAG is a complete rebuild: a single unified system with a consistent design, significantly better performance, and a clearly structured admin interface. Every congress now runs on the same modern foundation, built to grow with your program for the years ahead.
Five Configurable Views
The new PAG offers five views, each independently enabled or disabled per event:
Horizontal scheduler: the classic grid layout, rooms side by side with time on the horizontal axis. Supports multiple zoom levels, multi-day tab navigation, and a color legend for session types or groups. Works best for large congresses with many parallel tracks.
Vertical scheduler: time on the vertical axis, rooms as columns. A cleaner option for events with fewer rooms, with all the same filter and zoom features.
List view: full-text searchable and filterable across sessions, presentations, posters, and faculty. Supports infinite scroll and inline detail expansion.
Live streams: shows only currently active sessions, with an embedded player, live viewer count, Q&A, and voting. Automatically transitions to the on-demand recording once a session ends. Rooms without an active stream are hidden.
Floorplans: interactive venue and exhibition maps in three types. A static venue image, an interactive exhibitor map where tapping a booth opens the exhibitor profile directly, and an interactive room map where tapping a room shows its current or upcoming sessions. All three are set up through the Admin Tool, with no development work required.
Detail overlays
Clicking any session, presentation, poster, or faculty member opens a detail panel inside the program without leaving the page. It slides in from the right and expands to full screen. What appears in the panel is configurable per content type and can include full session details and room information, faculty photos and biographies, abstracts as inline HTML or PDF download, a live stream or recording player, Q&A/Voting/Evaluation tabs, a poster viewer with zoom, related sessions, and CME point information. Section order is configurable, and the Admin Tool shows a live preview as changes are made.
Personal Program
Attendees can save sessions as favorites while logged in. "My Program" mode filters the entire scheduler and list view down to saved items only. Favorites are stored server-side, sync across devices, and can be exported as a printable PDF.
Live and On-demand Logic
The live badge is time-based. It appears when a session starts and clears when it ends. The on-demand badge is more tightly gated: the session must have ended, the recording must be attached, and the configured release time must have been reached. Transitions between live and on-demand happen automatically, with no manual step required from your team. The scheduler also shows a real-time current time indicator that moves across the grid, visible on the current day tab only.
Mobile
The PAG runs natively inside iOS and Android congress apps and automatically adapts its behavior to the host environment. All views respond to phone and tablet screen sizes: the scheduler scrolls horizontally and vertically with touch gestures, and the sidebar collapses into an overlay drawer. A separate default view can be configured specifically for mobile users, for example showing the list view on phones and the horizontal scheduler on desktop.
Floorplans on mobile show a bottom sheet panel for room and booth details rather than an inline sidebar. A booth preview thumbnail can be enabled for quick identification before opening the full detail, and initial zoom level and rotation are separately configurable for mobile. Tap targets, scroll areas, and overlay panels are sized for finger navigation throughout.
Admin Tool
Everything is configurable from the browser without development support: brand colors, UI text labels, which views are active, the default landing view, scheduler zoom levels, filter options and sort order, content pill presets (one-tap quick filters like "Scientific" or "On Demand"), live stream and recording behavior, evaluation timing, access control, faculty display, floorplan setup, timezone and time format, and the search bar appearance.
Configuration versioning gives you a full version history with field-level diffs. Revert unsaved changes, roll back to any previously published version, or export and import configurations across instances as JSON.
Deep links are also included: every session, presentation, and filtered view has a shareable URL that restores the exact state, including active filters and any open detail panel. Browser back and forward work as expected throughout.
Access control
Content can be restricted to logged-in or registered attendees, with permission rules defined in the backend. The Admin Tool controls whether access control is active per event and determines exactly what attendees see when access is denied, including fully customizable modal text and call-to-action. Unauthorized users see only the denial message, never the restricted content itself. Individual features can be gated independently: favoriting, recordings, Q&A, and live streams each carry their own access rules, and live streams can show a blurred preview to guests before prompting for login.
One Change. Delivered Everywhere.
Every improvement to the platform begins with the same question: what do the people in the room actually need, and does the infrastructure match it? The updates above reflect that. The program gets better, the tools your team works with get sharper, and the congress gets closer to the experience it should be.
If you have questions about any of the above, or want to see how specific features apply to your next event, reach out to your account contact.