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conference planning
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Free forever for conferences under 100 submissions. No credit card.
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Everything, in one place
Built for Today's Academic Conferences
Brownbag simplifies what matters most: robust peer review, efficient organization, and smooth collaboration, all in one platform that actually works for researchers.
Public conference page, Notion-style
Write your call for papers the way you write notes. Type / for headings, images, tabs and submission blocks, then publish to a public URL. No web team, no HTML.
Analytics built in
Page views, referrers and devices for your conference page — no third-party tag to install.
Accept paper submissions
Build the submission form you actually need — required fields, file types, deadlines, co-authors. Authors upload once and reuse it across conferences.
Manage submissions and reviewers
Assign internal and external reviewers, organize the pile with custom labels, watch scores land, and export everything to CSV whenever you want it.
Email communication
Write once, send to the right group — authors, reviewers, attendees. Send now or schedule it for the day the deadline closes.
Program manager
Drag accepted papers into sessions, rooms and time slots — then publish the program for your audience on any device.
Accept registrations
Open registration alongside your call for papers, collect the attendee details you need, and keep one list of who is coming.
Brownbag
+ ChatGPT
Connect your conference to ChatGPT and run it by asking. Match reviewers to papers by expertise, apply labels, pull submission lists, read abstracts, submit reviews — in plain language, with your Brownbag permissions carried across.
Organizers — reviewer assignment, labels, submission lists
Reviewers — assignments, abstracts, PDFs, scored reviews
Simple pricing
Start free with the full product. Upgrade when your conference grows.
Free
All features—organizer views cap at 100 submissions
- Full conference management tools
- Reviewer workflows and scoring
- Program builder
- Analytics and CSV exports
- View up to 100 submissions
No credit card required.
Premium
Unlimited submissions in organizer views
One-time · lifetime for this conference
- Everything in Free
- View all submissions — no cap
Secure payments with Stripe. Upgrade anytime from your dashboard.
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See it in Action
Discover how Brownbag streamlines your entire conference journey:
Create and publish conference pages with our intuitive editor
Collect paper submissions
Coordinate reviews with your scientific committee
Build your conference program
Open registration for attendees
Communicate with your attendees
Frequently Asked Questions
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Publish your call for papers in five minutes
Create the conference, publish the call for papers, and open the submission portal to authors. Free for conferences under 100 submissions.