X-CD vs. Fourwaves

Most academic research and medical societies are running their operations on five different tools — a membership database, a separate abstract submission system, a conference registration platform, a peer review tool, and a proceedings publisher. Each was signed at a different time, with a different vendor, and the data moves between them through CSV exports and a staff member who knows where the bodies are buried. X-CD replaces all of it.

Fourwaves is conference management software for academic conferences: abstract submissions, peer review, registration, event website, program and conference app in one platform, built for researchers at universities, scientific societies and research networks. Organizers run symposia, research days, annual meetings and multi-track congresses on it, in person, hybrid or virtual, from the first call for abstracts to post-event certificates. Every module shares the same data, so nothing needs to be re-imported between a submission form, the review round, the program and the abstract booklet.