Building on success — from Newcastle 2025 to Hong Kong 2026

Academic congresses are unforgiving. Abstracts, registrations, payments, committees and delegates all have to run like clockwork against a fixed date that doesn’t move — and getting it wrong in front of an international audience isn’t an option. For a volunteer-run society, that’s an enormous amount to coordinate.

ASPA needed a conference platform that could handle all of it reliably for their 2025 congress in Newcastle — and, if it worked, do it again.

We built ASPA’s 2025 congress website for Newcastle on the Membersites conference add-on — a platform already proven the year before at ISPAH’s 2024 Paris congress — with abstract management, delegate registration, e-commerce, committee management and more than a dozen bespoke conference tools, all in one place.

It worked — and ASPA embraced it, using the conference features in earnest and giving us valuable feedback along the way. We’ve kept investing in the platform behind the scenes — spearheading an automatic abstract-book generator and a steady stream of enhancements — so every event runs a little smoother than the last.

On the back of that success, we launched their 2026 congress website for Hong Kong this April. It’s already off to a strong start on abstracts — and the platform it runs on is stronger than it was a year ago.