runacon
The easiest tool for managing
and publishing your academic conference
Antonio Jesús Sánchez Padial
Tetuan Valley Startup School, Madrid
Founders
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Antonio Jesús Sánchez Padial
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Software Engineer (M.Sc.)
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10+ years experience at Research Centres
Recruiting a partner
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PhD with some research experience
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... or not
The problem
Managing and web-publishing academic conferences
drains research resources
- Research staff wasting their time on IT
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Money to contractors
- Management or IT staff wasting their time
The market
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Academia.edu hosts 5M users
- Most of them will attend an academic conference this year
- ~25,000 conferences are run every year
- According to a Pareto rate, 20,000 of them will be medium or small sized, our prefered target: short of money and staff
- Yearly price: 300$ to 700$
Hint: Expect to grow adding research management tools