We've worked the gate at midnight after a guest's flight got delayed. We've reprinted 400 badges because the spreadsheet had a column off by one. We've watched a panel runner discover their schedule was a printout from three days ago. Confanum is the platform we wished we'd had.
Latin: con (together) + fanum (temple, sanctuary). In ancient Rome, a fanum was where communities gathered around a shared devotion — the linguistic ancestor of the word fan.
A convention is a modern fanum. Our job is to help organizers create that gathering place.
Most event tech is built for corporate trade shows or stadium concerts. The platforms that say "we do conventions too" usually mean "we sell tickets and call it a day." That's not a platform. That's a checkout.
We came up running fan conventions, faires, and performing-arts events — programming, volunteer ops, vendor management, event production, on-site ops, guest relations. The shape of those weekends is different from a corporate summit. There are panels submitted by community members that need review. There are 200 volunteers who all have day jobs and need to self-select shifts. There are reserved seats with tier pricing for a 2,400-seat hall. There are guests who are running 20 minutes late and a photo op queue that's growing fast. There are vendor halls and food trucks and parking and badge printing and 8 AM gate check-ins on day three when everyone is exhausted.
We ran those weekends on Eventbrite + SignUpGenius + Google Forms + Sched + Mailchimp + a printed binder. Every year we'd swear we were going to fix it. Every year we'd run out of time and run it the same way. Every year there was an attendee who couldn't find their photo op queue, a volunteer who showed up to a shift that had been moved, a sponsor who didn't get the metrics they were promised.
Confanum is what we built when we got tired of it. One platform — admin dashboard, white-label mobile app, on-site operations — that runs the whole weekend. Schedule, guests, ticketing, reserved seating, vendors, volunteers, panels, photo ops, scavenger hunts, sponsor management, multi-year analytics. All of it talks to itself, because it has to. The schedule change you make in the dashboard is on every attendee's phone within seconds. The QR scan at the gate feeds the dashboard immediately. The ticket purchase shows up in revenue analytics by ticket type, by promo code, by hour.
We're early. We have five white-label apps in production. We have customers we love working with. We have a long list of features we still want to build. But the core platform is here — built, shipping, running events. If you run a convention, a faire, a festival, or a performing-arts venue and you're tired of duct tape, we'd love to talk.
President / CTO / Lead Engineer. Architected and built the Confanum platform end-to-end. Background spans event production, software engineering, and the long tail of running fan-driven conventions on tools that weren't built for them.
Advisory Board slots open: industry advisor, SaaS growth advisor, technical advisor. Talk to us if you're interested.
Book a demo. We'll load your data and show you what your weekend looks like in Confanum. 20 minutes, no slides.