Fourwaves

We are Fourwaves, a company born out of firsthand academic experience. It all started in 2012 when four Ph.D. students in bioinformatics at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada were organizing a large student conference. They needed an easy way to plan and manage the event, but no tool was available at the time, so they built a website from scratch to help streamline the process. The event was a success, and local researchers organizing other conferences began asking if they could use a similar website for their own events. This is how we realized how helpful it would be to have a self-serve platform for researchers that would allow them to save time and have a professional event platform. Over the years, Fourwaves has been rebuilt by our team of passionate internal engineers, with the constant objective of creating a modern, easy-to-use, and affordable platform specialized in academic events.

Our mission is to support academic and research communities by providing the most modern platform to allow their members to meet, network, and communicate. We believe that scientific research is a pathway to a better future, and we empower researchers with tools that allow them to exchange ideas and forge collaborations. We're building a platform that empowers researchers, sparks amazing discoveries, and connects people. We partner with universities and associations worldwide, particularly in North America and Europe, who face the same needs and challenges, often stuck using the same outdated tools. We're a trusted partner for hundreds of universities and associations. We aim to be the globally recognized solution for academic conferences of all sizes. We're all about creating tools that matter and make a real impact. Our DNA is made up of a commitment to research excellence, global reach without losing focus, and investing in the future of research and education through initiatives like the Fourwaves Scholarship.

We strive to transform event planning from a daunting task into a thrilling journey. Whether you're hosting intimate symposiums or grand international conferences, Fourwaves empowers you to focus on what matters most: advancing research, fostering collaboration, and inspiring discovery. We offer an online, mobile-friendly platform dedicated to academic and scientific conferences, whether the events are in-person, hybrid, or virtual. It gathers all the tools organizers need to streamline administrative tasks as well as plan and host live video presentations and virtual poster sessions. We provide a simple, yet powerful event management platform to host academic and scientific events, covering everything from event website creation, registrations and payments, abstract management and peer reviews, to scheduling and virtual poster sessions. Our team of professionals is distributed throughout the world, from Canada to Belgium, and we're passionate about our work and creating a supportive and fun environment.