Roles
Participants
A participant is anyone who takes part in the conference: registering, paying, and — as an author — submitting papers. One account covers all of it.
Author and attendee are one account
SmartChair does not separate “authors” from “attendees”. A participant account can register for the conference, pay the fee, and submit papers — any combination, in any order the conference's deadlines allow. Someone who only attends never sees the submission pages; someone who only submits can skip registration until the conference requires it.
What a participant does
- Register — fill in basic information (name, affiliation, and whatever the conference asks), submit the registration, and confirm it. A registration can be modified or withdrawn, and its status is always visible on the participant's portal page.
- Pay — online through the conference's enabled payment methods, or by submitting proof of a bank transfer where the conference accepts that. See Fees & payment.
- Submit papers — upload an abstract or full paper before the deadline, update it while submission is open, and submit a revised version when the review result allows it. See Submission overview.
- Join a mini-symposium — propose one, or submit a presentation into an existing one (with an authorization code from its proposer, if the conference requires one). See Program & scheduling.
The participant portal
Each conference gives its participants a portal page collecting everything in one place: registration status, payment status, submitted papers with their review results, and the conference's forms and downloads.
Visibility
If the conference enables the public participant list, registered names and affiliations appear on it. Review is otherwise confidential: authors see only the author-visible part of review reports, and under blind review the reviewers do not see author names either.