Your audience already has a login they use every day. Asking them to create another one just to register, manage a booth, or submit a talk adds a step nobody wants. Launchpad now supports single sign-on, so people can sign in with the account they already have and get straight to what they came for.

What’s new

A new Sign-in Providers page in your Launchpad setup lets you connect your organization’s identity provider. Once it’s connected, your users see a “Sign in with…” button on the portals you choose:

• Registration
• Exhibitor portal
• Call for Papers
• Speaker portal

Launchpad supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) and SAML, the standards used by most enterprise identity platforms.

How it works

1. Open Sign-in Providers in your Launchpad setup.
2. Add your provider using the details from your IT team, and give it a name your users will recognize.
3. Choose your portals and decide who the provider applies to.
4. Go live. Your users sign in with their existing account.

Key behaviors

• Set it up once, use it everywhere: Configure a provider for all your events or for a single event.
• Your audience, your rules: Send everyone through your provider, or only people from specific people. Everyone else keeps the usual sign-in.
• SSO only, or SSO as an option: Make your provider the only way in, or show it alongside the standard email sign-in.
• Portal by portal: Turn on single sign-on for Registration only, or for every portal. Each one is configured independently.
• Invitation links still work: Invited registrants and exhibitors still get straight in from their link.

Why you'll love it

The login page is the first impression of your event experience. With single sign-on, every Launchpad portal feels like part of your own ecosystem rather than a separate tool with its own password. Registration is faster, “I can’t log in” tickets drop, and attendee data stays consistent because it comes from a single source. Set it up once for your whole event portfolio, and still keep control over each event and portal.