Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Leconfe Cloud, the managed version of the open-source conference platform Leconfe.
Leconfe Cloud lets universities, associations, and conference organizers focus on their events while we take care of hosting, updates, and security behind the scenes.
Why Leconfe Cloud
Over the past few years, many institutions have adopted the open-source version of Leconfe to power their academic conferences. It has helped universities and publishers streamline submissions, peer reviews, and proceedings publication under one platform.
However, as adoption grew, we noticed a recurring challenge: not every organizing team has access to reliable technical resources. Setting up a server, configuring environments, handling email deliverability, managing backups, and keeping the system secure all require time and expertise. For many conference committees, especially those that rotate yearly, this technical overhead can delay planning or even discourage teams from using digital tools altogether.
We built Leconfe Cloud to take the weight off your shoulders. You get the same flexibility and features as the open-source version, but without having to maintain servers or apply updates. We manage everything behind the scenes performance, security, and backups so you can focus on the people and ideas that make your conference matter.
In short, Leconfe Cloud lets organizers focus on the academic and community aspects of their event, while we handle the infrastructure behind it.
With Leconfe Cloud, you can
- Launch your conference in minutes. Sign up, create your event, and start managing submissions right away, no installation or setup needed.
- Focus on your conference, not the infrastructure. We handle hosting, updates, security, and scaling so you can stay focused on organizing a great event.
- Customize your experience. Personalize your website, and settings to match your institution’s workflow.
Open source remains at our core
Leconfe Cloud is not a departure from open source – it is an extension of it. At its core, Leconfe Cloud grows from the same open-source foundation that started it all. We maintain the project openly on GitHub and invite the community to shape it with us, because academic publishing should stay open, transparent, and free from proprietary limits.
The open-source foundation ensures transparency in how your conference data is handled and gives developers and institutions the freedom to customize and contribute. Many of the features that exist in Leconfe Cloud originated from community feedback and pull requests from universities and independent developers who use the self-hosted version.
With Leconfe Cloud, that same openness continues, but with added convenience. Institutions that prefer to manage their own deployment can continue using the open-source version freely. Those who need reliability, professional support, and automatic scaling can choose the cloud-hosted option. Both versions are compatible, so you can migrate between them without rebuilding your conference from scratch.
Our commitment is long-term: to keep Leconfe open, interoperable, and community-driven — regardless of whether you use it on your own servers or through our cloud infrastructure.
Start your conference today.
Sign up and launch your first conference today at https://event.leconfe.com.
Leconfe Cloud marks a new chapter for modern, efficient, and inclusive academic conferences.