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Leaderboards that celebrate impact.
Real-time rankings for conferences, festivals, hackathons and trade shows. Spotlight the top sessions, speakers and sponsors on the venue screen — and turn your audience from spectators into competitors.
The screen is on. Make it earn its keep.
A static agenda slide does nothing. A live leaderboard turns your venue screen into the room's pulse — who's winning, who's up next, what's heating up — and keeps attendees glancing back all day.
Drive participation
Attendees check in, vote, attend sessions and earn points. Public ranks turn passive crowds into active participants chasing the top spot.
Recognize top performers
Speakers, sessions, sponsors, vendors — celebrate the standouts in front of everyone. Recognition on the main screen is worth more than a closing-slide thank-you.
Deliver sponsor value
Sponsored leaderboards put partner logos in front of the whole room every time someone looks up. Easier to sell than a banner — and impossible to miss.
Spotlight the sessions and speakers earning the buzz.
Tally session ratings, speaker points and audience votes in real time. Show top sessions during the lunch break, top speakers at the closing keynote. Stack multiple boards on one screen — experiences, speakers, upcoming sessions.
- Multi-board layout for sessions, speakers and tracks
- Vote via QR code from any phone — no app install
- Real-time updates during the talk
- Permanent results page after the event
Rank attendees, cohorts, even whole cities.
Multi-city series, festival circuits, recurring community meetups — leaderboards travel with you. Aggregate points across events, surface the most-engaged cohorts, and turn regulars into a competition that lives between dates.
- Per-event + season-long aggregate views
- Group by city, chapter, cohort or community
- Auto-rollover between events
- Public results page each event ends with
Give organizers, venues and sponsors a board of their own.
Run a multi-organizer festival? Rank organizers by event attendance. Showcase your best venues. Hand sponsors a co-branded board to demo ROI in real time. Every stakeholder gets a metric they can point at.
- Multi-tenant boards for organizers and venues
- Sponsor logos, custom colors and branded headers
- REST API to plug into your event-management stack
- Export results to CSV for post-event reporting
Any event with a screen and a story to tell.
From 50-person meetups to 50,000-person festivals — if there's something worth ranking, BoardQ shows it live.
Conferences & Summits
Best session, top speaker, attendee challenge. Display on stage screens between keynotes and during breaks.
Hackathons
Live judging scores, public popularity vote, team standings. Update as judges submit, no spreadsheet juggling.
Festivals & Expos
Stage popularity, food-vendor votes, exhibitor traffic. Turn passive attendance into engagement data.
Awards & Ceremonies
Live nomination tallies, audience-choice voting, category standings on the big screen as votes come in.
Trade Shows & Expos
Booth-traffic leaderboards, lead-capture races, sponsor tier showcases. Real-time exhibitor competition.
Sports & Charity Events
5K times, fundraising totals, team standings. Live updates via API as runners cross the line or donations land.
Hybrid & Virtual Events
Embed the leaderboard in your stream and event app. Remote attendees see the same board as the room.
Meetups & Workshops
Recurring-event rankings, attendee streaks, top contributors. Build community momentum across months.
Wire it into your event stack in one POST.
Don't make a volunteer copy-paste scores into a spreadsheet. Push from your event app, judging form, sponsor portal, ticket scanner — anything that knows when a number changed.
- Eventbrite / Hopin / Bevy — webhook on check-in
- Custom judging forms — Typeform, Tally, Google Forms via Zapier
- Donation platforms — Donorbox, Classy, GoFundMe charity events
- Your event app — anything that can POST JSON
# Push a session-rating vote from your event app
curl -X POST https://api.boardq.io/v1/scores \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BOARDQ_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"board_id": "summit-2025-top-sessions",
"participant": "AI Innovators Live",
"score": 2145,
"unit": "pts"
}'Everything event teams need. Nothing they don't.
⚡ Real-time updates
WebSocket-powered. Score changes hit the projector before the next slide finishes loading.
📽️ Built for projectors
Full-screen mode with high-contrast themes tuned for venue projectors, LED walls and 4K stage displays.
📲 QR-code participation
Drop a QR on the slide. Attendees scan, vote and watch the board move. No app install, no friction.
🔌 REST API + webhooks
Push from any event app, judging tool, or donation platform. Pull standings into your post-event report.
🎨 Custom branding
Event logo, sponsor logos, custom colors. Make the board feel like part of your show, not someone else's.
🖥️ Embed anywhere
iframe into your event website, drop into OBS as a browser source, embed inside your mobile event app.
👥 Multi-judge updates
Anyone with the edit link can post scores. Or wire judges up via API for one-tap submissions from a tablet.
📦 CSV export
Pull post-event results into your reporting deck, sponsor recap or year-over-year comparison.
Just want one board on the big screen?
Not every event needs sponsor branding and multi-region cohorts. Sometimes you just want one clean leaderboard up on the projector. There's a template for that — pick a theme, share the link, done.
Pick a template →“We put a live attendee-points board on the main stage screen during our two-day summit. Session attendance jumped 22% on day two — people were chasing the top spot.”
Common questions.
Can I display this on the venue projector?
Yes — that's the primary use case. Open the leaderboard in any browser, click full-screen, and it auto-refreshes over WebSocket. Dark and light themes are both tuned for large venue displays.
How do attendees vote or check in?
Display a QR code at the venue. Attendees scan it on their phones to view the live board, vote, or check in. No app download required — it works in any mobile browser.
Can I run multiple boards for one event?
Yes. Stack as many boards as you need — top sessions, best speakers, sponsor of the day, attendee challenge. Show them side-by-side or rotate on the venue screen.
Does it integrate with my event platform?
Yes. The REST API accepts scores from anywhere — Eventbrite, Hopin, Bevy, your custom event app, judging forms, or a Zapier workflow connected to Typeform / Google Forms.
Can I embed it in my live stream?
Yes. Add the leaderboard URL as a browser source in OBS, Streamlabs, vMix or any streaming setup. Remote attendees see the same live standings as the room.
Is it free for small events?
Yes. Free plan = 2 leaderboards, unlimited participants, real-time updates, QR codes, REST API. Premium ($6.99/month) unlocks unlimited boards, custom branding and sponsor logos for larger productions.
Your next event deserves the spotlight.
Free to start. Unlimited attendees. No credit card. Upgrade only when you need sponsor branding or unlimited boards.
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