About the Company—What We Do
In 1984, company founder Mitchell Beer created InfoLink Consultants Inc., the one-person business venture that would grow into The Conference Publishers. Armed only with his trusty "portable" Kaypro 4 computer and a commitment to accurate, timely writing and editing, Mitchell quickly established a reputation for innovation and reliability.
When an early client mentioned that her fledgling organization was about to hold its first national conference, but had no idea how they'd document the event, Mitchell offered an unusual—and daring—solution. Why not send a team of writers onsite, assigning one to each concurrent session? Using the writers' reports, Mitchell would edit, assemble, and print a final summary report to hand out as participants left the conference's closing plenary meeting. By the time he'd left the client's office that day, he had coined The Conference Publishers' inaugural product: the "simultaneous conference report."
This new approach required not only excellent notetaking, writing, and editing skills, but seamless logistics. With each new project, the firm refined the production process, adapting his reports' formats and logistics to match clients' needs as perfectly as possible.
Clients knew they could count on concise, timely summaries of presentations and discussions—and they learned that InfoLink's reports could help maintain a conference's momentum, spurring further discussion among participants and spreading the meeting's message to the larger community.
The company continued to grow and evolve, and in 2006 we became The Conference Publishers, a name that reflects exactly what we do. We have produced conference reports, newsletters, thematic summaries, white papers, and decision notes, in print and online, for more than 3,000 conferences, in more than 200 communities and 15 countries.
Now entering our twenty-fifth year, The Conference Publishers has become the world's leader in capturing—and delivering—conference content.