Case Study: Parenteral Drug Association achieves a cut in post-conference data entry from 3 days to 15 minutes with Aptify

How PDA Developed a Random List Trick to Simplify Staff Workload

The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) is a nonprofit professional society serving nearly 10,000 pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical members worldwide and organizing large conferences with about 24 industry interest groups. After events that draw 600–800 attendees, staff faced a tedious post-conference task of entering 1,200–1,400 people into committee records to track group membership.

Using the Aptify platform, PDA developed a simple “Random List Trick”: export Aptify linked data to Excel via the Aptify Excel integration wizard, verify entries on the FINDER tab against registration lists, then press a button to add names to the appropriate committees. The streamlined process cut the task from nearly three days to about 15 minutes, dramatically reducing staff workload and improving accuracy.

Parenteral Drug Association

Jonathan Hill

Volunteer Coordinator