Conference Participants survey about post event follow up

Create expert-level survey by chatting with AI.

Need fast, meaningful feedback? Want to engage your conference participants and improve events? With Specific’s AI survey generator, you can create a high-quality, post event follow-up survey in seconds and start collecting real insights—just click and go. You can try it right here for free.

Why post event follow-up surveys for conference participants matter

If you’re not running post event follow-up surveys after your conference, you’re missing out on valuable opportunities to measure impact and uncover actionable improvements. Conference participants bring diverse experiences, expectations, and feedback—if you capture those insights quickly, you can make every future event better.

Consider this: sending a post-event survey within 24 to 48 hours after a conference increases response rates by up to 34% because impressions are still fresh and relevant [1]. That's a huge win for anyone who wants to learn what really worked and what can be improved.

  • Importance of timely feedback: Fresh, honest participant responses are much more likely when you reach out right after your event ends.

  • Actionable insights: When you understand what your attendees valued—or what frustrated them—you can adapt, personalize, and build better experiences for future conferences.

  • Retention and networking: Post event surveys keep your brand top of mind, nurture relationships, and show participants you value their input, building community over time.

Skip these surveys and you risk guessing (rather than knowing) what really happened at your event. For deeper ideas, check out our take on the best questions for conference participants survey about post event follow up.

The advantage of using an AI survey generator

Traditional survey tools are slow, repetitive, and require lots of tweaking. With an AI survey generator like Specific, you instantly craft expert-level surveys—even if you’re not a survey pro. Why waste a morning dragging and dropping questions when AI can build a full, research-backed conversational survey, tailored for post event follow up, in just a few seconds?

AI-driven approaches do more than automate question writing. They revolutionize the experience for both you and your respondents, by making surveys feel like a genuine conversation—not a boring form. According to research, AI-powered chatbots significantly enhance participant engagement and elicit higher quality responses, probing for more information in real time [4].

Manual Surveys

AI-Generated Surveys

Manual question writing

Instant question generation from your brief

One-size-fits-all or generic templates

Custom-fit to your conference topic and goals

Low engagement, static form experience

Conversational, chat-like interaction for higher response quality

No follow-up probing, flat data

Smart follow-ups for deeper, more nuanced insights

Why use AI for conference participants surveys? Simple: You get better feedback, faster, with less friction—no expertise needed. With Specific, that means a best-in-class user experience for both survey creators and respondents, from initial setup to rich, conversational replies. And if you want to customize questions, our AI survey editor lets you edit each question by chatting, instead of wrangling tiny text fields.

Designing questions that drive real insight

Successful post event follow-up surveys for conference participants aren’t about asking generic questions—they’re about getting to the “why” behind each answer. At Specific, our AI survey generator is trained by research specialists, so you get expert-quality questions every time.

  • Bad question: “Did you enjoy the conference?” (Vague, unhelpful—what was enjoyed/not enjoyed?)

  • Good question: “What aspects of the conference did you find most valuable, and why?” (Encourages meaningful, actionable feedback.)

Specific’s AI is designed to avoid vague or leading language. It ensures questions are clear, bias-free, and focused on uncovering what actually matters. One tip: balance closed and open-ended questions. According to research, doing so gives you both quantifiable data and rich stories you can actually use to drive next steps for your events [3].

If you want to go deeper on question quality, see our guide on how to create a great conference participants survey about post event follow up.

Automatic follow-up questions based on previous reply

Here’s where Specific’s conversational AI shines: it doesn’t just ask a single question. It listens to the respondent’s reply, analyzes it, and instantly follows up with targeted, context-aware questions. This way, you gather rich, multi-layered feedback from your conference participants—no back-and-forth emails, no lost details. That’s a considerable time saver, and it makes the entire survey experience feel effortless and natural—for both the creator and the respondent.

Without smart follow-ups, responses can be incomplete or unclear. For example:

  • Conference participant: “The networking session was fine.”

  • AI follow-up: “Can you share what you liked or didn’t like about the networking session? Was there anything that could have made it more valuable to you?”

Or:

  • Conference participant: “The sessions could have been better organized.”

  • AI follow-up: “What would have helped make the sessions feel more organized? Do you have suggestions for the event schedule or speaker lineup?”

Without these built-in AI probing questions, insights get stuck at the surface and you lose the chance to really understand what’s behind the feedback. This is a new paradigm for survey design—give it a try and see the difference. You can learn more about this powerful feature in our deep dive on automatic AI follow-up questions.

These follow-ups don’t just gather info—they turn your survey into a natural, engaging conversation. That’s what makes it a true conversational survey.

Delivering your post event follow-up survey: email, link, or in-app

Specific gives you multiple ways to get your survey in front of conference participants, letting you choose what fits best:

  • Sharable landing page surveys: Get a unique survey link you can email to all attendees, post in event follow-up communications, or share on social media. Perfect for post event follow up when you want fast, frictionless distribution to a broad group.

  • In-product surveys: Embed your survey directly if your event runs in an event app or online platform. This method is ideal for hybrid/virtual events, or if you use a conference management tool with attendee logins.

For most conference audiences and post event topics, the sharable landing page is the simplest path—but if you’re collecting feedback inside your software or app, the in-product widget can gather insights right at the point of experience.

Analyzing survey responses with AI—never wrangle a spreadsheet again

With AI survey analysis, Specific instantly summarizes every answer, detects key themes, and surfaces trends across all responses. No exporting data or sifting through hundreds of open-ended replies. You can even chat with the AI right inside the platform to ask, "What’s the biggest takeaway from this event?" or "How satisfied were first-time attendees compared to veterans?" If you want a hands-on guide, read our article on how to analyze conference participants post event follow up survey responses with AI.

This automated survey insight gives you the “so what?” answers fast, and helps you take action to make your next event even better. You’ll find more about this feature on our AI survey response analysis page.

Create your post event follow-up survey now

You can generate a conference participants post event follow-up survey with AI, right on this page—get expert questions and conversational follow-ups in seconds. Try it and transform the way you get feedback at your next event.

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Sources

  1. themeetingmagazines.com. Sending timely post-event surveys boosts response rates.

  2. supersurvey.com. Research on ideal survey length and completion rates for post-event surveys.

  3. surveymonkey.com. Balancing question types for comprehensive feedback.

  4. arxiv.org. Conversational AI improves engagement and response quality in surveys.

  5. fastercapital.com. Incentivizing post-event surveys increases response rates.

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Adam Sabla

Adam Sabla is an entrepreneur with experience building startups that serve over 1M customers, including Disney, Netflix, and BBC, with a strong passion for automation.

Adam Sabla

Adam Sabla is an entrepreneur with experience building startups that serve over 1M customers, including Disney, Netflix, and BBC, with a strong passion for automation.