Timer 4 Conference (T4C) is a Timing Application to Organize your Meeting or Conference.

If your meeting has several contributions and you want to keep track of them "Timer for Conference" can help you. You plan your meeting, conference of broadcast schedule with e.g. Numbers or Excel. In the planning phase it helps to use spreadsheet features to prepare a good program for a meeting or any kind of a session with multiple contributions. T4C imports CSV files and gives you a graphical overview of a session. When the session is running a timer for the presenter is displayed with just the information the speaker needs to stay within the scheduled time. The session coordinator gets a graphical display how talks are deviating from the planned schedule.
The session coordinator selects, starts and stops the contributions. With a new auto timing mode in version 3 one can also run predetermined sessions without coordinator intervention. As a meeting leader you can concentrate on listening the talks, T4C helps you to keep track of the session.
This is a new updated version 2021. Beside the changes of the user interface it has a new feature for media production. Once enabled this mode does not require any further user interaction. In this mode it steps through all contributions and shows the remaining times. The presenter window indictates the actual running contribution title as well as the next one. Timer for Conference is available in Mac App Store and runs on Mac OS X 10.11 or higher.

Features of the conference timer

  • Plan a meeting with your favorite spreadsheet (e.g. Numbers or Excel)
  • Displays the session in a table with planned and actual times
  • Shows planned and running session in parallel in a graphical representation
  • Calculates the session end during the session
  • Gives alarm when the time of a talk is over
  • Indicates with yellow and red colour when the end of a talk is approaching
  • Provides a display for the speaker with essential information during a talk
  • The speaker display is shown on a separate screen in different sizes
  • Supports touch bar of the new MacBook Pro
  • Supports dark mode when used on MacOS Majave or higher
  • Allows to add and modify talks in the table or to create a session table
  • New: automatic mode without user intervention for media production and other fixed schedules
  • New: free selectable foreground and background colors of talks to highlight special contributions
  • Online help is available: HTML or as PDF
  • The main panel: Session manager display

    Information of all presentations:

  • A table shows the imported spreadsheet schedule with updated status
  • Graphical representation of the planned session
  • Graphical representation of the actual talk status
  • Calculates estimated end of the session based on the talks
  • Displays a copy of the presenter view
  • Controls for the talks and presenter display
  • Preparation of a session

    Start "Numbers" from the help menu. This opens a preconfigured sheet that can be used as a template. (Numbers or Excel can be started from the Program folder as well.) The template has equations to calculate the end of a talk from its start, duration and gap for questions and answers (Q&A). You specify the start of the session and the length of each talk. The equation helps to fit the contributions into a session with a given time range.

  • Download an example .csv file: Test1.csv
  • Download an example .numbers file to create a .csv file: Test1.numbers
  • The presenter screen

    As a presenter you want to see how much time is left to avoid being interrupted before your final remarks. The remaining time of the talk stil available is shown graphicaly and in minutes:seconds. 10% of the time before the end the display truns yellow - still time enough to make your final point.

    Green shows the used time so far. It turns yellow short before the scheduled end of the talk.

    A red progress bar indicates overrun of the talk

    Timer for Conference session with Touchbar controls on a MacBook Pro.

    The session manager panel

    To keep track of a session a graphical representation of the planned and runnig session is shown in parallel. This helps you to control the overall schedule.

    A time scale with the time of day as a blue vertical line.

    The slots of the running session. Green indicates the ongoing talk duration.

    The slots of the planned session. In this example the talk slot 2 is selected.


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