Kind Congress

What Kind Congress does

Kind Congress (KindCongress, DBA KC) is a privately held, bootstrapped digital platform that operates a free global directory of scientific and academic conferences, webinars, journals, conference venues, speakers, and organizers. Founded in 2016 by Mohammadbagher Najafi and registered in Baku, Azerbaijan (registration 1804332351), the platform spans 50+ countries and 60+ subject categories, with particular depth in Health & Medicine (1,565+ events) and disciplines such as cardiology, oncology, neurology, and nursing. The underlying technology is a WordPress-based listing and content management system, with no mobile app, public API, or proprietary AI capabilities, offering location and category filtering for self-serve conference discovery.

The company's two primary monetization streams are paid promoted/featured listings and advertising to conference organizers, supplemented by graphic design services for event promotional materials. While most listings are free, a tier of promoted placements targets organizers seeking visibility into the platform's claimed network of 25 million researchers, scholars, students, and professionals, primarily delivered through partnerships with large event organizers such as Conference Series LLC LTD and BIT Congress. Beyond listings, Kind Congress has begun producing its own events under the 'Conferences with KC' brand, representing a vertical extension from directory into event organization.

Kind Congress serves a dual-sided market: on the supply side, conference organizers (academic societies, conference production firms, conference centers, and independent organizers) seeking global attendee reach; on the demand side, researchers, healthcare professionals, and academics seeking discovery of relevant events for presentation, networking, and continuing education. The go-to-market is fundamentally event-driven and digital, relying on SEO through the extensive event database, social sharing mechanics embedded in event pages, content marketing via a blog, and direct paid promotion sales to organizers. The company shows no evidence of institutional investment, mobile product expansion, or AI-driven differentiation, positioning it as a long-tail content directory in a fragmented scientific conference information market.

Name

Kind Congress

Legal name

KindCongress

Website

https://kindcongress.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Kind Congress is a free global WordPress-based directory listing scientific conferences, webinars, journals, venues, speakers, and organizers across 50+ countries. It monetizes via paid promoted listings, advertising, and graphic design services for conference organizers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific Conference Listing Platform

NAICS

Directory and Mailing List Publishers (513140), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Academic & Scientific Conferences (MPAGAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Academic & Education Conference Organizers (THAHACAE), Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK), Conferences & Conventions Operations Services (Registration, AV, Logistics) (MPAGAGAM)

Keywords

• Scientific conference listings
• Academic event directory
• Conference promotion services
• Webinar listings platform
• Scientific journal directory

Headquarters

HQ city

Tabriz

HQ country

Iran

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Advertising and Promoted Listings: The platform offers free basic listings for conferences, webinars, journals, and conference centers, with paid promotion options for increased visibility. The site also features advertising opportunities.
2. Graphic Design Services: Professional graphic design services for conference promotional materials including posters and brochures are offered as a service to event organizers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

KindCongress operates a free worldwide digital directory and aggregation platform that catalogs scientific conferences, webinars, academic journals, conference venues, speakers, and event organizers across more than 60 categories and 50+ countries. The platform enables conference organizers to list events at no cost or pay for promoted/featured placement for additional visibility, and offers graphic design services for promotional materials.

Product overview

Kind Congress is a free, worldwide conference aggregation service organized as a WordPress-based platform. The core offering consists of conference listings, webinar listings, scientific journal directories, conference center venues, speaker profiles, and a directory of conference organizers. Additional services include graphic design support and direct conference organization through 'Conferences with KC'. The platform organizes events across multiple scientific disciplines including Health & Medicine, Science, Technology, Industry, Business, and Education, spanning global locations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Conference Listings

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Conference Series LLC LTDcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConference Series is an open resource platform that conducts 3,000+ global events including International Conferences, Workshops, Symposia, Trade Shows, Exhibitions and Science Congresses. They are listed as an organizer on KindCongress, reaching over 25 million researchers, scholars, students, professionals and corporate entities globally.
• BIT CongresscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBIT Congress is listed as an event organizer on KindCongress. Events organized by BIT Congress listed on the platform include the World Congress of Infectious Diseases and World Congress of Oral & Dental Medicine held in Sapporo, Japan.
• Conference Centers (Imin Conference Center, Doltone House, Congress Center Basel)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorConference centers are listed on the platform to help organizers discover venues. Featured centers include Imin Conference Center (Houston, USA), Doltone House (Sydney, Australia), and Congress Center Basel (Switzerland).

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• WikiCFP: A call-for-papers (CFP) and academic conference listing site widely used by researchers. Comparable audience (academic researchers) and content (scientific conferences) though with a heavier emphasis on paper-submission deadlines.
• 10times: Global event and conference marketplace covering trade shows, conferences, and workshops across dozens of countries and categories. Comparable as a multi-vertical conference/event directory with paid listing tiers and organizer self-service.
• Conference Alerts: One of the longest-running global conference listing platforms, covering academic, scientific, and professional conferences across many countries. Directly comparable in mission (free global directory of upcoming conferences) and audience (researchers and academics seeking events).
• CFPList: Academic call-for-papers aggregator targeting researchers tracking submission deadlines. Comparable in serving researchers seeking conferences and in listing model, though narrower in scope.
• Academic Conferences (intl. asoc.): Organizer and publisher of academic conferences and proceedings across multiple disciplines. Comparable in audience (researchers, scholars) and conference focus, and overlaps with KindCongress's directory and journal listings.
• ConferenceLoc: Free international conference listing service with location- and topic-based search. Comparable in product (directory of upcoming academic and professional conferences) and freemium model.
• All Conference Alert: Free conference alert platform listing international conferences with category, country, and date filters. Closely comparable to KindCongress in product surface (directory, alerts, organizer listings) and freemium monetization.

Broad incumbents

• Eventbrite: Dominant general-purpose event ticketing and registration platform. Overlaps in event listing and organizer self-service but is far broader (consumer events, concerts, classes) and does not specialize in scientific conferences.
• International Congress & Convention Association (ICCA): Global association for the international meetings industry, providing data and rankings of meetings and suppliers. Overlaps with KindCongress in serving the scientific/meetings ecosystem, but operates as a paid membership organization serving organizers and venues.

Emerging players

• ResearchGate: Academic social network used by hundreds of millions of researchers to follow conferences, papers, and peers. Comparable audience and partial overlap in surfacing conferences, though its primary product is paper sharing rather than event discovery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kindcongress

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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