About Us

Are you looking for the best technology with a sustainable mindset and outstanding customer support? Meet SCOOCS: Smart Customizable Online Offline Communities for Sustainability!

What is SCOOCS

SCOOCS is a novel all-in-one event and community platform with a sustainable mindset. We host events and engage communities globally: from scientific and academic conferences to annual forums, trade fairs, and music festivals.

Whether it is an online course for 30 attendees or a virtual conference for 1 million attendees – events can be set up quickly, fully customizable, and GDPR compliant. Attendees engage through a variety of networking tools that transform online events into full-scale virtual communities. Our valued features include livestreaming, video rooms, exhibitor booths, poster stands, 3D world-builder, networking tables, carbon/tree savings calculator, and many more. Join SCOOCommunities for Sustainability today!
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Meet the Founder

SCOOCS founder, René Bohnsack, is an impact-driven entrepreneur (e.g., fitbase.de or venturely.io). He is also a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics and the director of the Smart City Innovation Lab, a multidisciplinary research team that works on the latest topics in digitalization, business model innovation, and sustainable technologies.

We support all kinds of events (such as conferences or company presentations) on a virtual or hybrid mode. It is particularly important to us that our customers are presented in the best light, and that the participants forget during the event that the event is taking place on the computer or on the phone. Everyone should feel part of a whole.


René Bohnsack, Ph.D.

Our Mission, Vision and Values

Our vision, mission, and values form the foundation for all activities in our organization. Our purpose and beliefs are defined in the following statements:

Mission

We want to empower every host and event organizer to get the most out of their events and build a committed community, with top-notch technology, irreprehensible customer support, and the most sustainable and GDPR-compliant platform.

Vision

We believe in co-creating our future with our outstanding event managers community. A platform built with, and for, the event professionals community.

Values

  • Quality
  • Trustworthiness
  • Sustainability
  • Innovation
  • Integrity

Our story

Born from necessity, SCOOCS was founded in 2019 when Rene Bohnsack accepted the challenge of hosting the sustainability conference he was organizing fully online; showing that academic conferences can be more sustainable. Years of experience in building digital platforms and a team that built award-winning e-learning platforms led the development of SCOOCS.

Using open innovation to increase intuitiveness and develop new features plus a proprietary Carbon Calculator, our virtual event platform allows us to create engaging events and measure carbon emission savings. Since the first conference, SCOOCS has saved thousands of tons of CO2 and is loved internationally by academia, industry, and non-profits for its engaging features, vast customization options, and its excellent support team.

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We foster Sustainability

Along with the best technology, sustainability is at the very core of our mission: the drive of everything we do. We foster sustainability at all levels:

Environmental Sustainability

We want to empower every host and event organizer to get the most out of their events and build a committed community, with top-notch technology, irreprehensible customer support, and the most sustainable and GDPR-compliant platform.

Social Sustainability

SCOOCS enables knowledge-sharing communities. Not-for-profit organizations benefit from SCOOCS’ special pricing!

Economical Sustainability

SCOOCS empowers organizations to become more sustainable, allowing for the organization of larger events, with a larger reach, at lower economic and environmental costs.

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Our Team

What are SCOOCSees like? An amazing team, consisting of brilliant developers and dedicated account managers, who is committed to supporting you achieve the needs and expectations of your stakeholders.
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Our important milestones

To be continued...
January 20, 2023
Newchip Accelerator
SCOOCS has been selected to take part in the Newchip Accelerator, a six-month program that offers startup training, mentorship, and coaching from seasoned entrepreneurs and experienced investors.
January 20, 2023
November 1, 2022
Web Summit 2022
SCOOCS has been chosen to participate in the Web Summit Startup Programme for the year 2022.
November 1, 2022
June 1, 2022
First Investment Round
SCOOCS secures first investment round to double-down on smart events and communities. SCOOCS has raised 1 million euros in investment from business angel Sebastian Loh. The funding will be used to develop the platform further, simplifying the process of customizing and building events/communities, and expanding the team.
June 1, 2022
June 1, 2021
Launch of the Ocean Decade
SCOOCS hosts the High-Level Launch of the Ocean Decade from the United Nations, with personalities as the German chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and the United Nations Secretary-General, Dr. António Guterres, and more than 10.000 attendees. Launching of the communication center
June 1, 2021
May 1, 2021
SCOOCS Trademark
SCOOCS is now a registered trademark
May 1, 2021
May 20, 2021
SCOOCS hosts re:publica
SCOOCS hosts re:publica, one of the major German online conferences, with over 5000 attendees per day. Launching of the advanced matchmaking and a new subscription module
May 20, 2021
April 31, 2021
300 Hosted Events
More than 300 events hosted on SCOOCS. Launching of the networking tables and the academic poster booths
April 31, 2021
January 1, 2021
SCOOCS brand is born
The SCOOCS brand is officially born: iChair.org rebrands to SCOOCS.co
January 1, 2021
December 31, 2020
100 Hosted Events
More than 300 events hosted on SCOOCS.
December 31, 2020
November 15, 2020
CO2 Calculator Launch
SCOOCS Launches the CO2 Calculator
November 15, 2020
September 16, 2020
Reeperbahn Festival
SCOOCS hosts the online edition of the Reeperbahn Festival, gathering more than 52.600 visitors in four days
September 16, 2020
June 17, 2020
iChair brand is born
SCOOCS hosts the 2020 GRONEN conference and iChair is born
June 17, 2020
April 22, 2020
1st Event Hosted
1st event hosted on SCOOCS: Liferay Digital Solutions Forum (LDSF) 2020 ONLINE
April 22, 2020
March 1, 2020
The Beginning
Preparing the next GRONEN conference, our team starts working on SCOOCS (formerly iChair)
March 1, 2020

Our Locations

Estonia

Scoocs OÜ, Sepapaja 6, Tallinn 15551, Estonia

Germany

SCOOCS OÜ Grete-Mosheim-Str. 3 80363 München, Germany

Portugal

SCOOCS LDA Praça Marquês de Pombal 14 1250-162 Lisbon, Portugal