The Challenge
The Simpósio Latino Americano de Ciência de Alimentos e Nutrição (SLACAN) is not a small annual meeting. It is the largest food science and nutrition symposium in Latin America, bringing together researchers, professors, and graduate students from across the continent around the science of food: its safety, its biochemistry, its role in human health and nutrition.
At that scale, operational complexity compounds quickly. The chair and scientific committee must coordinate call for papers, abstract submission, blind peer review, reviewer assignment, author communication, registration, certificate issuance, and proceedings publishing at the same time, without compromising scientific rigor or overloading the organizing team.
But the real risk is not only administrative overhead. It is operational fragility: fragmented workflows, follow-up spread across disconnected systems, delays in scientific decision-making, and a scientific record that becomes harder to preserve once the event is over.
For SLACAN, the challenge was not simply how to run one successful edition. It was how to build an operational model the symposium could trust again and again under real pressure, as the event continued to grow.
The Solution
SLACAN has partnered with Galoá for every single edition of the symposium — seven consecutive congresses spanning more than fifteen years. The platform supports the full congress lifecycle: call for papers, abstract submission, blind peer review, participant registration, the on-site event app, proceedings publishing with DOI assignment, and permanent digital certificate issuance.
Complete Scientific Infrastructure
Scientific events do not run well on generic event software. SLACAN does not need disconnected tools for submission, review, registration, proceedings, and post-event records. It needs one infrastructure that carries the entire workflow from the opening of the call for papers to the long-term preservation of the academic record.
That is what Galoá provides: one scientific event platform built around academic workflows, terminology, and operational continuity.
A Platform That Speaks the Language of Science
Scientific communities have specific workflows, specific terminology, and specific expectations. “Call for papers” is not a file upload form. A peer reviewer is not a judge. Proceedings are not a content folder.
Prof. Glaucia Pastore, SLACAN’s chair and founder, put it plainly after fifteen years of collaboration: “It’s scientists working with scientists.”
This is more than a testimonial line. It explains why the partnership lasted. Galoá’s team understands the academic calendar, the demands of double-blind review, the importance of DOI-ready metadata, and the difference between a platform that merely works and one that earns the trust of a scientific community over time.
Peer Review, Without the Administrative Overhead
Peer review is one of the most demanding phases of any scientific congress. The committee must receive submissions, route them to the right reviewers, monitor deadlines, and communicate outcomes to authors while preserving the integrity of the evaluation process.
Galoá’s automated workflows handle routing, reminders, and status tracking so the scientific committee can protect its attention for what only it can do: curation, scientific judgment, and the quality of the final program. The goal is not just to save time. It is to keep scientific attention focused where it matters most.
A Permanent Academic Record
Submissions, certificates, and proceedings do not disappear when the event closes. With Galoá, SLACAN keeps proceedings connected to DOI workflows, preserves long-term access to participation records and certificates, and maintains a durable academic record beyond the event itself.
Researchers who presented at SLACAN years ago can still retrieve their records today. That permanence is deliberate: science is not ephemeral, and the infrastructure behind it should not be either.
This is also where Galoá’s institutional role matters. As a Crossref Sponsoring Member since 2015, Galoá brings long-term discipline to metadata quality, DOI workflows, and the preservation expectations scientific communities rely on.
The Results
The strongest proof is not a one-time launch. It is continuity under real operating pressure. SLACAN has renewed the partnership at every edition, relying on the same platform to support one of the most operationally demanding scientific events in Latin America.
- 7 consecutive editions managed on Galoá’s platform, from the first to the most recent
- 15+ years of continuous partnership, renewed at every single edition
- 16,132+ researchers registered across all editions
- One connected workflow covering call for papers, peer review, registration, proceedings, and post-event records
- Peer review workflows structured in one system, reducing operational fragility for the scientific committee
- Proceedings published with DOI workflows and Crossref metadata compliance, aligned with long-term discoverability requirements
- Permanent certificate access available years after each edition closes
