Abstract: A remote conference management system supporting some combination of text, audio, and video conferencing is disclosed. Using the disclosed technology, a conference can be organized such that during different sessions of the conference, some participants may be active and others inactive. The disclosed technology can be used in the context of a dispute resolution tribunal, such as in court, alternative dispute resolution hearing, or before an administrative body. In some embodiment which could be used in such a context, a primary conference can be used to conduct business on an active matter (e.g., a case currently being heard by a judge), while one or more subconferences could be used for private conversations between participants (e.g., settlement negotiations). In implementing the disclosed technology, a software queue and abstraction layers can provide reliable asynchronous communication with third party audio and video conference providers.