Examples disclosed herein provide methods and systems for updating participants in parallel ongoing conferences through a central conference call management system. In at least one implementation, a method of operating a conference call management system is provided. The method includes monitoring an ongoing first conference call, and receiving a request from one or more users for a second conference call to utilize at least some of the same resources as the first conference call. The method also includes determining an estimated time remaining for the first conference call by analyzing at least some content of the first conference call, and providing the estimated time remaining for the first conference call to the one or more users.