A disclosed conference progress supporting apparatus includes a unit to store information indicating each agenda of the conference and information indicating each participant of the conference, a unit to acquire information via an input device, the information indicating a start and an end of a speech of the participant of the agenda, a unit to store progress information in the conference information storage unit, the progress information associating the agenda, the participants, a start time when the information indicating the start is acquired, and an elapsed time since the start time with each other in response to the acquisition of the information indicating the start, and update the progress information by measuring the elapsed time until the information indicating the end is acquired, and a unit to present information indicating a speech status of each of the participants of each of the agendas based on the progress information.