Add a speaker

Steps

1. Open Program and go to the Speakers tab.
2. Add a speaker and fill in:- Full name- Job title- Organization- Bio- Photo

   

3. Save.

Attach them to sessions from the session itself — see Add a session.

Photos

Speaker photos are the most-looked-at thing on an event site. They are also where a line-up starts looking amateur.

• A real headshot, not a cropped group photo.
• Square, or at least easy to crop square.
• Around 600px, under 100 KB — see Add images to a section.
• Consistent style if you can get it. Mismatched selfies, studio portraits and conference snapshots side by side look untidy.

Ask for photos when you confirm the speaker, not two weeks before the event. That is the moment they are most responsive.

Bios

Keep them to two or three sentences. Nobody reads a full biography on an event site.

The useful shape: what they do now, why they are worth listening to, and one specific thing. Cut the career history.

If a speaker sends 400 words, edit it down. They will not mind, and your page will be much better for it.

Hiding a speaker

Hide anyone not yet announced, or not yet confirmed. They stay in the editor and off the public site.

This is how you build a line-up privately and reveal it when you are ready.

What happens next

Speakers appear on your public site through a speakers section, and beside their sessions on the agenda — see The section types.

Common problems

A speaker is not on the public site. They are hidden, or your site has no speakers section.

Photos look inconsistent. Crop them all square at the same size before uploading.

A speaker is not in the session picker. Add them on the Speakers tab first.

You have thirty speakers to enter. Import them — see Import and export sessions and speakers.

A speaker pulled out. Hide them and edit the affected sessions. Deleting loses the record.