How this works
Setting up a conference
Everything that names your conference lives in Settings — title, theme, organizers, sponsors, logos, and the venue line printed under the program. Nothing is hardcoded, so the same installation runs any conference.
A banner image can be uploaded there too. It goes across the top of the public program, above the title. JPEG or PNG; wide and short suits the space. Give it a short description for screen readers unless it only repeats the title underneath it.
Days, rooms, session types and time slots are in Setup. There is no limit on the number of days, and session types are yours to define.
Submissions
Papers can be entered by hand, or submitted by authors themselves once you open the call for papers in Settings. Submitted papers arrive unconfirmed and unassigned, so they appear in the dashboard's unassigned cluster for you to sort.
A paper carries a title, abstract (Markdown), keywords, presentation mode and award-candidate flag. Participants are linked to papers many-to-many, so a co-author on three papers is one person.
Building the program
Group papers into panels from the dashboard or a panel's page, where you can also drag them into running order and assign chairs.
Workbench places panels into time-slot and room cells. A panel can only occupy one cell, and a room can only hold one panel per slot.
Public program renders the result. It needs no login and is safe to share.
Accounts
Roles are viewer (read only), organizer (edit submissions and the schedule) and admin (also delete records and manage accounts).
chair is reserved for future use. It ranks above viewer, but no page gates on it yet, so an account set to chair currently has exactly the same access as a viewer.