Event websites
An event website, with the agenda, speakers and sponsors built in
Turn on the Site tab and your event page grows into a small website: an Agenda, Speakers, Sponsors, Venue & travel and FAQ, plus up to 20 pages of your own, with a nav between them. Pages fill from what you already entered, so an empty Sponsors page simply doesn't show. Registration on every page goes through the same tracked ways in as the rest of Talk.
What it does
Event websites in Programmable Talk
An agenda over days and tracks
Up to 200 sessions across one day or several, in one track or several, each with its own speakers, room and kind (talk, panel, keynote, workshop, break). Times read in the event's own time zone, and every session has its own calendar file.
Speaker pages
Each speaker gets a page with their photo, role, talk and bio, linked from the sessions they're in. Speakers can write their own bio and photo from their kit; your copy stays to go back to.
Sponsors, venue and FAQ
Sponsors in your order with their logo and link. A venue page with the address, a map link, travel notes and hotels. An FAQ of up to 50 questions.
Pages of your own
Up to 20 more pages (a code of conduct, a call for volunteers, a schedule note), each with its own address under the event.
In your look, on your domain
The site wears the event's colours, logo and cover. On Pro, point events.yourcompany.com at it: you add two DNS records and HTTPS is set up for you.
Found by search engines
Listed events' site pages are in our sitemap. The event's structured data carries each timed session as a sub-event, so search engines can read the programme.
How you use it
- 1
Make the event
Write it in a sentence, paste a Luma, Eventbrite or Meetup link, or pick the Conference template, which starts with the site on.
- 2
Fill the Program tab
Add speakers and sessions, or bring the speakers in from a call for speakers. Sponsors go on the Site tab.
- 3
Turn pages on and order them
On the Site tab, show or hide each page and move pages up and down the nav. Add the venue, the FAQ and any pages of your own.
- 4
Share it
Every page carries the Register button and the way in it was reached by, so a QR code on a poster still counts to the poster.
Good to know
- It's an event site, not a site builder
- Pages follow a set layout in your event's look. There's no drag-and-drop page designer or custom code.
- Tickets and payments
- Talk takes no payments. A paid event keeps selling on Eventbrite or Luma, and the site links out to it.
- Custom domains are on Pro
- On Starter the site lives at programmable.talk/e/<your-event>.
Works with
Luma, Eventbrite, Meetup, Zoom
The site can sit in front of an event that runs on any of them. Where the platform lets us add people (Luma, Zoom), registrants are added there too.
Your own domain
A CNAME and a TXT record prove the domain is yours. Pro plan.
Calendars
A calendar file for the event and for each session, so people can add only the talks they plan to see.
Questions
Do I need a separate website for my conference?
Not for the event itself. The site has the pages most conferences need (agenda, speakers, sponsors, venue, FAQ) and up to 20 of your own. If you already have a company site, link to the event site or embed the registration box on your own page.
Can attendees build their own schedule?
Yes. Registrants can pick the sessions they plan to attend on their own page. You see how many picked each session, which helps with room sizes, but never who.
What happens to a page with nothing on it?
It doesn't show. An agenda with no sessions or a sponsors page with no sponsors stays out of the nav, so the site never has empty pages.
Can it run on my own domain?
On Pro, yes: events.yourcompany.com can show one event, a series or your page of events. You add a TXT record to prove it's yours and a CNAME to point it at us; HTTPS is set up for you.
Does the site work in other languages?
The site's own words (nav, buttons, labels) follow the event's language: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese or Italian. What you write appears as you wrote it.