The work between the call and the first session.

The open-source alternative to Sessionboard and Sessionize. Collect talks, pick speakers, build the schedule, publish. Speakers only get emailed when you hit send. Attendees only see what you publish.

Create your event Open the demo CFP

Interface preview

Day 1Day 2Day 3

ListDayWeekTrackRoom

Main Stage

320 seats

Room B

120 seats

Workshop Lab

60 seats

09:0010:0011:0012:0013:0014:0015:00

Opening keynote: the agentic web

9:00–9:45 · Amara Diallo

Agents in production: what actually breaks

10:00–10:45 · Jonas Weber

Evals beyond vibes

Serving a million tokens a second

13:00–13:45 · Sam Okafor

Small models, big jobs

Structured outputs at scale

Guardrails that don't lobotomize

Prompt injection red-teaming

13:30–14:15 · Felix Braun

Postgres for AI workloads

11:00–11:45 · Maya Chen

Speaker conflict — Maya Chen is in two rooms

Workshop: build an MCP server

9:00–10:30 · Ines Almeida

Workshop: fine-tuning on one GPU

11:00–12:30 · Maya Chen

Workshop: observability for agents

13:30–15:00 · Tom Eriksen

Here's the admin

Same screens you get after you create an event.

The boardSix stages and live blockers. You see what's stuck before you open a list.Decide first. Mail later.Accept, waitlist, reject. Speakers hear nothing until you hit send.Try Review and notify 5.Assigned reviewReviewers only see their queue. Scores against the rubric. The chair reads a board, not a thread.Chase materialsMagic link for bio, headshot, slides. Remind the ones who haven't.Drag. Conflicts shout.Drop an accepted talk on the grid. Room and speaker clashes block the drop.Drag Postgres onto 11:30 Main Stage.The form changesA workshop asks duration and prerequisites. A keynote doesn't.Published onlySchedule, speakers, subscribe feed. Drafts stay in the admin.

conference-engine

View public

Event menu

Overview

Dashboard

Program

SubmissionsReviewSchedule

Speakers

Tasks

Manage

Forms

View public

Organizer · Program

Summit

Work the program lifecycle in order. The cockpit lists every actionable blocker underneath.

Review and notify 5

Program lifecycle

2 of 6 stages complete.

1CFPDone
2ReviewDone
3NotifyCurrent
4Speaker opsLater
5ScheduleLater
6PublishLater

Pipeline blockers

Live counts for review, notify, schedule, and speaker ops.

5 speakers unnotifiedTo notify
3 speakers missing materialsTasks
1 accepted talk unplacedSchedule

Organizer · Submissions

Summit

Accept or decline here. Speakers are not emailed until you notify. Queue shows 5 of 5 in to notify.

To notifyAcceptedDeclined

5 decided on this page. Speakers have not been informed yet.

Review and notify 5

5 speakers emailed. The public page is still quiet.

Postgres for AI workloads
InfraacceptedUnnotifiedNotified
Maya Chen · maya@nines.org · Talk
3 reviewers assigned · tasks 1/3 required · 4.6
Agents in production
AgentsacceptedUnnotifiedNotified
Jonas Weber · jonas@field.dev · Talk
3 reviewers assigned · tasks 2/3 required · 4.4
Evals beyond vibes
EvalsacceptedUnnotifiedNotified
Priya Nair · priya@eval.io · Talk
2 reviewers assigned · tasks 3/3 required · 4.2
Prompt injection red-teaming
SecurityrejectedUnnotifiedNotified
Felix Braun · felix@redteam.xyz · Workshop
2 reviewers assigned · 2.1
Voice agents in production
AgentsrejectedUnnotifiedNotified
Julia Kovacs · julia@voice.app · Talk
3 reviewers assigned · 2.8

Organizer · Review

Summit

Build the rubric, issue named review links, balance workload, and decide proposals from one scoped workspace.

Postgres for AI workloads
Maya Chen
4.6accepted
Agents in production
Jonas Weber
4.4accepted
Evals beyond vibes
Priya Nair
4.2accepted
Prompt injection red-teaming
Felix Braun
2.1rejected

Organizer · Speaker tasks

Summit

Action tasks, file-request deliverables, and the uploaded file library in one workspace.

Remind incompleteReminders sent

Maya Chenslides
Jonas Weberheadshot
Ines Almeidabio · slides
Priya Nairclear

Reminder queued for 3 speakers.

Organizer · Schedule

Summit

Place or drag accepted talks onto the grid. Room, speaker, and configured track conflicts are blocked and shown loudly.

View Day gridThu 12 Jun · America/Los_Angeles

Unplaced

Auto-placeAuto-placePublish day (3)

No unplaced sessions. Talks placed on other days stay on those days.

Room conflict: that slot is already taken.

Time	Main Stage	Room B	Workshop Lab
11:00	Evals beyond vibes Priya Nair 11:00–11:30		Prompt injection red-teaming Felix Braun 11:00–12:00
11:30	Postgres for AI workloads Maya Chen 11:30–12:10	Agents in production Jonas Weber 11:30–12:10

CFP

Forms

Edit field definitions for each call for papers. Changes apply to new submissions immediately.

CFP/cfp · liveEdit fields

Fields · CFP

Title

Format

TalkWorkshop

Level

DurationPrerequisites

Public schedule

Summit

Published sessions only. Unconfirmed speakers read as Speaker to be announced.

11:00 · Main Stage
Evals beyond vibes
Priya Nair
11:30 · Main Stage
Shipping agents at scale
Speaker to be announced
11:30 · Room B
Agents in production
Jonas Weber

Review and notify 5

Speakers have not been informed yet. Edit the message, check who gets it, then send.

Postgres for AI workloads · Maya Chen
Agents in production · Jonas Weber
Evals beyond vibes · Priya Nair
Prompt injection red-teaming · Felix Braun
Voice agents in production · Julia Kovacs

SubjectBody

We are glad to accept your talk. The speaker portal has your next steps.

CancelSend to 5

Clanker-friendly control plane

Mint a per-event token. Point a clanker at the admin OpenAPI. Send Authorization: Bearer ce_pat_…. It lists submissions, decides, places talks, and chases speakers. Same jobs as the UI. No click path.

Open the admin OpenAPI Mint a token in your event

Free software. You run it.

No per-event bill. No $40k suite. The data stays on an account you control.

Full setup in the README

git clone https://github.com/agrimsingh/conference-engine
cd conference-engine
npm install
npm run deploy