Conference Leadership Console
A map of the Conference Leadership Console, covering what each of its ten tabs does and when you use it to run your conference end to end.
The Conference Leadership Console is your control center for the whole conference. It opens at /console/conference-leadership and is organized into ten tabs. Settings comes right after Dashboard; the others are ordered by how often you need them once the conference is running.
If you lead more than one conference, the console first shows a picker. Switch between cards and a compact list with the buttons at the top right (the same toggle as All Conferences); the choice is remembered in this browser.
Above the picker, search by name, acronym or conference, and sort by date, name or acronym, ascending or descending (the sort is remembered). The filters are Upcoming, Live and Past. They compare the event's dates with today in the conference's timezone, so each item is in exactly one of them and the last day counts as Live until it ends there. A program with its own dates uses them.
When you use it
Open this console whenever you need to configure the conference, check its health at a glance, manage money and people, or run the presentation program. Most conference-leadership work starts here.
The tabs
- 1
Dashboard: your at-a-glance health check: key stats, what needs your attention, and upcoming deadlines.
- 2
Settings: the conference's core configuration: basic information, mode, policies, branding, and system actions.
- 3
Programs: the tracks/programs within the conference and how they're structured.
- 4
Submissions: every valid submission of every program, grouped by program and sub-program, and Move a Submission to move papers from one program to another.
- 5
Committee: the people running the conference and the roles you grant them.
- 6
Important Dates: the deadlines that drive every phase (submission, review, camera-ready, and more).
- 7
Registrations: attendee registration, with sub-tabs for Registrations, Refunds, Settings, and Exemptions.
- 8
Communications: reaching your audience, with sub-tabs for Announcements, Channels, and Website.
- 9
Presentation System: the on-site/virtual program: Settings, Venue & Rooms, Time Slots, Session Plan, Keynotes, Sessions, Invited Submissions, and Sponsors.
- 10
Payments: money in and out, with sub-tabs for Connect & Agreement and Invoices & Receipts.
- 11
Proceedings: compiling and publishing the conference proceedings.
The tabs stay on one line. When the window is too narrow for all of them, an arrow appears at the right end of the row; click it (or scroll the row sideways) to reach the rest. Once you have scrolled, an arrow at the left end takes you back. The tab you are on is always scrolled into view.
On a brand-new conference, configure Settings (the second tab) first, then set your Important Dates. Most other tabs (registration, submissions, the program) depend on those being in place.
The console has no email setting. Your sign in email and professional email belong to your account: click your avatar at the top right, choose Settings, and look under Professional email. There you can make a confirmed professional email the address you sign in with, and you keep this console. See Your profile.