Invited Speaker Console
Your home as an invited or keynote speaker. Accept your invitation, then submit your talk title, abstract, bio, and photo for the program.
Purpose
The Invited Speaker Console is where invited and keynote speakers (and panelists) manage their participation. It gathers all of your invitations across conferences and programs in one place. For each one you can accept or decline, and once accepted, provide the content the organizers need for the program: your talk title, abstract, speaker bio, and photo.
You reach it after an organizer invites you and you accept. Accepting grants you an Invited Speaker role, and the console appears in your sidebar and on your dashboard.
When you use it
Use this console right after accepting an invitation to fill in your talk details and bio, to update them before the organizer's deadline, and to check whether your content has been approved (Ready) or your talk has been scheduled.
Walkthrough
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Accept your invitation from the email (you'll be asked to sign in with a code). Once signed in, open the Invited Speaker Console from your dashboard or the left sidebar.
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If an invitation is still Pending, use Accept or Decline on its card. Accepting unlocks the content form for that talk.
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Fill in your position (for example Professor of Computer Science), your talk title, abstract, and speaker bio, and Upload photo for your headshot. Click Save at any time to keep a draft.
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When your details are complete, click Submit. Your position, title and abstract are required to submit. The organizers review your materials and may email you a warm confirmation that they've been received. You can still edit and Re-submit if you need to make changes before the deadline.
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Once the organizers schedule your talk, the card shows a Scheduled marker. Your name, position, affiliation and talk title then appear on the public conference schedule, with your abstract and bio on the talk's page. Until you submit a title it reads Title to be announced. Your email is never shown.
Tips
If you're invited to more than one conference or program, every invitation shows up here as its own card; you don't need a separate login for each.
Title, abstract, bio, and photo are what organizers need to announce you publicly, so provide those first. Slides, video, and poster uploads open later, in the presentation-materials phase.
If you're on a panel, you'll have your own card and submit your own bio and photo; the organizers group panelists into one session when scheduling.