The open-source Sessionboard alternative.
Manage speaker relationships, collect and review proposals, coordinate every presenter, and publish the program everywhere — all in one place. Free and open source: create your organization here, or run it on your own infrastructure.
From first contact to published program.
Build a speaker pipeline, open the call, review with your team, keep every presenter moving, and publish the program — without stitching together a CRM, spreadsheet, inbox, and separate publishing workflow.
Speaker CRM
Keep speakers and prospects across events in one searchable directory. Save segments, assign people to events, and move prospects through an eight-stage pipeline with scores, notes, and history.
Call for speakers
Build multi-step CFPs from reusable fields, rich text, and conditional questions. Set deadlines and draft rules, configure limits for speakers, chairs, and moderators, and collect secondary contacts.
Submission review
Route proposals by track, collect approve, maybe, or deny decisions, and run optional AI first-pass scoring with rationale. Sort or override any result; humans stay authoritative.
Speaker portals
A self-service home for every speaker: bios, headshots, slides, task forms, and a live view of where each submission stands.
Speaker comms
Edit confirmations, decisions, and reminders. Preview every decision recipient before sending, keep replies in your inbox, attach calendar updates, and retain the full send history.
Outstanding tasks
See which speakers still owe a bio, headshot, travel form, or slides. Track their submitted form responses from the same roster instead of chasing a spreadsheet.
Agenda building
Drag accepted sessions onto a day × room grid. Double-booked speakers and rooms surface the moment they happen, before you publish.
Content & feeds
Publish session, speaker, gallery, agenda, and itinerary views. Reuse approved content as styled embeds or filtered HTML, JSON, and XML feeds — plus iCal for the published agenda.
Your event workspace
Sign up to create an organization and first event in one flow. Choose System, Light, or Dark across admin, sign-in, and the speaker portal.
Calendar invites that actually land.
Every acceptance and schedule change goes out with a real .ics attached — one tap and the session is on the speaker's calendar, correctly, in their timezone.
- One stable calendar entry per session — updates move it in place instead of duplicating it.
- A day of drag-and-drop batches into one send per speaker, never fifteen.
- Works in Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Calendar out of the box.
Drag the schedule into place.
Accepted sessions land in an unscheduled tray. Drop them onto a day × room grid and conflicts surface the moment they happen — no spinners between drags.
- Catches double-booked speakers and rooms before attendees notice.
- Auto-place fills open slots without a single collision.
- Publish once and the public agenda updates live.
The pages your attendees see, published live.
Schedule, speakers, sessions, gallery, and itinerary render straight from approved content — no export step or stale event site. Place them anywhere with styled embeds, or use filtered HTML, JSON, and XML feeds. The published agenda also has iCal. These are the live pages of an event running on this site:
Same job. Yours to keep.
OpenRostrum covers the program side Sessionboard is sold for — with the source open and the data in your hands.
Own the software your event runs on.
OpenRostrum is MIT-licensed, and the full source and history are public on GitHub. If you ever want out of the hosted app, take everything with you: deploy to your own Cloudflare account and hold the database, the files, and every speaker record yourself.
- One codebase, no gated edition — every feature ships to hosted and self-hosted alike, with no paid tier to unlock.
- Your data leaves whenever you want it to: CSV exports, a .zip of every uploaded file, and JSON, XML, and iCal feeds.
- MIT license — you never lose access to the tool your event depends on, even if we disappear tomorrow.
Run your next event on OpenRostrum.
Create your organization and first event, then take the program from speaker pipeline to published schedule.