Open source, MIT licensed

Call for papers, agenda and speaker management. In one fast, simple tool.

The open-source Sessionboard alternative. Free, fast and easy to run — and your speakers will love it too.

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The organizer dashboard: submission, accepted-speaker and outstanding-task counts, the submission status pipeline, and a list of which speakers to chase first.

See it working, right now.

A real demo conference with real data in it. Open to anyone, nothing to install.

The organizer appProposals, reviews, the agenda and the emails — the whole thing. Sign in with the demo account below.
Open the organizer app
The speaker portalWhat a speaker sees once they're accepted: their talks, their profile, their to-do list. No password.Open the speaker portal
The submission formThe public form a speaker fills in to propose a talk, start to finish. No account needed.Open the submission form

Attendee view: Browse the published program

Made for the people who run events

  • Developer conferences
  • Community meetups
  • Company summits
  • Academic symposia
  • Hackathons
  • User groups
  • Workshop series
  • Unconferences

The product

From first proposal to final schedule. All in one place.

Four jobs, one tool: collect the proposals, review and decide, build the agenda, and keep your speakers informed.

Collect proposals

One public form. Every talk that comes in lands in one list, sorted by track.

Review and decide

Your reviewers score the talks. You accept or decline, then send the news.

Build the agenda

Drag each talk into a room and a time. Double-bookings are flagged for you.

Email your speakers

Ready-made emails send themselves, with the calendar invite attached.

The submissions table: status tabs, staged accept and decline queues waiting to be sent, and every submission with its status, track, format and speakers.

Form builder

Collect proposals with a form you build yourself

A step-by-step wizard writes your public submission form: your questions, your tracks, your deadline. Nothing to code, and you can change it after it's live.

See the live form
The call-for-speakers form builder: a six-step rail, the submission questions with Required and Enabled toggles, and a note explaining how the Track answer routes a submission.

Agenda

Build the agenda by dragging talks into place

See the whole program by day, by room, or by conflict. Double-book a room or a speaker and it tells you the moment you drop the talk.

Open the agenda
A recording of the agenda: a session is picked up from the day grid, dragged down the Main Stage column and dropped into a new time slot.

Speaker portal

Every speaker gets their own portal

One link, no password. Speakers see their talks, keep their bio and photo up to date, and work through a checklist of what you still need from them.

Open the speaker portal
The speaker portal: a speaker's own submissions with their statuses, a profile-completeness checklist, and the tasks they still owe the organizers.

Public program

Publish the schedule when you're ready

A public program with a page for every talk and every speaker, a personal itinerary for each attendee, and calendar files that just work.

See a published program
The published public schedule: day tabs, sessions with track and format tags, times, rooms and speakers, and an add-to-calendar action.

AI & developers

Ask an AI to run your event. Or plug it into your own website.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Codex to Trackstage and ask it to chase late speakers, schedule a talk or email everyone. Your website and your calendar can read the program too.

AI assistant

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Codex and ask in plain English. 84 things it can do — and it asks you before it changes anything.

POST /mcp
Calendar feed

Subscribe to the whole program in Google or Apple Calendar. No key needed.

GET /v1/event/{slug}/schedule.ics
Read API

Put the schedule on your own website. Talks, speakers and proposals as JSON.

GET /v1/event/{slug}/sessions
Read the docs

Foundations

The boring parts, done properly

Your whole team

Invite colleagues. Everyone works in one place.

Proper sign-in

Real accounts, team invites, password resets.

Many events, one place

Last year's, this year's, next year's.

Host it yourself

MIT licensed. Your servers, your rules.

Fast everywhere

Changes appear instantly, wherever your team is.

No jargon

Written for event organizers, not IT departments.

Free, either way

You get every feature whichever way you run it. No seats, no tiers, nobody to call.

Self-host

$0forever

Run the whole thing on your own servers. Download it and go.

Get it on GitHub
  • Every feature. There are no tiers.
  • MIT licensed — fork it, rebrand it, keep it
  • Your servers, your data

Cloud

Free while in beta

$0while in beta

We host it for you. Sign up and run your event today.

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  • The same code as the repo, hosted for you
  • Unlimited events, submissions and speakers
  • No credit card, no sales call

Declare the winner

$10,000one time, voluntary

You know who you are. The prize has a Buy Now button — because of course it does.

Declare the winner
  • One time. Not a subscription.
  • Bragging rights (non-transferable)

Open source, and yours to keep.

Software for running a call for papers has always been sold the same way. Tools like Sessionboard start with a sales call, cost five figures a year, and most teams use a fraction of what they pay for.

Trackstage does the same jobs, free and in the open — rebuilt to be simple enough to use without training, and fast enough that you never wait for it. The code, the design system and the build log are all public.

Read the sourceBrowse the design system
MIT
The whole product, no strings
100%
Of the source, in the open
$0
Self-host or cloud beta

Ready to open your call for papers?

Try the demo first, then run your own event on exactly the same code. Free either way.

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