Agenda3 min read

Building Your Event Schedule

An overview of the Agenda module and how its pieces fit together.

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What Agenda Does

Click Agenda in the sidebar under the Build section. Agenda is your scheduling toolkit — it's where you define your spaces, build your sessions, arrange them on a timeline, and publish a schedule your attendees can browse and bookmark.

The module is made up of a few connected pieces:

  • Rooms — the physical or virtual spaces where sessions take place
  • Sessions — the talks, panels, workshops, and breaks on your program
  • Schedule Builder — a visual timeline grid for arranging sessions with conflict detection
  • Session List — a sortable table to manage every session and its RSVPs
  • Host Cards — AI-generated intro cards for your stage hosts
  • Public Schedule — the attendee-facing page where people browse and bookmark sessions
Screenshot: Agenda landing page with feature cards
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The Recommended Build Order

The pieces work best built in this order:

  1. Create your rooms first — they become the columns in the Schedule Builder. See Setting Up Rooms & Spaces.
  2. Add your sessions — with types, times, capacity, tracks, and access rules. See Creating Sessions.
  3. Arrange them visually in the Schedule Builder, watching for conflicts.
  4. Assign speakers to sessions over in the Stage module (Agenda shows them, Stage manages them).
  5. Generate Host Cards so your emcees have polished intros.
  6. Publish — and your Public Schedule goes live for attendees.

Pro tip

Build rooms before anything else. The Schedule Builder needs at least one room before it can show you a grid.

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How Times Are Handled

All session times are stored in UTC and displayed in your event's timezone, which is set in your event settings and shown on every session form. Attendees see times in the event timezone regardless of where they are — if your event is in New York, everyone sees Eastern time.

Pro tip

Set your event timezone in Settings before adding sessions. Each session can override the timezone if needed, but getting the event default right first saves cleanup later.