The main job

Serve two people at once: the one at a desk deciding whether the event is worth a ticket, and the one in a venue corridor looking for the next talk.

What it does

• Presents speakers, talks, tickets, the venue, sponsors and a call for papers.
• Shows a schedule by day, track and room, marks what is on now and what is next, and jumps to the current moment.
• Counts down to doors-open, then shows a “Now” strip on every page during the event.
• Gives each talk a calendar file and a floor plan with its room highlighted.
• Handles ticket states such as on sale and sold out, and opens and closes the call for papers by date.

Who it is for

Tech and design conferences, recurring meetups, festivals, summits and workshop days. A one-day, one-track meetup fits too, because the schedule adapts to it.

Why it is worth it

• The schedule stays readable without JavaScript, with every day on the page.
• You can preview how the site will look during the event before it starts.
• Past editions have an archive, so a yearly event keeps its history in one place.
• The event, timezone, tracks, tickets and dates all live in one settings file.

Before you launch

The demo event and its people are fictional. Point the ticket buttons at your ticketing page, and run a daily rebuild during the season, because ticket and countdown states are worked out at build time. A yearly event with its past editions counts as one website. One purchase covers one website. See the licence terms.