A public submission portal, multi-stage review workflow, panelist communications, and one-click conversion to schedule items. Open programming to your community without burying your programming team in email.
Schedule a DemoOpen-call programming is one of the best ways to keep an event fresh — community members pitch panels, fans propose meet-ups, subject-matter experts step forward — but most cons drown trying to manage it. Submissions arrive in email, get tossed in a spreadsheet, get lost, get duplicated, and the programming team spends more time chasing follow-ups than evaluating ideas.
Confanum gives you a public submission portal with a structured form (title, description, panelists, room requirements, AV needs, content warnings, runtime). Submissions land in a queue with status tracking. Reviewers score, comment, and vote. Once approved, one click drops the panel onto the schedule with all panelists, room, and AV requirements pre-populated.
Communications run from the same hub. Send acknowledgments, requests for revisions, approvals, and rejection notes from templated emails. Every panelist gets a portal where they can see the status of every panel they're on, update their bio, and confirm their availability.
Embed on your website or share a direct link. Custom fields for title, description, panelists, room requirements, AV needs, content warnings, and runtime preferences.
Triage queue, evaluation queue, accepted, declined. Move submissions between stages with status tracking. Multiple reviewers can score and comment on each.
Configurable rubric — relevance, panelist credentials, content fit, freshness. Reviewers score and the system aggregates. Surface the best for final review.
Internal-only comment threads on every submission. Programming team debates, requests changes, and decides — all in one place. Full history preserved.
Acknowledgment, revision requests, acceptance, decline, and follow-up emails. Personalize with variables. Track delivery and open rates from the messaging hub.
Approved panels convert directly into schedule items with one click. Title, description, panelists, room, and AV requirements pre-populated. Adjust as needed.
Submitters and panelists get a self-service portal. They see status, update their bio, confirm availability, and submit revisions without emailing the programming team.
Every submission is archived and searchable. See what last year's submitters did this year, identify recurring proposers, and build a programming knowledge base.
Publish your submission form. Set deadlines, define what to collect, and announce. Submissions land in your dashboard queue.
Programming team works through the queue. Score against your rubric, comment internally, request revisions, accept or decline. Status updates flow to submitters automatically.
One-click conversion drops accepted panels onto the schedule. Panelist portals open. Confirmations and AV requests run automatically.
See the full submission-to-schedule flow in a live demo. Bring last year's panel CFP and we'll set up the form so you can see real submissions land in the queue.