From first idea to final evaluation
Whether you organise an event, support speakers or submit a session yourself, start with your role. This handbook explains what you want to achieve, which choices you make and what the next person can do afterwards.
Follow your journey
- Organiser: take a new edition to an event ready for attendees. Coordinate your team, call, programme, registration and event delivery. Follow the organiser journey.
- Speaker manager: take your call from the proposals you want to confirmed, prepared speakers. Understand reviews, selection, messages and follow-up. Follow the speaker management journey.
- Speaker: take your first idea through to your appearance. Know when something is still a draft, which confirmation is needed and how to complete practical preparations. Follow the speaker journey.
Working as a reviewer or programme planner? Start with reviewing submissions or publishing the programme. The process map connects the roles and shows the handovers.
Use the roles matrix to divide work. Looking for the next concrete action for a speaker? Start with speaker follow-up.
Understand the effect of an action
Four moments need particular care: an internal decision does not inform the speaker; releasing it does. The speaker then confirms participation. The programme team subsequently publishes what attendees may see. At these moments, the chapters explain who acts and what to check afterwards.
Settings are explained through their effects: who may submit, who reviews, when a deadline starts and which information becomes public. Screenshots help you recognise the controls. The text and diagrams explain the process.
A consistent example
We use the fictional Omnia Community Day 2027 edition. Screenshots show genuine Omnia screens with example data. Click an image for the full-size original. NL / EN switches to the same topic in the other language.
Not every described capability is fully available yet. Where that affects your task, the limitation appears beside the relevant step. Find source revisions and technical evidence under About this chapter and in the coverage register.
For technical administrators
Install Omnia locally, prepare production and read about operations and recovery. End users do not need to install Omnia to follow this handbook.