Three views belong together: the programme list with every programme item, the programme page as the workbench for exactly one programme item, and the calendar, where stages and time come together. What you maintain here is reused by the event website, the social media images and produce mode. A Producer sets a programme item’s type (such as talk or panel) and its department, and you choose the stage format in the “Formats” box.
Time slots: placeholders, blockers and auto-assign
If you like, you start a new event in the setup wizard with placeholders: a generator lays out a grid of programme items based on days, stages and slot duration, which you then fill in. On the calendar, in day, week or month view, you drag programme items into place, change their length at the edge and undo the last action if needed. Blockers keep lunch breaks, press slots and blocked time free. You spread accepted submissions across free slots with auto-assign and its availability overview.
Time zones
Every event has its own time zone, detected from the browser when you create it and overridable. Times appear everywhere in that time zone with city and offset, and anyone sitting in another time zone sees their own time alongside. On the event website every page names its time zone, for example “All times in Istanbul (GMT+3)”.