Adding Speakers to Sessions

The following procedure describes how to add one or more speakers to a session within an event.

When adding a new session staff member with a role of speaker, or changing the role of an existing session staff member to speaker, Siebel Events checks for overlapping speaking engagements for the staff member based on the session start and end date. If the speaker is booked for more than one session at the same time, it displays an error message and prevents the record from being saved.

To add speakers to a session

1. Navigate to the Site Map > Events > Sessions view.

2. In the Sessions list, select and drill down on the session for which you want to specify one or more speakers.

3. Click the Resources view tab, and then click Staff.

4. In the Staff list, create a new record, and complete the necessary fields.

   • Be sure to select Speaker from the Session Role drop-down list to designate this person is a speaker for the event.

   • The Status field indicates whether or not the speaker has been confirmed to speak at the event. It does not indicate the speaker’s registration status as an event attendee.

   • You can only select session staff members who were previously created in the parent event.