View embed examples on a website HERE.
Embeds allow you to export a feed of your agenda, sessions, and speakers to place in your app or website. The feed will update regularly with changes you have made in Sessionboard - no sync or push required.
Embeds can be created with HTML styling, as basic HTML, or in other formats such as JSON, XML, and iCal.
You can choose to include various speaker or session fields to show in the embed. You can also create several different embeds to use for various purposes.
Embed Outputs
There are five types of embeds you can create: Schedule Itinerary, Speaker Gallery, Agenda, Session List, and Speaker List.
Schedule Itinerary
Search for relevant sessions by keywords
Use multiple filters to view sessions by format, tag, track, and location
NOTE: Filtering by level and language is not available at this time.
Speakers, chairpersons, and moderators are prominently shown with headshots and biographical information
Expand sessions to view subsession details
Speaker Gallery (speakers are displayed alphabetically by first name)
Showcase your speaker's headshots and relevant information
Click on a speaker's image to showcase more speaker information
Agenda
Displays approved sessions in a grid by location/time
Click on a session to view more information such as times and location
Click on a speaker to view more information such as the title and about fields
Session list
Display a list of sessions with speakers and relevant information
Click on a speaker to view more information such as the title and about fields
Use multiple filters to view sessions by format, language, tag, track, and location
Speaker list
Display a list of speakers with their sessions and relevant information
Click on a session to view more information such as times and locations
Creating An Embed
Creating an embed is easy to do and does not require any special technical knowledge.
To start, go to Sessions - Agenda - Embeds and click “Add Embed”.
Then, choose the format type you would like for your embed (i.e. HTML, JSON, XML, iCal).
Embed Styled Html
One line of JavaScript code that you can put on a website to display an interactive agenda, session list, or speaker list.
Embed Html
One line of JavaScript that you can put on any website. This will output sessions and speakers as HTML, which can be further styled locally by a website developer to match your own themes.
JSON
A formatted JSON output with expanded properties instead of flattened text. This is best used to feed data into an app or other database.
XML
A formatted XML output with expanded properties instead of flattened text. This is best used to feed data into an app or other database.
iCal
Create a calendar link for your agenda that displays all approved sessions as events and provides basic information about each session. Good for event organizers to share with each other.
For Styled HTML embeds, you can choose an accent color and a light or dark theme.
You can also customize the date format for session times, and choose to display the schedule in the browser timezone.
By default, sessions and speakers can be clicked from other embeds to view more details in a pop-out window. You can deactivate this by deselecting the checkbox here.
Enable filters to allow your attendees the ability to filter your agenda by format, language, location, level, or tags.
In the last configuration step, you can select which fields you want to display for each embed. Fields in grey are required in order to create the embed and cannot be removed. Fields in blue are preselected and can be changed.
There are three different places where fields can be customized:
Agenda
This controls what fields display when you click on a session card from the calendar to view details. A pop-out window will open that displays these fields.
Speaker
This controls what fields are shown on the card for each speaker in the list.
Session
This controls what fields are shown in the list for each session. These fields selected will also impact the Schedule Itenerarry embed.
Once you’ve selected your fields, the embed code will be available for HTML embeds.
Embed codes are JavaScript snippets that can be placed on web pages. Copy the code and provide it to your IT team to embed them on your website.
You can also preview each embed by clicking “Preview”. This will open the embed in a new window.
Embed Update Frequency
Once created, embeds will automatically update every 60 minutes to reflect changes made to the data in Sessionboard. If you need to push updates faster, you can do so by refreshing the cache specifically on an embed to have it update within minutes.
To refresh a cache, go to Sessions - Settings - Embeds and click “Refresh Cache” beside the name of the embed.
Make Edits to Embeds
Embeds can be updated by going to Sessions - Settings - Embeds and clicking “Edit”. You can change the style or field options; however, the data type cannot be changed once set. We recommend that you create a new embed in this instance.
Note: You may have to Refresh Cache to see changes applied.