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Getting started

From a blank account to an event you can open a call for speakers on — about two minutes.

Every screenshot in this guide comes from one real run: a brand-new account setting up Devcon Berlin 2026, from signing up to a published programme. You are watching the same event grow page by page.
  1. Create your account with a name, an email address and a password.

    The Trackstage sign-up card filled in with a name, email and password
    No credit card, no trial clock — it is open source.
  2. You land in a workspace straight away, and it is empty. A workspace is your organisation: it owns your events and your team.

    A brand-new workspace with no events yet and a Create your first event button
    Nothing to configure here. Renaming it and inviting colleagues can wait.
  3. Press “Create your first event”. Name it — the web address is filled in for you.

    The New event dialog with the name Devcon Berlin 2026 and a matching web address
  4. You land on the event’s settings. Add the dates, the timezone and the venue — this is what your public page and every calendar invite will say.

    Event settings for Devcon Berlin 2026 with dates, timezone and venue filled in
    All of it is editable later. Nothing here is a one-way door.
  5. Add your rooms and tracks while you are here — Settings → Rooms & tracks. The agenda has nowhere to put a session until a room exists.

    Rooms and tracks for Devcon Berlin 2026: the Aula and Workshop rooms, and two coloured tracks
    Tracks colour every card and become the columns in the track view.
  6. The dashboard is now your home. On day one it is honest about being empty and tells you what to do next.

    The Devcon Berlin 2026 dashboard on day one, with empty counts and a next step
  7. Once submissions start arriving it fills in: counts by status, what is still unscheduled, and who owes you something.

    A busy organizer dashboard for an event with hundreds of submissions
    A different, much larger event — so you can see what the numbers look like at scale.
Every page in the app is scoped to the event in the switcher at the top of the sidebar. If something looks empty, check you are on the right event — see Team & workspaces.