Enable session submissions to invite people to propose talks through a public form, then review their proposals in your event dashboard. This feature must be available on your event's plan.
Enable the submission page
Go to Event Settings > General > Event Basics.
Find Allow Session Submissions? and choose Yes.
Choose whether to enable Hide Footer Link?. This hides the footer link while keeping the submission page available by direct link.
If you want to charge a submission fee, enable Charge for Submissions? and enter a positive Submission Fee in your event's currency. You need an active payment provider before you can save paid submissions.
Click Save.
For in-person events, you can also ask for a venue preference and restrict the available venues. Turning session submissions off makes the public submission page unavailable; hiding the footer link alone does not.
Share the page
When the footer link is visible, people can open Submit a Talk for Consideration from your event footer. You can also go to Content & Schedule > Sessions > Submissions, click Open Submission Page and copy that page's address.
The public form collects the proposed talk and presenter details. Date, duration, broadcast and venue preferences depend on the settings that apply to your event. The optional Mobile number is shared privately with organisers and is separate from a speaker's public phone number.
Review proposals
Go to Content & Schedule > Sessions and open Submissions. The organiser receives a notification for proposals submitted through the anonymous public form. Paid proposals become available for review and trigger the organiser notification after payment completes.
Use Actions > Edit Session Submission to review or edit the submitted details.
Approve makes the session active, creates or updates the matching presenter profile, links that presenter to the session and sends the acceptance email. New presenter creation remains subject to your account limits.
Reject notifies the submitter. If the submission has a refundable paid fee, HeySummit refunds it before rejecting the proposal. A refund failure leaves the proposal unrejected.
Permanent deletion is available for rejected submissions without payment history. Submissions with payment history cannot be permanently deleted.
On approval, a submitted mobile number is copied to the presenter's private contact details. It remains available to organisers in submission exports and submission webhooks, and does not appear on public event pages.
Customise the submission wording
Go to Event Settings > General > Content Translations.
Open Filter records, choose Talk Submit Suggestion in Category, then click Filter. You can also search for a phrase.
Enter replacement wording in the Translation field and click that row's Save button.
Content Translations changes the page's wording; it is not the landing-page layout editor. Clearing a replacement, including saving only spaces, removes the override and restores the default wording for the event language. A single space does not hide the phrase.