Speakers and sponsors can now fill out their own profiles

Nobody signed up to hand-enter 99 speaker bios. It's the least glamorous part of building an event app, and it eats hours you just don't have.

Today we're fixing it for Highbar.ai customers.

The problem with manual profiles

Every conference hits the same bottleneck. You have a list of speakers and sponsors. Each one needs a headshot, a bio, a title, a company, social links, session details. Multiply that by 100 people and you're doing data entry instead of running your event. Even 10 can be a heavy lift with endless back and forth communication over minute details.

And the details are never right for long. A bio goes stale. A logo comes in low-res. A title changed last week and nobody told you. You become the single point of failure for content only the speaker or sponsor actually has.

The fix: self-service profiles you still control (or not)

Now speakers and sponsors fill out their own profiles. You send a link. They do the work. You review every change before it goes live.

That last part is really key. Self-service usually means giving up control, but not in this case. Nothing publishes until you approve it, on a field-by-field basis.

If you decide that you want to give your speakers or sponsors control and auto-approve their edits, you can do that as well and save yourself even more time.

What's included

→ Send speakers or sponsors a link to edit their own profiles.

→ Bulk invites, reminders, or individual magic links.

→ Get an email notification whenever changes are submitted.

→ Approve or reject updates field by field, all tracked.

Speakers and sponsors get an editing page built for them. You get a review queue built for you.

See it in two minutes

Also new in June and July

It's been an exceptionally busy time, and we're moving quickly to build simple, powerful, beautiful event technology.

• Lead retrieval built right into your event app.
• Social activity streams with photos, messages, stories, and polls.
• AI session summaries from a simple audio recording.
• Magic import to build an app from any XLSX file.
• Public or private channels for small group interactions.
• A sandbox account with a demo app ready the moment you sign up.
• Schedule any content or feature to publish or hide automatically.

Really proud of the team, and what we're building. ❤️