Events & Talks

Publish conference talks, workshops, webinars, and seminars. Include dates, locations, abstracts, and link to presentation slides.

Publish your conference talks, workshops, seminars, and webinars. Events support start/end times, locations, abstracts, and automatic embedding of linked slide decks.

Quick Start

Open the Ownable sidebar in VS Code.
Click + (Create) next to the Events collection.
Enter a title and press Enter.

Install Ownable CMS for visual content management.

hugo new content/events/my-talk/index.md

Create a folder: content/events/my-talk/
Add index.md with the frontmatter below.
Optionally add featured.jpg for a thumbnail.

File Structure

_index.md # Event listing page

index.md # Event page

featured.jpg # Thumbnail image

index.md

Frontmatter Template

---
title: "My Conference Talk"

# Event details
event: "NeurIPS 2024"
event_url: "https://neurips.cc"
location: "Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada"

# Talk start and end times (ISO 8601)
date: "2024-12-10T14:00:00Z"
date_end: "2024-12-10T15:00:00Z"
all_day: false

# Abstract
abstract: >
  In this talk, we present our latest findings on scalable
  attention mechanisms for large language models.

# Summary for listing cards
summary: "Presenting our work on scalable attention at NeurIPS 2024."

# Authors / Speakers
authors:
  - jane-doe

# Tags
tags:
  - Machine Learning
  - NeurIPS
  - Attention

# Link to slides (folder name under content/slides/)
slides: "neurips-2024"

# Featured image
image:
  filename: featured.jpg
  caption: "Presenting at NeurIPS"

# Links
links:
  - name: Video Recording
    url: https://youtube.com/...
    icon: video
  - name: Paper
    url: /publication/attention-paper/
    icon: document

# Shorthand link fields
url_pdf: ""
url_slides: ""
url_video: ""
url_code: ""

# Featured
featured: true

# Draft
draft: false
---

## Talk Details

Add any additional context, extended abstract, or notes about the talk.
Include references, acknowledgments, or related work.

Linking Slides to Events

Connect your Markdown slide decks to events for automatic embedding:

Create your slides at content/slides/neurips-2024/index.md

Reference in your event using the slides: field:

slides: "neurips-2024"   # Matches the folder name

Result: The slides automatically embed on the event page with a fullscreen toggle button.

Viewers can preview slides inline and go fullscreen without leaving the event page.

Event Listing

The event listing page at /event/ automatically displays events sorted by date, with:

Upcoming events shown first
Past events below
Date/time, location, and summary displayed on cards

Date & Time

Events support precise start/end times and all-day events:

# Specific time range
date: "2024-12-10T14:00:00Z"
date_end: "2024-12-10T15:00:00Z"
all_day: false

# All-day event
date: "2024-12-10"
all_day: true

Use ISO 8601 format with timezone for precise scheduling. Times are displayed in the visitor's local timezone.

Quick Reference

Field	Type	Description
`title`	`string`	Talk/event title (required)
`event`	`string`	Conference or event name
`event_url`	`string`	Link to event website
`location`	`string`	Venue and city
`date`	`datetime`	Start date/time (ISO 8601)
`date_end`	`datetime`	End date/time
`all_day`	`bool`	All-day event flag
`abstract`	`string`	Talk abstract
`slides`	`string`	Linked slide deck folder name
`authors`	`list`	Speaker slugs
`featured`	`bool`	Pin to top of listings