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A speaker is not a separate kind of person in Orriven — it is a profile layered on top of an attendee’s registration. The person first registers for the event like anyone else; you then mark that registration as a speaker and give it a public profile: name, title, bio, and a schedule of sessions. Find them under Program & venue → Speakers in the event navigation.

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Get the speaker registered first

Because a speaker is an attendee, the person must have a registration before you can add them. The typical flow for invited speakers:
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Create a hidden guest ticket

On Ticket types, create a ticket (e.g. “Speaker”) and set its visibility to hidden — it won’t appear on the public event page.
2

Create a redemption code for it

On Offers & redemptions, create a code that unlocks the hidden ticket, and send the share link to your speaker.
3

They register

The speaker follows the link and registers like any guest. Alternatively, you can key them in yourself on the Attendees page.

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Add and edit a speaker

Click Add speaker and search for the attendee by name or email. If no match comes up, they haven’t registered yet — invite them first as above. On the speaker’s page you can edit:
  • Name — seeded from the registration, but editable on its own. The stage name doesn’t have to match the badge.
  • Title — e.g. “CTO, Acme”.
  • Bio — the public introduction.

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Assign sessions — from the speaker’s page

The Schedule section on the speaker’s page is where you connect a speaker to sessions on the Agenda. Check the sessions they’re on and save — the schedule is edited from the speaker’s side, not from the session’s.
Assigning a gated session grants the speaker access to it. If a session requires perks, adding the speaker to it automatically grants those perks to their registration — so they can enter their own session without any extra ticket work. The grant is additive: nothing the person already holds is taken away, and if you later remove the session from their schedule, the granted perks are not revoked.

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Rules to know

  • One profile per registration. A registration can be marked as a speaker once; a speaker is always exactly one attendee in this event.
  • The registration comes first. You cannot create a speaker from thin air — there is no “speaker-only” identity. If they shouldn’t hold a visible ticket, use a hidden guest ticket.
  • Removing a speaker keeps everything else. “Remove speaker” deletes only the profile: the person’s registration stays, and any perks granted through session assignments stay too.
  • Name, title and bio are yours to edit without touching the underlying registration. Use View attendee to jump to the registration itself.
Speaking slots often come with green-room or backstage access. Model those as perks bound to the speakers’ guest ticket — see Perks — rather than handling them ad hoc.