Make your speakers famous (on social media, at least)

A quick guide to creating Social Banners in Sessionize — no design skills needed.

---

You've accepted some great sessions — now what? You could email your speakers a Canva template and hope for the best, or you could let Sessionize handle the whole thing in about two minutes. The Social Banners feature generates ready-to-share graphics for every accepted session, complete with the speaker's photo, session title, and your event branding. Here's how to set it up.

---

What do you actually get?

Each banner is a clean, social-ready image your speakers can drop straight into a LinkedIn post or Instagram story. No extra tools, no back-and-forth — just download and share.

• Posts and stories — sized for both landscape posts and portrait stories.
• Your brand, your look — custom backgrounds, fonts, colors, and your event logo.
• Speakers can self-serve — give speakers direct access so they can download and share themselves.

Heads up: Banners are only available for accepted sessions. If a session isn't showing up, pop over to the Sessions page and check its status first.

---

Let's build your banners

1. Find the Social Banners page

Head to your Sessionize organizer dashboard and click Social Banners in the left menu. That's your home base for everything banner-related.

2. Pick a session to work with

The screen is split into two halves — Properties on the left (your controls) and a live Preview on the right. Use the dropdown above the preview to choose a session, or just click Previous / Next to browse through them all.

3. Sort out the background

Open the Background dropdown and pick your style:

• Built-in templates — great if you just want something decent, fast.
• Solid color — simple and clean. Pick any hex you like.
• Upload your own image — full control over the look. Go for 1920×1080px for posts or 1080×1920px for stories. Once it's uploaded, drag the text overlay around the preview to position it just right.

Secret trick: Uploading a custom background removes the Sessionize logo from the corner. Sessionize calls this an "officially supported hack" — so go ahead and use it guilt-free.

4. Add your fonts, colors, and logo

Pick a font and text color that fits your event vibe. You can also drop your event logo at the top of the banner — a horizontal logo works best. Don't stress too much here; the speaker photo and session details always look clean no matter what you choose.

5. Decide what info to show

Tick whatever you'd like on the banner — an intro line, the event date(s), session time (if your schedule is live), and event location. All the usual date and time formats are there to choose from.

6. Save and download

  Hit Save changes when you're happy, then grab your banners with one of the two buttons at the bottom:

• Download this banner — just the one you're looking at.
• Download all banners — every accepted session in one ZIP file. It might take a minute if you've got a lot of sessions.

 

---

Let your speakers grab their own banners

One checkbox = a lot of extra reach. At the top of the Properties panel, check "Allow speakers to see and share their social banners." Your speakers will then see their banner right in their Sessionize dashboard and can download it themselves. It's the easiest way to turn your speaker lineup into a little army of event promoters.

---

And that's it! Seriously — it takes maybe five minutes from start to finish. Next time you accept a round of sessions, set up your Social Banners straight away and share the download link with your speakers. The earlier they post, the more hype you'll build before the event.