How to add a session

Sessions are the time-bounded blocks inside an event — a full day, a keynote, a breakout track. Here's how to add a new one.

~45 seconds Event admins

Every event in Overture is made up of one or more sessions. A session is a time-bounded block — it could be an entire day of programming, a single keynote, a breakout track, or anything in between. Each session has its own tab across the top of the Run of Show and its own list of rows.

Steps

  1. Open the event

    Sign in at app.overture.show and open the event you want to add a session to. Across the top of the page you'll see the session tab strip — one tab for every existing session, plus a Dashboard tab on the left.

    The event dashboard view with the session tab strip outlined in blue.
    The session tab strip lives at the top of the Run of Show.

  2. Click the plus tab

    At the very end of the session tab strip, after your last session, you'll see a small + button. Click it to open the Add session dialog.

    The session tab strip with the plus button circled at the end.
    The plus button at the end of the tab strip opens the Add session dialog.

  3. Fill out the Add session dialog

    The Add session dialog asks for three things:

    • Show day — pick which day of the event this session belongs to from the dropdown (e.g. Day 1 · WED, Jul 1, 2026).
    • Session title — the full descriptive name (e.g. General Session 6, Opening Keynote, Sponsor Reception).
    • Tab label — the short name that appears on the tab itself (e.g. WED GS6). This is auto-derived from the title and date, but you can edit it to override.

    When you're happy with all three, click Add session.

    The Add session dialog showing Show day, Tab label, and Session title fields with arrows pointing at each.
    Three fields: Show day, Session title, and an auto-derived Tab label.

  4. Start filling in rows

    Your new session appears as a tab at the right end of the strip and opens automatically. Overture pre-populates a short starter row layout (including a DOORS OPEN row and placeholder rows for stage leaders) so you have something to edit instead of staring at a blank table. Click into any cell to edit, or use + Add row at the bottom to add more.

    A new session tab named DEMO ADD opens with a starter row layout already in place.
    New sessions open with a starter layout — just edit the cells to fit your show.

Tip

If Day 2 of your event looks a lot like Day 1, don't start from scratch — use Duplicate a session instead. It copies all rows, durations, and assignees to a new tab so you can just tweak from there.

Title vs. tab label

Two of the dialog's fields look similar but serve different purposes:

By default the tab label is auto-derived from your title and the show day (e.g. title General Session 6 on Wednesday becomes WED GS6). If the auto-derived label isn't what you want, just type over it before clicking Add session.

Tab label patterns that work

Heads up

Session order in the tab strip is determined by show day and start time. If you add a session on an earlier day than existing ones, it'll appear to the left. You can also manually reorder sessions if needed.