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title: "Speaker Portal (Beta)"
slug: "speaker-portal-beta"
updated: 2026-10-12T15:54:16Z
published: 2026-10-12T15:54:16Z
canonical: "docs.blackthorn.io/speaker-portal-beta"
---

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# Speaker Portal (Beta)

Beta — gated feature

              

The Speaker Portal is a beta feature gated by the PORTALS_ENABLED flag and a per-tenant feature flag. Contact your Blackthorn account team to enable it. Behavior and interface may change before general availability.

The Speaker Portal is a self-service web portal where confirmed speakers can manage their profiles, upload headshots and bios, submit session materials, and communicate with event organizers — all without needing a Forge login.

> 🖼️ **In the Forge app:** The Speaker Portal home screen showing the speaker's session list and profile completion status.

## How speakers access the portal

When you mark a speaker as Confirmed in Forge, a "Send Portal Invitation" button appears on their record. Clicking it sends the speaker a secure, unique link to their portal. The link is valid for 30 days; speakers click it to activate their session without a password — the portal uses magic-link authentication.

## Speaker self-service features

- Profile — Edit bio, title, company, social links, and upload a headshot.
- Sessions — View all sessions they are assigned to, including room, time, and abstract.
- Deliverables — Upload slide decks, handouts, or other materials requested by the organizer.
- Messages — Read-only message thread with the event organizer; speakers can reply.
- Resources — Access documents the organizer has published to all speakers (speaker guide, venue maps, etc.).

## Planner-side management

1. Open an event and navigate to the Speakers tab.
2. Find a confirmed speaker and click Manage Portal Access.
3. From the panel, you can: send or resend the portal invitation, view whether the speaker has logged in, view their profile-completion percentage, send a message, and revoke portal access if needed.
4. To publish a shared resource to all speakers, go to the event's Speakers tab header menu and choose Publish Resource.

| Forge | Salesforce Object | Salesforce Field |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Speaker profile | conference360__Speaker__c | Name, conference360__Bio__c, conference360__Title__c, conference360__Company__c |
| Session assignment | conference360__Session__c | conference360__Event__c (speaker linked via junction) |
| Headshot | conference360__Speaker__c | linked ContentDocument (Salesforce Files) |

              Personal data

              

Speaker portal profiles contain personal information (name, bio, headshot, contact details). This data is stored in Salesforce (conference360__Speaker__c) and fetched just-in-time by Forge. Forge does not persist speaker PII in its own Postgres database.