Indico is a platform that helps you organise and run events, particularly in academic and research settings. It’s widely used across UK universities, as well as organisations like CERN and the United Nations.
Indico supports the whole lifecycle of an event, from early planning through to post-event follow-up. Some features that researchers may find useful include:
- Flexible scheduling, including support for complex, multi-track conference programmes
- Event webpages where you can promote your event, manage registrations, and collect abstract submissions
- Customisable registration forms, for example to capture dietary or accessibility requirements
- Tools to manage attendance during the event
- Review workflows for abstracts and papers, making it easier to organise the assessment process
- Pre- and post-event surveys to gather feedback from attendees
- Built-in archiving, so event details, materials, and outputs remain available afterwards
Further details:
- University of Southampton Indico website – https://indico.soton.ac.uk
- Training “playground” site where you can safely learn and test ideas – https://indico.training.soton.ac.uk
- Example events for you to view.
- Knowledge base article on working with Indico.
- 🎞️Walkthrough on creating an example conference given to CHEP in April 2026.
