Featured Workflows
Speaking Opportunities Workflow
CFPs open quietly and close for good — major conferences take submissions three to nine months out, and the window you miss is a stage someone else stands on. This workflow watches for conferences, panels, and open calls matching your expertise and delivers them with deadlines attached.
Conferences, panels, webinars, and CFPs · Deadlines attached · Delivered to Slack or email
Ways PR pros run Speaking Opportunities
Conferences, panels, and CFPs matching your expertise, with deadlines attached. Tap a setup and Featured's chat will configure it with you.
- Topic watch
Watch your topic
“Set up a workflow that alerts me when new CFPs open for events about renewable energy and climate tech, weekly.”
Open in Featured - Exec pipeline
Fill an executive's calendar
“Set up a workflow that builds a speaking pipeline for our CTO on AI infrastructure — conferences, CFP windows, and suggested topics, monthly.”
Open in Featured - Regional
Stay close to home
“Set up a workflow finding business conferences and chamber events in Texas that need speakers on hiring and retention, monthly.”
Open in Featured - Virtual
Stack the webinars
“Set up a workflow that finds webinars and virtual summits seeking cybersecurity speakers in the next 90 days, weekly.”
Open in Featured - Deadlines
Get deadline warnings
“Set up a workflow tracking open CFPs in healthcare innovation that warns me two weeks before each submission deadline.”
Open in Featured - Panels
Prefer panels
“Set up a workflow that finds panel and roundtable openings for fintech compliance experts — lower lift than keynotes, weekly.”
Open in Featured - Agencies
One pipeline per client
“Set up separate speaking-opportunity workflows for my clients in insurance and logistics, each delivering matched events with deadlines.”
Open in Featured - Draft-ready
Arrive with abstracts
“Set up a weekly CFP workflow for retail technology topics, and draft a session abstract for the best match each week.”
Open in Featured - Trade shows
Watch the trade calendar
“Set up a workflow tracking construction and real estate industry events seeking speakers on modular building, monthly.”
Open in Featured - First-time
Build a first-timer ladder
“Set up a workflow finding lower-stakes speaking opportunities — meetups, local events, panels — for a SaaS product leader new to speaking.”
Open in Featured - Nonprofit
Speak for the mission
“Set up a monthly workflow finding conferences where a nonprofit founder could speak about scaling volunteer programs.”
Open in Featured - Season plan
Plan two quarters out
“Set up a workflow that maintains a rolling list of CFPs closing in the next two quarters for AI-in-education topics, updated weekly.”
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What it matches
Conferences, panels, webinars, and open calls for proposals matching the expertise and constraints you describe — region, travel, format, audience.
When it looks
Weekly for an active speaking program; monthly to keep a pipeline warm.
Where results go
Email or Slack — per speaker, per client, or to the team channel that fills the calendar.
How Workflows work
Tell Featured what to monitor, when to look, and where to send results.
Describe speaker and stage
Expertise, formats, region, and travel constraints — per speaker if you're running a program. That's the standing search.
Featured watches the calendar
New events, panels, and opening CFPs surface on your cadence — each with its deadline, so the pipeline sorts itself by urgency.
Submit while windows are open
From any opportunity, Featured's chat drafts the abstract, bio, and session pitch. Submission becomes a review step, not a project.
Why run speaking as a workflow
The best stages are booked months out. The workflow lives on that timeline so you don't have to.
3–9 mo
Built for CFP lead times
Conference CFPs close months before events. Continuous watching is the only way deadlines find you while they're still actionable.
Ladder
Every rung represented
Keynotes, panels, webinars, and local events in one pipeline — so emerging speakers climb and established ones stay selective.
Ready
Abstracts on arrival
Pair discovery with drafting: the workflow can deliver each week's best match with a session abstract already written for review.
Prefer to search on demand?
The Speaking Opportunities feature finds stages and CFPs in one conversation — the workflow keeps the calendar filling afterward.
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Speaking Opportunities workflow — frequently asked questions
What does the Speaking Opportunities workflow do?
It continuously discovers conferences, panels, webinars, and open CFPs matching the expertise you describe, and delivers them — with submission deadlines — to Slack or email. It's a speaking pipeline that maintains itself on the long lead times conference calendars actually run on.
Why do I need always-on CFP tracking?
Because CFP windows are short and early: three to nine months before events, often two to four weeks long, announced quietly. Checking manually means catching whatever happens to cross your feed. The workflow checks on schedule, so the deadline reaches you while submitting is still possible.
Can it draft my submissions?
Yes — configure it to draft a session abstract for the best match per delivery, built around what the event's audience takes away (the thing selection committees score). You review, adjust, and submit. Bios and session pitches draft the same way in chat.
Can I run it for multiple speakers?
Yes — one workflow per speaker with their own topics and constraints, or per client for agencies. Each pipeline delivers separately, so the CMO's panels don't drown out the CTO's keynote targets.
What kinds of events does it find?
Industry conferences and their CFPs, panels and roundtables, virtual summits and webinars, trade shows, and local business events. Constrain it naturally: “no travel,” “panels only,” “events where practitioners attend, not just vendors.”
Do I need a paid plan?
No — workflows are available on every plan, including Free. Runs pause when the daily usage cap is hit; a Free workspace's first run may pause on the 10¢ cap. Search one-off in chat free to see the current CFP landscape for your topics.
How does speaking connect to AI visibility?
Event pages, session listings, recordings, and transcripts all enter the public record with your name attached to your topic — exactly the trail AI assistants read when deciding who the experts are. A steady speaking cadence is one of the most durable GEO inputs there is.
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The next CFP shouldn't slip past
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