Open Source Alternatives to Sched

An event management platform for conferences, professional development, and complex events. The software provides tools for registration, scheduling, speaker coordination, and attendee management. It enables organizers to build agendas, assign rooms, and import data while allowing participants to register and create personalized schedules. The platform includes features for lead retrieval, custom feedback forms, and attendee tracking to turn event data into actionable insights. It is designed for event planners and educational organizations, such as K-12 districts, to replace manual spreadsheet work and email threads. The system is deployed as a cloud-based solution and is SOC 2 certified and FERPA compliant to protect student and district data. It supports various event types including festivals, symposiums, and hybrid gatherings.

Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to Sched give you an option you fully own. You can self-host them, so your data stays on infrastructure you control. This page lists 2 open source alternatives to Sched. The most popular are pretalx and OSEM. Most use the Apache-2.0 or MIT license, and 2 offer an official Docker image.