Multi-Program Chair Console
A map of the Multi-Program Chair Console — how its four tabs let you manage a container program, its sub-programs, their submissions, and proposal decisions.
The Multi-Program Chair Console is your workspace for running a container program — a category such as Workshops, Tutorials, or Sessions that groups several sub-programs beneath it. It opens at /console/program-head.
If you chair more than one container, the console first shows a selection grid; pick a container card to open its workspace. (If you chair exactly one, it opens straight into that container.) Each card shows the container name, your role, and headline counts for sub-programs and submissions.
Purpose
Give a container chair one place to see the health of their category, manage the sub-programs inside it, browse every submission across those sub-programs, and accept or reject the proposals that ask to create new sub-programs.
When you use it
- When you oversee a category of related programs rather than a single track.
- To review and decide on proposals submitted to your container.
- To create, structure, and activate the sub-programs under your container.
- To monitor submission activity across all of your sub-programs at once.
The tabs
- 1
Dashboard — an at-a-glance overview: sub-program count, total submissions, pending reviews, and accepted counts, plus a sub-programs overview, recent submissions, and quick links into the wider conference tools.
- 2
Programs — manage the sub-programs inside your container: create them, edit, activate/deactivate, reorder, and open read-only oversight views.
- 3
Submissions — a searchable, filterable table of every submission across the container and all its sub-programs, with status counts and per-row view.
- 4
Decisions — review the proposals submitted to your container and accept, request revision, or reject them. Accepting creates the sub-program.
Tips
The Decisions tab is what populates the Programs tab. When you accept a proposal, AirBalloon automatically creates the sub-program under your container and makes the proposer its chair — so most sub-programs start life as an accepted proposal.