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opensesh integrates with Accelevents, importing speakers and attendees from an Accelevents event into your organization's Speaker CRM. The import is strictly one-way: opensesh reads from Accelevents and nothing is ever written back.
Connect
Go to Event Settings → Integrations → Accelevents and fill in:
- Accelevents event URL slug — the event identifier from your Accelevents URL.
- API key — your Accelevents API key.
- Also import attendees as CRM contacts — optional toggle; without it only speakers are imported.
Click Connect (or Update connection if one exists).
No Accelevents account handy?
Use demo connection wires up bundled sample data so you can watch the full sync flow end to end before touching a real event.
Sync
Click Sync now to run an import. What happens:
- Speakers land in the Speaker CRM with full profiles — name, title, company, bio — and are linked to the current event, so they show up both in the CRM Directory and in the event's context.
- Attendees (if the toggle is on) become CRM contacts tagged "Accelevents attendee". That tag is the handle for targeting them later — build a Segment on it and run a "speak at our next event?" campaign from Communications.
Imports are idempotent
Re-syncing dedupes against existing contacts (by email, the same rule as CSV import), so running Sync now repeatedly updates rather than duplicates. After each run a sync report shows exactly what happened: how many records were created, updated, and skipped.
Why one-way?
The CRM is designed to be a superset of any single event tool: contacts accumulate tags, pipeline stages, and event history across years. Writing back to Accelevents would make it a sync problem; reading only keeps the integration safe to run any time — worst case, a sync is a no-op.
Practical recipe
Connect
Connect with your slug + API key (or the demo connection).
Sync and read the report
Enable attendee import, Sync now, and read the report.
Segment the attendees
In the CRM, create a Segment for the Accelevents attendee tag.
Campaign when your CFP opens
Campaign to that segment when your next CFP opens — attendees at the last event are the warmest speaker pipeline you have.