Speaker roster & quality ranking

The conference ends. What you learned about the speakers shouldn’t.

Resource Hub IQ is a durable speaker roster. Your staff rate the people who present, the scores persist across every event, and years later a program planner can search by topic and see who was actually good at it.

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In production since 2026
WCAG 2.1 AA — tested, not claimed
Your own instance, your own data

Roster — topic: municipal finance

On roster148

Rated96

Raters2

Illustrative speaker roster with invented names, scores and confidence levels
Speaker	Score	Confidence	Talks
A. RookerNorthbridge Institute	4.6·7	Established	7
M. DelacroixFairwater Group	4.2·5	Established	5
J. OkonkwoSunfield Partners	4.9·1	Provisional	1
T. HalvorsenMeridian Civic Trust	Unrated	Unrated	2

Illustrative only. Every name, score and organisation here is invented. A 4.9 from one rater reads as Provisional, not as your best speaker.

The gap

Good tools exist for collecting proposals. That is not the same as knowing who to invite back.

Speaker software is built around the call for speakers — the submissions, the review, the scheduling. Evaluation software is built around one event’s feedback. The durable, scored roster sits between them, and that is the part nobody sells as the point of the product.

Speaker & session management

Strong at the front half of the lifecycle. Most keep a speaker database you can reuse, and most have ratings — but the ratings are usually submission review scores: did we accept this proposal?

Call for speakers, abstracts, review
Scheduling, contracts, logistics
Scores attach to a submission

The seam

A permanent, scored roster of talent

How did they actually do — and is that still true three events later?

Post-event evaluation

Strong at how did this session go. Weak at keeping a standing roster: the data lives per-event, inside that event, and stops being consulted once the conference is over.

Attendee surveys, session scores
Per-event reporting
Nothing carries forward by design

$3K–$60K a year is the published and quoted range across the platforms in this category. You buy the whole event stack to get the roster as a by-product — and it is still the front half you are paying for.

The whole lifecycle

Shortlist, invite, track, log, rate — then search it all again next year

Not just collecting proposals, and not just a survey at the end. The point is that the sixth step can see everything the first five recorded.

Shortlist

Build a candidate list for a session from the roster you already have, on topic, with each person’s history in front of you.

Invite

Send the invitation and record that you sent it, so the next planner does not ask the same person the same thing twice.

Track submissions

Follow what came back — accepted, declined, materials outstanding — without the status living in somebody’s inbox.

Log correspondence

Keep the thread with the speaker attached to the speaker, where the next person to deal with them will actually find it.

Rate afterwards

Staff who were in the room record what they saw. Ratings are attributed on purpose — the person entering one knows their name is on it.

Search by topic

Years later, ask the question the whole thing exists to answer: who is good on this subject, and how confident are we?

How the numbers behave

Rating people is not a leaderboard problem

A roster of scores about named colleagues can misrepresent someone quietly and permanently. Three rules are built into the display, not left to whoever reads the report.

Rule 01Thin evidence looks thin: A high score from a single rater is Provisional, and says so in words. The strongest number on the page is not automatically the strongest speaker, and the roster should never let you read it that way.
Rule 02Both numbers, always together: The raw average and the confidence-adjusted score appear side by side, with an explanation in reach. Showing only the adjusted figure reads as marking someone down, which is a different claim than the one the data supports.
Rule 03“Unrated” is a word, never a zero: Nobody who has not been rated appears as a nought, an empty cell or an empty bar at the bottom of a sort. They appear as unrated, because that is what they are.
Rule 04The rater count stays on screen: How many people have ever entered a rating is a permanent tile on the roster, flagged when it is low. If the whole roster reflects two opinions, you should not have to go looking to find that out.

How it is delivered

Your own instance, built and looked after by the people who wrote it

A separate instance

Your organisation gets its own hostname and its own database. Your roster is not pooled with anyone else’s, and the ratings your staff enter stay yours.

Internal by default

It is a staff tool. Sign-in, roles, attributed ratings and an audit trail — because a scored list of named people is exactly the kind of record that needs to know who touched it.

Accessible, and tested for it

WCAG 2.1 AA, held up by an automated accessibility suite that runs on every build rather than a statement on a page. Rating entry works on a phone, at a conference, one-handed.

Maintained, not shipped

Resource Hub IQ is a Liquifusion Studios product. Liquifusion has been building and then keeping software running for small organisations since 2002 — most clients have been with us a decade or more.

Your data, exportable

The roster is worth having because it accumulates. That only holds if the accumulation is yours to take with you, so it is.

Seeded from what you have

You probably already hold some of this — past programmes, session evaluations, a spreadsheet somebody keeps. Starting from that beats starting from an empty roster.

Tell us how you pick speakers today

If the answer involves someone’s memory, a spreadsheet, or asking around, that is the conversation. We will tell you honestly whether this is worth building for you.

Get in touch sales@resourcehubiq.com