Putting your dates in your own calendar

Your dashboard gives you a calendar address you can subscribe to from any calendar application. It is a standing subscription rather than a file you download once: it refreshes on its own, entries appear when you tick a date and disappear when you untick it.

It carries exactly the dates you ticked. Not everything on a conference you saved — the dates you asked to be reminded about, and nothing else. You can narrow it further to particular kinds of date, so somebody who only wants submission dates in their work calendar can have exactly that.

The address itself is the credential. A calendar application cannot log in, so the link contains a long random token instead. Anybody holding the address can read your dates, which is a list of conferences you are interested in and nothing more — no name, no email, no account access. That is still worth protecting, so the address can be replaced whenever you want. Replacing it stops the old one working immediately, and you will need to re-subscribe in your calendar.

Individual conference pages also offer a single calendar entry for one conference, which is a one-off file rather than a subscription. It does not update if the organizer moves the date. The feed does.

If your calendar shows nothing after you subscribe, the usual cause is that no dates are ticked yet. An address that is not recognised returns an empty calendar rather than an error, because a calendar application that meets an error shows you a dialogue every hour until you remove it.