Speaker one-sheet: how to get read by AI browsers too

A speaker one-sheet, a page with the key details about you and your topics, has acquired a second reader since OpenAI presented the browser ChatGPT Atlas on 21 October 2025. According to OpenAI, Atlas is a web browser built around ChatGPT that was available for macOS at launch, and the “Ask ChatGPT” sidebar lets a user put a question about the page that is open. If an organiser opens your speaker page in such a browser, an assistant may well be reading along. For speakers this means that the details about you and your talks should appear as readable text on a page whose most important statements sit in the upper third.

ChatGPT Atlas: what OpenAI presented on 21 October 2025

In its announcement of 21 October 2025, OpenAI describes Atlas as a new web browser built around ChatGPT. As its rationale, OpenAI writes:

AI gives us a rare moment to rethink what it means to use the web.

OpenAI, “Introducing ChatGPT Atlas”, 21 October 2025

Atlas launched worldwide on macOS for users of the Free, Plus, Pro or Go plans, and it is available in beta for Business. On first launch it can import bookmarks and saved passwords as well as browsing history from the previous browser. In the “Ask ChatGPT” sidebar you can put a question about the current page, and browser memories allow ChatGPT to remember pages that were visited. OpenAI gives the example of asking it to find the job postings a user looked at last week and to create a summary of industry trends from them.

Agent mode, in which ChatGPT opens tabs and carries out tasks in the browser, is according to the announcement a preview in Atlas for Plus, Pro or Business. The trade publication Digiday reported on 22 October 2025 that Atlas is built on Chromium and expects advertising to follow. The publication also points out that publishers could lose visitors if answers stay in the chat.

Speaker one-sheet: what it is and what belongs in it

A speaker one-sheet, also called a speaker kit or press kit, is a page or a short document that gives organisers everything they need for the programme and the announcement as well as for the introduction on stage. Conferences draw on it when they publish a programme, announce a talk or introduce you on stage. What belongs in such a kit comes from our experience with submissions and is not a requirement set by organisers: a short bio in two lengths and a print-quality photo, plus the talk topics with an abstract each and your previous appearances along with a contact.

Which role you state there influences which format you are asked for, and how a lecturer and an orator differ from a speaker is described in Speaker, lecturer, orator: what is the difference?.

How an AI browser reads your speaker page

The safe route for a speaker page is text. A name only in the image of a photo, a talk topic only as a graphic, a contact behind a form, or a one-sheet embedded only as an image all ask more of the browser than the announcement describes. This is our interpretation based on the way OpenAI describes it working, because the announcement sets out no rules for speaker pages.

How far a user relies on what the assistant shows them is not something the sources say either. The early tester Yogya Kalra, whom OpenAI quotes in the announcement, says of lecture slides that ChatGPT “instantly understands what I’m looking at”. If a programme manager opens ten speaker pages one after another in this browser and asks the assistant to compare the topics, he or she may be reading a summary instead of your page. Assuming that happens, the summary has to contain your name and your topic as well as the way to reach you. These three details therefore belong at the top of the page.

A second point concerns training. According to OpenAI, pages that exclude GPTBot in their robots.txt are not used for training. If you have given your speaker page a block for GPTBot, you can check whether that is still what you want. The announcement does not say what effect such a block has on a user having the page read live in the browser.

Speaker one-sheet: a worked example of the review

A one-sheet saves time. How much can be calculated with open assumptions. Assume a programme committee receives 40 submissions for one topic and needs three minutes per profile because it has to piece together bio, topics or references. That makes 120 minutes. If it finds everything on one page in one minute, it is 40 minutes, and the difference of 80 minutes goes into comparing the talks.

How many submissions it takes to get one acceptance is calculated in How many abstracts does one acceptance take?. Every submission that a committee can take in quickly leaves it more time for the selection.

Seven building blocks for your speaker page and one-sheet

These considerations lead to seven building blocks that every speaker page should contain as text:

1. An introductory sentence with your name, your field and the audience for your talks stands in the first lines.
2. A short bio of 50 words and one of 150 words appear as text on the page and can be copied.
3. Each talk topic gets its own heading with an abstract of no more than 120 words.
4. Your previous appearances are listed with conference, place and year, and every conference is linked.
5. The photo is available to download in print quality and has alt text with your name.
6. The contact is an email address in the text and needs no form.
7. The one-sheet is also available as a PDF with readable text, linked from the same page.

Which types of conference you want to approach is described in Professional conference, congress, barcamp, trade fair, and it is worth arranging the topics on your page accordingly.