An independent project for the Indico community
Smarter events, built into Indico.
Indico.ai is a set of AI features for Indico, delivered as a plugin: search that understands questions, a chatbot that knows the event, recommendations, notifications, email drafting and forecasting. Designed by an Indico developer, and looking for partners to shape it.
Interactive preview with made-up events and simple matching. The real feature would search your own Indico events by meaning.
The smart suite
Six features around one idea: help people find the right event, and help organizers run it with less effort.
Smart Search
Ask in plain language and get relevant events, not a wall of keyword matches.
For attendeesSmart Chatbot
Answers questions about an event and helps people register.
For attendeesSmart Recommendations
Suggests events and content based on a person's interests and location.
For attendeesSmart Notifications
Short, timely updates on their device instead of buried emails.
For attendeesSmart Compose
Drafts organizer emails or event description from a short prompt, then you edit and send.
For organizersSmart Analytics
Forecasts demand to plan rooms and spot trending categories.
For organizersSmart Review
Helps in reviewing of applications for moderated events.
For organizersA homepage that helps people discover
Trending categories and events, trending searches, recommended events, a carousel of upcoming events, highlighted categories and a floating chatbot. The same design works on desktop and on a phone.
Concept design, not a released product. All events shown are fictional.
Why a plugin
Extends Indico
Plugins are how Indico is already extended, so features install alongside core and your existing plugins.
Runs where you choose
AI services are designed to run on your own infrastructure, so event and attendee data stays with you.
People decide
Every feature assists. Organizers and Reviewer review, edit and approve.
Shown at the Indico Workshop
The Indico.ai idea was first presented at the Indico Workshop 3.5 at CERN in March 2023. Smart Notifications followed at the Indico Workshop 2025.
A second use case: The application review
Five background agents prepare an evidence-linked dossier for each media application. No automated decisions: the reviewer decides.
Let's build this with the people who run events.
Pilot a feature at your institution, help build the plugin, or evaluate the models. Tell me what you'd like to see.