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Bulk Create Conference Sessions in ExpoFP From a Excel

2026-05-14
5 min read

The Scenario

You're the program director for a 600-person conference. The session schedule has been finalized for six weeks. Eighty sessions, each with a title, start time, end time, room assignment, track, and external ID — all sitting in a tidy Excel workbook that the program committee signed off on in March.

The venue just confirmed the AV setup. ExpoFP goes live next week. None of those 80 sessions are in the system yet.

The bad version:

  • Open ExpoFP's session management panel and click "Add Session" for the first one — fill in title, pick the start time from a date picker, set the end time, select the room from a dropdown, assign the track, enter the external ID, save
  • Repeat that 79 more times, keeping your place in the workbook with a physical finger on the screen because you've already accidentally duplicated row 12
  • Hit session 44 and realize the room name in your workbook is "Hall B - North" but ExpoFP's dropdown only has "Hall B North" — discover this mismatch affects 11 other sessions

You have a Ph.D. candidate level of mastery over this session schedule. You should not be spending your Thursday afternoon clicking through a web form 80 times.

The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI

SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook. It reads your session schedule and pushes every row into ExpoFP's agenda system directly — titles, times, rooms, tracks, and all — in one operation.

Read my Excel sheet with session title, start time, end time, room, and external ID and upsert all 80 sessions into ExpoFP event 32971

What You Get

  • All 80 sessions created in ExpoFP, visible in the interactive agenda
  • A status column written back to your workbook: "created," "updated," or the specific error for sessions that didn't land
  • Rows with room name mismatches or unrecognized tracks flagged individually so you can fix just those and re-run

What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready

Your room names don't match ExpoFP's room list exactly

Check the room values in column C of my Excel workbook against the rooms configured in ExpoFP event 32971 and list the mismatches before I run the session import

You have sessions split across two worksheets — morning and afternoon

Read all rows from the "Morning" worksheet and the "Afternoon" worksheet in my Excel workbook and upsert them all as sessions in ExpoFP event 32971, combining both sets in one operation

Some sessions are marked "pending" and shouldn't go in yet

Import all sessions from my Excel workbook into ExpoFP event 32971 where column G (status) is "Confirmed" — skip any row with "Pending" or blank in that column

Normalize times, check for overlaps, and load in one prompt

In my Excel workbook, convert all start and end times in columns B and C from 12-hour to 24-hour format, flag any sessions where a room is double-booked at the same time, then upsert all sessions with status "Confirmed" in column G into ExpoFP event 32971 and write a status column with the result

When the data needs fixing before it moves, asking for both in a single prompt beats running two separate passes.

Try It

Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the session schedule workbook your program committee built, then ask it to load those sessions into ExpoFP. Related: Sync Session Tracks From an Excel workbook Into ExpoFP. Hub: How to Connect ExpoFP to Excel.

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