Templates for event badges your people share

The style decides more than you'd think. Plain layouts with plenty of white space feel serious and suit specialist conferences, while elegant variants with calm typography lean toward an award or a festive format. For festivals and lively community formats it can get louder, with bold colors that stand out in the feed.

Dark layouts look especially good on a phone and give tech and startup topics the right stage. And then there are templates with lots of room for the photo, where the face of the person taking part is front and center. In the end what counts is that the badge fits your brand and doesn't look like an off-the-shelf template. If you have speakers, take a look at the “I'm speaking at” template, and for companies and teams at a booth, the “we're attending” template.

An event badge here is an image your people willingly put on their profile on LinkedIn because they want to show they're taking part. Printed name tags hang from a lanyard and go in the bin at the end of the day. A digital badge stays in the feed and reaches exactly the people you want to win over for your next event.

The process is deliberately simple. You design a badge in the look of your event, send a link to your speakers and exhibitors, and they add their photo and name. No one needs an account. You keep control of the design, your people keep control of their photo. The speaker badge page describes the starting point for presenters in detail.

First, you pick a template that fits the occasion. Second, you make it yours by uploading your logo, entering the title and date, and setting the colors to your brand. A neutral template turns into a badge that clearly looks like your event.

Third, you share a link. Your speakers and exhibitors open it, drop in their photo and post the finished badge. You don't have to explain anything to anyone or send files back and forth. Once you've set the layout, it applies to all your guests the same way, and yet every badge looks personal thanks to its own photo. When you want to set up your event in full, with a certificate and everything around it, the onboarding walks you through it step by step.

Every template comes in several formats, so the badge sits well everywhere. For the feed you use the square format, which shows up most reliably on LinkedIn and in most timelines. If you want more height for a large photo or a long list of speakers, you reach for the portrait format.

And for stories, on Instagram for example, there is the upright story format that fills the whole screen. Your people pick what suits their channel and get a full-resolution image every time, with no watermark and no one having to fiddle with the layout. That keeps your event recognizable across every channel, because the color and logo sit the same everywhere. For the rest of what the term can cover, from the announcement image to the proof on the profile, the create a LinkedIn badge page explains it.