# Getting started

**Events gives organisers ultimate flexibility over the promotion, registration, management and broadcast of their event calendars. The following guide explains how to get started with your first event, clone it for future events and then more advanced configuration.**

## Getting to know the basics. 

Events come in all shapes and sizes. Before you get started, it's important to understand how events are classified on Wavecast, in order to support the widest variety:

### Event types

Your event type determines the configuration of your event website, registration and analytics. 

Think about the programme for your event in the following terms: 

1. **Single Session**: An event where all the content happens in just one session. For example, a webinar. 
2. **Multi-Session**: A series of back-to-back sessions that follow on from each other, one after the other. For example, a one-day conference. 
3. **Super Event**: An event with concurrent or parallel sessions, or containing different start and end times. For example, a multi-day conference or a conference with multiple tracks.

### Attendance types 

The attendance type defines the audience experience. 

Note that the attendance type relates to the location of the **audience**, not the speakers. 

* **Remote**: The live audience is entirely online. 
* **Hybrid**: The live audience is a combination of in-person and online. 
* **In-person**: The live audience is entirely in-person and there is no option to watch online.

For example, an online audience watching a broadcast of speakers sitting together in a studio is *Remote*. 

Meanwhile, an audience sitting together watching a speaker who is being broadcast into a venue is *In-person*. 

### Format

The event format specifies the interaction between the speakers and the audience. 

* **Broadcast**: A format where just the speakers contribute content to the event. Also known as a one-to-many format because speaker(s) are the only ones on screen. 
* **Meeting**: Both participants and speakers are able to contribute on screen. This is known as a many-to-many format. 
* **Mixed**: An event that combines both of the above formats. For example, a speaker contribution followed by audience participation.


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