Do I need topics?

Because the crucial part of the conference - Review allocation is based on the common topics between Submissions and Reviewers all the authors are required to choose their topics, otherwise their submission will be marked as Pending. 

Currently, it is not possible to delete or skip the Topics step, it will always be there, but you can adjust the system to suit your conference if topics are not relevant.

If the conference does not have any topics you can configure the Topic step so that there is no topic list. We recommend changing Topic 1 name to something like Please click here to continue or All topics:

This is how it will look for authors in the Initial submissions workflow:

In this case, we 'avoided' filling out the Topics. Authors will however still be required to select this option to complete their submission.