While Indico always allowed event managers to create a shortcut like https://indico.cern.ch/e/<something>, those URLs are still somewhat long and thus not particularly great to include on posters or slides with limited space.

Because of this we just launched our own URL shortening service, indi.to, which lets you create very short URLs for any Indico link.

As a normal Indico user, you can generate a random five-character short URL for the current event using the button in the event header:

If you are an event manager, you also have the option to create a custom, more descriptive, shorturl, such as indi.to/myworkshop. This is also done by using the button in the event header:

If you want to shorten the URL to any other Indico page, use the “URL Shortener” link in the footer: