Hi, @KatieL – welcome to Zoom Events!
In my opinion, it’s a powerful platform, and takes a fair amount of studying to learn what works – and what doesn’t.
May I ask when your event is scheduled?
If you’re in the initial planning stage for something a few months out, there are several of us that can help you out. If you’re hoping to get an event going in a couple of weeks … you probably are going to have an uphill climb without some help. Not to discourage you – but just setting the expectation.
You can create an event – it can be simple, or relatively complete – then you can “clone” the event to another date range and play with it.
Uploading files can be done to a limited extent. But remember that the sessions with an Event/Conference are really “just Meetings and Webinars”. Someone – the presenter, an assistant, a host – still needs to share screen and display slides. Files can still be shared via Chat. If you are looking for ways to upload documents that attendees can “pick up,” I don’t think I’ve seen that done anywhere except in the a Expo by vendors.
Let me know if you’d like a list of resources, and I’ll gather some links and post for you and anyone else that reads the thread.