1. A computer-implemented method for authenticating and authorizing users to join a conference event, the computer-implemented method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for: receiving, at a console application, a request from a user to join the conference event; validating authentication credentials for the user in response to the request; in response to validating authentication credentials for the user, determining that the user has permissions to admit the console application into the conference event; and in response to determining that the user does not have permissions to admit the console application into the conference event, waiting for a second user that has permissions to admit the console application into the conference event to admit the console a ication into the conference event, and joining the console application to the conference event on behalf of the user, wherein the console application inherits the permissions of the user in response to the console application joining the conference event on behalf of the user.