A conference is defined as a series of presentations on a central theme, held at a common location over a period that may range from a few hours to several days. This definition of conference is broad enough to include symposia, scientific-sessions, off-sites, day-training sessions etc.

Benefits to the virtual conference attendee:

• Online version of the conference accessible from any Windows machine on the internet, available 24hrs a day.
• Presentations include streaming video of the presenter accompanied by synchronized, fully scalable PowerPoint®, image and URL slides.
• Search on a topic, theme or question and the system will return not only all the matching presentations, sorted by relevance, but also all the slides within those presentations, again sorted by relevance. The ability to find and launch any presentation starting at any slide, greatly reduces the time required to seek and view interesting and relevant information.
• Watch presentations that were delivered in concurrent sessions at the physical conference.
• Sort through the available presentations by conference track, or location.
• Search the speakers who presented and the presentations that they delivered.

Benefits to the conference organizer

• Allow participants who could not attend the physical conference to receive the presentations
• Allow participants who did attend the physical conference to review presentations that they watched as well as to view presentations that they were unable to attend due to concurrent scheduling.
• Collect customizable registration information from each attendee.
• Custom interface to the conference to match the style, colors, logo etc of the sponsoring organization.
• Protected access to the conference via a registration code.
• Web interface to instantly update or modify conference and presentation information.
• Web administration panel to view business intelligence relating to the conference.
• Tracking – each view of a presentation is logged, along with details of the viewer. Valuable statistics and charts are available, including most popular presentations, browser characteristics of viewers (operating system, media player version, connection speed etc)
• Detailed filtering of the viewing data is available – for example, find the email addresses of all the people from California who watched the keynote speech for more than 5 minutes.
• All viewer data and collected registration information can be downloaded to an Excel file on the desktop.
• Follow conference buzz – discover what attendees are interested in through an analysis of the search terms used on the site.
• All of the conference is remotely hosted – no software installation or technical expertise is required by the sponsoring organization.
• All streaming video is delivered through the network of Akamai – ensuring worldwide, high quality delivery.

Services

Conference Capture™ is offered as a packaged service to the sponsoring organization, including all the following features: