There are many ticketing platforms to choose from when deciding how to ticket your event. A huge thank you must go to the speakers for getting involved in this, it added something unique to the day and attendees noted that it was another nice perk built into the ticket price. I was blown away by the amount of communication in each talk channel, everyone doing virtual applause as the speakers took the stage. We did this with a combination of the live stream in Zoom and a Slack channel for each talk. Furthermore, I thought it would be a good idea to make speakers available during their talks, adding another dimension to the live broadcast.
SocialĪs I was keen to ensure the community aspects of the day didn’t go amiss, I wanted to ensure attendees could still reach out to speakers to ask questions. On top of that, it’s now a platform we can reuse for Hey! and All Day Hey! moving forward if we wish, expanding the reach to much more people. After a lot of research, I had the concept and tools to bring those factors into an online conference. If we were going to pull this off, it had to deliver many of the things that make an in-person conference great: the social aspects, the knowledge sharing, the buzz of sharing ideas on the day. We have an incredible community who support the in-person event, one I’m very grateful for however I also wanted to see what we could do without the geographical boundaries of people having to travel to a specific location to attend. Aside from that, taking the event online is something I’ve always wanted to experiment with. As the date for the conference grew closer, we knew there was little chance we would be able to go ahead as planned, so I started to look into how we could take the conference online. Why take an in-person conference online?Īs the events of COVID-19 unfolded, we were watching as the world went into lockdown at the start of March. We also sent out production packs for speakers to pre-record their talks, which I’ll detail a little bit later on.
#Wirecast layers software#
The setup I settled with is by no way the most cost-effective but was one that I felt yielded the best results for what I wanted to achieve.įor All Day Hey! Live, this is the mixture of hardware and software I used for the broadcast: It’s worth noting that there are so many options when deciding to take a physical event online.
#Wirecast layers verification#
It provided some pointers and verification on the approach I took. I want to thank Ian Landsman, who heads up Laracon Online for writing an excellent post on how they’ve been successfully delivering their conference for the last four years. Why take an in-person conference online?.I led the technical process of the broadcast, and everything in between, so I feel there is value in documenting how I did it in the hope that others can benefit from what I learned. The process of taking an in-person conference online was no small feat, and I’m grateful for all the support from the production team, Harry, the speakers and Phil (our brilliant MC) for helping make it a reality.
You can read more about the event over here, but I wanted to write up a post on how we delivered it from a technical perspective. This year we took All Day Hey! online during the pandemic in a new offering from Hey! called All Day Hey! Live.
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