Virtual conferences
At PremC, we have always considered that a face-to-face meeting is the most efficient way for communication.
We believe that virtual events are not replacing the traditional in-person conferences but we are also convinced that the COVID-19 health crisis should not stop the community members from meeting, networking, and sharing their knowledge.
So, we choose to adapt and find an alternative waiting for better times to meet in-person again. For this reason, we set up a reliable turnkey solution that has been already used by scientific conferences which were planned in-person initially.
Our strength relies on our experience. We will guide you through every step of the organization of your online conference and give you advices. Thanks to the high numbers of online conferences we organized, we can provide you with the best practices.
Virtual Conferences
We consider that a successful online event should keep the core values of the in-person conference and keep a maximum of human interactions. To do so, we duplicate the same environment as a traditional conference by building a customized webpage standing for the conference lobby with clickable pictures or pieces of graphic design representing the usual conference areas (welcome desk, poster rooms, oral sessions, networking areas…)
KEEP THE SPIRIT OF IN-PERSON CONFERENCE…
Oral Sessions
A chair to introduce the speaker, a technical chair to call each presenter ahead, video-interactions, and eye-contact between the speakers and the audience.
Parallel Sessions
Possibility to run parallel sessions and the opportunity to switch from a room to another quickly.
Poster Sessions
Possibility to access all the posters and swap to see each one or replace with a flash presentations session, a room dedicated to each poster providing video-interaction with the presenter for discussion in one-click on the poster.
Coffee break and Networking
Keep virtual coffee break sessions in several rooms creating small groups to ease networking and encourage interactions via attractive online activities.
Welcome Desk
A room dedicated to the welcome desk, accessible to all attendees, with staff members available to help. Video and chat support should be provided.
Access
Checking that only registered attendees have access to the conference areas and managing the time-zones issue.
IN ADDITION…
Design of the Dashboard
The solution must be user-friendly and very intuitive.
Choice of the Platform
The selected tool should manage low-quality connexions even for speakers.
Communication
Building a communication plan to explain why the conference is switched to virtual will help you make the audience embracing the decision.
We have worked decisively from the very beginning of the health crisis to come up with detailed specifications. Also, we have taken into account the result of a survey that we sent to our network to collect the point of view of the researchers. Then, during several weeks, we have tested dozens of tools available on the market and we have participated in different virtual conferences dedicated to the event industry to reach the following conclusion:
The ‘perfect’ tool does not exist: we did not find any tool that answers all the needs. It was very frustrating because each tool has strengths and weaknesses.
Human task force is needed: each provider has designed a tool to match a maximum of event types and to be used autonomously when we believe that each event needs a minimum of customization and most of all staff members with experience of the tool who can help the participants facing technical issues, do the tests with the presenters and come-up with ideas to encourage networking.
The cost matters: some tools cost several thousands of euros per day and per hundred of participants. This is very impacting because the main advantage of the virtual conference should be its attractive cost.
OUR SOLUTION
After exploring different tools, participating in several virtual meetings, and based on our experience as a scientific conference organizer, we offer a global solution that takes over all technical tasks in order to enable the researchers to focus only on the scientific content. This solution is answering the specifications mentioned previously and includes:
Project Management
We provide a project manager who will collect all your conference specifications, build your solution in collaboration with a designer and a web admin, prepare the communication plan, follow-up the project with you…
Staff Members
We provide qualified staff members to support the participants and make the conference as smooth as possible.
Dashboard
We build a customized and user-friendly dashboard that duplicate the in-person conference areas.
feel free to contact us for more information
As always, it would be a pleasure to discuss your project and bring you a maximum of information before making your final decision.
How much does it cost?
Each project is unique and the requests are never the same. We will provide you with a large range of suggestions and help you in selecting the most appropriate options according to your conference needs. We can also agree on the registration fee structure and limit the cost of our services to the conference income in order to avoid any financial risk for you. The final cost will depend on the number of participants, the number of parallel sessions, the way of organizing the posters, the networking activities that you would like… So, the best would be to contact us in order to collect the details of your event and provide you with a customized free quotation.
