February 4th 1:00-2:30pm (EST)
We’re going a little meta on you, because this is a virtual event about creating virtual events! Are you thinking about spearheading your own virtual initiative, but struggling with where to start? Are you looking to find ways that you can do better in your efforts to convene online? If the answer is ‘yes’, then this event is for you! Hear from association professionals who have blazed the trail themselves. Attend this event to learn how to navigate the trials and tribulations of launching your own virtual event, how to make it financially viable, and how to identify the compelling conversations to host virtually!
What’s in store?
This is a virtual event designed to give voice to everyone participating. During the live event, you will have access to pre-recorded sessions led by a group of speakers sharing their experiences. While their session airs, a chat will run simultaneously; this will give you the option to communicate with the speakers and other attendees to flesh out ideas together in a meaningful and practical way. After the event, all participants will receive a resource capturing the collective knowledge shared during the event from both the speakers and attendees alike.
This session is worth 1.5 CAE credits.
A special thank you to our speakers, whose insights drove our conversations.
What’s it like to launch your own virtual conference? Find out in a session with three people who have successfully launched their own virtual events! They’ll discuss the hurdles to overcome to make the event happen, rewards they reaped from the process, and what they wish they knew when they put on the event. The panelists will give their advice for getting started and outline ways to get buy-in for the initiative. Come be a part of the conversation and learn more about what it takes to launch your own virtual conference!
This session will unearth the key steps you’ll need to know to make your virtual conference profitable! The panelists in this session will be discussing different mechanics for monetization, including sponsorship and ticket sales. Among other things, they’ll discuss how to demonstrate value to the relevant decision makers, and challenge you to consider virtual conferencing as part of a larger strategy. The speakers will discuss their own experiences, as well as research in the field that looks at virtual events across the industry. Join the panelists for a rewarding conversation centered around how to generate revenue for your organization using virtual events.
Conversations that matter make for compelling virtual conference topics. When everyone has a stake in the conversation, the conversation has the capacity to drive the group to ideas and questions on new ground. It’s an exciting process. How do we go about asking questions that matter? How do we identify conversations that matter? How can a virtual event spark these important conversations? This session is all about addressing these questions. In this session, you’ll hear wisdom from expert panelists regarding how to spark the right dialogue, use data from one event to inform the next, and how to inspire co-creation along the way. Join us at this session to learn how to cultivate the right conditions to ensure that conversations of substance provoke, continue, and grow fruitful over time.
We’re Matchbox Virtual Media and we produce virtual events with purpose driven organizations to facilitate conversations that matter. Since we are hosting our very own series of virtual events, it only felt right to start off with one on virtual conferencing.
This event is from 1:00-2:30pm (EST) on February 4th. Each session is 30 minutes long and is pre-recorded. Pre-recording allows the speakers to spend the entire session period in the attendee chat answering your burning questions. At the same time, you’ll be able to communicate with the other attendees through the same chat.
This conference exists in the virtual space, as it gives us the opportunity to bring together professionals from around the world.
The sessions are pre-recorded so that the speakers can spend the time answering attendee questions. They will be typing furiously to reply to as many questions as possible in the live chat!
You definitely can but it depends on individual preference of our speakers. But we highly encourage you to reach out to them after the session/event.
Absolutely! Throughout the sessions, there will be a live chat running simultaneously.
If you register before February 4th, you will be given access to watch the recorded sessions at any point after the event.
Matchbox Virtual Media is proudly partnered with CE21 to put on this event.
The quality will be a little funky on Internet Explorer 8. Although we highly recommend Chrome for the smoothest user experience on any website, here’s a handy link to download Edge, which is Microsoft’s move away from IE: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/microsoft-edge
Email your question to support@matchboxvirtual.com If you’re asking, you’re not the only one, and you will help us make our Q&A complete!
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Because we love ourselves some virtual!
We’re Matchbox Virtual Media, and we partner with purpose-driven organizations to produce virtual events around conversations that matter. It just felt so right to have a virtual conference on virtual conferencing.
We’re trying to document our learnings along the way! Check out our company blog to learn more & read up on virtual conferencing!
