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1. CANCELLATION OF LIVE EVENTS :
COVID-19 OUTBREAK

2. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
compliance is mandatory for any virtual
or outdoor events like street festivals,
marathons, church worship, sports
tournaments, music events etc. Event
organizers should ensure the outdoor
events or virtual events are accessible
to people with disabilities.
CaptiongStar being a pioneer in the field of Real time and Remote Captioning services for several
years has made a remarkable contribution while serving its clients from different
industries.CaptioningStar has served 5,000+ clients and have successfully conducted 300+ live
events captioned so far.

3. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance is mandatory for any virtual or outdoor events
like street festivals, marathons, church worship, sports tournaments, music events etc. Event
organizers should ensure the outdoor events or virtual events are accessible to people with
disabilities.
CaptiongStar being a pioneer in the field of Real time and Remote Captioning services for
several years has made a remarkable contribution while serving its clients from different
industries.CaptioningStar has served 5,000+ clients and have successfully conducted 300+ live
events captioned so far.

4. CaptioningStar diligently follows the guidelines set forth by ADA (Americans with Disability ACT)
that includes providing accessible parking spaces, easy navigation throughout the event, (people
with wheelchairs, canes, walkers are assisted and are able to access the event without any
hindrance), portable restrooms etc. The primary focus of ADA act is to prevent anyone from being
discriminated against on the basis of disability.
COVID-19 Effect on Live Captioning events
It was yet another day when CaptioningStar started acquiring leads for Live Captioning events that
were supposed to be scheduled in the month of March.

5. When CaptioningStar were all set to proceed further with the lead enquiries there was a sudden
global outbreak where WHO on March 11, 2020 declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the situation
where no one would have even imagined in their wildest dreams.
More than 2,00,000 have contracted the disease and as a precautionary measure to protect
people from getting affected, the U.S. Government along with Live event planners have been
cancelling the events to avoid public gatherings from any major technical conferences to minor
concerts.
On March 15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a notice that all large
events and mass gatherings to be avoided in order to regulate the spread of COVID-19 in the
United States.
The title of the video, description and tags are the key elements. Not many YouTube users
however realize that closed captions and transcripts positively influences user engagement,
watch time, viewership, and obviously SEO.

6. On the whole 10 to 15 Onsite Live Captioning events of CaptioningStar have been cancelled
and to our surprise potential Leads started generating for Remote Live Captioning service.
1. Salesforce Connections
Salesforce Connections, originally planned to be held in Chicago between April 4-6 will now
be an online event. Organizers have issued a notice stating “After careful consideration,
we’ve decided there will be no physical event for connections”. ”Instead, we will reimagine
Connections as a virtual experience and deliver a full program of inspiring sessions and
educational content. While times may be uncertain, there is one thing that remains true:
amazing things happen whenever the Salesforce community comes together. We are
excited to come together virtually for Connections and we look forward to sharing more
details in the coming weeks.”

7. 2. St.Joseph
St.Joseph today at Michigan has postponed the BBQ,Blues and Bluegrass event and has
rescheduled to October 3, 2020.
3. The Football Association
The Football Association, the Premier League, the English Football League, FA Women’s
Super League and FA Women’s Championship have all called a halt to the action until the
beginning of April.
4. Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball delayed the start of its regular season until May at the earliest. The
league declared on March 16 the move was made in accordance with recommendations
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention against gatherings of 50 people or
more for eight weeks.

8. 5. The Ladies European Tour’s
The Ladies European Tour’s Aramco Saudi Ladies International was postponed with a view
to it being rescheduled later in the year.
6. The South Bend
The South Bend Civic Theatre and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra have postponed
the upcoming production of West Side Story. The full theatrical production was originally set
to be performed on April 18 and 19 at the Morris Performing Arts Center.
7. CinemaCon2020
CinemaCon, scheduled to take place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from March 30-April
2,2020 has been cancelled.Since the global circumstances make it impossible for them to
host the show thereby they have made a decision to cancel the event CinemaCon2020.

9. 8. E3
E3, one of the world’s largest video game convention and trade shows, scheduled from
June 9-11 in Los Angeles, has been cancelled. Due to the unprecedented global
situation,organizers have made the right decision and are planning to provide an online
experience to showcase industry news and announcements to their fans and supporters in
June 2020
9. First United Methodist
First United Methodist Church in Michigan is suspending the people gatherings, including
worship until April.
10. Popular Baugo
Popular Baugo Community Schools in Michigan will be closed from March 17 through
April 13. They have effectively planned to implement an elearning curriculum to handle
the situation and have made necessary arrangements for students.

10. 11. IACC Americas Connect
IACC Americas Connect , scheduled to take place in Dallas on March 30- April 1 has been
postponed to June 29 - July 1. IACC CEO Marc Cooper and IACC Americas President Nancy
Lindemer said in a statement on March 11 that “The IACC board of directors and all those
involved in putting together the annual meeting, believe that Connect should be the catalyst
event for our members to begin looking forward and rebuilding again once the worst of
COVID-19 is behind us.”
12. Disney Parks
Disney Parks in the United States has announced that it would close its theme park
through the end of March until the situation gets better.
13. The National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters announced on March 11 that it would postpone or
potentially cancel its annual NAB Show, planned in Las Vegas on April 18-22 at the Las Vegas
Convention Center.

11. 14. The National Cannabis Risk Management Association
The National Cannabis Risk Management Association has postponed its NCRMA 2020
convention, scheduled to be held March 22-24 at Bally’s in Las Vegas.
15. New York Philharmonic
In New York, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall declined
performances through the end of the month.
16. Northstar Travel Group
Northstar Travel Group, parent company of Northstar Meetings Group, announced that the
GTM West event has been moved to Sept. 19-21 at the Westin La Paloma in Tucson, Ariz due
to the COVID-19 outbreak.

12. 17. Grace College
Grace College has canceled on-campus classes and temporarily closed residence halls until
April 13. Classes are canceled and prepared for remote instruction. Classes will move to
remote delivery beginning Wednesday, March 18.
18. Plymouth Community
Plymouth Community School Corporation announced that schools will be closed for March
and encouraged e-learning on replacing the school closure.
19. Indiana University
Indiana University has suspended all in-person classes for the remainder of the spring
semester

13. 20. Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan College has planned to cancel all classes till March 23 and encouraged the
students to take up online classes.
21. Los Angeles Time Festival
Los Angeles Time Festival of Books at USC Campus have rescheduled the event to October
3-4.
22. 24th Annual Webby
24th Annual Webby Awards event has been cancelled in Newyork and the winners are
supposed to be announced online via an Internet celebration.

14. 23. Nvidia GTC
Nvidia GTC – GPU Technology Conference to be held from Mar. 22-26 in San Jose, CA
in-person canceled and planned to execute online-only event.
24. Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Next to be held in San Francisco Apr. 6-8 i In-person canceled paving the
way for the online event.
25. ESRI Developer Summit
ESRI Developer Summit (Mar. 10): in-person canceled paving the way for online-only event
26. WorldWide Developers Conference 2020
Apple’s WorldWideDevelopersConference 2020 will take on an entirely new online format
packed with content for consumers, press and developers alike.

15. 27. Adobe Summit
Adobe Summit planned event from Mar 29 - April 2 in Las Vegas has been cancelled and an
online event will take place.
28. The National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters announced on March 11 that it would postpone or
potentially cancel its annual NAB Show, planned in Las Vegas on April 18-22 at the Las
Vegas Convention Center.
29. The American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society cancelled its Spring 2020 National Meeting & Expo,
scheduled to take place March 22-26 in Philadelphia, drawing 15,000 attendees.

16. 30. 2020 IHN Empty Bowl
The 2020 IHN Empty Bowl Soup Benefit hosted by the Goshen Clay Artists Guild has been
postponed until any further notice.
31. TED 2020
TED 2020, originally scheduled to be held in Vancouver on April 20-24, has been
postponed to July 20-26, or high possibilities while making the event fully virtual.
32. Ace Hardware 2020
The Ace Hardware 2020 Spring Convention, tentatively to begin from last March 11-14 in
Chicago, has been cancelled.

17. Webinar Products Supported by CaptioningStar to Handle a
Pandemic influenza
CaptioningStar identifies the underlying factors and handles this crisis well effectively by
supporting the Remote Live Captioning services through different Webinar products. The
Webinar products such as GoToWebinar, Zoom, StreamText, Live Stream, YouTube, Vimeo,
Facebook are extensively used by CaptioningStar to offer Remote Live Captioning service to
our clients.
One of the main advantages of Remote Captioning services are cost-effectiveness,
Captioning can be done at relatively shorter notice and effectively replace the Onsite Live
Captioning service especially during the time of crisis.Captioners at CaptioningStar are trained
rigorously to manage the situation with no compromise on quality of captions produced.

18. CaptioningStar’s Slash in Rates due to crisis
At CaptioningStar, our mission is to make it easy for our customers to utilize the power of
video captioning, especially at the time of crisis where directly engaging with customers is
critical and employees working remotely.In order to mitigate the pain CaptioningStar
slashed our original rates for Captioning Services from $175 to $130 – A small step from
our end to provide relief to customers during this time of crisis.

19. Thankfully development in technology and easy access to the internet round the clock
have helped us to work remotely with full safety and to manage the situation without any
effect on day to day business.
Thus Remote Live Captioning is a real boon to the captioning field where captioners can
work from remote locations while maintaining a social distance from the rest of the world.

20. THANK YOU
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