This document provides tips for using event technology to engage attendees at meetings and events. It discusses using tools like live polling and question submission to make attendees active participants. It focuses on the importance of the chairman and introduction in driving attendee experience. Tips are provided for getting the most out of question and answer sessions, including encouraging dialogue between the chairman and speakers rather than speakers just reading questions. The document stresses tailoring content to the audience and collecting audience opinions with live polls to transform traditional panels into more engaging discussions.

1. Event Technology
How to Turn Event Attendees
into Active Participants

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5. Poll questions for you

6. Event technology is only a tool
to help event planners achieve their objectives

7. Successful use of #EventTech is based on
Design of the sessions
Buy-in from the moderator
Communication at the event

8. Transforming Panels
The Importance of Chairman & Intro
What we will cover today
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Getting the most out of Q&A
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9. Chairman & Introduction
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10. The most important person at your event is your chairman.
She is the driver who can drive your attendees happily to
the final destination or drive them off the cliff.

11. Source: Wikipedia Commons

12. The most critical part is the introduction at the start.

13. Gerrit’s Introduction of Slido

14. 2.
Getting the most out of the Q&A

15. There are no questions. What do I do?

16. You can submit a few of your own to get the conversation going.
Examples:
Where do you see our industry in next 6 months?
What are the current trends in our industry?

18. Essential tips
Approve questions as soon as they come in
Make sure to ask a few of them
No time? Make sure to comment on the situation

19. The Most Critical
Don’t let speakers read the questions.
Always encourage the chairman to ask in order to
simulate a dialogue.

20. 1/4dedicated to Q&A

21. What is your biggest challenge when it comes to activating your audience?

22. Transforming Panels
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23. Get to know your audience to tailor the content

24. Find out how opinion changed during the debate

25. Split the panel in 3-4 parts and
collect audience opinion with live polls

26. Collect and ask audience questions
within the first
10minutes

27. Extra Use Cases
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28. Fireside chats Roundtable Discussions

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