Benefits

Everything you get, and what makes it happen.

90 benefits across seven areas. Each one is a claim we will stand behind, open How on any of them to see what produces it.

Getting the truth out of the room

The question nobody wants to ask out loud

17 benefits

Seniority, language and simple embarrassment stop the most useful thing in the room from being said. These are the features that remove the cost of speaking up.

You get more questions, and better ones, than a microphone would ever produce

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  • Delegates are more willing to submit a wide range of questions

A delegate can be named all day and still ask one question anonymously, so you never have to choose between knowing who is in the room and hearing what they think

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  • Delegates can opt for anonymity themselves, question by question

Prevents delegates hijacking the microphone, asking follow-on questions, or having a conversation with the stage

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  • Limits the use of microphones

Reduces the risk of a non-compliant or inappropriate question reaching the room unmoderated

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  • Limits the use of microphones

Helps manage meeting content, stay to time, and keep you focused on messaging

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  • Limits the use of microphones

In a large room, everyone can participate as and when they want to

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  • No waiting for a microphone, and no putting a hand up

The question gets asked. The person who would have kept quiet in front of two hundred peers types it instead

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  • No standing up in front of your peers, or worrying what people might think of your question

The clinician who would never ask in English asks in their own language, and the chair reads it out

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  • Inclusion. Delegates submit in their own language, translated for the moderator, the audience and the chair

Someone who has never asked a question at a meeting asks one

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  • All questions are important and everyone has a voice

The chair finds out the session is pitched too high while there is still time to adjust

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  • All questions are important and everyone has a voice

Questions arrive with the clinical context attached, so the answer is worth hearing

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  • Allows a delegate to ask a question with its context

Delegates feel more comfortable and engaged, so they can enjoy the experience

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  • Delegates can consider the question and express themselves fully without being cut off by the chair
  • Delegates can ask with confidence, without feeling embarrassed

Questions arrive against the slide that prompted them, not half an hour later when the moment has gone

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  • Delegates ask while the content is being presented, rather than waiting for an official Q&A session

Question volume is a live readout of whether the room is still with you

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  • Delegates can ask as many questions as they wish, at any point in the meeting

The room decides what gets answered, and can see that it did

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  • Democratises the session by letting delegates vote up their colleagues' questions
  • Democratises the session by letting delegates dismiss as well as endorse

The chair walks into the Q&A already knowing what the room cares about

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  • Democratises the session by letting delegates vote up their colleagues' questions
  • Democratises the session by letting delegates dismiss as well as endorse

You hear the suggestion nobody wanted to be the one to make

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  • Ideas submitted, grouped and voted on without attribution
Keeping control of the session

Nothing reaches the room that you have not released

15 benefits

A live room is the one place you cannot edit afterwards. Every control here exists so the session runs to your narrative and your timing, rather than to whoever is most confident.

You decide what gets asked and when, so the session goes where it was designed to go

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  • Approve or disapprove questions coming from the audience before the audience and/or the chairperson sees them

The question that would have derailed the room never reaches the screen

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  • Approve or disapprove questions coming from the audience before the audience and/or the chairperson sees them

A question can be held for later rather than lost, so nothing runs over

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  • Approve or disapprove questions coming from the audience before the audience and/or the chairperson sees them

Our team can tell the chair to move on, or to hold a question, without the room seeing it happen

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  • During a live event the moderator can have private chats with the chair that nobody else can see, to edit and manage meeting flow, questions and responses

The session stays on message because the chair is never guessing

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  • During a live event the moderator can have private chats with the chair that nobody else can see, to edit and manage meeting flow, questions and responses

The chair can work through the queue without four hundred people watching which questions are being skipped

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  • The meeting organiser has the option to hide questions from the audience

Nobody sees an early result and quietly changes their answer to match the majority

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  • Results shown only on the main screen, enabled or disabled per poll

You can open the floor to free text without worrying what appears on a screen behind your faculty

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  • Disallowed words cannot be displayed in a word cloud

You choose whether you are measuring first instinct or settled opinion, and the room knows which

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  • Decide whether a delegate can change their answer once cast

The chair says "open your phones" once, and everyone is already on the right screen

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  • Allows organisers to direct and promote the audience to sections of the platform, and to the task in hand

Evaluation completion rates go up, because nobody has to go looking for the form

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  • Allows organisers to direct and promote the audience to sections of the platform, and to the task in hand

No minutes lost to explaining where to tap

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  • Allows organisers to direct and promote the audience to sections of the platform, and to the task in hand

A public congress session and a confidential advisory board get the protection each one needs

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  • Set the level of access from the audience profile

A small advisory board and a four-hundred-person symposium do not have to be locked down the same way

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  • Flexibility over how delegates gain access

The correct answer sits under the question, where anyone reading it later will find it

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  • You can post an official reply directly against a submitted question
Knowing what the room actually thinks

Ask anything, and see the answer before the slide changes

16 benefits

Enough range that the question is shaped by what you need to know, rather than by what the platform happens to support.

The question is written around what you need to know, not chosen from a short menu

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  • Supports any style of event content and purpose, including single and multi-answer, text input, numerical, rating and Pulse

Delegates shape what gets discussed, rather than only reacting to it

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  • Supports any style of event content and purpose, including single and multi-answer, text input, numerical, rating and Pulse

You can ask as many questions as the session needs, at no extra cost

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  • Supports any style of event content and purpose, including single and multi-answer, text input, numerical, rating and Pulse

Several questions can be open at once, so a workshop is not held up waiting for one poll to close

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  • Content does not have to be adapted to your platform's limitations

If your programme already scores confidence out of ten, it still scores out of ten here

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  • Set the rating range and reference yourself: 1 to 10, 1 to 20, or 10 to 1

The room understands what it is being asked before it answers, so the score means something

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  • Graphically displays what the rating means, based on colour

The room sees its own words on the screen, which makes more people join in

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  • Answers appear on the screen as people type them, sized by how often they come up

You get one-word answers when you want a word cloud, and full sentences when you want detail

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  • Set how much a delegate can write, from a single word upwards

A room speaking six languages produces one question queue the chair can actually read

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  • Questions can be submitted in over 110 languages and translated for the moderator, audience and chair

Ten results in a row do not all look the same, so the room keeps paying attention to the tenth

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  • Provides dynamic, interactive feeds of information to share with the audience: bars, columns, pie, spider and radar, sorted by vote, as percentage or count

Put the before and after on one screen and the room sees its own opinion move

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  • Present simultaneous dynamic inputs and comparison views, such as a before-and-after poll, up to four side by side

You can see how nurses answered against consultants, or one market against another, on the same screen

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  • Create teams prior to the event, or create them based on how delegates answer a poll, then display results by team

You find out the room is lost during the session, not in the evaluation form afterwards

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  • Lets you gather real-time audience sentiment in response to the activities or presentations in your engagement

A delegate can signal 'I don't understand' without putting a hand up and admitting it

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  • Lets you gather real-time audience sentiment in response to the activities or presentations in your engagement

Nothing is attributable, so what comes back is honest

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  • Lets you gather real-time audience sentiment in response to the activities or presentations in your engagement

Nobody mis-taps because the options were squashed onto a phone screen

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  • The answer options can be stacked, side by side, or in a drop-down, whichever suits the question
Running a day that works

Nobody in the wrong room, and no queue at the desk

17 benefits

The mechanics of a multi-day meeting are where budget and goodwill quietly leak. These features take that load off your team.

Nobody misses a session because they were reading yesterday's running order

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  • The delegate has a view of the agenda, which can be amended during meeting flow so it remains up to date and on schedule

Every delegate knows their next session without asking anyone

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  • Can be customised to each individual, so each has a unique path in terms of what they are doing and where they are going

Your team stops spending the morning redirecting people

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  • Can be customised to each individual, so each has a unique path in terms of what they are doing and where they are going

A delegate glances at their phone and knows where to be next, instead of working it out from a printed programme

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  • Text can be colourised to reflect a personalised event schedule, such as workshop selection

No queue at the desk, and no colour-coded badges to print and reprint

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  • Delegates can book workshops whilst onsite and view current capacity in the room

Nobody is pre-allocated to a workshop they did not want, and a delegate can change their mind at the door

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  • They can book parallel workshops

A room change reaches everyone in seconds, rather than being announced to whoever happens to be listening

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  • Keep delegates informed of last-minute changes

Everything a delegate needs is on the phone already in their hand, and nothing has to be printed

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  • Slides, papers, biographies and links sit on the platform, hidden or revealed as each speaker needs them

Delegates find what they need without being told where it is

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  • Allows you to customise the structure and focus of your event

The platform looks like it was built for your meeting, because it was

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  • Makes the event more relevant to your objectives and content

The room feels like something is happening, which is most of what people remember

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  • A chat room function gives delegates the chance to interact and talk with each other

Delegates talk to each other rather than only to the stage

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  • A chat room function gives delegates the chance to interact and talk with each other

People find the parts of the programme they actually came for

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  • Creates opportunities for more informal engagement

Anything inappropriate is removed before anyone else sees it

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  • Interactive, and helps break the ice and gets the audience involved with some fun visual games

By the time you need a serious answer, everyone has already used the platform once

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  • Interactive, and helps break the ice and gets the audience involved with some fun visual games

You can draw from everyone, from volunteers only, or from people who gave an email

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  • Allows for spontaneity, and more control to re-focus content

The winner sees a message from you, and the room sees the draw was fair

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  • Allows for spontaneity, and more control to re-focus content
Reaching everyone in the room

No download, no account, no excuse not to take part

9 benefits

Participation collapses at the first barrier. Every decision here removes one.

It works on whatever phone a delegate walks in with, including a locked-down hospital device

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  • No need for specific software to access the content

Nothing is installed, so there is nothing for an IT department to review or refuse

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  • No need for specific software to access the content

A clinician whose English is their third language takes part as fully as anyone else in the room

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  • Submit live Q&A in your first language, translated for the moderator, audience and chair

A delegate watching full screen can still answer a poll without losing the video

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  • Engagement modules are still accessible in full-screen video

Remote delegates watch and take part on one screen, instead of juggling two

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  • Your stream is embedded in the platform rather than sitting in a separate window

The link looks like it came from you, not from a software company

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  • Align to your brand, meeting theme or content

A delegate can type it from memory if they lose the QR code

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  • Align to your brand, meeting theme or content

Delegates see your brand, not ours, and never ask who is running this

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  • Present your event within your own brand look and feel

Your legal team approves the wording once and sees it used verbatim

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  • Your own privacy and consent wording, presented to delegates before they participate, implemented exactly as your team supplies it
Proving it was worth doing

Return on engagement, evidenced rather than asserted

9 benefits

The meeting is the input. What you can show afterwards is what gets the next one commissioned.

You build the agenda around the people who actually turned up, not the invitation list

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  • Profile the audience ahead of the meeting, or find out who is attending

You can show what the meeting achieved when you ask for the budget to run it again

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  • Understand how impactful and appropriate the content was, aligned to your KPIs and to continuous improvement

You ask while people still remember the session, instead of emailing a form a fortnight later

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  • Flexible formats are available, customised to your needs

Someone called away mid-form still leaves you their answers up to that point

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  • Information is saved as people go through it, so it is not lost if they abandon halfway

People finish the form, because they are never asked about something that does not apply to them

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  • The next question is based on a previous answer

The room wakes up, and you find out what they remembered at the same time

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  • Introduces gamification into poll formats, with leader boards by individual or by team using the segmentation features

You can see how one delegate answered, not only what the room did on average

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  • How they voted, what they typed, what they clicked on, on a per-user basis through single sign-on or user input

The numbers land in the format your team already reports in, so nobody rekeys anything

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  • Provides insight and knowledge in the format your team already uses
  • Allows quick, meaningful insights from the data

You can change something on day two because of what day one told you

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  • Data is available in real time
Not having to run it yourself

You participate in your own meeting

7 benefits

This is what makes it a service rather than a licence, and it is why clients stop worrying about the technology entirely.

You spend the day thinking about the meeting, not about whether the next poll will launch

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  • We take a project and develop its specification to optimise engagement, then manage the project from end to end

Problems are found in rehearsal, so the ones your audience sees are the ones that never happened

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  • A no-worry event, because all challenges are identified and overcome before they become problems

Nobody on your team has to become an expert in something they do once a year

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  • From brief to production delivery, working with an experienced team who navigate the technical challenges and requirements to ensure you deliver a smooth, interactive delegate experience

The meeting is better because people who do this every week are running it

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  • From brief to production delivery, working with an experienced team who navigate the technical challenges and requirements to ensure you deliver a smooth, interactive delegate experience

A workshop produces one shared set of ideas rather than six flipcharts nobody types up

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  • Sharing content across groups, facilitating interaction and responses

Two hundred suggestions become the five the room agreed on, inside the session

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  • Delegates submit suggestions for each topic and discuss ideas in a group chat room, across several simultaneous brainstorms

The output goes on the room screen and into the report, not onto a flipchart

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  • Delegates submit suggestions for each topic and discuss ideas in a group chat room, across several simultaneous brainstorms

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