Insight · Micro-learning
The forty-minute panel is on minute twenty-eight. Two people at the back are asleep, and the one insight anyone will repeat later came in the first five minutes. Next door, five experts have each had ten minutes, and the room is still leaning forward.
The short version. Short is not shallow. A tight talk forces one clear idea, and the full depth can live in the recording afterwards.
Fit the hour
The format is simple: short talks, a few minutes of questions after each, one minute to change over. The planning is mostly arithmetic, and it changes the agenda dramatically. Try it below.
Questions that do not need a microphone
Live Q&A software lets the audience send questions from their phones and vote the best ones up. It brings out the quiet experts in the room, not just the confident ones. PULSE puts every seat into the session with live votes and polls.
The talk lives on afterwards
Every session is recorded and transcribed, then posted to an on-demand event portal the same day. Guests who missed a talk catch up, and the organiser keeps a library. Our web and application development team builds the portals, and COMMIT handles agenda and analytics.
Screens that support the speaker
A ten-minute talk has no room for a broken slide change. Content driven from one panel, like the multiscreen system at the Interactive HUB at Aramco EXPEC, keeps every screen in sync with the speaker. The engineering is covered in our post on multiscreen sync.
Mistakes we see
- Letting the first speaker overrun. One slot over and the whole hour slides.
- Twenty slides for ten minutes. One idea, a handful of slides, one clear takeaway.
- Questions from the floor microphone only. Phone-based questions bring out the quiet experts.
- Recordings published weeks later. By then the audience has moved on.
Where it fits
- web and application development
- smart event technology
- PULSE: live audience engagement
- COMMIT: registration, agenda and analytics
Questions clients ask
Will experts agree to only ten minutes?
Most prefer it once they see the format. One idea, delivered well, gets remembered.
Is the transcription available in Arabic?
We plan transcription per language and scope Arabic in the brief.
How fast are recordings online?
The aim is the same day, depending on the number of sessions and approvals.
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Start with a conversation
Tell us the event, the venue and what people should walk away remembering. Web and application development WhatsApp FAIM
Joby Thuruthel / FAIM
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