Hi Cvent Community, we are running our 2021 association conference as a digital event and wanted to know pick your brains on speaker management for virtual events.
We'll be doing a traditional call for speakers mixed with speaker invites, as an association it's a fine line to tread between the two. I have heard from a couple of associations that they found that speakers were more inclined to drop out in a virtual environment than in previous live events. Have your experience this?
If yes, how did you manage it? Would you suggest we recruit more 'back up' speakers and content or is this a case of tightening up and managing speakers from the time of acceptance? Did you get any feedback as to why people dropped out - time commitments, production became overwhelming?
We plan on a mix of simu-live, on-demand and live sessions. So there are demands on time, for anything that they do.
I'd appreciate any tips to avoid this being an issue as we get into the real depths of the event.
Many thanks Cventers :)
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Georgina Clelland
COO
Association for Intelligent Information Management
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