Another day at the office

We delivered a straightforward academic conference in Manchester for a group of research scientists from the University of Salford.

To keep the costs down, they used the hotels own installed projector and screen as they were included in the room rate.

We complemented that with a sound system. It had a microphone on the lectern for presenters, and a hand held radio microphone to take questions from the audience.

There were some remote presenters joining on Zoom, so we added a camera at the back of the room.

There was the usual laptop for PowerPoint slides, with a presentation clicker to allow the presenter to change the slides.

We ran in an extra HDMI cable from the lectern, in case any of the presenters wanted to use their own laptop instead of ours.

Plus of course, all the bits of control equipment needed to make the whole thing work seamlessly. Everything was set up and operated by a competent technician who was there to support the presenters and take any technophobia away.

Competent technician

Just another day at the office in the world of corporate presentations.

Over lunch on the second day of the event, I asked the client why they had chosen a supplier from Sheffield to do a job in Manchester, when there are so many firms that could have helped him without the additional travel and overnight costs, especially when budgets were tight.

He told me they had searched the internet to find a supplier, but all the local firms he contacted were insisting on over specifying the event. They couldn't, or wouldn't seem to scale down to an event of our size.

Only Confidence Digital listened to what we asked for, and provided everything in simple bundles, packaged specifically to support a conference of this size.

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