KOMENDA
Have great conversations.
More than three panelist in your Zoom webinar?
Questions coming in from 10’s, 100’s, 1000’s, more?
No problem.
Panel and audience interaction management
for live virtual events
Inclusive
Members of the audience submit questions from wherever they are, desktop or mobile, even if they are watching the event piped to various platforms like YouTube Live or Facebook Live.
Relevant
Not only may members of the audience ask questions about issues that matter to them, the collective audience can vote questions up or down to give them priority so that the distilled list reflects the broadest interest.
Complementary
Panelists see which questions have come in, and indicate which they want to answer so that the host is never in doubt of who will have a meaningful response. Panelists put their best foot forward.
Coordinated
Host decides which panelist will answer which question from those who volunteered. Komenda gives the panelist advanced warning that they will be called to respond, so they are ready.
Smooth
The interaction among audience questions, host and panelists is completely smooth, eliminating speakers talking over each other. All the participants know their parts in real time. The result is better than broadcast.
Safe
Disruptive bad actors are easily removed and kept out of the system. Safety is further enforced by blocking the mention of pre-defined words that are deemed un-constructive by the Event Owner. Problems are blocked before they begin.
Conventional event management wisdom dictates that more than three panelists in a virtual event becomes unruly and unpleasant to watch because the group cannot maintain the dynamics of smooth conversation. An event with ten (10) panelists would be untenable.
And yet with Komenda, panels with ten or more individuals can smoothly field questions from a live audience of hundreds.
The “Questions” tab of the Komenda Zoom app shows panelists which questions are up next. Panelists can volunteer themselves to be called on by the host. When they are about to be called upon, they receive warning so they are ready. Everyone knows what is happening when.
Complete interaction management:
Komenda collects the questions,
Allows the audience to vote which are most relevant,
Previews them to the panelists so they can volunteer to respond,
Allows the host to select which panelist will be called on,
Gives the panelist fair warning that they’ll be up next, and
Then broadcasts who is answering what question so that external systems like the lower-third generator in the picture to the left can automatically present the question to the audience as the panelist answers.
Panelists can volunteer to answer upcoming questions.