Cisco Collaboration for Events

Collaboration for Events provides to organizers and heads of such actions a set of the options of use of methods of joint work and corporate video technologies adapted to specific objectives, including web conferences, "telepresence" (telepresence), digital promotional and informational panels (digital signage) and corporate social networks. It allows to give to actions much bigger scope, displaying them out of limits of showrooms and congress centers.

Network technologies give the chance to hold physical and virtual events with very high level of interactivity and at the same time to make exact measurements of efficiency of the organized actions, to accelerate their planning and to involve interesting speakers from the different countries. All this allows to achieve higher attendance and payback of the organized actions.

Cisco Collaboration for Events gives the following advantages:

1. обеспечивает to actions much bigger scope
2. расширяет possibilities of participants and
3. ускоряет turnover of means, allowing to determine the extent of payback at the same time.

The Cisco TelePresence technology, at the expense of video of the high resolution, the loudspeakers which are automatically guided on speaking, and other technology means making a complete impression of personal presence at a virtual meeting, allows to involve in the held events of removed speakers from any part of the world. This technology gives also the chance to attract more numerous audience, to avoid problems with planning of performances and to cut down traveling expenses.

Also the video technology for the Cisco WebEx Event Center web conferences allows to increase attendance of conferences at the expense of removed participants from the different countries of the world. It provides interactive virtual participation in actions, eliminating need of physical presence. The platform of a web casting and exchange of video records Cisco Show and Share considerably expands scope and the importance of a conference, providing access to its content to, in time and after the action. It gives to users the chance to browse content, including the video presentations and records of performances, in any time, convenient for them, in any place. Besides, this platform allows conferees to submit own video records for general consideration and to participate in on-line discussions. Unique opportunities for dialog and formation of the communities which are beyond the organized action result.

It is possible to transfer important content, videos and promotional materials for the large distributed audience from the central source through the promotional and informational Cisco Digital Signs panels. At the same time content at any time can be changed quickly. Touch screens give to participants the chance to interact directly with the Digital Signs panels and to instantly obtain through them the necessary content and information.

Video analytics: permanent or temporary video surveillance (the corresponding equipment is a part of the solution Cisco Collaboration for Events too) in combination with powerful software video analytical tools creates new opportunities for tracking of interests and activity of participants in real time during all action. So, monitoring of traffic flows allows to estimate the level of attractiveness of these or those stands better. Besides, organizers can define efficiency of these or those advertisements and also estimate traffic volumes at different times day that, in turn, allows to use more effectively exhibition facilities during all action.