Engage Your Audience - Speaker guide

As a speaker, you have the opportunity to make your session more interactive and engaging by using the event platform. Below are the main ways you can invite participation and what options are available. Use this as a guide when planning with your event manager.

1. Audience Questions

• Questions to you: Attendees can submit questions in advance or live during your session. You decide if you want to receive them before, during, or both.

• Your question link: You’ll receive a personal link from your event manager with all submitted questions. This makes it easy to prepare by reviewing advance questions, or to manage your own Q&A directly from the stage. You can also choose to let a moderator handle them on your behalf.

2. Polls and Live Voting

Polls let you ask your audience questions and get instant feedback. They can be sent out in advance or live from the stage.

• Control the reveal: You can choose to keep results hidden until you present them, or let the results build live as people vote.

• Visuals: Poll results are displayed in clear graphs that update in real time.

Poll Types available:

• Single choice – One answer per participant. Results shown as Bar chart or Pie chart.

• Multiple choice – Several answers per participant. Results shown as Bar chart or Pie chart.

• Text feedback – Open responses from participants. Shown as List view or Word cloud.

• Ranking – Participants rank items in order. Results shown as Bar chart.

• Quiz / Correct answer – Audience picks the right answer. Results shown as Bar chart or Pie chart.

• Scale statements – Participants rate 2–8 statements. Results shown as Bar chart or Spider chart.

3. Planning Your Engagement

When preparing your session, ask yourself:

• Do I want questions from the audience in advance, during, or both?

• Will I handle Q&A myself using the question link, or do I want a moderator to manage it?

• Which type of poll fits my content best?

• Do I want results revealed live or only when I choose?

Bring your ideas to the event manager and they’ll set everything up for you. You only need to focus on what works for your talk and your audience.

By making use of these tools, you’ll create more energy in the room, connect with your audience, and make your session memorable.