From ease of customization to a backend that gives you full control over the showflow, Zuddl gives you everything you need to make a virtual event feel as close to an in-person event as possible.
Every two years, Grant Thornton Bharat (GTB) holds an in-person internal conference for its partners, but in April 2020, with the advent of the pandemic, the company was forced to cancel. But where some would have simply accepted the status quo, Team GTB saw it as an opportunity to shake it up instead. The company is known, after all, for empowering businesses to unlock their potential for growth by going beyond the norm.
When the company turned to virtual events as a solution, Grant Thornton Bharat (GTB) wanted to leverage the unique benefits of the medium to its utmost potential.
“When we started planning and hosting virtual events, we found Zoom and Teams quite basic in terms of providing a great event experience - especially in differentiating an event from a meeting.” states Bhawik Kapoor, Senior Executive, Marketing and Communications. “And there were significant challenges with the tools we used, from speaker management to inability to make and control last-minute changes. Once we discovered that Zuddl’s tools and capabilities had all the answers to our challenges, there was no looking back.”
In working with Zuddl to turn their quarterly company summits virtual, Team GTB wanted their gatherings to not resemble a meeting. They wanted to curate high-quality, highly engaging experiences where their partners and employees - really the whole Grant Thornton Bharat community - could come together in one place.
Team GTB had three main goals in mind when planning their virtual company conferences:
Here’s how Team GTB approached these challenges and achieved their goals:
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By virtue of being virtual, Grant Thornton Bharat’s quarterly company summits were accessible to a greater number of people than ever before. As earlier conferences were hosted at physical venues with capacity restrictions, only a limited number of people were able to attend. With there being no such limitation with Zuddl, Team GTB was able to invite all employees of the firm to the event.
Ease of access (no travelling involved) also meant that there was an extremely high registrant-to-attendee conversion rate: the turn out percentage was around 70% for both the virtual quarterly summits they held.
Having encountered login and lag issues when hosting virtual events on other platforms, Team GTB was determined to ensure that all the speakers and attendees at the Quarterly Summit had a smooth and seamless experience throughout. They were able to do so by leveraging the following Zuddl features:
An important aspect of being a virtual organizer is to make sure your attendees feel heard and seen. With Zuddl’s engagement tools - virtual Chat, Q&A, Polls and even Emoji Reactions - attendees at the Quarterly Summits were able to turn each event session into a lively, conversational hub of dialogue.
“Earlier when we used other platforms, the speakers and attendees were on different frameworks so live communication was missing,” pointed out Bhawik. “But Zuddl has done it in such a way - for instance the Emoji Reactions tool- that helps to keep that build the connection between speakers and attendees, and keep that positive energy going because speakers can see that in real-time.”
Team GTB also set up virtual Tables for employees to socialize with each other in between sessions. “This was something that all of our colleagues really liked,” says Bhawik.
Team GTB's virtual large-scale internal events truly brought their community together in a way they were not able to accomplish before.
From ease of customization to a backend that gives you full control over the showflow, Zuddl gives you everything you need to make a virtual event feel as close to an in-person event as possible.
Every two years, Grant Thornton Bharat (GTB) holds an in-person internal conference for its partners, but in April 2020, with the advent of the pandemic, the company was forced to cancel. But where some would have simply accepted the status quo, Team GTB saw it as an opportunity to shake it up instead. The company is known, after all, for empowering businesses to unlock their potential for growth by going beyond the norm.
When the company turned to virtual events as a solution, Grant Thornton Bharat (GTB) wanted to leverage the unique benefits of the medium to its utmost potential.
“When we started planning and hosting virtual events, we found Zoom and Teams quite basic in terms of providing a great event experience - especially in differentiating an event from a meeting.” states Bhawik Kapoor, Senior Executive, Marketing and Communications. “And there were significant challenges with the tools we used, from speaker management to inability to make and control last-minute changes. Once we discovered that Zuddl’s tools and capabilities had all the answers to our challenges, there was no looking back.”
In working with Zuddl to turn their quarterly company summits virtual, Team GTB wanted their gatherings to not resemble a meeting. They wanted to curate high-quality, highly engaging experiences where their partners and employees - really the whole Grant Thornton Bharat community - could come together in one place.
Team GTB had three main goals in mind when planning their virtual company conferences:
Here’s how Team GTB approached these challenges and achieved their goals:
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By virtue of being virtual, Grant Thornton Bharat’s quarterly company summits were accessible to a greater number of people than ever before. As earlier conferences were hosted at physical venues with capacity restrictions, only a limited number of people were able to attend. With there being no such limitation with Zuddl, Team GTB was able to invite all employees of the firm to the event.
Ease of access (no travelling involved) also meant that there was an extremely high registrant-to-attendee conversion rate: the turn out percentage was around 70% for both the virtual quarterly summits they held.
Having encountered login and lag issues when hosting virtual events on other platforms, Team GTB was determined to ensure that all the speakers and attendees at the Quarterly Summit had a smooth and seamless experience throughout. They were able to do so by leveraging the following Zuddl features:
An important aspect of being a virtual organizer is to make sure your attendees feel heard and seen. With Zuddl’s engagement tools - virtual Chat, Q&A, Polls and even Emoji Reactions - attendees at the Quarterly Summits were able to turn each event session into a lively, conversational hub of dialogue.
“Earlier when we used other platforms, the speakers and attendees were on different frameworks so live communication was missing,” pointed out Bhawik. “But Zuddl has done it in such a way - for instance the Emoji Reactions tool- that helps to keep that build the connection between speakers and attendees, and keep that positive energy going because speakers can see that in real-time.”
Team GTB also set up virtual Tables for employees to socialize with each other in between sessions. “This was something that all of our colleagues really liked,” says Bhawik.
Team GTB's virtual large-scale internal events truly brought their community together in a way they were not able to accomplish before.
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