CUPE BC Virtual Annual Convention
CUPE BC managed to pivot their annual in-person convention, typically held in Vancouver, to the virtual event space in order to conduct union business.
Client: CUPE BC
Platform: Hybrid Event
Objective
To reproduce CUPE BC’s Annual in person convention virtually. To accommodate 700 attendees and to produce a solution to conduct union business such as voting and debating in a virtual fashion.
To ensure integrity and security during the voting process and to ensure all attendees can participate in the event in their choice of language and accessibility level. The goal of the event is to give both the presenter and the attendee the feeling of gathering in person regardless of where they are connecting from
Solution
Chime Live and Presentation Stage
Full custom Chime site bilingual and accessibility option
Custom solution using Zoom for debate process
Using Lumi for secure voting procedure
Use of Presentation Stage to create broadcast quality stream
Outcome
“The entire team at Encore was excellent to deal with, from initial contact exploring the possibilities and challenges of an online-convention, to the planning and execution of our annual convention. All conventions are complicated, with many moving parts, but CUPE BC conventions are especially complicated, especially in an election year. The Encore team dealt professionally and efficiently with all the curve balls we threw them, adapting the platform technology to ensure we were able to give our on-line delegates an experience that as much as possible replicated the elements of an in-person convention. By no means was it a simple task, and we could not be happier with the technology, the customer service, and all the members of the Encore team who performed so well during the event”
– Kiran Kooner, Director of Operations