Planner Tips
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General Tips
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- Audio-Visual services are a major component in implementing successful meetings and events.
- Conferences, meetings, and events vary in size, structure, and content, and so do their audio-visual requirements.
- There are three core components to the Audio-Visual portion of a meeting: Meeting Manager, Equipment and Technicians.
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Presentation Requirements
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- Identify your presenters’ audio visual requirements and communicate these needs to your room scheduler and AV service provider.
- Select a venue that is well suited to the presentation requirements.
- Where multiple AV providers will be involved (as when the presentation will be video recorded), make those introductions.
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Staffing
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- Confer with your room scheduler and AV service provider to determine how the event will be staffed: by a member of your staff, the AV provider, a third party, or some combination.
- It is helpful to have one staff member concentrate on the presenters while others follow through on room set-up, catering and other logistics. Two units are required for redundancy.
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Logistics
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- Work with your room scheduler to assign times to activities.
- Set up time for the building staff to access the room to set up the chairs, tables, and other set pieces.
- Schedule technical set up time once room is in readiness so that AV and other specialty providers can set up.
- Set Tech Check time when technical set-up is completed for planners and presenters to review their presentations and learn about equipment and room controls, often scheduled 30 to 60 minutes before the event start time.
- Set the actual start time of the event.
- Determine the actual event end time.
- Set the strike time for providers to remove furnishings and equipment.
- Circulate the event logistics to the relevant providers to insure that they will have staff and equipment available for the event. Make adjustments where necessary.
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Cue Sheet
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- The cue sheet is a timeline of activities within the event (sessions, order of presenters, breaks) and should include any same day, pre-event requirements for the providers and presenters.
- The cue sheet should also list the key event staff and their contact information.
- Circulate the event cue sheet to all presenters and providers.
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Walk Through
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- Review the cue sheet and any room layout diagrams in the venue with the room scheduler, AV provider, and other providers. .
- Identify and assign responsibility for any loose ends.
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