Conferencing and Collaboration

Series Focus: Ease of use and meeting equity are top of mind for technology managers tasked with keeping workers connected. Workspace technologists can get the latest on key developments and trends for the hybrid office in AVIXA’s Conferencing and Collaboration Power Hour.

Targeted Audience and Attendees: Workplace technology managers; IT and AV integration firms specializing in corporate; Learning space engineer, designer, tech manager; Engineering firms and consultants.

View past webinars in this series on AVIXA.org.

2022 Metrics:

  • Total Registrants: 3,000 
  • Attendance Rate: 55%
  • Primary Audience Industries: Corporate/Finance/Legal, Meetings & Event Production, and Education
  • Primary Job Categories: Engineering (Director/Manager), AV/IT/Network, Operations (Director/Manager)
February 8: Designing the Employee Experience: Employee experience has gained prominence in workplace strategy planning and today there is an expanded set of stakeholders involved in the office technology that you implement. How can you assess workstyle personas within the organization to better plan space and technology needs? Hear from stakeholders in IT, HR, and facilities on their required outcomes as you cooperatively implement a new approach to hybrid work. 
 
March 8: The Office of the Future: Determining ‘why’ employees come to the office in the first step in updating spaces for the future. Now a collaboration destination, it’s time to narrow the user experience gap between the home office and the corporate office. Can the collaboration technology available support a richly engaging corporate experience for employees, vendors, and clients that may come into the office space? There is a way to go to make the office of the future a reality, but we are closer than many think. 
 
May 10: How to Improve Conferencing Audio Quality:With the hybrid work environment, it is now almost guaranteed someone will be joining the meeting remotely. What options do you have to ensure all participants can hear and be heard clearly? What approach is best suited for hybrid meeting versus a fully virtual meeting? Join us as our panel discusses the best practices for ensuring your users are equipped with the proper audio equipment.  

  • Examine the environmental considerations for clear audio.
  • Determine the best audio designs for hybrid meetings vs. virtual meetings.
  • Identify the ideal hardware for remote workers to enhance their audio.  
August 9: AR/VR Tools for Immersive Collaboration:Workplace technology has come a long way in the past few years and collaboration and connectivity are seemingly always at the top of the priority list. But what if you could work from home and have the ambient presence of your co-workers? VR technology is on its way to make that a possibility. AR is already being widely used in the construction and manufacturing space, so how do we translate that into the office of the future?  

  • Discover the latest in VR/AR/XR in the collaborative space. 
  • Outline the use of this technology in the office of the future. 
  • Review how we may already be using the technologies and how they will expand.
September 13: Designing Intuitive Systems for Conference Rooms:Today there’s a disconnect between conference room design and client expectations. The best conference systems are intuitive, simple, and provide a high-quality meeting experience. How can you measure user experience in a space to know if it’s meeting their needs? What new features are available to enhance the conferencing experience? Join our panel to explore these options and plan your end user adoption strategy. 
 
November 9: Meeting Equity in the Hybrid Workforce:  Hybrid work has reversed the traditional meeting experience. Now some or all the critical meeting participants are likely to be virtual. Enabling seamless collaborating means taking steps to ensure that everyone has a similar meeting experience with equal opportunities to contribute and make an impact regardless of where they are joining their meeting from. In this webinar, the panel will discuss the innovative and clever use of technologies to deliver an inclusive and accessible meeting experience with the overall goal of meeting equity. 

  • Discuss current technologies used in today's hybrid and virtual meetings. 
  • Identify current technologies that can be added to existing equipment to advance meeting equity.