Hybrid Events & Live Streaming
Connect your live event to audiences, speakers and contributors anywhere
A live event no longer has to be limited by the walls of the venue.
Comtec provides professional hybrid event production and live streaming for conferences, awards, product launches, corporate communications and other live events across Manchester, the UK and internationally.
We combine the physical event environment with broadcast, streaming and remote contribution technology, allowing audiences and speakers in different locations to participate in the same production.
The technology is important. But the objective remains the same as any successful live event: make the experience engaging, reliable and easy for the audience.
Hybrid Event Production
A hybrid event combines an in-person audience with remote participants, speakers or additional locations.
Comtec can manage the technical production required to bring those elements together, including cameras, sound, lighting, presentation content, streaming, remote contributors and screen management.
Rather than treating the online audience as an afterthought, we consider how both audiences will experience the event from the beginning of the production process.
Professional Live Streaming
A successful stream needs considerably more than pointing a camera at a stage.
Audio, camera coverage, presentation graphics, video playback, connectivity and switching all need to work together as a coherent broadcast.
Comtec can provide the production infrastructure and technical team required to capture and distribute professional live-event content to the appropriate online platform or audience.
Where appropriate, recordings can also be created for on-demand viewing, internal communications, training or future promotional content.
Remote Speakers & Contributors
Speakers don’t always need to be in the same room.
Remote presenters, panellists, executives, specialists and international contributors can be brought into the live production and displayed to the venue audience while simultaneously forming part of the streamed programme.
Our role is to make the technology disappear into the background so the audience concentrates on the speaker and the message rather than the connection.
Hybrid Conferences
Hybrid production can extend a conference beyond the venue.
Remote delegates can watch keynote sessions, presentations and panel discussions while selected speakers or contributors can join from other locations.
Depending on the event, the production can incorporate:
- live and remote presenters
- panel discussions
- presentation graphics and video
- audience interaction
- remote Q&A
- breakout content
- live camera coverage
- event recording
- on-demand content
The objective isn’t to recreate every element of the physical conference online. It is to decide which elements genuinely benefit the wider audience and deliver those properly.
Hybrid & Streamed Awards
Awards ceremonies depend on atmosphere, anticipation and audience reaction.
Hybrid production can allow nominees, sponsors, presenters or additional audiences who cannot be physically present to remain part of the occasion.
Live camera coverage, graphics, nominee films, remote contributions, entertainment and presentation content can be combined into a professionally produced programme rather than simply broadcasting a static view of the stage.
Hybrid Product Launches
Product launches can use streaming and remote contribution to reach customers, employees, distributors, media and stakeholders beyond the physical launch venue.
The production can combine a live reveal with presentations, films, graphics, demonstrations, interviews and remote specialists from other locations.
This can be particularly valuable where a product or organisation has an international audience or geographically dispersed workforce.
Multi-Location Events
Comtec’s experience in connecting audiences and presenters across different locations predates today’s web-based streaming platforms.
Modern IP and streaming technology has made that capability considerably more accessible, but the production principles remain familiar: communication, timing, redundancy, content management and control.
Whether we’re connecting one remote speaker or supporting a production across several locations, the technology should serve the communication not dominate it.
From Venue to Viewer
Comtec can integrate hybrid and streaming production with the wider event, including:
- Camera Production
- Sound & Microphones
- Lighting
- Presentation & Screen Content
- Video Playback
- Remote Contributors
- Live Switching
- Streaming & Recording
- Audience Interaction
- Technical Production Management
This means the physical show and online programme can be managed as one production rather than two separate events competing with each other.
Talk to Comtec about your hybrid or streamed event
Whether you need to connect one remote presenter, stream a conference to employees around the UK or extend a major live event to an international audience, talk to our production team about the most appropriate solution.