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of me for f2f audience members. They could not see me well while I stood behind the console. (There is a reason podiums have become obsolete – they constrain speaker-audience engagement.) To avoid that constraint, be sure to ask event planners if they can accommodate more broadcast-like capabilities. UGA has installed what they call “Zoom kits” in many classrooms this semester. The technology is awesome, but currently in short supply.

Engaging a Hybrid Audience

To keep f2f and virtual audiences from tuning out and checking their other communication devices, speakers need to amplify interactive engagement. Group activities take on all new value. It just won’t work if speakers talk for 20 minutes straight or longer. I suggest breaking up presentations into smaller chunks – learning objectives. Try scaffolding activities so they build upon each other and culminate with a final learning objective and activity that brings all the concepts together.

Breaking out into subgroups for more in-depth learning and engagement is actually a lot simpler with virtual audiences. You just send attendees into virtual breakout rooms. No need to rent another space at the convention center. With your f2f audience members also logged in to the virtual session, you can send them into breakout rooms too.

However, since f2f attendees are all physically in the same room, they can’t speak as freely as virtual attendees in breakout rooms. One way to overcome this challenge is to encourage all attendees in breakout rooms to communicate entirely through the chat feature. I did this at a conference in September, and it was amazing. We shared and learned and were able to accommodate attendees who needed captioning in order to fully participate. Also, attendees tend to be less shy about sharing when they can post a chat instead of literally speaking up. Thus, engagement and information sharing via chat tends to increase once it gets going. Just be sure to set rules so you can make sense of what gets posted. Another tip for virtual breakouts is to assign audience members to serve as subgroup leaders and moderators. This helps ensure each subgroup develops takeaways to share with the whole group later. Also, speakers and event leaders can “Zoom bomb” breakouts to see if attendees have questions or need clarification on the breakout activity.

Start Planning Now

These are just a few tips and tricks I learned from hybrid events I participated in this fall. I am sure that if we start planning now, we can overcome some of the constraints I experienced and come up with even more innovative ideas to maximize hybrid engagement when public health specialists give us the greenlight to do so. UGA only had two months to outfit 465 buildings. Surely, we can use the next several months or more to plan safe and effective hybrid meetings and events so our industry can safely do the work of relationship building and information sharing to benefit our customers and their patients.