Conferences using groupware technology will benefit from tools that can make presentations and debates much more dynamic and productive.

Speakers can use group support tools that are included in most SMART products, combined with Zing groupware to allow a more interactive participation of the audience on debates. Conferences can thus become much more interesting, useful and satisfying moments, both for the speakers and the audience.

Besides the SMART software, which is included with most SMART groupware products, conference presenters can use Bridgit for distance collaboration. An expert’s participation from abroad can add on a lot of value to a lecture or a seminar and with Bridgit you would save on expensive travel and accommodation costs.

Actalyst™ interactive digital signage

When you want to provide useful information to conference participants, Actalyst™ is the right choice for you. This innovative SMART product makes use of award winning DViT Technology and can also be used as permanent multimedia information centres on campus or any hotel lobby.

Actalyst interactive digital signage offers overlays for flat-panel displays. The overlays fasten securely to LCD or plasma displays to create touch-enabled interactive surfaces, providing an increasingly popular way for people to find information in public places. The overlay is ideal for interactive information stations in retail stores, office buildings, real-estate developments, museums, hotels and shopping malls, where people often need information, but may not need human assistance. People are empowered to explore information that is relevant to them at their own pace.

Actalyst interactive overlays now range in size from 32 to 65" (81 to 165 cm) diagonally and can be oriented in portrait or landscape mode. More

Bridgit conferencing software

Bridgit conferencing software makes web-conferencing simple, whether participants are in the same building, city or multiple locations around the world. Participants can share desktop and webcam images, talk to each other using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), take over applications on a participating user's computer or write notes in digital ink for everyone to see. For enhanced data and video interaction, Bridgit software can also be used with SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and Sympodium® interactive pen displays. More

SMART Podium Interactive Pen Display

Sympodium interactive pen displays are easy-to-use presentation tools that enhance digital information sharing in teaching, training and meeting environments. The displays connect directly to a projector and computer and simultaneously display a computer image on their screen and a larger presentation screen for everyone to see.

Presenters simply touch the battery-free tethered pen to the LCD screen to launch and control applications, open files and write in digital ink over files and applications, including PowerPoint® slides, websites and moving video. Sympodium products enable you to effortlessly control any presentation and bring it to life all you have to do is connect your interactive pen display to a computer and projector. Sympodium interactive pen displays feature all the interactive capabilities of the SMART Board interactive whiteboard, SMART's flagship product. More

Zing Software

Collaborate face-to-face, team-to-team or across the internet. Zing software offers a set of tools to vote, sort, weight, rank, combine, summarise, provoke, decide. Zing offers two families of software for business, education and consulting uses.

The Zingthing software connects your entire organisation into instant meeting and training events or delivers courses and consulting via the internet. The Anyzing software converts your notebook computer into a portable meeting room for conferences, seminars and team meetings. More

Please contact us for more information on groupware-based solutions for conference centres.