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Interactive platform for forums: 8 moments of a conference day and the tool for each
A regional business forum, one main hall, two breakout rooms, nine hundred delegates and a programme that runs from nine until six. The producer has a laptop on the tech desk and a single browser tab open. From it she switches the hall between a reaction wall during the keynote, a question queue for the panel, a live debate after lunch and an investment round for the startup session, without changing systems, logins or QR codes that people have to rescan.
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Most conferences use interaction in patches: a poll here, a question box there, each run from a different tool by a different person. The Forum interactive section in PULTEVENT brings four mechanics together in one place, built for the way a forum day actually flows: live reactions with a mood meter, speaker Q&A with moderation, debate battle voting and a virtual investor game.
Delegates join from their own phones through a QR code or a short link and use the ordinary mobile browser, with no app to install and nothing to register. The organiser or moderator runs everything from a laptop, and the results appear on the projector, LED wall or a TV as a full-screen second display. It all happens in real time on the server, which means the phones and the laptop need internet access.
8 moments of a forum day and what to run in each
1 Registration and walk-in
People find their seats, the walk-in music plays, and the QR code sits on every screen in the hall and the foyer. The aim is simple: every phone connected before the first word from the stage.
How to run it. Ask the host to invite a two-tap test when the doors close. Seeing the screen fill tells people it works.
You don't lose the first ten minutes of the keynote to people fumbling with cameras.
2 Opening keynote
Reactions stay on throughout the talk. Lightbulbs and hearts fly across the wall; question marks warn the speaker when a slide didn't land.
How to run it. Set a rate limit so the screen reflects the room, not the three most enthusiastic people in the front row.
A plenary of hundreds gets a voice without a single microphone.
3 Plenary panel
Questions come in from the start of the panel, addressed to specific panellists. The moderator's assistant approves them, and the top ones appear on the wall.
How to run it. Switch pre-moderation on for any session with senior officials or top management on stage.
The panel answers what the hall wants to know, and nobody hogs a roving mic.
4 After-lunch debate
The graveyard slot. Two speakers take opposite sides of a motion the industry argues about, and the hall votes live. The bar moves, people sit up.
How to run it. Open the vote before the opening statements, so you can show at the end how far the room moved.
A contest with a score is the most reliable way to wake a room after lunch.
5 Breakout sessions
Each breakout room runs its own reaction session or Q&A on a TV. Every room is a separate session, so results don't mix.
How to run it. Give each room volunteer a one-page cheat sheet: which session to start, when to pause, when to close.
You get comparable data from rooms that normally produce nothing but a head count.
6 Startup or project session
Projects pitch in five-minute slots. Afterwards every delegate distributes virtual capital, and the Investor Live screen shows the ranking reshuffle in real time.
How to run it. Name the currency after the forum. It costs nothing and makes the round feel like part of the event.
The audience becomes the investor panel, and the projects get a clear, fair result.
7 Closing plenary
A short look back: the host shows the reaction charts of the day's sessions side by side and the swing chart of the debate, then opens a final Q&A for the organisers.
How to run it. Pick two or three striking charts in advance. A slideshow of every session is too much at five in the afternoon.
Delegates leave having seen their own input reflected back, which is a strong reason to return.
8 After the forum
Export reactions by session, the full question list with statuses, debate results and investment totals, then clear the data.
How to run it. Send speakers their session's reaction chart and any questions marked 'passed to speaker' within a week.
Speakers get real feedback, sponsors get a report, and the programme team plans next year with evidence.
Live reactions
Six default reactions, from 'learned something new' to 'confusing'. The screen shows the mood as growing bubbles and flying emoji.
Speaker Q&A
Questions addressed to a chosen speaker, upvoted by the hall, approved by a moderator before they reach the screen.
Debate battle
Two speakers, two positions, a live percentage bar and a chart of how the room swung during the debate.
Investor game
Every delegate gets virtual capital to spread across projects. Bars on the screen grow as the money comes in.
One control panel for the whole day
Everything is prepared in advance in one place: reaction sets per session, speaker lists for the Q&A, debate battles with photos and positions, project cards for the investor round. On the day the moderator switches between them from the laptop, and the second screen follows. Pause, clear, close and reset are one click each.
For larger forums split the roles: a producer on the tech desk runs the screens, and a separate moderator filters questions.
What delegates need
A phone with a browser and an internet connection, nothing else. It works on iOS and Android. One phone counts as one participant: one vote in a debate, one upvote per question, one wallet in the investor game. The server blocks repeats. If the signal drops, the phone returns to the same session and keeps its choices.
Your look, your words
The organiser changes the logo, colours and background, renames the mechanics and buttons and rewrites the confirmation texts directly in the control panel. No developer, no design ticket. The investor currency can be renamed too.
Mistakes that happen on real forum days
Not closing a debate or investment round before announcing the result. Carrying one speaker's reactions into the next talk because nobody started a new session. Leaving pre-moderation off in a session with a minister on stage. Discovering at 8:55 that the LED wall's resolution cuts off the bottom of the question. All four are fixed with a rehearsal on the actual equipment the evening before.
Internet and data
Every mechanic depends on the server, so check Wi-Fi capacity in the halls, not just the lobby, and put the control laptop on a wired connection if you can. Data is stored on servers in Russia. After the event you can export the results and delete them.
Access
The Forum interactive section is part of the full platform, which has more than a hundred sections. You can try all of it free for 72 hours without entering a card. After that there's a monthly plan or a single payment for lifetime access; pricing is on pultevent.ru/en.
About the author
PULTEVENT was built by Ruslan Barashkin, who hosts forums, industry conferences and corporate events, and has run over 500 events since 2014: best host of Moscow 2024 and of Saint Petersburg 2023 at the TOP 100 Awards. He built it for his own stages first. The rest is at pultevent.ru/en.
How to set up interactive sessions for a forum
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Map the programme and choose a mechanic for each session.
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Prepare reaction sets, speaker lists, debate battles and project cards in the control panel.
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Apply your logo, colours and wording.
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Rehearse on the real projector or LED wall and check the hall Wi-Fi.
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On the day, keep the QR code on screen at walk-in and switch mechanics per session.
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After the forum, export the results, send speakers their feedback and clear the data.
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