Let Speakers Participate in the Watch Party

Taking a page from virtual watch-parties, here’s a simple tip to mix live engagement with pre-recorded conference sessions:

Run prerecorded sessions as live Watch Parties with Live Chat, with the speaker in attendance, chatting along with the audience, and turning on the camera at the start to say hello and the end to answer questions. And whatever you do, don't pretend a prerecorded session is live.

Benefits to this approach: It creates a trigger to watch the session live. It helps the audience form a connection to (and with) the speaker. And it helps the speaker see what resonates, what doesn't, what needs more explanation... based on real-time audience feedback.