Virtual Conference – 2000 delegates – EBADay – November 2020

How OCTA ensured the ongoing success of Europe’s leading payments conference.

Organised by the Euro Banking Association (EBA) and Finextra, the leading independent newswire and information source for the worldwide financial technology (fintech) community, EBAday is one of the most important payments conferences and exhibitions in Europe.

With a focus on euro payments and transaction banking, EBAday offers a packed seminar programme and a bustling exhibition floor (including a fintech pavilion), showcasing the complete spectrum of payment processing services from leading banks.

EBAday also provides crucial insights into key business, regulatory and technological topics, not only for payment practitioners from banks and vendors, but also for corporate treasurers.

Having worked with Finextra as events partner for EBAday since 2008, VenuesWorld was tasked with creating a virtual, on-line solution for EBAday 2020 to ensure the continuity of the event in the context of the global pandemic.

Supported by technical specialists. AVCOM and deploying OCTA, the virtual events platform they developed themselves, venuesworld.com.com ensured that EBAday took place successfully in 2020 and again in 2021 with 91 speakers, based all over the world presenting over 3 days across 2 concurrent streams.

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Working with Finextra’s in-house designer, venuesworld.com and their partner, AVCOM, used the OCTA platform to build out a bespoke, on-line event to Finextra’s precise specifications, including Q&A and live polling which ensured high attendee engagement within the panel sessions. Over 3 days and streaming out on two concurrent streams, the team managed the pre-recorded content, presenter testing and live event days.

Crucially, the OCTA platform also facilitated an exhibition at which 42 sponsors and exhibitors participated with bespoke 2D booths created for each sponsor including custom backgrounds, banners and sponsor brand colours.

The OCTA solution also allowed pre-recorded content to be created ahead of the live days and released at different points throughout the event with sessions made on-demand after the event to delegates that had purchased the on demand package.

The EBAday platform was also made available as an App on the Apple & Google Play stores making the event even more accessible and user friendly.

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Services Used:

  • Octa Virtual event platform
  • Event app
  • Streaming support
  • Client Services
  • Delegate & speaker management
  • Sponsor and Exhibitor management