A prominent nursing association, holding an annual event that attracts over 4,300 attendees, has partnered with OVATION since 2012 to help bring their events to life.
This yearly event is a cornerstone for education and networking, offering more than 50 high-impact sessions, providing contact hours, and fostering connections among thousands of nursing professionals across the country.
We talked to one of the people who manage this annual conference about the challenges they face, their relationship with OVATION, and how implementing MARQUEE has alleviated the stress and worry that fell on their shoulders during conference time.
The Problem
Before partnering with OVATION, the nursing association faced significant challenges in managing their increasingly complex events. The responsibilities of organizing breakouts and keynotes while handling presentation management fell on a small team, which became overwhelming, especially after the reduction in staff post-COVID.
The Solution
To address these challenges, the nursing association adopted OVATION’s MARQUEE system as their primary event automation platform. MARQUEE transformed their approach to presentation management, offering a robust solution that automated their processes and took many of the tedious responsibilities off their small team.
“I’m able to get back those 5-10 hours a week I spent dedicated to speaker support. On-site, it’s been immensely helpful too. We used to have to run jump drives around or have certain computers loaded. We’ve mitigated a lot of that risk with MARQUEE.”
Nursing Association Representative
The Results
Hours Saved
The implementation of MARQUEE had a profound impact on the nursing association’s event planning and production. The main benefit? The countless hours the automation saved them each week, previously spent on manual tasks, back-and-forth communications, and troubleshooting.
When we spoke with the representative from the nursing organization, she said that with Marquee, there is no trouble with files being too big or in the wrong format. Everything gets uploaded correctly and all of the manual tasks that bogged down their workflow aren’t a concern.
“I feel like MARQUEE is an extension of me, an actual other person doing the work.”
Nursing Association Representative
She went on to say that MARQUEE has taken on the role of things she used to do manually. They’re no longer scrambling at their conference looking for a laptop that doesn’t even have the correct presentation on it. It’s all seamlessly done and taken care of beforehand.
“At this point, the thought of not using it is daunting.”
Nursing Association Representative
Unexpected Benefits
The nursing association representative continued by highlighting a couple of benefits of using the MARQUEE system she did not anticipate before signing on. The first was not realizing how smooth the process could truly be.
“As someone who wears many hats for the conference, I don’t think I knew how much time it took me before being the only one who answered to all these people all the time.”
Nursing Association Representative
In addition, she noted that she didn’t know how effective MARQUEE could be in enhancing the speaker experience.
“The speaker side is very smooth. From upload to on-site, everything is seamless and we get told how professional it all is. It’s a reflection of us. We need it to work well and look good and it does.”
Nursing Association Representative
It wasn’t just the nursing association representative who was impressed. Here’s a quote from one of the conference’s featured speakers about the experience of working with MARQUEE’s speaker management system:
“The tech support in the speaker room was the best I’ve ever seen or witnessed. Please praise the entire crew. The model setup of the room computer was a WOW. Being allowed to adjust the slides at the last minute was also a crowd-pleaser.”
Nursing Event Featured Speaker
Experience MARQUEE’s Event Automation Benefits
It’s time to turn your organization’s event into an unforgettable experience—with way less stress. OVATION’s event automation platform MARQUEE is pushing the limits with innovative, cloud-based presentation management solutions. From collecting content to real-time analytics, MARQUEE provides six speaker management solutions built to make your event run as smoothly as possible.
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