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How we built a multi-track Virtual Conference for 5000 students using no code tools: Squarespace, Vimeo, Mailchimp and Typeform
Thesis: You can create a multi-track virtual conference for thousands of people using no-code tools
Every year I get the privilege of working with an organization whose mission I wholeheartedly support: Speak Up, Stand Up, Save a Life (lovingly dubbed “Speak, Stand, Save”) holds an annual conference that encourages kids to speak up, cope with hard feelings, express themselves, and reach out to a trusted adult.
The in-person Phoenix-based conference needed to deal with COVID-19 cancelling the experience altogether. Not a great thing when the majority of your 3500 attendees are students who strongly look forward to the day. Being mere months away from the January 21st scheduled date, we needed to come up with a manageable solution quickly. Our goal was to deliver this year’s conference virtually with as close to the same experience as possible for the various grade level of students, teachers, and parents attending, and perhaps open it up for students across the nation.
Enter a low-code solution of using mostly ready platforms, piecing them together, and using the power of user experience design to organize and deliver…
