Glisser is designed to solve a bunch of problems all in a single app, ultimately improving audience engagement and collecting useful feedback and data. It takes away the burden of getting content (presentations that are usually emailed or printed) to attendees. It encourages audience participation, even from people who might be uncomfortable speaking in public. It speeds up and democratizes the audience questions process. It encourages social sharing by integrating Twitter. And it aids presenters and event planners by collecting feedback, opinion and data that can make future events even better.

What is the best audience for this tool? Corporate events? Social? Other? Large? Small?

We’ve tried to build something really flexible that works for both large and small events, for corporates and for event organisers, and even for professional speakers. A speaker can arrive at an event with their own iPad, plug it in, and present using Glisser. However, we expect the early adopters to be event planners – they’re willing to embrace new technology, and will recognise some of the challenges that Glisser solves.

What does your tool help event planners do better?

Anything else we need to know?

We want people to try us out, so everyone who registers can upload their first few presentations and add social features absolutely free. Try it out with your colleagues in a team meeting – it’s really powerful seeing it in action. Then please send us feedback and ideas – we want to make Glisser better and better, and event planners are the best source of new features.

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