(BUSINESS WIRE)
-- Facing travel restrictions across Asia and Europe due to Coronavirus
concerns, five major February investor conferences avoided outright
cancellation by substituting complete agendas of virtual video meetings
for face-to-face interactions. The virtual conferences were set up and
managed by OpenExchange, the trusted video exchange for financial
communications. The company is already preparing for sharply increased
volume of virtual conferences in March. These critical bank-sponsored
gatherings bring global professional investors together with growing
companies in China, Korea, and Europe, at a time when information about
health concerns and supply chain disruptions are rising around the
world.
Deploying its
suite of video meeting technology, seasoned video meeting specialists,
and proprietary directory services during February, OpenExchange
successfully connected 1500 professional investors with executive teams
from more than 240 companies -- many of whom were forced to work from
home offices because of restrictions on travel and public gatherings in
their home countries.
“OpenExchange
is uniquely qualified to respond quickly to the urgent need to keep
financial communications flowing in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak,”
remarked OpenExchange CEO Mark Loehr. “The experience and trust we’ve
built in serving video needs of the professional investment community
over the last ten years, combined with the technology and people we
acquired in our recent merger with KnowledgeVision, enabled us to
respond rapidly to the urgent needs of some of the world’s most
prominent financial institutions.”
OpenExchange
employs its own technology, along with technology from Cisco, Zoom, and
other video platforms, to connect the financial community with reliable,
secure video connections regardless of the kind of video conference
setup each participant has. Video meeting specialists, most of whom have
deep experience in financial and investor services, set up and test
connections to ensure that video meetings go off without a hitch.
OpenExchange’s cutting-edge Knovio streaming video platform can livecast
keynote and plenary sessions to tens of thousands of simultaneous
viewers around the world and organize them into video libraries and
microsites, dedicated to the virtual conference. Furthermore,
its patented tracking system provides detailed analytics on how each
viewer engages and interacts with the video content.
OpenExchange is adding technology and personnel in anticipation of sharp demand growth in March. “Even before March begins,
we have committed to more than triple the number of meetings and
connections we managed in February,” said OpenExchange’s Mark Loehr.
“These truly are meetings that matter, because there is simply no
substitute for professional investors than coming face-to-face -- if
only by video -- with company executives during a time of global
disruption.”
Read more about OpenExchange’s virtual conference offering, OE Conference, at https://www.openexc.com/oe-conference/.
About OpenExchange
Based in
Boston, New York, London, and Hong Kong, OpenExchange video-enables the
vital daily communications of the financial services and professional
investment industry and its clients with advanced one-to-one,
one-to-many, and many-to-many video technologies, tools and services.
Anchored by its experience in connecting more than 50,000 video
endpoints in the professional investment community and more than 400,000
registered users to its video platform, the OpenExchange Network
bridges the worlds of real-time videoconferencing, video live-streaming,
and searchable on-demand video archives and showcases, making it easy
to connect, create, disseminate, and discover information critical to
investment and business decisions.
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Contacts
Michael Kolowich, OpenExchange
michael@openexc.com
(617) 874-1926
