CNVNE HELP CENTRE

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Step-by-step guides to preparing your event, welcoming attendees and running the day.

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Getting started

Choose an event theme and preview the experience

Give your event its own identity while keeping navigation clear on every device.

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Getting started

Set up your first event

A practical route from a new organiser account to an event your audience can join.

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Getting started

Register, log in and recover your password

Use your personal CNVNE account to manage events or accept a team invitation.

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Getting started

Edit your profile and organisation details

Keep your personal account and workspace name up to date.

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Team & access

Invite your organisation team

Organisation membership is for colleagues who should help manage the organisation’s events.

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Team & access

Invite an event admin or moderator

Give someone access to one event without adding them to the whole organisation.

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Build your event

Configure event details, branding and sections

Make the attendee space feel like your event.

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Team & access

Set attendee access and share your event

Choose simple guest joining or account registration for the full event space.

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Build your event

Build a multi-day, multi-stage programme

Create sessions that attendees can browse by day and stage.

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Build your event

Add speakers and profiles

Give each speaker a profile attendees can open from the speaker directory.

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Build your event

Build the exhibition and exhibitor spaces

Create a directory of exhibitors, each with its own profile and supporting content.

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Build your event

Add and publish research posters

Display poster thumbnails with titles and authors, linking to individual poster pages.

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Build your event

Upload, order and download resources

Share PDFs, PowerPoint presentations and Word documents in one event section.

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Build your event

Upload, replace or remove images

Manage event branding, headshots, exhibitor images, posters and video thumbnails.

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Live streaming

Choose the right stage mode

A stage combines a stream or meeting with optional audience interaction.

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Live streaming

Embed YouTube, Vimeo, Castr or another provider

Keep your existing streaming provider and display its player within the event.

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Live streaming

Run a hosted live stream

Connect an encoder, check a private preview and send the stage live.

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Live streaming

Enable low latency and waiting thumbnails

Reduce broadcast delay and control what attendees see before the player is shown.

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Live streaming

Use Zoom and Teams stages

Choose a meeting link for a straightforward hand-off, or a configured Zoom SDK embed.

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Live streaming

Monitor the production desk

Use Live production to manage stage visibility and monitor the audience experience.

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Audience interaction

Configure chat, Q&A, polls or Slido

Choose the tools available beside a stream and in the in-room participation page.

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Audience interaction

Moderate live chat

Chat is immediate conversation; moderators can remove messages when needed.

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Audience interaction

Review, reply to and highlight questions

The moderation view separates Pending questions from questions Live to the audience.

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Audience interaction

Create and run multiple-choice and open-text polls

Prepare polls ahead of time and launch them when you want a response.

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Audience interaction

Present interaction on an event screen

Show a branded joining screen or live interaction on a projector or venue display.

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For attendees

Join an event and find its content

Use the joining details supplied by your organiser.

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For attendees

Join in-room interaction and contribute

Use just the audience tools without navigating the full event.

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Videos & recordings

Upload, review and publish videos

Manage hosted recordings and on-demand videos before making them available to attendees.

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Videos & recordings

Trim a video and choose its thumbnail

Remove unwanted material from the beginning and end without overwriting the original.

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Reporting & administration

Export attendee and interaction reports

Review who joined and how people participated, with interaction reports separated by stage.

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Reporting & administration

Close joining, archive an event and retain replays

Choose whether the event should remain available after its live dates.

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Reporting & administration

Use Super Admin

Platform-level administration is available only to accounts assigned the administrator role.

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Getting started

Rehearse and launch: event-day checklist

Run this check with the same joining route and equipment your audience will use.

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Frequently asked questions

Can attendees browse or discover my event?

There is no public event directory or calendar. Share your event link, QR code or joining code with your intended audience.

Does every attendee need a CNVNE account?

No. Simple joining uses a name, email and shared event password. In-room interaction uses its own join code or QR link, followed by a name and optional email. Events with account registration require an account.

Why can I see content that my attendee cannot?

Organisers can preview and manage content that is not published. Test in a signed-out browser and check event status, enabled sections, video or poster publication, and stage visibility.

Why is my joining code not working?

Check the saved code and whether the event is published and accepting joins. The homepage event code and the stage interaction code shown in Present are different routes: use /join for the latter.

Why is my password-reset code rejected?

Use the latest 8-digit code sent to the account email. It expires after 10 minutes. Request a new one if it has expired and keep the reset form open while checking your email.

Can I use YouTube or Vimeo instead of hosted streaming?

Yes. YouTube, Vimeo, Castr and other compatible providers can be embedded using their iframe code or HTTPS embed-player URL. The provider must allow embedding and its own restrictions still apply.

Why is an embedded player blank or refusing to connect?

Use the embed-player URL or iframe code rather than a watch-page link. Check that embedding is enabled, the viewing domain is allowed and the provider’s broadcast is available. Then use Show player to attendees in the production desk.

Why do viewers still see Waiting for Live Stream?

For hosted streaming, confirm the encoder is connected and Go Live has been selected. For external streaming, use Show player to attendees. Hiding an external player deliberately returns it to the waiting state.

Where are my RTMP server and stream key?

Save a hosted stage and select Create stream in Live production. If hosted video is unavailable, ask the platform administrator to check the connection and your organisation’s access.

Why does low latency not change my existing stream immediately?

Save the setting, then End stream, stop the encoder and Start new preview. Apply it between sessions because this restarts the stream.

Why is the audience interaction panel missing?

Enable Audience Interaction Panel in stage Configure, then enable the individual tools. Check the selected stage. On mobile it appears below the video. Slido also requires its embed URL.

Why can a participant see a pending question?

People see their own questions without a pending/live label. Other participants see them only after approval. A reply to a pending question stays private to its author until approved.

Does Review questions first also moderate chat?

No. Chat appears immediately. Moderators can delete messages; the review setting applies to Q&A.

What happens when I close a poll?

It disappears from audience view. The panel returns to Q&A, or Chat if Q&A is disabled. Results remain available in stage reports.

Does Publish on a recording make it a live stream?

No. It makes the ready video available as on-demand content in the event’s Videos section. The event must also be accessible and the section enabled.

Will trimming overwrite my original recording?

No. It creates a new unpublished copy. Review and publish that copy, then unpublish or delete the original only if appropriate. Both retained copies use storage.

What are the upload limits?

Resources accept PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC and DOCX up to 250 MB per file. Video uploads allow up to 5 GB. General image and video-thumbnail controls allow up to 25 MB; always follow the limit displayed on the specific control.

Why does a document have no thumbnail?

Some Word and PowerPoint files contain no embedded preview. Upload a thumbnail in the resource editor. Check the download separately; a missing preview does not necessarily mean the file failed.

Can moderators manage the whole event?

Event-specific moderators can access moderation only. Event Admins manage all event sections. Organisation team members keep their broader organisation access.

Are the pricing plans and usage charges active?

The pricing page currently shows proposed launch pricing for review. Exploring a plan does not start billing or change account limits. Hosted-video access is managed separately by the platform administrator.

What should I include when reporting a problem?

Tell your event organiser or platform administrator the event and stage, the page, your device/browser, the time it happened, what you expected and any error text. A screenshot helps. Do not include your password, email verification code or stream key.