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TA pilot
For conference organizers

audience Q&A that works in a physical room

Raised hands miss 80% of the room. A QR code on each slide brings every seat into the Q&A — free for speakers, no friction for attendees.

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What you run into today

The specific friction we hear about.

  • Runners-with-microphones pick only the visible, confident people
  • Good questions from the back of the room never reach the stage
  • Speaker changeover means each talk has its own Slido session to set up
  • Audience loses interest during the gap between a question and the mic reaching them
  • Mods can't sort by relevance — they take whoever has the mic
How TA pilot helps

Features that map onto each pain.

QR on every slide, same shape for every speaker
Each speaker creates their own session at the start of their talk. The QR code is on the opening slide; attendees scan once and submit throughout. New speaker, new QR, same flow.
Upvote-sorted queues surface the room's best question
In a 300-person keynote, the first person with the mic rarely has the best question. Upvotes let the whole room push their top question to the front of the queue.
Attendees attach photos when they ask
“I'm confused by slide 14” becomes a photo of that slide plus the question. Speakers answer precisely, not vaguely.
No app install = no drop-off
Conferences with app-based engagement see 20–40% participation at best. QR-scan flows consistently hit 60–70%. The difference is not having to download anything.
Optional live captions per attendee
International conferences with English talks — attendees enable native-language captions on their own phones. No separate accessibility workflow required.
A concrete workflow

Your first session, end to end.

  1. 1

    Each speaker installs TA pilot on their laptop before their talk (or uses a shared conference laptop with it pre-installed).

  2. 2

    At the podium, the speaker creates a session from the sidebar — title autofills from their deck's tab, they pick a password.

  3. 3

    The QR code displays on the opening slide; attendees scan as they settle.

  4. 4

    During the talk, the speaker (or a dedicated moderator) checks the sidebar periodically. Top-voted question is pulled into the Q&A block.

  5. 5

    Between speakers, conference tech ends the session and the incoming speaker creates a fresh one — clean transition, no cross-contamination of queues.

Common questions

What skeptics ask.

Do we need WiFi for every attendee?
The mobile form is ~90 KB — it works on 3G cellular. WiFi is nice but not required. Don't over-engineer venue networking around this.
What about speakers who don't want to manage tech mid-talk?
Assign a moderator to watch the sidebar and call out the top questions verbally. The speaker never has to look at the sidebar — same as traditional Q&A, just with upvotes doing the sort.
Does this handle multi-track conferences?
Yes. Each track has its own sessions (one per talk). No cross-talk; each QR is scoped to a single talk.

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Try it on your next session.

Install TA pilot, create a session, drop the QR on your next slide. You'll see the participation shift in the first 10 minutes.

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