← All work Virtual Conference · Oct 8–9, 2020

Fordham Compliance Law Institute — from in-person to virtual in one cycle.

Two-day flagship compliance conference with a multi-track panel format, all delivered virtually for the first time in its history. Eight months into the pandemic, with attorneys, regulators, and Fortune 500 compliance officers expecting a full-fidelity event.

Client
Fordham Law School
Compliance Law Institute
Role
Technical Director
Multi-track virtual delivery
Engagement vehicle
American Movie Co.
via VAAV Industries
Format
2 days · multi-panel
Oct 8–9, 2020 · virtual
The brief

A 200K conference budget, a Fordham Law audience, and zero margin for a virtual production that looks like a Zoom call.

The Compliance Law Institute is Fordham Law School’s flagship annual gathering for the financial-services compliance community — senior counsel, federal regulators, Fortune 500 chief compliance officers, and the academic stack that publishes the standards. In a normal year it’s an in-person two-day event with multi-track panels, sponsored networking, and a published proceedings.

October 2020 was not a normal year. The conference had to ship as a fully-virtual event without losing the production polish of the in-person version. Multi-track concurrent panels. Live Q&A from a global attendee base. Sponsored networking blocks. Speaker handoffs across time zones. CLE-credit attendance tracking. And it had to look broadcast-grade, not Zoom-grade, the entire time.

What we delivered

Multi-track virtual conference architecture.

End-to-end technical direction for the two-day program via American Movie Company, with VAAV Industries on the technical lead. Multi-track concurrent panel infrastructure with isolated audio paths per track, branded virtual-stage backdrops for every panelist (so the screen never read “home office”), live attendee Q&A across all tracks, and registration / CLE-credit attendance tracking integrated with the broadcast layer.

Panel speakers connected from across the country. The control room ran from a NYC hub. Production switched between the panel format, the keynote format, and the sponsored networking format without breaking the run-of-show. The conference shipped on time, on budget, with the production polish of a network broadcast.

When the in-person version of a long-running conference goes virtual for the first time, the audience compares the new version to the old one. The bar isn’t “good for a Zoom call.” The bar is “same as last year, but on the internet.”
Public record

FCLI in context.

Stack & credits

What it took.

Multi-track delivery

Concurrent panel infrastructure · isolated audio paths per track · branded virtual stage backdrops · speaker-of-the-moment switching

Q&A + interactivity

Live attendee Q&A across all tracks · chat moderation · speaker handoff cues · sponsored-networking break formats

Compliance / CLE

CLE-credit attendance tracking integrated with broadcast layer · registration system handoff · post-event proceedings package

Engagement vehicle

American Movie Company · Vincent W. Allen as Technical Director via VAAV Industries · October 2020