Data Residency & Digital Sovereignty: Why It Matters for Big Meetings
The Chief Compliance Officer reviews the quarterly risk register. Standard items: data backups, vendor management, access controls. Then a new entry catches attention: “Online meeting platform compliance.” The Head of IT added it after discovering their collaboration tool stores recordings in three countries simultaneously, processes transcripts through US-based AI services, and maintains logs subject to […]
Scalability Guide: Running Large Meetings in Low Bandwidth Regions
The humanitarian coordinator opens the video conference from Nairobi headquarters. Three thousand field workers across twelve African countries should be joining for critical operational briefing. Five minutes in, participant count drops from 2,800 to 1,200. Chat fills with “can’t hear audio” and “video frozen.” The platform optimized for Silicon Valley networks fails spectacularly on 3G […]
How Polling, Q&A, and Live Translation Work at Scale (5,000+ Participants)
The moderator opens the poll. Four thousand eight hundred attendees should be voting on the budget allocation priorities. Thirty seconds pass. The poll interface shows “loading.” One minute. Still loading. Chat fills with “can’t see poll” and “is this working?” Two minutes. Poll finally appears for 1,200 participants. The other 3,600 never see it. Results […]