When should each item be locked?

Scope and budget at booking, venue-dependent items after the recce, run of show two weeks out and content 72 hours before. Anything open inside 48 hours should be escalated rather than tracked.

How is a town hall different from a conference?

The audience is internal and sceptical rather than external and receptive, the majority may be watching remotely, and the content is accountability rather than showcase. That shifts investment from set, lighting and spectacle towards cameras, stream reliability, microphone coverage for questions and moderation tooling. A town hall that looks modest but streams flawlessly is a success; the reverse is not.

What makes an AGM technically different from a town hall?

Governance. Resolutions must be displayed accurately and in order from an approved pack, quorum and voting may need a scrutiniser's view, the recording can form part of the official record, and the stream usually has to be access-controlled against a registered attendee list. Those obligations add verification steps, redundancy and a documented chain of custody for the recording.

How do we run Q&A fairly across the room and the stream?

Merge both into one moderated queue. Chat and portal questions come to a moderator, floor questions come through two briefed runners, and the chair sees a single prioritised list with a stated selection rule. Keep the camera on the questioner, have the chair repeat each question for the record, and publish answers to unaddressed questions afterwards.

What internet connection does a hybrid town hall need?

A dedicated upstream path, not the venue guest wifi. In practice that means a wired connection with reserved bandwidth, bonded 4G or 5G as an automatic failover, and a second encoder on a separate route for anything with governance weight. Test it at the actual time of day you will broadcast, because venue bandwidth behaves very differently when the hotel is full.

Can we just use a laptop and a conferencing platform?

For a twenty-person update, yes. For an audience of hundreds with people on stage, no: a single laptop camera and its microphone produce a picture nobody can read and audio that drops every floor question. The usable minimum for a real hybrid town hall is two cameras, a switched output, a console-derived stream mix and someone whose whole job is watching the stream.

Should the recording be edited before circulation?

For a town hall, light editing to trim the pre-roll and tidy the opening is normal and useful. For an AGM, the recording is often part of the record and must stay unbroken, so the correct approach is an unedited master retained under a chain of custody plus, if wanted, a separately produced summary version. Agree which you are producing before the show.

Town Halls & AGMs AV Checklist | Prime AV Solutions

Category: Checklists
Read time: 7 min
Sections: 3
Updated: Sept 2026

Key takeaway

A complete AV checklist for town halls & AGMs covers hybrid streaming, q&a mic runners, confidence monitors, secure private streams, plus backup power, a technical rehearsal and a named show-caller. Confirm every line in writing with your AV partner a week before the event.

Key takeaways

Hybrid streaming
Q&A mic runners
Confidence monitors
Secure private streams

Town Halls & AGMs: AV checklist

Scope

Hybrid streaming
Q&A mic runners
Confidence monitors
Secure private streams

Power & backup

Silent generator with automatic changeover sized to the full rig
UPS protection on consoles, media servers and switchers
Spare microphones, cables and a spare radio channel held in reserve

Run of show

T−1 day — Hybrid rehearsal
T−3 hrs — Content verification
T−1 hr — Remote speaker test
10:00 — Doors and stream pre-roll
10:15 — Leadership address
10:50 — Results and resolutions
11:10 — Hybrid Q&A
11:45 — Close and handover

What you will be judged on

Remote attendees heard every question from the floor as clearly as the people sitting next to the questioner.
No resolution or result was displayed out of order or in an unapproved version.
The recording is complete from before the chair's first word to after the close, and is clean enough to serve as the record.
The stream did not drop, and nobody had to be told to refresh the page.
Leadership finished the agenda with real time left for questions, and difficult questions were answered on camera rather than lost.

What this prevents

What can go wrong

How we prevent it

What can go wrong
A question from the floor is inaudible to the remote audience.
How we prevent it
Route roving microphones into the stream mix explicitly, brief two runners with assigned aisles, and instruct the chair to repeat each question before answering so the record is unambiguous.
What can go wrong
A remote speaker's home connection degrades mid-address.
How we prevent it
Test from their actual location and device the day before, issue a telephone dial-in fallback for audio, and hold a pre-recorded version of their segment where the content is critical.
What can go wrong
A private stream link is forwarded outside the intended audience.
How we prevent it
Use single-use or account-based access tied to the attendee list, disable public discovery, watermark the stream where sensitivity warrants it, and monitor concurrent viewer counts against the expected number.
What can go wrong
The platform chat floods and the chair loses the thread.
How we prevent it
Staff a moderator who merges chat and floor questions into one prioritised queue visible to the chair, with a written rule on how questions are selected so the process is seen to be fair.
What can go wrong
The recording is missing the opening minutes or has unusable audio.
How we prevent it
Start recording ten minutes before doors, record a second copy from a different point in the chain, and have an operator confirm file length and audio on both before the crew stands down.
What can go wrong
Employees on a corporate network cannot reach the streaming platform.
How we prevent it
Test the platform from inside the corporate network with the IT team weeks ahead, confirm firewall and bandwidth allowances, and provide an alternative internal distribution path for locked-down sites.

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Published 26 September 2026 by the Prime AV Solutions production team.

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