Videoconferencing

 An alternative to face-to-face meetings.

 Allows participants to conduct long-distance
meetings “face to face” while eliminating.
Key Purposes of videoconferencing

• Reduce travel costs

• Facilitate more productive use of decision-maker
time
• Allow for more frequent visual meetings with
distanced staff
• Facilitate strategic objectives such as:
– Employee training
– “Onboarding”
– Distance learning
• Disaster recovery/pandemic plan implementation
(social distancing)
 Technology makes
videoconferencing more affordable
• Satellite-based videoconferencing is still
used, but is older technology and is quite
expensive
• “IP-based” videoconferencing is newer,
more pervasive and is where the research
and development dollars are going.
• IP-based videoconferencing can also now
be done in Hi-Def.
 Benefits

• Reduced travel costs/ “greener” meetings

• Better utilization of legislator time
• Golden opportunity for citizens to be heard without
the cost and inconvenience of traveling to
Tallahassee
• Better security and greater survivability in the event
of a terrorist attack or pandemic
• More opportunities for legislators to be successful at
their “day jobs”
 Innovation - Telepresence

• Proprietary to Cisco
• As seen on Fox’s “24”
• Identical meeting rooms
allows for the
appearance that all
participants are in the
room
• Very limited deployment
(and expensive by
today’s standards)
 The future of videoconferencing
• http://www.smoothplanet.com/holographic-
telepresence/521/
Questions?
Thank you.