The worst cue is the one you learn about on stage.
Speaker Prep gives every speaker a structured way to say what their session needs — weeks out. Their answers become draft cues in the showflow, marked for your review.
Every producer knows the 11pm message: "quick one — I have a video, can we play it after my second slide?" Speaker Prep exists so that message arrives as a structured request in the system, three weeks early, instead of in your pocket the night before.
Speakers describe the session in their own words: "I open on the title slide, talk for six minutes, roll the demo video, take questions at the end with the lights up." EventBlok turns that into a draft running order for the session — typed cues with owners — waiting for your review.
You see what has been received, what is missing, and who still owes you answers. The chase gets shorter, and what arrives is usable — not another attachment to transcribe into the runsheet.
From "what do you need?" to cues on the sheet.
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Send speakers their prep link
Each speaker gets a simple structured form tied to their session. Plain language, no training.
- 02
They describe the session
Videos and how they end, polls, Q&A style, demos, co-presenters, mics — the things you always chase.
- 03
EventBlok drafts the cues
Their answers become typed cues with sensible owners — a starting showflow, not a blank page.
- 04
You review and approve
Nothing enters the live showflow without a producer's eyes. Changes are flagged, not silent.
Structured answers instead of scattered emails.
The questions you ask every speaker anyway — captured once, turned into production detail.
Notes become cues
Plain-language prep turns into typed, owned cues in the session's running order.
Video end-modes
Hard cut, fade, ends-on-still, last words — captured at prep time, ready for the handover.
Q&A, polls, demos
Interaction moments arrive as structured requests, not surprises in the tech run.
Per-speaker status
Received, missing, overdue — the chase list writes itself.
Before show day
Prep lands while there is still time to act on it — not while the house is filling.
Producer review gate
Draft cues are marked for review. You stay the editor of the show.
Speakers type sentences. Your showflow gets cues.
The gap between what the speaker said they need and what the crew has on the sheet is where shows go wrong. Speaker Prep closes it: the speaker's own description becomes the session's draft running order, and your review makes it real.
- ✓Structured prep tied to each session
- ✓Draft cues with owners, flagged for review
- ✓The chase list writes itself
The rest of the platform.
Built by a producer, for the five teams who get it first.
I've produced live streams and global conferences for twenty years — RCA, JATO, Symantec, Digital Science, GE Healthcare, HPE — since the days streams ran on Flash servers. EventBlok is everything those years taught me, built into one tool. Five founding teams run their real events on it, tell me where it hurts, and lock lifetime 50% off. Direct line to me, no sales layer.