03/04/2008
31 March 2008 - Web TV agency BroadView will be streaming ACCA's 103rd AGM live over the internet on 14 May. This is only the second time the accountancy body's annual meeting has been made accessible via the web and it aims to reduce both costs and widen global member participation by embracing web TV and streaming the event. This should provide more transparency to the AGM's proceedings and reflects ACCA's commitment to promoting innovation as one of its core values.
"Working with BroadView is a conscious effort to take our AGM and communications into the 21st century. Streaming the meeting over the web gives greater visibility of our previous and future activites, and enables members to see exactly how our AGM unfolds," said Neil Stevenson, ACCA Marketing Director.
BroadView will also be streaming Engage and Student Engage, the ACCA's annual broadcasts aimed at members and students, on 23 April.
During Student Engage, students from around the world will be able to use their ACCA student ID to submit questions both in advance and live to Clare Minchington, Managing Director, Education, Learning and Development.
ACCA members will be given further opportunity to shape their organisation, by putting their burning questions forward to the ACCA's CEO, Allen Blewitt, and president, Gill Ball at the Engage event at 2pm on 23 April. To ensure that all ACCA members can access this event, BroadView is making it available on any type of modem (broadband, narrow band and thin audio version). Last year's Student Engage and Engage saw a huge increase in viewers from the previous year, with over 22,000 people connecting via the web.
All of ACCA's live programmes will be entirely produced and delivered by BroadView and then available to watch an on-demand on the internet. The web TV agency has been helping ACCA increase its use of the broadcast medium to interact openly with its 122,426 members worldwide for the past four years.
AGM: 1pm, 14 May
Student Engage: 12pm, 23 April
Engage: 2pm, 23 April
