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Hopin is now RingCentral Events<\/span><\/i><\/h3>\n

About<\/h3>\n
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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university. UCLA is the number-one public university in the United States, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report.<\/p>\n

Challenge<\/h3>\n
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Events are a key part of UCLA\u2019s strategy to educate and build connections, not only among students and faculty but also in its community. It hosts orientation events for new students, graduation ceremonies, educational events for the public, and more.<\/p>\n

In 2020, UCLA needed to move all of its in-person events online.<\/p>\n

Lisa Garibay<\/strong>, Public Relations and Diversity Manager for the Division of Physical Sciences at UCLA, wanted to create a virtual experience for UCLA\u2019s events that closely mirrored the in-person experience.<\/p>\n

For the UCLA Physical Sciences team, this meant using a more advanced platform than a virtual meeting tool. Garibay explains that an online meeting tool would require event attendees to navigate to and from dozens or even hundreds of different virtual rooms with unique links.<\/p>\n

Instead, UCLA wanted an event platform that could handle all of their events\u2014both large community events and small student-orientation events \u2014and give attendees one place to access all of the different areas of an event. They also wanted to create the sense of an interactive, in-person experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are tired of online meetings, but not necessarily tired of being online to connect because that’s all we really have,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Solution<\/h3>\n
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UCLA found their ideal event platform in RingCentral Events. \u201cWe chose RingCentral Events specifically because we felt it would best replicate specific in-person events where interpersonal connection and hands-on interaction were key.\u201d<\/p>\n

First, they used RingCentral Events for a series of internal, orientation events<\/strong>\u00a0to welcome new students to UCLA in the fall of 2020. During these events, students could meet and build relationships with faculty, older students, and their classmates. They also attended sessions and panels to orient them to their new university.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so critical for us to have a way for these new students to feel welcome and to feel a support system behind them at a time which was nothing like what they’ve been imagining college was going to be like,\u201d says Garibay.<\/p>\n

After successfully hosting this series of orientation events on RingCentral Events, UCLA also chose to host Exploring Your Universe\u2014an annual, free,\u00a0public community event<\/strong>\u2014on RingCentral Events.<\/p>\n

Exploring Your Universe (EYU) is a science fair with activities for kids from kindergarten through grade 12. It includes interactive booths, guided virtual science demonstrations, science talks, and Q&As where students can ask scientists questions.<\/p>\n

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RingCentral Events features UCLA used:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • RingCentral Events Stage: <\/strong>UCLA used one RingCentral Events Stage for featured talks and presentations\u2014like keynote presentations and an award ceremony\u2014so it could leverage the large attendance capacity (100,000+ concurrent attendees<\/strong>) of RingCentral Events Stages.<\/li>\n
  • RingCentral Events Expo:<\/strong>\u00a0With over 40 booths, UCLA created an expo center for hands-on science demos and experiments. Scientists used a combination of pre-recorded video and live demonstrations in their booths, and they allowed attendees to join the live video stream to ask questions.<\/li>\n
  • RingCentral Events Sessions<\/strong>: UCLA leveraged the interactive features of RingCentral Events Sessions to host Q&As between scientists and kids where both kids and scientists could join the live video stream at one time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    When hosted in person, EYU\u2019s hands-on science demonstrations are the most memorable part of the event. To replicate this experience, UCLA used RingCentral Events Expo feature and booths for the science demonstrations.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe expo functionality was unmatched,\u201d says Garibay. \u201cI cannot imagine how we would have been able to replicate virtually this in-person event and the experience of having so much going on at the same time if we didn’t have something like RingCentral Events. It would have been impossible. We were able to create that feel of being on campus and moving from booth to booth.\u201d<\/p>\n

    UCLA created more than 40 virtual booths in the expo area of RingCentral Events\u2014including an information booth for attendees to ask general questions, an elephant toothpaste experiment booth, a candy boat racers lab where attendees designed boats out of foil, and many more.<\/p>\n

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    For the interactive Q&A, UCLA leveraged RingCentral Events Sessions. \u201cThe sessions were also fantastic in terms of being able to connect people intimately and interactively with scientists,\u201d says Garibay.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe’d never before had the opportunity for kids to be able to chat with our renowned faculty in such an intimate way. This was one instance where hosting an event online was a bonus, because it allowed our scientists to connect with attendees where in-person scheduling may not have allowed.<\/p>\n

    “We were even able to offer bilingual Q&A sessions to reach an even broader audience. Both our professors and the kids who attended loved that!\u201d<\/p>\n

    Another highlight of the event was their keynote speaker\u2014Andrea Ghez, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics\u2014who spoke about black holes. UCLA used a RingCentral Events Stage for this keynote speech. \u201cIt was an extraordinary opportunity,\u201d says Garibay. \u201cWe considered that a screaming success.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Result<\/h3>\n
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    Over 2,000 people from around the world joined the Exploring Your Universe event. \u201cIt was a huge boon for us because in person we’re only able to bring in people from Los Angeles and people who can get to the UCLA campus,\u201d says Garibay. \u201cBut we were able to spread the joy far and wide this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Colleagues from other departments at UCLA who attended Exploring Your Universe were impressed with RingCentral Events. Garibay says, \u201cThey came to us saying, \u2018RingCentral Events was great. How can we use it too?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

    Garibay explains that RingCentral Events gave UCLA the ability to host unique, memorable, interactive events. \u201cWe were able to give our attendees an experience that felt very different from and very special compared to other things they were attending or interacting with,\u201d says Garibay.<\/p>\n

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    The expo functionality was unmatched. I cannot imagine how we would have been able to replicate virtually this in-person event if we didn’t have RingCentral Events. It would have been impossible.<\/p>\n

    \u2014Lisa Garibay, Public Relations and Diversity Manager for the Division of Physical Sciences at UCLA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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