Sonic Foundry to Webcast ACTIVE Network™ Leaders Forum & Product Summit

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Sonic Foundry, Inc. SOFO, the trusted leader for video content management and webcasting solutions, today announced the company's Mediasite platform will be used to webcast ACTIVE Network™ Business Solutions' Active Leaders Forum & Product Summit this week in Champions Gate, Fla.

The conference, which takes place Oct. 9 to 10 at the Omni Orlando Resort, is aimed at event industry leaders and gives an interactive and engaging summit about the future of event technology from ACTIVE Network. The Mediasite Events team will capture select sessions for live and on-demand playback. During or after the summit, registered attendees can watch sessions on any computer or mobile device.

Donny Neufuss, Sonic Foundry's senior account manager for Event Services, will present, “Mastering Hybrid Events: Best Practices for Leveraging Event Tech to Reach Live and Virtual Audiences” at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 10.

“Providing our attendees with access to live, online conference sessions via Mediasite allows us to reach a worldwide audience that is unable to attend our event in-person,” said JR Sherman, senior vice president and general manager of ACTIVE Network's Business Solutions Group. “In this way, people can access the knowledge shared at the event on-demand well after it ends. We're happy to work with Sonic Foundry on this event.”

Sonic Foundry announced a strategic alliance with ACTIVE Network last year to provide an integrated conference solution for associations and meeting professionals. This pairs Mediasite Events webcasting services, which delivers live and on-demand streaming to remote audiences through their desktop or mobile devices, with ACTIVE Network's Business Solutions portfolio, which serves customers of all sizes with a single technology suite for their event management needs.

“Sonic Foundry's collaboration with ACTIVE Network is designed to create more flexibility and options to meeting and event planners in order to reach more people through hybrid events,” said Gary Weis, chief executive officer of Sonic Foundry. “We're excited to continue to pursue opportunities that realize our shared vision of streamlined, scalable events.”

Mediasite Events empowers clients to produce successful, high quality online experiences that score rave audience reviews and achieve event goals. Powered by the award-winning Mediasite webcasting platform, Mediasite Events provides turnkey video streaming services, delivering worry-free video streaming and webcasting for thousands of hybrid and live events of all sizes every year.

ACTIVE Network™ Business Solutions Group

ACTIVE Network™ is powering the next generation of SMART EVENTS™ through its Business Solutions technology suite, which provides intelligent data and insights designed to increase potential revenue growth, deepen attendee engagement and gain efficiency. Customers of all sizes—including small and medium-sized businesses, enterprise corporations, associations, tradeshows and expos—benefit from a single technology partner for all of their event management needs. The Business Solutions technology suite includes ACTIVE Conference™ for large flagship conferences, ACTIVE RegOnline™ for attendee management solutions, ACTIVE StarCite™ for strategic meetings management and event expense management, and the ACTIVE Marketplace™ to connect events with suppliers. For more information on ACTIVE Network Business Solutions please visit www.ACTIVEevents.com.

About ACTIVE Network™

ACTIVE Network™ ACTV is the leading provider of Activity and Participant Management™ solutions. Our leading ACTIVE Works cloud platform scales to meet the needs of our customers, large and small, and makes managing and operating all types of activities, events and organizations smarter and more efficient. We power over 55,000 global customers and build leading vertical technology applications for the markets we serve. ACTIVE Network was founded in 1999, is headquartered in San Diego, California, and has offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.ACTIVEnetwork.com or follow us @activenetwork.

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© 2013 The Active Network, Inc. All rights reserved. ACTIVE Conference, ACTIVE Marketplace, ACTIVE Network, ACTIVE StarCite, and SMART EVENTS are trademarks of The Active Network, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.

Sonic Foundry SOFO is the trusted market leader for enterprise webcasting solutions, providing video content management and distribution for education, business and government. Powered by the patented Mediasite webcasting platform and webcast services of Mediasite Events, the company empowers people to advance how they share knowledge online, using video webcasts to bridge time and distance, enhance learning outcomes and improve performance.

© 2013 Sonic Foundry, Inc. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of Sonic Foundry, Inc. or their respective owners.

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