HMRC & ODP

"Slick, Fantastic, and Quick"

Alan Armstrong | Head of Events

Projects

Orcula and Amplitude have worked with HRMC and ODP on several projects over the past few years, including on-site badging and more recently providing virtual events due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We thoroughly enjoy working with the dynamic team at HMRC.

Process

As part of our process we like to work as closely as we can with our client and become one big team to help the process run as smoothly as possible.In this case study we will be focusing on just two virtual events we last engaged with:ODP Reach and ODP Awards.

ODP Reach

ODP Reach provided development opportunities for everyone but aimed to specifically explore how ODP can encourage their Black Asian and Minority Ethnic colleagues to overcome barriers.

ODP Reach was ran on our dedicated virtual platform, which was heavily customised and branded for the event, this included:

  • Custom website, with pages such as FAQ's, Speakers, Contact, General Info and more.
  • Custom registration, including custom data collection, reminders, and email notifications.
  • 10 virtual speakers, with a mixture of panels, 1:1 speeches, and PowerPoint presentations.
  • 100's of virtual attendees.
  • Interactive Q&A with moderation and reply to features.
  • Guest speaker: Amar Latif, who we helped source, organise, and prepare to present.
  • Captioning provided by real-time dedicated stenocaptioner.

The ODP Reach event was a huge success, being virtual it attracted a much larger audience than previously and feedback from viewers was incredibly positive.

ODP Awards

ODP Awards was ran fully virtually as an event to recognise and celebrating some of the remarkable work ODP does, handing out 9 awards.

As part of ODP Awards we ran two dedicated websites in the lead up to the live event.

Firstly, we ran a custom developed nomination site which was launched a few months prior to the event registration and main website.

This site was dedicated to accepting nominations and was built for users to login, add their nomination and make it easy for the judging panel and sorters to access the data.

The site was made with accessibility in mind and had easy to use features such as auto-saving and allowing users to return to nominations they part-started.

Over 800 nominations were cast using the website.

The main ODP Awards website and event was ran on our dedicated virtual platform, which was heavily customised and branded for the event, this included:

  • Custom website, with pages such as
  • FAQ's, Award categories, Speakers, Contact, General Info and more.
  • Custom registration, including custom data collection, reminders, and email notifications.
  • Over 30 virtual speakers, with a mixture of panels, 1:1 speeches, guest speakers, and awardees.
  • 1,000's of virtual attendees.
  • Interactive commentary with moderation and reply to features.
  • Captioning provided by real-time dedicated stenocaptioner.

The awards had 9 categories that had been shortlisted into 3 winners for each (Bronze, Silver and Gold awards)

All the nominees for each award were put into 'Green-Rooms' so we could quickly move the winner for each award on-screen with the presenter to virtually 'accept their award.

The process worked flawlessly and provided some great real-time reactions and shocked faces!

ODP Festival

The ODP Festival ran for 4 weeks in September and October. - Spanning over 25 individual event sessions and covering a wide range of inspiring content to promote and celebrate the Operational Delivery Profession.

With 5,000 delegates registered across 37 government departments, 30 speakers, and 1,295 minutes of content the ODP Fest was a huge success.

The main website and event was ran on our dedicated virtual platform, which was heavily customised and branded for the event, this included:

  • Custom website, with festival themed
  • Schedule & Live Content
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  • pages such as 'Sound Check', 'Info Point',
  • 'Merch' and more
  • Custom registration, including custom data collection, reminders, and email
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  • notifications
  • Interactive commentary with moderation
  • The Future of OD and closing Words
  • and reply to features.
  • Interactive Polling and Voting features.
  • Captioning provided by real-time dedicated stenocaptioner.
  • Bespoke exhibition Hub providing a place for department information, documents, and interactive media.

"We have used the Orcula platform for four major ODP events over the last twelve months,

ODP Awards, ODP P2P, ODP Reach, ODP Engage.

Our very first virtual event ODP Engage had over 12,000 delegates register and with the support from Amplitude the entire event ran flawlessly. We have worked closely with Amplitude to design and tailor the site for each event to meet our needs and branding requirements. The platform has worked across all government departments and the technical support from Matt has been excellent.

Our showpiece event, the ODP Awards ceremony, was a huge success attracting three times as many people as the previous year's live event. It has subsequently been shortlisted in the ICE Awards for the best motivational event of the year.

We will be using Amplitude to host all our virtual events over the next twelve months and I have no hesitation in recommending the Orcula platform"

Barry Grant | Events Manager