A social wrapper for Zoom & Microsoft Teams
For Associations & Non-Profits
For Meeting Facilitators
On Qiqo, there are no attendees — only participants. People can actually see who else is in the room. This helps them connect and collaborate using any number of interactive tools that you choose.
Qiqo provides a social wrapper around Zoom so that participants can move themselves in & out of parallel Zoom meetings. This creates a vibrant & empowering online experience which replicates the freedom of movement that participants have at in-person events. The Qiqo event platform is easy to configure, allowing you to customize the space to fit the intention of your event or gathering.
Qiqo is perfect for hosting online conferences, workshops, job fairs, and trade shows where there are multiple presentations, conversations, and activities happening at the same time in up to 100 breakout spaces. The power of Qiqo is that you can create all the meeting spaces for your event and configure them with colors, styles, & collaborative tools before the event begins. Exhibitors and sponsors can have their own spaces to display information about their organization and space to engage participants through audio & video.
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Create an online space that’s open 24/7 where your members can bump into each other for impromptu (or scheduled) conversations at any time. The gardens are also a great venue for social events such as online happy hours, lunch hours, organization-wide & community-wide townhalls, and monthly member meetings. When you need to find a place to meet with some colleagues, you might find yourself saying, “Hey, let’s meet in the garden for a quick chat.”
Qiqo is used everywhere, from community gatherings to international conferences.
Qiqo live event pages are available in Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, and Vietnamese.
You can also use Zoom’s language interpretation & closed captioning or any third-party service that you prefer.
Festival of Deeds by Engagement Global
CUT | FILL 2020: the first Open Space unConference for Landscape Architecture
HELPATHON, a Hybrid Event
QiqoChat provided the perfect interactive platform for our virtual conference that was attended by over 140 NGO and medical professionals from across 30 countries. A majority of the professionals were from low- and middle-income countries across Asia, Africa and South America. The post-conference feedback was positive and enthusiastic – with several stating that QiqoChat was a refreshing change and easy-to-navigate.
Program Manager, Global Initiatives
Transforming Faces
I wanted to follow up and let you know that your platform is AWESOME! Our event performed way better than we had expected. Our entire leadership team was impressed with your service as well. They all let me know that they had their reservations going into this event but by the afternoon of day 2 they were on board and energized. This was by far our largest and most detailed event to date. It could not have gone any better in our opinion, thank you for all of your support and guidance going into this event.
IT Director
XMC Inc.
The overwhelming response from all participants is “YES! We would love to use QiqoChat again to do an Open Space event!” Folks left reporting they were reinvigorated, inspired, re-connected in isolating time, delighted and more good feelings than I can type, by this daylong opportunity to convene and connect.
Board Chair
The Colorado Coalition for Restorative Justice Practices (CCRJP)
I planned for 15 minutes at the start of the event to sort out any tech issues, and only needed about 5 minutes. We had 40+ first-timers, they all got your short YouTube video beforehand, and everyone seemed to be moving around and convening without any issues. In short, this way exceeded my expectations in terms of novices being able to navigate the platform.
First, I have to thank you for your design and creation of QiqoChat. In the last four days, our participants repeatedly mentioned how much our online conference felt like they were "in the hotel really at a conference." QiqoChat allowed us to craft a gathering space - via QiqoChat's own features as well as it's seamless ability to pair with other digital tools - that felt welcoming, reduced the feeling of the experience being digitally mediated, and organized learning and participation in an accessible and flexible way. Your support prior to and during our event gave me every confidence that, despite my newness to the platform and this being our first QiqoChat event, that all would proceed well and we had avenues for help as needed. Thank you!
We were very happy with using QiQo for our symposium. We built a lot of enthusiasm for our programming and created a sense of community at a time when everyone really needed it. The chat kept people engaged and was inspiring to see the connections being made. We liked how the speakers were able to react to the chat function - it closed the distance between the speakers and symposium attendees.
I must congratulate the committee on a superbly well-organized virtual conference, especially during these tough times when so much flexibility is required when planning events. The technical program was very strong, and the logistics were done very well. I was also very impressed with the technical support provided by the QiqoChat Team.
Conference Participant
QiqoChat was a refreshing new way to organize our online community. We hosted our annual Brigade Congress event entirely on Qiqo with over 300 participants and dozens of breakout sessions, and Qiqo helped us organize all our resources and give attendees a great experience. Lucas and the Qiqo team were incredibly supportive and helped make our event a success!
Senior Software Engineer
Code for America Network Team
QiqoChat is a great platform to use if you need to have collaborative meetings across multiple departments! Besides being able to truly create a unique space for your event perfectly detailed to your company, they also give you all the tips and tools you need to set up the platform for success, as well as providing assistance with the setup if needed. Lucas was so attentive and answered any questions we had and was available if/when we needed him. It was a great personalized experience and for the price it was absolutely worth it. Highly recommended for your next virtual event!
Thanks for the great tool "QiqoChat". This has helped us very much to implement our originally on-site planned conference completely virtually. The conference participants also praised the concept very much. We will definitely recommend QiqoChat to others. Best wishes from Germany!
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Our team’s strength comes from its diversity of professional experiences, industry backgrounds, and multicultural contexts. We developed Qiqo in close collaboration with leading event designers, facilitators, and community leaders to help you create sustainable and affordable events with impact.
The DNA of Qiqo is openness and collaboration. Qiqo helps you build online spaces that model real world meeting venues, experiences, and conversations. Participants are able to get themselves oriented quickly and feel present with others when they participate. Because the needs for each event are different, Qiqo affords you a high level of customization to meet the exact goals for your specific event.
We are here to help you today and into the future. As all organizations experience a new way of working and convening, know that you are not alone; we offer free open office hours every week and continue to update our comprehensive list of support resources. We are truly excited to see your events make an impact.
You can set up and run your own events on Qiqo’s platform which is reasonably easy to customize. Here are our resources for learning about Qiqo.
We want to see your events succeed, because when you look good, then we look good. We have frequent open office hours and free trainings.
Additional Support: For self-service events, we provide one free hour of consultation, training, or help with customization. For additional assistance, we offer a discounted hourly rate of $167/hour for non-profit
organizations and $239/hour for for-profit organizations. For more than ten hours of assistance, please ask for a custom quote.
When participants are on video chat the cost is $1/day per person + 1 cent/min per person — less than the price of parking your car. For example, 50 people meeting for a 4-hour workshop costs $170, just $3.40/person.
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Work with our team to design, set up, support, and/or facilitate your online event. We specialize in interactive events where participants are able to move themselves around:
large events,
conferences,
workshops,
dialogues,
hackathons,
career fairs, and,
trade shows.
To build & maintain momentum between your live events, you can create a free “circle” on Qiqo for your group or organization. A circle is a shared space which gives members of your group access to these collaboration tools, such as a calendar, member directory, document library, weekly newsletter, and the gardens which provide a 24/7 meeting space via Zoom for your members (the gardens have the same cost as live events).
Qiqo circles also integrate with Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Slack.
A QiqoChat is… a well-designed online meeting, workshop, conference, or event, often involving breakout rooms and collaborative tools that you choose such as Zoom video, screen-sharing, whiteboarding, and Google Docs.
uality-In,
uality-Out.
The guiding design principle of a QiqoChat is that when provided with a simple structure for a conversation, people will put Quality-in and get Quality-out.
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Lucas Cioffi (founder) is a software developer, entrepreneur, and combat veteran. He graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point and the US Army Ranger School.
He served one year in Iraq as part of the battalion featured in National Geographic’s The Long Road Home. Living in a combat zone for one year inspired him to co-found a website for large-scale deliberation on complex public problems in 2006.
From 2009-11 he co-organized the OpenGov Community Workshop Series in partnership with six federal agencies (NASA, EPA, USDA, GSA, DOT, and Treasury). Lucas also served on the board of the 2000-member National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation for three years. Having been a community organizer, he built the tools here at Qiqo to help leaders of any community empower their members.
In August 2017, Lucas witnessed large-scale, race-based violence happen on the street where he and his family lived in Charlottesville, Virginia. Those events continue to motivate him to make Qiqo the best it can be for helping communities move from ideas to action.
Sandra Nam is the Chief Operations Officer for QiqoChat. Trained in human-centered design and project management, her goal is to advance the real-world impact of empathy tech.
Sandra is a licensed landscape architect and has designed and managed projects across the United States and abroad - complex urban, institutional, and cultural projects. Sandra has received numerous awards, her work has been recognized by the Virginia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and she was the recipient of the 2012 University Olmsted Scholar Award by the Landscape Architecture Foundation.
Sandra designed and organized CUT | FILL 2020, the first Open Space unConference for landscape architecture, in collaboration with The Urban Studio. The participant-led event drew over 650 students, professionals, and academics on QiqoChat to discuss critical issues in the field and determined action initiatives and plans for making change during a global pandemic and civil unrest. She continues to provide this community of designers space for open discussions and opportunities to make change for the public realm.
Sandra has personally managed QiqoChat projects for the Linux Foundation, the Ecological Landscape Alliance, Association Women Technology Champions, Alpha Omega Dental Society, and TechSoup.
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