Live Event Scribing

Live Scribing is a powerful visual learning tool.

By turning ideas into visuals, Live Scribing helps you understand concepts more easily and remember them for longer. Picture this: a talented illustrator listens to the conversations, keynote speeches, or panel discussions and transforms the big ideas into stunning, hand-drawn visuals in real time. Think of it as storytelling with pictures—on the spot. Whether your event is in-person or virtual, live scribing keeps your audience engaged, simplifies complex ideas, and ensures your message stands out long after the event ends.

Live scribing isn’t just a service—it’s an experience. It brings energy, clarity, and creativity to your event, making it unforgettable for your audience and valuable for your brand. Let’s get started.

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How does Live Scribing at events work?

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We Listen in

Our scriber tunes into your event, listening carefully and capturing the flow, key points, and standout moments.

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We Bring It to Life

Our live scriber transforms your ideas into engaging visuals that captivate your audience in real time.

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You Shine Bright

Your audience stays inspired, and you walk away with stunning visual event summaries to keep the impact alive.

Hand-drawn
Live Scribing

Unlike digital scribing, hand-drawn live scribing service adds a human touch, creating a deeper connection with your audience. Our expert illustrators transform key moments into vibrant visual stories in real-time, right on large canvases, boards or custom walls. This unique, interactive experience invites participants to engage as they watch the artwork take shape before their eyes. Perfect for small meetings, strategy sessions, or large conferences, hand-drawn scribing leaves you with a one-of-a-kind, physical masterpiece and a digital version for lasting impact.

For a truly engaging, hands-on experience, choose our on-site live scribing by-hand. And, if you want us to take a more active role in guiding discussions and facilitating the event, check Graphic Facilitation.

Hand-drawn Live Scribing benefits

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Boosts understanding and memory retention

To be able to learn and memorise people need effective visual tools. Our Live event scriber will guide your event audience through an engaging learning journey in real-time.

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Adds the human touch into the era of technology

Hand-drawn live scribing adds a human touch to the tech-driven world, creating real-time visuals that engage and simplify complex ideas for your audience.

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Helps to connect with your audience

Live event scribing is like a visual performance that engages your audience deeply, making complex ideas easier to understand and ensuring your message sticks long after the event.

Live Digital
Scribing

Live digital scribing is ideal for shorter sessions, small meetings, or tech-savvy events with multiple screens. It helps you save time while covering more content. Our digital scribing transforms discussions into visual mind maps, clearly illustrating the connections between ideas and messages.

Since most people are visual learners, live digital scribing makes it easier for both employees and attendees to digest, understand, and retain information. It provides a visual “takeaway” that can be stored and revisited whenever needed, ensuring that key points stay memorable long after the event.

When you choose Smartup Visuals for your in-person digital live scribing session, we document your event with visual summaries that can be shared in follow-up emails, blogs, social media, or presentations. These visual mind maps serve as quick references, helping both attendees and employees who missed the event catch up. By delivering your content visually, we save you time, enhance learning, and make your message stick.

Live Digital Scribing benefits

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Live Digital Scribing accelerates knowledge retention

Live digital scribing helps extract the core messages from information to boost memory and retention. And also, share the knowledge in a visual format.

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Live Digital Scribing: perfect for content-driven events

Live scribing digitally is perfect for content-driven events, capturing more information in less time than hand-drawn scribing, while ensuring key points are highlighted and easily retained.

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Perfect for large, all-digital events with live projections

Ideal for large, all-digital events, Live Digital Scribing enhances engagement with live projections, making content accessible and impactful for a big audience.

WHY CHOOSE US?

At Smartup Visuals, we bring over a decade of global experience in live event illustration. Our skilled live scribes have worked across diverse industries—pharmaceuticals, social security, digital technology, and beyond. Since 2013, we’ve been capturing and illustrating content at high-profile global summits, conferences, and meetings. We treat your content with the utmost care, ensuring it aligns with your brand’s voice and message. Before every event, we collaborate closely with you to understand your industry, your sensitive content needs, and your brand guidelines, delivering visuals that engage and elevate your event.

Our live event scribers have experience across various industries, and you’ll have the option to choose the live scribing style that best suits your event. We’ll conduct a thorough review of your event agenda and recommend the most effective approach to meet your business needs and event goals.

Get in touch and let’s discuss it.

Smartup Visuals Live Scribers

What Our Clients Say:

Smartup Visuals transformed a flood of messy ideas into a clear, compelling poster to describe our resilience financing work. They did it in just a few days, with professionalism and an ability to listen for the key takeaways behind our concepts. We’ll be using the poster at conferences and in talks, and I’m so appreciative of their skill!
Eva Vander Giessen Senior Communications Manager

Smartup Visuals did some amazing work visualizing the contents of our 2-day workshop and were a delight to work with. I can highly recommend them!
Justus Bender-HackePrincipal Account Manager

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Smartup Visuals for our Paris Innovation Summit and their live digital scribing blew the audience away and was a great way for them to share insights from the event with their own organisations. Wishing Smartup Visuals every success and looking forward to teaming up again.
Gaurav GujralManaging Director and Global Consulting Leader

Live Event Scribing FAQ

What are the types of Live Scribing?

Live Scribing comes in many forms. From the traditional, hand-drawn style, it has evolved into Digital Remote options. Business goals vary. To accommodate our clients, we offer a variety of scribing options, from location-based services such as: handwritten or digital live scribing to remote graphic recording service – check out the Virtual Graphic Recording page.

What is Live Scribing or Visual Scribing?

Businesses use Live Scribing to capture valuable event content and engage audiences. Smartup Visuals helps our clients make complex subjects simple. You can see that it is not just about pretty pictures. Information-driven processes enable us to deliver graphics at events that help organisations communicate and find a way forward.

How does Live Scribing work?

Live Scribing helps filter information and present it in an illustrated mind map where we see links and connections between ideas and messages supported by illustrations. People can digest, perceive, and memorise information more efficiently if information is presented in this manner. Most people learn by seeing things, so this tool is perfect for those who learn visually.

We provide visual documentation of your in-person live scribing session if you hire our Live Scribes. Our visual summary can be added to follow-up emails, blogs, social media, and presentations. Live illustrations serve as a useful reminder of what was accomplished. So, those who missed an event can catch up with it afterwards.

Our graphic recording artists rely on passive listening, which is listening without reacting. By doing so, they will be able to interpret ideas without being influenced by other factors. It’s hard to communicate complex subjects, so we use metaphors and visuals to simplify them. You can hire our artists to co-create design ideas with you. Check out our Live Scribing services.

Where businesses use mind maps after the Live Scribing session?

Visuals like these can be used in follow-up emails, on blogs, in social media, in presentations, and to pitch clients. They can serve as a good foundation for future visual marketing solutions, such as: