Live Event Scribing

What is Live Event Scribing and how can your event benefit from it?

Live Event Scribing is a fun and interactive way to bring your events to life through visuals! Whether it’s in-person or remote, our talented illustrators capture key discussions and ideas in real-time, making it easier for your audience to engage and absorb information. By visually summarising what’s happening, we help everyone remember and understand the content better, both during and after the event.

From pitch meetings and workshops to strategy sessions and conferences, we’re here to help businesses worldwide make their events more impactful. Choose between hand-drawn or digital illustrations – both options are designed to keep your audience focused and make your message unforgettable.

Why choose Live Event Scribing?

01

Turn your story into engaging visuals

The words simply do not work anymore in an era of digital communication. To learn and share information, people need fast, engaging, and effective tools. Our live event artist will assist you with that.

02

Live Scribing is a powerful visual learning tool

Live Scribing is a simple yet powerful way to enhance learning. By turning ideas into visuals, it helps you understand concepts more easily and remember them for longer.

03

Bridging the communication gap and engaging your audience

Live Event Scribing uses real-time graphic illustrations to bridge the communication gap, making complex ideas easier to understand and keeping your audience engaged.

Play

Hand-drawn
Live Scribing

Live Scribing by hand is a fantastic way to bring your on-site event to life and create that interactive event experience! Whether it’s on large canvases or custom-designed walls, our illustrators turn your event’s key moments into vibrant, visual stories. It’s perfect for everything from small team meetings and strategy sessions to bigger conferences and summits that need something extra special.

How does Live Scribing by-hand work?

As the event progresses, participants can watch the art come together in real-time, making it a fun and interactive experience for everyone. Once the event wraps up, you’ll receive a physical visual summary highlighting all the key concepts. We will then create a digital version of the artwork from the original images, which can be shared with attendees or kept as a useful reference. This is an excellent way to reinforce learning and provide your audience with something they can revisit later.

If you’re after a truly engaging, hands-on experience, our on-site Visual Storytelling service is the way to go. Our Scriber will be there, illustrating live throughout the event. And, if you want us to take a more active role in guiding discussions and facilitating the event, we also offer Graphic Facilitation. Whatever your needs, we’ve got you covered!

Hand-drawn Live Scribing benefits

01

Real-time visuals that boost understanding and memory retention

To be able to learn and memorise people need effective visual tools. Our Live Event Scriber will guide your audience through an engaging learning journey.

02

Bringing 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.

03

Visual performance that connects with your audience

Visual live scribing performance 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 the perfect solution for capturing and presenting content efficiently, especially for shorter sessions, smaller 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, 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 Visual Storytelling 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

02

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.

03

Live Digital Scribing: Perfect for Content-Driven Events

Live Digital Scribing 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.

04

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.

We will match you with the best-suited Live Scriber for your event and brand needs.

At Smartup Visuals, we bring over a decade of global experience in live event illustration. Our skilled scribers 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 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.

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:

Content for social media posts
Infographic Design (we can help you with this)
Personalised presentations
and animations.

What clients say about us:

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

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

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