Mello Virtual....Investing in the New World

28th May '20 by carmensfella

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The Mello Team are pleased to announce the launch of MelloVirtual - Investing in the New World

It will take place on Friday 10th July and Saturday 11th July 2020 with high quality keynote speakers and panel sessions plus lots of additional educational seminars available for you to view on the day and for up to a month after the event. There will be over 50 company presentations with live Q&A and very engaging live panel sessions which will only be available for participation on the day of the event via zoom.

Mello Virtual will essentially be split between our popular growth companies and the large number of Investment Trusts and Funds that want to present to our very diverse and engaged Mello investors.

Our keynote speakers will include Peter Pereira Gray of the Wellcome Trust who is the investment head of the largest charitable trust in Europe and Sir Martin Sorrell, founder of WPP the world leading advertising agency. They will talk about the investing challenges presented by Covid-19 and those that still lie ahead.

With his first presentation at Mello, we are introducing Andrew Vaughan who manages Free Spirit Fund part of Sanford Deland Asset Management. Andrew is No.1 over three years in the IA UK All Companies sector. We will also have Alex Denny of Fidelity for the first time at one of our events and he will talk about investing in this new economic reality. We already have a great line up but there is more to come.

We have also lined up some very interesting and stimulating panels which you can actually take part in via zoom including 'Sustainable Investing' and 'Technology and Fintech: the compelling long term investment'.

Mello is renowned for its networking and community engagement and is normally about larger scale events where quality companies get to meet and present to serious and engaged investors, so that is what we are now preparing to provide virtually online. We have tried to make the interface and platform look and feel like our physical Mello investor events with lots of opportunity for interaction and networking between both delegates and companies. To achieve this, we have provided a Mello Members Lounge to enable interaction with the keynote speakers, panelists, esteemed investors, company representatives and fund managers

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carmensfella

21st Jun '20

We are delighted to announce that Sir Martin Sorrell, founder of WPP & executive chair at S4 will be a guest speaker at our event on Friday 10th July and will be interviewed with live Q&A so do get your questions ready. He is a very interesting and entertaining speaker

23rd Jun '20

Just to mention that Ideagen, Avation, Belvoir and Tatton Asset Management have been added to the companies presenting at the event.

If any of you are in contact with companies then do give them a nudge about joining us and presenting/meeting with nearly 1000 investors.

25th Jun '20

We are having our MelloBASH session on Friday 10th July at 4pm during #MelloVirtual and we have an excellent panel of analysts & experienced investors lined up including a few Stockopedia analysts to give BUY, AVOID, SELL or HOLD verdicts on stocks

Which companies would you like discussed? www.melloevents.com

30th Jun '20

A nice mention by Paul Scott in his SCVR this morning
https://www.stockopedia.com/content/small-cap-value-report-tue-30-june-2020-vnet-d4t4-soli-drv-cog-staf-wgb-trak-sys1-tst-628438/?page=1#comments

We have added a few more companies and still another six to come

https://melloevents.com/mellovirtual-event-exhibitors/

3rd Jul '20

We are not allowing any more companies to sign up & the full programme schedule will be released over the weekend.
Then it's just one week to #MelloVirtual Do not miss out http://melloevents.com Use code MV20975 for 50% off and you can watch it for 30 days afterwards too.

7th Jul '20

Paul Scott and Graham Neary are both on the MelloBASH (Buy, Avoid, Sell or Hold) panel at 4.30pm on Friday so do not miss that one.

Danny001

10th Jul '20

Mello today!

I will be helping ShareSoc and SIGnet on their virtual stand (still not quite sure what that is) come and say hello.

Macro

A triumph, David! Wonderful on-line conference experience today. The mix of Web, Strimm and Zoom really showcases how the physical conferencing model can be disrupted using modern technology. Looks like you now have a highly scalable business model for Mello!

ezlifeme

MMMph - Not every delegates experience I'm afraid, some of us are still in lockdown.

Not complaining as "ITSH" happens, just making it clear the experience is not 100% for 100% of the delegates - Support have been very apologetic and helpful but there have been widespread technology issues

Well, 'Ezilifeme, it all worked out well today for me:

1. Was a little perturbed initially as to whether my booking had been accepted, but trusted in the process and it all worked out without any problem on logon.

2. Logged in in the morning and was taken straight into the virtual conference centre.

3. Took me a few seconds to realise that some presenters are direct from the Strimm environment and some from Zoom - so for the Zoom ones you need to 'join'.

4. And if the Zoom joining stalls for whatever reason, just invoke the Zoom application directly from your Start menu rather from the web environment links. All good.

So, a very positive report from me at the end of Day 1.

Onwards and upwards into the future!

Laughton

Yep, very good for me too (as someone who hasn't been to a Mello "physical event" before. All that travelling has put me off in the past.

Few technical problems, especially sound (David) but all in all excellent. Some of the displayed Zoom timings didn't match up with the event programme.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

Gromley

More than a fair share of issues technical and organisational IMHO.

I say that only to be honest, not critical. Even though I would say some of the issues (and their resolution) could have been predicted , the value of the event and the achievement of getting it maybe 80% right from a standing start should not go without recognition.

Well done David and the rest of the team and thank you for all your efforts.

My initial thought was that learning from the challenge of organising this might open the door to doing Virtual Mello's more frequently as well as a twice yearly Mello. But on reflection there are quite a few different ventures to use 'digitial' to increase accessibility to investors, so maybe some M&A is appropriate ;-)

If and when we can go back to a physical Mello I think there might be some value to offering digital access to those for whom the travel would be too difficult.

For me I would still choose to attend in person if I could - I about three hours time I shall be missing the opportunity to be sitting in the bar talking ballcocks with Paul and other usual suspects. If David could prioritise digitising that experience, I might never leave home again ;-)

11th Jul '20

Thank you for the feedback and comments, whether positive or negative so long as it is constructive, as we certainly want to improve our virtual platform and build on the excellent Mello community feel of our physical events.

Do keep them coming....

Unfortunately missed all of today's programme. Will some/all/any of it be available via your website?

12th Jul '20

All of the presentations are available on our website https://melloevents.com/ They will only be up there for another 24 hours though and then only to ticketholders.

The initiative to let all ticket holders see the presentations from my point of view is very much appreciated. My experience on the day was very much affected by IT bandwidth and access issues, Support were every responsive and helpful in what was a difficult situation

That sort of response to me means the BRAND was not diluted

I Look forward to the next event

13th Jul '20

We are going to keep the presentations up on the website for a little longer. After that they will be available only to ticketholders and the main speakers/MelloMembers lounge presentations will be added for viewing for 30 days.

aflash

16th Jul '20

Interview Conkers3 & Sir Martin Sorrell,

very powerful ........... responses, questions, awareness.

Well done.

You persuaded him and he showed he is attuned to what is going on.

18th Jul '20

David,

You asked for further feedback. So further to my earlier feedback my observations are:

1. Registration: It was a little unclear as to whether a booking had been accepted by the booking system or not. Mine was and on the morning of Day 1 I had no problems accessing the conference. Clarity in the booking & registration process could be improved. However, I suspect you had special issues this year becasue of the the earlier cancellation of the May event and the allocation of free tickets to Virtual Mello for ticket holders of the May event.

2. On Day 1 I was using Windows 10 v2004 with Mozilla Firefox and all worked well.

3. On Day 2 I was using an Android Tablet running Mozilla Firefox and all worked well. This was via a WiFi extender and the connection did not appear to be fragile on a lower bandwidth connection.

4. In general the presentations via Strimm all worked without a hitch.

5. Sometimes for the presentations held via Zoom the link to the presentation did not result in the successfully joining the meeting. In that case I simply lauched Zoom manually via the Start Menu and used the meeting ID and Password to access the meeting. In a couple of cases I think that work-around did not work and I had to download Zoom using the URL to that meeting Id - and that then worked. At no time did I fail to gain access to the meeting. I suspect that user education on what to do / try next in order to resolve issues oneself - without asking for technical support - may be important.

6. At no time did I have to ask for technical support.

7. I have heard of one exhibitor stating that they did not get much traffic / footfall to their virtual exhibition stands. Not sure whether this is lack of interest in that particular stand or 'English reserve' / shyness on the part of attendees. Perhaps follow up with individual exhibitors to gauge their experience of 'value' and how to improve percieved VFM?

My overall view was very positive, and I am surprised by the views of some who had a negative experience. In my opinion, humble or otherwise, I think Virtual Mello will have been a great learning experience for you and your team, and may be an increasingly important competence for future events. I continue to hold a ticket for Mello in November - but if Covid is not significantly closer to being defeated by then I would _choose_ not to attend in person. Virtual Mello was functional - if not sociable - and with no health risk that would be perfectly sensible trade-off for me.

Fegger

19th Jul '20

I cant find the link for the videos on the site. Can someone help me out please

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