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The pandemic didn’t just disrupt conferences—it forced us to completely rethink them.

When in-person events became impossible, we didn’t just have speakers on Zoom calls with their webcams. We rethought and rebuilt everything from the ground up: dynamic multi-camera production, professional real-time editing, purpose-built chat and Q&A systems, and most recently, live captioning that works on any device.

Now, with travel budgets tightening and teams looking for smarter ways to learn together, we’ve taken everything we’ve learned and created something new.

Introducing Web Directions To Go

Web Directions To Go brings the full conference experience directly to your team’s workspace. Not a watered-down version but the conference experience—professionally produced, fully interactive, designed for your conference room.

Why is this not just live streaming?

Your team gathers in your own meeting space—the one with the comfortable chairs and food and coffee you actually like (and don’t have to queue for). On your big screen, you get a dedicated, distraction-free stream with no ads and no branding. Dynamic multi-camera production means you’re not watching static slides with a tiny picture-in-picture. You’re seeing professional cuts between speakers, presentations, and more—the kind of production quality you’d expect from broadcast television.

Real-time captions you can show on a second big screen, or any device, ensuring accessibility for everyone.

And, while you’re watching together as a team, each person also has their own individual login. That means everyone can participate in the live chat, ask questions directly to speakers, and connect with the broader conference community—whether they’re in Sydney or San José.

Even better than the real thing?

We’re keen for this not just to be a budget substitute for the “real thing”. Here’s why Web Directions To Go might be just as good or even better than being there.

Learning works better together. When your whole team experiences the same content at the same time, you can pause between sessions to discuss how ideas apply to your specific challenges. You can brainstorm implementation strategies. You can ask each other “how would this work for us?” in real-time. That shared context is invaluable.

The economics are compelling. For a team of five, traditional conference attendance runs to as much as $10,000 when you factor in registration, flights, hotels, and meals. Web Directions To Go for five people? $2,245 total (and that’s for our two day conferences, it’s even less for one day events like Next). That’s not just savings—it’s making professional development accessible to teams who otherwise might struggle to justify the expense.

Post conference access. You get every session, full participation rights, and unlimited access to recordings forever.

From Pandemic Innovation to Team Solution

Since 2020, we’ve been on a journey. First, working hard to create the best possible online conference experience. Then, when in-person events returned, refusing to choose between the two—instead building a hybrid model where online attendees are first-class participants, not second class citizens.

We’ve invested heavily in professional production. We’ve built custom tools for chat and Q&A. We’ve pioneered new approaches to live captioning. We’ve partnered with outstanding conferences like CSS Day, Performance Now, and Clarity to host them on our Conffab platform.

Web Directions To Go is the synthesis of all this work. It’s designed specifically for the way teams actually want to learn in 2025: together, in their own space, without the friction and costs of travel, but addressing compromises of most virtual attendance.

Getting Started

Choose your team size, send us names and email addresses, and we handle the rest. Before the event, you’ll receive your stream link, caption feed, login credentials, and a setup guide. On event day, you’re live.

Packages start at just 2 team members and scale to entire companies. Team members can be swapped anytime before the event. For teams that want ongoing access to everything, our 12-month unlimited pass gives everyone access to every livestream on the Conffab platform—Web Directions conferences, CSS Day, Performance Now, Clarity Conference, and more.

Your Space, Your Way

No airports. No hotel rooms. No days away from home. Just your team, your meeting room, and a premium conference experience delivered exactly where you work best.

The future of professional development isn’t choosing between in-person or online. It’s recognizing that teams learn best together, in environments where they’re comfortable and focused, with all the tools they need to not just consume content but immediately apply it.

That’s Web Directions To Go.

Ready to bring the conference to your team? Learn more and register here.