Ask your question
Type it and send it. You can stay completely anonymous — no account, no name, no app to install.
The question you are hesitating over is usually the one several other people are hesitating over too.
Welcome
Somebody else has your question. Ask it anyway.
You do not have to put your hand up, walk to a microphone, or be the first to speak. Type your question, or add your support to one that is already there — and watch the room agree with you.
Two ways to take part
Both of them help. One of them takes a single tap.
Or back someone else's
Someone already asked what you were thinking? Tap boost. That is a whole contribution in one tap.
Boosts decide the running order, so backing a question is how you get it answered — and how you tell the person who asked that they were right to.
The moment it stops being awkward
A question with one vote is your question. A question with nine is the room's question — and the chair can see that at a glance.
That is the whole idea. Nobody has to be brave, nobody has to speak over anybody, and the quiet half of the room gets a say for the first time.
Then it goes up on the screen
The chair puts the top questions on the big screen and the speaker answers them. Out of time? Ask to be emailed the answer afterwards.
Nothing appears on the screen unless the chair chooses it, and your email address is only ever collected if you tick the box asking for it.
“Any questions?” … silence … “Right, we'll break for coffee.” Every conference, everywhere, for about forty years
Running the event, rather than sitting in it?
Give the quiet half of your room a voice. You get your own address, your own events, and your own separate database.