The virtual town hall. The original mass-scale, two-way conversation.
Converso runs fully managed telephone town halls for Canada's governments, unions, health authorities, and associations — reaching thousands of members or constituents in a single live session. No registration. No app. No login. We dial their number and they're in.
We call them. They don't need to register, download anything, or show up anywhere.
The phone is not a fallback. It's the only channel that reaches everyone.
But with Converso, you can get the best of both worlds — we seamlessly offer both media: video and telephone. That means you can get more people into your meeting than through any other technology. You can reach your tech-savvy stakeholders who have access to technology AND those who might not.
Not a platform. A managed service.
Converso is not software you license. There's no dashboard your team learns to configure, no setup call with a vendor's support team, no day-before scramble. We bring an experienced producer, trained screeners, a tested script, and a verified call list. You bring the speakers. We handle the rest.
Real organizations. Real results.
From provincial budget consultations to union bargaining to wildfire evacuations — here's what telephone town halls deliver in practice.
Government of Alberta — Annual Budget Town Halls
21 events over 9 years. 4.1 million dial attempts. 285,000 participants. 3,940 questions answered live. Canada's most comprehensive telephone budget consultation series.
AUPE — 42 Bargaining Town Halls, 95,579 Voices
Four bargaining units. Fourteen engagements — each run as 3–4 sessions at different times so night shift, day shift, and rotation workers could all participate. We called them. They answered.
Fort McMurray Wildfire — 17 Events, 58,000 Displaced Residents
With residents evacuated across Alberta, Converso ran 17 emergency town halls in 4 weeks — connecting displaced citizens with the Premier, municipal officials, and emergency managers. No internet required. Just a phone.
Every format. Every scale.
Whether your audience is 100 members or 400,000 constituents — telephone, video, or in-person — Converso manages the production end-to-end.
Telephone Town Halls
The core Converso product. We dial your list — residents, members, patients, constituents — and connect live attendees to a moderated two-way session. Live Q&A, polling, and full post-event reporting.
Hybrid Town Halls
Outbound phone calls reach your full list at the same moment a live webcast goes out online. Telephone participants and video viewers join the same moderated session simultaneously — no separate events, no tiered access. One event, every channel.
Video Town Halls
Webinar-style events with live Q&A, polling, and breakout capability. Managed production means your speakers focus on the content — not on managing the platform.
Constituency & Member Town Halls
MLAs, MPPs, MPs, and union leaders connect directly with the people they represent. Live, two-way, with every question on the record — and a full report ready for stakeholders afterward.
Open Board Forums
Statutory public accountability meetings for health authorities, school boards, and public agencies. Telephone-first format ensures legal engagement mandates are genuinely fulfilled — not just checked off.
Emergency Town Halls
Rapid-deploy sessions during wildfires, floods, pandemics, and public health emergencies. Available 24/7. On air within 48–72 hours. The format that works when internet goes down and people need real answers fast.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Every Converso telephone town hall comes fully staffed and equipped. There's no à-la-carte list of add-ons to configure.
Before the event
- ✓Kick-off and production planning meetings
- ✓Script templates and Q&A frameworks
- ✓Speaker briefings and moderator guides
- ✓Poll question development
- ✓Online registration setup (if required)
- ✓Screener and team training
- ✓Final check-in 24–48 hours before event
During & after the event
- ✓Dial-out to your phone list
- ✓Live operator screening and question management
- ✓In-session polling with real-time results
- ✓Online audio streaming simultaneously
- ✓Post-event voicemail option
- ✓Audio recording and verbatim transcript
- ✓Post-event report — 16 data points, executive summary
You show up and speak to your audience. We handle everything else.
Discovery & Estimate
We scope your audience, objectives, timeline, and language requirements. Estimate signed off before anything starts.
Production Planning
Scripts, Q&A frameworks, speaker briefings, poll questions. Every detail prepared and rehearsed.
Pre-Event Outreach
Robocalls, SMS, IVR, and email to maximize attendance. Multi-lingual options. Dial-in instructions on every channel.
Live Event
Two-way, on the record. Every comment captured. Live operators screen and connect callers. Real questions — no filtering by algorithm.
Post-Event Report
16 data points — participation rates, question themes, poll results, verbatim responses. Ready for cabinet, council, or board within days.
Tell us what you need.
Budget consultation, constituency town hall, union member meeting, health authority forum — we've run them all. Tell us about yours and we'll have a quote back within one business day.
- 100 to 150,000+ attendees
- 60 or 90-minute standard sessions
- Telephone, video, hybrid, or in-person
- CRTC-compliant calling
- WCAG AA and AODA compliant
- Multi-lingual events available
- Sole-source eligible for government clients
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