The people your decisions affect most are the hardest to reach.
We call them directly.
Every person who needs to hear from you — and every person you need to hear from — in a single live session. No registration. No app. No internet connection required. Converso dials them directly, they pick up, and they're in. Telephone, video, or hybrid — fully managed, start to finish.
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.
Most leaders running public consultations know something isn't working — the room is half-full, the comment box is empty, and they know the decision that follows is more exposed than it should be. A low-turnout engagement that looks credible isn't neutral. It creates a record that can be challenged, and a group of stakeholders who weren't reached who can challenge it.
With Converso, you reach everyone — not just the people who show up. Telephone, video, and hybrid in a single managed event. Your tech-savvy stakeholders join by video. Everyone else picks up the phone. Same conversation, every voice captured.
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 people with the Premier, municipal officials, and emergency managers. No internet required. Just a phone.
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
Telephone town hall vs. virtual town hall: which is right for your event?
Two formats, one goal. We break down reach, accessibility, tech requirements, and governance obligations across 9 dimensions — so you can choose with confidence.
Every format. Every scale.
Converso also offers other managed town hall meetings, including hybrid meetings, livestreaming and more. Whether your audience is 100 stakeholders or 400,000 — telephone, video, or in-person — Converso manages the production end-to-end.
Telephone Town Halls
The core Converso product. We dial your list — residents, patients, stakeholders — 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.
You show up and speak to your audience. We handle everything else.
Tell us what you need
Audience size, format, objectives, timeline, accessibility requirements. We scope everything and have an estimate back within one business day.
We design and produce
Script, outreach strategy, speaker briefing, screener training, dial-out list. Every detail prepared. Nothing left to chance on event day.
You show up. We run it.
Dial-out, live moderation, Q&A screening, polling, recording — and a full report with 16 data points delivered the next morning.
Know what your stakeholders actually think. Start here.
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.
Picture the morning after: a full transcript, every question on record, participation data for the report. Leadership that walked into the event uncertain walks out with the engagement documented and the community genuinely heard.
The alternative — a thin record, stakeholders who weren't reached, a decision that gets challenged — is avoidable. That's exactly what this is built for.
- 100 to 150,000+ attendees
- 60 or 90-minute standard sessions
- Telephone, video, hybrid, or in-person
- CRTC-compliant calling
- Multi-lingual events available
- Sole-source eligible for government clients
Book a 20-minute conversation
Tell us the basics — we'll have a plan back to you within one business day.