Category openers, reveals, and a running order that moves.
EventBlok helps you take an event from first idea to live delivery. Create the sessions, organise speakers and spaces, run the show, and publish an agenda attendees can use. Twenty-two categories, a VT per winner, presenters arriving from a drinks reception and a broadcast window that will not wait. EventBlok holds the whole running order as one structure so a late acceptance speech does not cost you the finale.
Confidential until the reveal. Timed to the second after it.
| cue | action | dept | state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47.0 | House to half | LX | done |
| 47.1 | VT roll — opener | A/V | done |
| 48.0 | Keynote walk-on | LX | ● GO |
| 48.1 | Lower-third: name | GFX | stby |
| dept | last call |
|---|---|
| FOH | standing by on 48.1 |
| LX | house at half, holding |
| A/V | VT armed |
| GFX | lower-third loaded |
An awards show is the most timing-sensitive event there is. Every category is a mini-show — opener, nominees, reveal, walk-up, speech, exit — and each one can run long in a way the next one has to absorb.
Opener, nominees, reveal, walk-up, speech, exit. Twenty-two times.
Each category carries its own VT, graphics, music and lighting states as cues. Build one properly and the rest are a duplicate with different content.
- ✓Cue-level detail per category
- ✓VT, GFX, LX and music in department views
- ✓Duplicate a category and change the content
| cue | action | dept | state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47.0 | House to half | LX | done |
| 47.1 | VT roll — opener | A/V | done |
| 48.0 | Keynote walk-on | LX | ● GO |
| 48.1 | Lower-third: name | GFX | stby |
| dept | last call |
|---|---|
| FOH | standing by on 48.1 |
| LX | house at half, holding |
| A/V | VT armed |
| GFX | lower-third loaded |
Three speeches over by ninety seconds each is your finale.
Durations rather than fixed times, so the drift accumulates visibly and the distance to the hard finish is a number the producer can act on at category eight rather than category nineteen.
- ✓Planned, actual and projected at once
- ✓Hard broadcast windows and curfews locked
- ✓The overrun shows its consequence immediately
| start | session | room | track |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Opening keynote | Main Stage | A |
| 11:00 | Panel — Real-time payments | Main Stage | A |
| 13:45 ⟲ | Fireside — Regulators | Studio | B |
| 15:15 | Workshop — Fraud models | Hall 2 | B |
| 16:45 | Closing remarks | Main Stage | A |
Winners in the production record, not the public programme.
The same session carries the running order the crew needs and the programme the room reads. Production detail never reaches the published view.
- ✓Production detail hidden from the public portal
- ✓Roles decide who sees the sensitive fields
- ✓Presenters briefed without the reveal
| slide | content | cue |
|---|---|---|
| 1–4 | Title + agenda | — |
| 9 | Demo clip · 0:48 | 03 |
| 17 | Revenue chart | — |
Lena leads risk at Northwind, where she rebuilt the real-time fraud stack now scoring 1.2M transactions a minute. A former regulator, she writes and speaks on model governance.
You are eleven minutes over with three categories left.
The number is already there
Not a guess from the producer with a stopwatch. The projection has been visible since the drift started building.
| start | session | room | track |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Opening keynote | Main Stage | A |
| 11:00 | Panel — Real-time payments | Main Stage | A |
| 13:45 ⟲ | Fireside — Regulators | Studio | B |
| 15:15 | Workshop — Fraud models | Hall 2 | B |
| 16:45 | Closing remarks | Main Stage | A |
Decide what gives
Cut the interstitial, shorten the link, drop the second VT. Mark it cut and the running order reflows around it.
| cue | action | dept | state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47.0 | House to half | LX | done |
| 47.1 | VT roll — opener | A/V | done |
| 48.0 | Keynote walk-on | LX | ● GO |
| 48.1 | Lower-third: name | GFX | stby |
| dept | last call |
|---|---|
| FOH | standing by on 48.1 |
| LX | house at half, holding |
| A/V | VT armed |
| GFX | lower-third loaded |
Nobody is surprised
The host’s prompter reflows without losing their place, and the crew see the cut in the view they are already reading.
| surface | feed | state |
|---|---|---|
| Stage confidence monitor | presenter view | live |
| Operator laptop | mirror | live |
| Stream Deck | webhook | armed |
| Comfort monitor — FOH | mirror | live |
The awards-specific parts.
Arriving from the bar
Their category, their time, which wing, and who hands them the envelope.
One per winner
Nominee packages attached to the category cue, not tracked in a separate spreadsheet.
Who is where
Table and seating information attached to the space, so the walk-up is not a search.
Every second of this was decided before the doors opened.
The room sees a show that flows. What holds it together is a running order that has already absorbed four overruns and still lands on the hard finish.
Plan your branded event →Hold the running order to the second.
Twenty-two categories, every overrun visible, and the finale still where it should be.