Video conference

A video conference is a conference between people using webcam and microphones over the internet. Companies use this to have their conferences with each other because they can stay in their city or country without the need to travel. So they will be having a 'face to face' conference just not 'face to face' in person. It is expensive for companies to organise conferences when they are based in different cities or countries. It is a lot cheaper for them to do this than to pay out for the travel and accommodation expenses.

But on the other hand using the internet and relying on technology to run the conference will come with some bad advantages. They will need a technical expert to setup the conference link and other problems such as they could get disconnected from each other e.g. internet may go down for one of the companies. The software running the conference could also fail due to errors or bugs. Any other technological errors such as: the sound not working correctly or the webcam being blurry and not working correctly. This would have a big effect on the conferences, it could force the companies to post pone them until they have the errors fixed.

A company having a video conference meeting.