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At each Climate Summit meeting a virtual RoundTable is created from the video feeds of globally distributed TelePresence conference rooms, with one location serving as the central host of the meeting. In this way invited speakers sit together for discussions, with a limited number of live audience guests. Learn how to how to attend the Forum in person.

Both RoundTable participants and audience members alike can join the Forum interactively via standard video conferencing software commonly available on the Internet, such as Skype, WebEx and others. You can test the bandwidth of your Internet connection to see how well it is likely to support bi-directional video conferencing with these links to Speedtest and Bandwidth Place. Download speeds of about 5 mbps (equivalent to 5,000 kbps) are quite adequate for receiving high quality video images. Comparable upload speeds will give the best results for remote RoundTable participants, but 1 mbps (equivalent to 1,000 kbps) may be adequate although a bit choppy. Reception of voice streams for The Climate Summit's events will be quite acceptable at 1 mbps speeds and below.

The Climate Summit is also viewable remotely over the Internet. The television-quality video feed will be made available to select broadcast, cable and Internet TV outlets. Live streaming of our May 30th event in several popular webcast formats (Quicktime, RealPlayer, etc.) will be brought to you courtesy of ON24, a premiere Inernet webcast provider. Segments of the program will be placed on YouTube and the complete video record of the Climate Summit Forum’s virtual RoundTable will be archived on this site for later viewing as well.

During the Forum live audience members will be able to pose questions and interact with the RoundTable live and on-site. Remote Internet and television audience members will be able to pose questions by email, text or telephone. In addition, remote viewing audiences will be able to express preferences and priorities in the polling of ideas and proposals being made at the RoundTable.

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