Thrive Summit 2020
July 16, 2020
July 16, 2020
The Thrive Summit is an annual gathering of global church leaders with a vision to equip them with tools to effect an impact in their local communities and ultimately produce thriving, healthy churches. Usually, the Summit is held in person in Sacramento, California, but the COVID-19 pandemic presented the leaders of Thrive with a challenge - should they cancel the event, like many others were doing around the US in a season of lockdown?
Or perhaps there was another option...
“We made a decision to pivot the whole event to be online,” said Ray Johnston, Senior Pastor of Bayside Church and Founder of Thrive. “We began to gather the most amazing lineup of world-class business, government and church leaders from around the world and we wanted the online experience to reflect the quality of presenters”
Sardius had been serving the multi-campus Bayside Church with their Sardius CHURCH online video platform for some time, and so it was to Sardius that the leaders at Thrive turned. With a significant requirement list in a turnaround time of under a month - this would be a significant challenge. “We love the team and the vision at Thrive,” said Jason Shore, CEO of Sardius “We were totally up for the challenge, there is no way we were going to let Thrive down”
The result was a conference where over 150,000 registered from literally all over the world. Despite hitches in the run order of the main stage, Sardius was able to pivot a create a world-class experience for every attendee and provide solutions to the list of requirements the Thrive team threw at Sardius with a very short lead time.
The Thrive team were more than happy with the result.
“We realize that we contacted the guys at Sardius, late in the day. As a team we’d been looking at the more dynamic components of other online video platforms and from this review, we put together a list of requirements for Sardius to execute. We are so thankful for the way we could work with the team there to create a great experience for everyone. I’d recommend Sardius to anyone.”
Jake Floch - Senior Video Director of Thrive
“When we were asked to build a streaming platform for Thrive Summit to serve over 100,000 people, we turned to the same team that we rely on for our weekend services. Sardius provides a professional, reliable, and customizable platform for both our weekend services and major events like Thrive. More importantly, they’re a team of great people who make working with them both easy and fun.”
Zack Dutra - Digital Projects Director at Bayside Church
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