Digital Signage for Live Events

Your schedule changes.
Your signs don't.

Until now. Breakout Connect turns every screen in the venue into a live, branded extension of your event. Drag-and-drop design. Real-time sync. Emergency override. No USB drives, no manual updates, no walking the floor.

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Real-time propagation · See it in motion

All screens, one update away.

Swap a room's NOW card, fix a typo in the lobby directory, or trigger a venue-wide alert — the same pipeline pushes any signage change to every Pi in seconds. We're using a venue alert below since it's the most dramatic example.

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Emergency Broadcast
Fire alarm — evacuate via East doors
● ROOM 09:42
Grand Ballroom
● NOW
Climate & Capital Keynote
09:08 — 09:36
Dr. Sarah Park
NEXT
Climate Tech Panel
09:45 — 10:03
3 speakers
EVACUATE
VIA EAST DOORS
Breakout Connect
Today — Apex Summit
Grand Ballroom
Live now
Room B
Next at 10:15
Room C
Live now
Room D
Closed
EVACUATE
VIA EAST DOORS
Breakout Connect
Today's Schedule
Climate & Capital
Grand Ballroom
09:08
Tech Investing
Room B
10:15
Panel Q&A
Grand Ballroom
10:30
Networking Lunch
Foyer
12:00
EVACUATE
VIA EAST DOORS
Breakout Connect
Room display
NOW + NEXT cards for one room
Wayfinding
2–4 rooms tiled with live status
Lobby directory
Today's full schedule, sorted
The Problem

Sound familiar?

A sign goes offline at 3 AM.
Nobody notices until the client does.
A breakout moves rooms.
12 signs still show the old one.
Updating 24 screens
one laptop at a time.
No way to push an emergency
message to every screen instantly.
How it's different

Not a signage CMS
bolted onto your event.

Traditional digital signage was built for retail and corporate offices — long content schedules, static playlists, no awareness of what's happening in the room. Event signage needs to know the show is running. Ours does.

Feature
Breakout Connect Signage
Traditional signage CMS
Schedule source
Live from your event run-of-show — auto-updates the moment the schedule changes
Manual content scheduling, separate from your event management system
Emergency override
One click, every screen, <1 second propagation. 12 preset icons. Auto-clears or expires.
Push a new playlist to every device individually, or pre-build emergency campaigns and switch playlists
Hardware cost per screen
Under $100 per display — Raspberry Pi based, bring your own or ask us to preflash
$200–$500 per dedicated player or smart-display license
First-boot setup
Captive portal — Pi creates a WiFi network, scan the QR on the TV, configure from your phone
Keyboard + mouse + monitor, or pre-provisioned by IT before delivery
Mode switching
Pick from 6 content types in the dashboard — live update in seconds
Design content in their builder, schedule the playlist, wait for sync
Audit log
Same activity log as the rest of your show — mic changes, file pushes, emergencies, all in one timeline
Signage CMS has its own log — manually correlate against your event log for post-incident review
Subscription
Optional add-on to your Breakout Connect plan — one bill for everything signage-related
Separate per-screen monthly fee on top of your event-management software
Same data, no double-entry
Rename a room in Breakout Connect, the signage updates. Reschedule a session, the NEXT card moves. Never sync a spreadsheet to a signage CMS again.
Built by AV people
We've been the crew sweating about whether the lobby TV updated. The whole product is shaped by that pain — setup, refresh, override, fallback, all of it.
Liability covered
Every emergency trigger and clear is timestamped, attributed, and IP-logged. Pull a defensible record any time something happens in your venue.
Visual Design Studio

Drag. Drop. Done.
No templates. No limits.

Every display gets its own canvas. Drag widgets onto it — session schedules, presenter photos, countdown timers, sponsor loops, QR codes, wayfinding arrows, video clips. Layer them, resize them, set your own canvas resolution. Save as a reusable design profile and apply it across displays in one click.

  • 15 widget types across Event, Media, and Info categories
  • Custom canvas resolution — any aspect ratio, any screen size
  • Portrait, landscape, and flipped orientations
  • Snap grid, keyboard shortcuts, z-ordering, opacity control
  • Upload custom backgrounds and loop video content
  • Save and reuse design profiles across your entire fleet
Signage Designer 1920 × 1080
Event
📋 Now / Next
📅 Day Schedule
⏱ Countdown
🟢 Room Status
👤 Presenter
Media
Aa Text
➡️ Arrow
🎬 Video
🏢 Sponsors
📱 QR Code
🖼 Image
◼ Shape
NOW Grand Ballroom A
AI Panel Discussion
Dr. Sarah Chen · TechCorp
NEXT
Cloud Security Workshop
1:00 PM — Jane Smith
STARTS IN
14:32
Cloud Security · 1:00 PM
Sponsors · 6s
Properties
Now / Up Next
Position
X: 20
Y: 20
Size
W: 760
H: 520
Options
✓
Show photo
✓
Show progress bar
✓
Show organization
Show presenter bio
✓
Show "Up Next"
Layer
z: 1
Opacity
100%

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