Microsoft Teams Intelligent Event Recap Coming to Town Hall and Webinars

Microsoft updated its roadmap last week to confirm that Intelligent Event Recap is coming to Teams Town Hall and Webinars in January 2025. Intelligent Event Recap, similar to Intelligent Meeting Recap, which was first launched for Teams Premium users in May, 2023, uses artificial intelligence to create an overview of an event with the aim of helping organizers and presenters save time and understand what steps they should take next.

What is Intelligent Event Recap?

Microsoft says that Intelligent Event Recap will allow event organizers, co-organizers, and presenters to easily explore meeting recordings by browsing recordings by speakers and topic, see AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated follow-up tasks, and name mentions.

Here are some of the key features:

• It will summarize your recordings, take notes for you, and identify key discussion points and action items for organizers and presenters.
• It offers personalized timeline markers and presents information by topic or speaker in color-coded segments, streamlining recording review.

Teams Town Halls are a type of meeting event designed for one-to-many communications. Town Halls are for hosting large-scale events with up to 20,000 attendees. They support moderation and Q&A. Conversely, webinars are one-to-many communications with a limit of 1000 attendees but with robust registration features. Webinars also allow attendees to chat, have moderated Q&A, and support reactions.

Intelligent Event Recap availability

Much like Intelligent Meeting Recap, Intelligent Event Recap is available to organizations using Teams Premium or Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses. According to the latest roadmap update, the new feature should be generally available in January, 2025, when it will start rolling out to Teams desktop users on Mac and PC.