Q&A session

Interactive discussion period

A Q&A session is a period set aside for questions and answers, typically following a presentation, lecture, or performance.

The speaker or panel fields questions from the audience: We'll have a fifteen-minute Q&A session after the talk.

In interviews and press conferences, the entire event may be called a Q&A.

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raise your hand · moderator · microphone · hands · discussion · forum · dialogue · curiosity · clarification · speaker · podium · feedback · townhall · interactive · probing · inquiry · response · clarify

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Opposites
communication format

Q&A sessionmonologue

Uninterrupted solo address

lecture · keynote speech · sermon · soliloquy · prepared remarks

information flow direction

Q&A sessiondictation

Oral text for writing

proclamation · announcement · decree · edict · directive

prepared vs. spontaneous content

Q&A sessionprepared speech

Pre-written verbal presentation

written statement · stump speech · set piece

Family

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