Case Study: Naval Safety & Environmental Training Center achieves 50% increase in participation and halves event costs with Adobe Connect

Foremost Authority on U.S. Naval Safety Training Uses Adobe Connect For Its Global, Joint Service Safety Conference And As Its De Facto Synchronous Elearning Platform

The Naval Safety & Environmental Training Center (NAVSAFENVTRACEN), the U.S. Navy’s lead authority for noncombat safety training, faced a budget-driven crisis when travel cuts threatened its 21st Annual Joint Services Safety Conference. With only weeks to act, organizers needed to coordinate a multi-day event and eLearning sessions for 1,500+ attendees and 80 geographically dispersed speakers while meeting security/firewall requirements and keeping engagement high.

Working with EnvolveMEDIA, NAVSAFENVTRACEN moved the week‑long conference online using Adobe Connect, deploying templates, persistent meeting rooms, brief speaker orientations, polls/chat/video tools, analytics, and on‑demand recordings in about two weeks. The virtual format delivered 52 seminars to over 1,500 participants (a >50% attendance increase), cut operating costs in half and eliminated roughly $1.5M in travel expenses, improved engagement tracking, and accelerated the center’s shift to scalable eLearning.

Naval Safety & Environmental Training Center

Dean Pianta

Chief Learning Technologist