Rosie Schuster
Managing Director and Founder
Techcast, Inc.
The VEMA Academy is the largest continuing education institute in the German insurance industry—and has been demonstrating for years that mandatory digital training courses can run smoothly, in compliance with regulations, and in their entirety on their own IT infrastructure, even with tens of thousands of participants.
Rosie Schuster
Managing Director and Founder
Techcast, Inc.
VEMA eG is one of Germany’s largest real estate broker cooperatives. Through its VEMA Academy, more than 30,000 real estate agents complete their legally required continuing education each year—entirely online, across more than 300 events annually.
What makes this unique: The entire infrastructure runs within VEMA’s own IT environment. Invitations, registration, participant management, certification, and continuing education credits—everything remains within VEMA’s own system. Techcast provides the streaming and reporting infrastructure for this, seamlessly connected via API.
Continuing education institutions have specific requirements for their IT infrastructure. An external platform that stores data in third-party environments or requires manual data transfers is not an option for an organization like VEMA.
The solution: Techcast Event Cloud with REST API integration.
VEMA Academy will take over:
Techcast Event Cloud takes over:
Data exchange takes place fully automatically via API calls in both directions—without any manual effort or media changes.
In the insurance industry, compliance is not an optional feature. Training records must be fully documented, participant data must be managed in accordance with the GDPR, and certificates must be issued in an audit-proof manner.
When it comes to choosing an infrastructure, this means that data must not leave the organization’s own system boundaries. Techcast’s API architecture makes exactly that possible. VEMA retains complete control over all participant data—Techcast provides the streaming capabilities without having direct access to user profiles.
The same principle applies to other industries with similar requirements—legal services, financial services, and healthcare.
30,000 real estate agents in the network, 300+ events per year—these aren’t just theoretical peak figures. The Techcast infrastructure scales automatically, whether there are 50 or 10,000 participants watching the stream at the same time.
At the same time, live interaction is fully preserved:
Especially in the case of mandatory training courses, where proof of attendance is required, active participation isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s part of the format.
After each event, the Techcast Event Cloud provides comprehensive reporting: duration of participation, interaction rates, and attendance confirmations. Based on this data, continuing education certificates are automatically issued to all participants—without any manual follow-up required on the part of the VEMA Academy.
For an organization that conducts hundreds of regulated training programs each year, this is a significant operational advantage: less effort, greater scalability, and no gaps in documentation.
How does Techcast integrate with existing learning management systems?
Using a standard REST API, event data, registrations, and reporting data can be integrated into existing systems, internal applications, or custom dashboards—fully automatically.
Is there a participant limit for live events?
No. The infrastructure scales automatically—from small training sessions to events with tens of thousands of concurrent participants.
How are continuing education certificates issued?
After each event, attendance data is transmitted back to the organizing organization’s system via API. Certificates and continuing education credits can be awarded there fully automatically.
Is the solution GDPR-compliant?
Yes. Since all participant data remains within the customer’s own IT infrastructure, the event organizer retains full control over the data.
For which industries is this model suitable?
Anywhere where mandatory digital continuing education—with a requirement to provide proof of completion and high participant numbers—is required: insurance, financial consulting, law, medicine, and pharmaceuticals.