The multi-functional delegate unit meets the demands of even the largest conferences. It provides facilities for speaking, registering a request-to-speak, registering a request-to-respond, listening, voting, IC-Card reading and displaying conference and user-related information. Excellent immunity to RF interference from mobile phones. IC-Card reader and graphic display with backlighting. When the IC-Card approaches the card reader, the graphic LCD screen automatically displays user-related information in the language assigned to the delegate chip card. The graphic LCD is able to display characters from complex European languages or icon-based-scripts such as Chinese. The loudspeaker offers superior acoustics with minimal feedback for enhanced intelligibility.