Corporate Events Plus

What an interesting March, events at both ends of the technical spectrum. 

A good old style 2 man in a van 6 venue UK roadshow for a financial services client over a 6 week period saw us using a pipe and drape backdrop and straightforward LCD projection and audio visual support. It always amazes me how much ‘client’ bits and bobs you end up transporting, delegate badges, printouts of presentations, mints, pens and branded pads and in this case the give-away for delegates of laptop bags and leaflets placed within. The van soon looked busy!

At the other end of the spectrum for a week we were in London working on a strategy meeting event for an Italian Energy company to City Analysts and Traders, using ‘Watchout’ graphics with ‘PIP’ (Picture in picture) technology presented on a 4m LED video wall display. A bespoke stageset built in situ with hand painted elements in corporate colours and all lit for TV as we were using a 3 camera PPU mixing live images for viewing on a worldwide Webcast.

The camera images and PowerPoint presentation graphics were shown to 150 delegates on 2 separate 50’’ plasma screens in each of 3 overflow press rooms on the 4^th floor of the client office building.

The weekend before the event we ran the cables under floors and within dry riser ducts, 2 kilometres of fibre optic vision cable and audio multicore. This was rigged outside of office hours to avoid business disruption to the trading floor, this took some 52 man hours.

The audio from the worldwide live telephone question and answer session saw the use of 2 way audio relay, a long week but enjoyable.