Skoll World Forum
More than 3,200 of the world’s most engaged social entrepreneurs, social innovators, and leaders in finance, philanthropy, academia, government, business, media, and the arts gathered online for the annual Skoll World Forum.
With an opening plenary & awards ceremony and closing plenary session hosted by Femi Oke, attendees heard from world leaders, activists, and notable voices including Donald Gips, Marla Blow, Samantha Power, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jonathan Dotan, Jola Mukherjee, Githinji Gitahi, Michelle Bachelet, Alaa Murabit, and Jonas Poher Rasmussen, among others—all sharing stories and experience to fuel the global audience’s efforts to create social and environmental impact.
The program also included performances by five-time Grammy Award-winner & Founder of Batonga Foundation, Angélique Kidjo, Grammy-nominated musicians Amadou & Mariam, and playwright, actor, and professor, Anna Deavere Smith.
To bring the 2022 Forum’s theme, “Face/ Forward", to life, the Empire and Skoll teams worked hand-in-hand to design and execute the event’s creative motif using custom animations, curated footage, and creative filming techniques intended to emphasize “a sense of space and place".
A two-day in-person shoot took place in San Francisco, bringing together seven award winners from around the globe for the first time, capturing their in-person interactions, remarks, acceptance speeches, and memories in a custom living room set. One virtual participant, unable to travel from Brazil, joined the group live in a unique hybrid appearance.
Working hand-in-hand with the Skoll team, Empire managed multiple aspects of the session production, including speaker management and briefings, set design, international filming (on-site and remote), budgeting, creative, host preparation, remote recording, and video editing.
To learn more and experience the Skoll World Forum content, visit https://skoll.org/2022-skoll-world-forum-face-forward/
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Guests received their first taste of technological innovation at registration, where they were welcomed by name on a reactive LED screen installation covering the full width of the entry wall. A large lunch café was created with a décor scheme that incorporated custom-built, ceiling-high steel LED frames draped with foliage to create smaller, intimate restaurant-style spaces that displayed both technology and nature.
A series of breakout sessions presented content targeted to attendees’ varied interests, while imagery displayed throughout the venue showcased real-life applications of how products designed to empower developers help to unleash the power of data and reimagine possibilities that will improve our world.
Every element of Microsoft Connect(); from registration, breakfast and keynote, to lunch and evening cocktails, were custom-designed to communicate exacting brand messaging and to deliver a high-touch guest experience to this important audience. The keynote and breakout sessions were livestreamed through an onsite studio built for this purpose and content was watched online by millions around the world.
Empire is proud to collaborate with Microsoft on this annual, top-tier business communication event.
To view excerpts of Connect(); 2017, please visit https://www.microsoft.com/connectevent
