Events, Host Broadcast & Media Services Case Study
London Conference on Cyberspace
The Conference featured an extensive itinerary including multiple main sessions for up to 700 delegates plus numerous fringe events, with Feltech facilities installed across all 7 floors of the QE II. Feltech provided all main sessions to the media in 6 languages including Russian and Chinese.
The technical installation to facilitate the project was completed in less than 48 hours and through a dedicated pool channel the Feltech team transmitted live coverage of the conference along with key additional interviews around the QE II
and out to global media organisations via BT Tower.
The Feltech conference coverage included a ten camera Outside Broadcast unit with capacity for three simultaneous programme outputs. All areas of the building were provided with monitors showing conference and social networking coverage alongside Feltech’s message service informing both media and delegates of the conference itinerary, host broadcast distribution scheduling and events.
The London Conference on Cyberspace on 1 & 2 November 2011 was a major international conference to address economic and social issues, cybercrime and security, hosted by the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, the Rt Hon William Hague MP, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre.
Key delegates from Governments, industry and civil society around the world including Prime Minister David Cameron, US Vice President Joe Biden, Helen Clarkof the United Nations Development Programme, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildtand Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales came together at the conference to develop a better collective understanding of how to protect and preserve the tremendous
opportunities of cyberspace.
In just a few weeks, in collaboration with conference event services company MCI, Feltech delivered comprehensive media facilities and host broadcast services providing seamless coverage and facilities to the worlds’ media, on behalf of the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the conference.
The Feltech media centre provided facilities to enable international TV and Radio broadcasters to film, record, edit and transmit the coverage, press conferences, interviews and other media opportunities. Facilities included 25 edit suite booths, 6 radio booths, and full written press facilities for 150, all with full support from Feltech’s experienced technical team.
A last minute change of plans for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meant that she was unable to attend the conference. Feltech were able to help by arranging a live satellite link with the White House at 2 hours notice, allowing Vice President Joe Biden to address the conference in her place.
Feltech were responsible for providing secure wi-fi and fixed point internet access both in the media centres and across the rest of the venue for delegates, a significant challenge due to the possibility that the event could be maliciously targeted to highlight flaws in IT security. Each of the 1000 accredited individuals for the conference and media centre were allocated unique username and password combinations and all cyber traffic was scrutinized to protect against either internal or external cyber attack. Numerous fail safe mechanisms were also implemented to ensure maximum network protection and cyber security.
Working closely with the FCO Feltech were also responsible for accreditation of 400 Media including secure online registration facilities and holographic badging.