President Biden and his team aspired to bring global leaders together on a virtual stage to strengthen democracy across the world. But this complex live broadcast event needed a full-service production team to pull it off.

The U.S. State Department ask? Produce this complex live broadcast virtually, discreetly, and securely across 11 countries and 7 time zones with 100+ presenters and attendees with an extremely tight turnaround: 3 months to plan, 9 days to set up.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how our teams produced this incredibly important global event.

Production details:

The creative:

• Designed and built 4 production sets in the South Court Auditorium Presidential Studio in the White House, three studios in the Washington D.C. convention center, and 3 master control rooms
• Designed the program, backgrounds, materials, etc.

The tech:

• Hosted 216 embedded streams on our customized platform
• The 165-person production crew managed:
• 200+ on-site cameras and off-site webcams
• embedding streams on our custom platform
• streaming to Youtube
• managing 548 inputs and 1132 outputs (feeds and video sources managed across the platform)