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The Event: Drupa 2012, The largest print show in Europe. The Venue: The Messe, Düsseldorf, encompassing 17 halls of Exhibition space! The Client: WRG for Ricoh. The Experience: 2000m² of floor space showcasing the latest Ricoh hardware and software technology. … Continue reading
Last week Eric, Alan and myself were in Berlin supporting Big Rock Productions on the TedxChange project. Hosted at one of the strangest venues we’ve ever worked in, the shell of the old East Berlin power station, which included – Lots of concrete, lots of darkness and plenty of areas where in the UK or US health & safety would have a field day. The remit for TedxChange is to look at the bigger picture and why as a society we should help provide people with their most basic needs: Food, clean water, life-saving medical treatment and vaccines.
We were tasked with providing full wireless coverage throughout the public areas of the venue as well as a selection of wired and wireless coverage in key areas for speakers, staff and crew. Support the keynote production and of course provide some technical equipment which included: Cisco switches, 4 x Xirrus arrays, 10 x laptops, a TMG server, printers and 1.2km of cat5 cable.
The venue itself was a challenge, being just a shell it couldn’t provide us with the power and internet requirements we needed so it meant power generators being hired in and a line of sight internet connection being ordered and beamed to us across the Berlin skyline from 1.5 miles away.
The show went ahead and was beamed via satellite from Berlin to London where it was webcast live to the world. A full recording of this inspiring show can be found here
Photographs courtesy of Mike Reid Photography
When booking a venue for your event there are a whole host of services that will need exploring, the IT provision being one of them.
Through many years of experience we know that every venue is unique in its offerings and capabilities.
Discovering which Technical services are provided by the venue and which ones you may need to source externally can be a time consuming process, so we put together this handy guide to get you started:
1. How much bandwidth do you currently have available and can it be dedicated to our event?
2. If we want to bring in our own internet drop from another ISP, is that possible?
3. Is there an onsite company that manages your network or is it managed remotely?
4. Do you use an in-house AV company or is there an outside company that holds the contract?
5. Do you manage electrical needs internally or is there an outside company that manages that for you?
6. Do you have a loading bay? If so, what is the maximum size lorry it can accomodate?
Keep these handy for the next time you are planning an event…
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Facebook Hack London 8AM Sunday morning and I’m on my way to the East End of London, to the very trendy Brick Lane for the first leg of the Facebook Hack Road show. So what is the Facebook Hack Road … Continue reading
Show season is off and running with both the UK and US office supporting multiple shows across the globe. The BlackBerry Developer Conference is touted as THE showcase for the latest innovations and breakthroughs with the BlackBerry Development Platform. Thousands of BlackBerry enthusiasts came together to collaborate with platform experts from the community and to attend sessions, demonstrations, hands-on labs and keynotes — all focused on developing leading mobile applications, across all skill sets.
While day 1 in Amsterdam met us with -12 degree celsius and several inches of snow it was not enough to stop our team from getting the show up and running! The doors opened on Tuesday welcoming around 2,000 developers from all over the world to hear from their new CEO and debut the Blackberry Playbook 2.0 beta software.
The event took place at the Amsterdam RAI which is the largest convention center in Holland. The 2 day event consisted of:
Keynote, 6 breakout rooms with around 50 sessions, 2 x 50 person hands on labs, Aside from supporting each area, F1 handled the entire network which landed 3,100 devices connected to Wi-Fi throughout the venue.
This is a new client for F1 and our first time supporting the event, not only was this a fantastic opportunity it is also an extremely successful show and the biggest BlackBerry DevCon to date.
Ian Farmer Senior Technical Consultant
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