o High Level Event – Countdown to CBD COP 15 (WWF, WCS & Wyss/Campaign for Nature with 30 others)

Objective: a 2-hour in-person event streamed live, taking place on the week of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly and featuring presentations by world leaders and a live in person panel with government leaders and partners on the ramp up to the COP 15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The MC and speakers were in person at the Central Park Zoo events tent in Manhattan (NYC), with over 180 VIP guests. Simultaneous interpretation was offered in Spanish and French.

Audience: In person VIPs, Online Global. The event was streamed to the UNDP event Nature for Life Hub and to the Kolektive Vimeo channel. Live audience: >2000 unique viewers. On-demand audience: ~15000 unique viewers.

Speakers: World leaders, presidents, and prime ministers of many countries, including the President of Canada Mr. Trudeau, as well as representatives of world renown foundations, whose primary focus is biodiversity presented by  as Master of Ceremonies (MC).

Agenda: The MC, Ms. Andrea Meza Murillo, participated live presenting each segment, some segments were a sequence of pre-recorded speeches, there was one in person panel and several live speeches. All in-person participants were served hours d’ouvres and drinks at the venue.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Countdown to COP15 Leaders event
at Central Park Zoo in New York City on September 20, 2022.
(header photo J. Deutsch | above video capture of the live stream)

The End Product: The live motion graphics with opening video, transition videos, and cards, was created by the Kolektive design team. The Kolektive team reviewed all pre-recorded videos, edited a few, and subtitled some. We also prepped the MC, who hosted the event live. For this streamed in person event, we scouted the venues and managed the catering, security and other vendors, decorated the physical stage with backdrop video, panels, had a camera director, 2 cameramen and 2 audio technicians, and a supervisor on location. We organized the venue movement logistics (including secret service visits), plus 2 TV monitoring screens outside the shoot were available for the participants and their staff.