High Level Event – Transformative Action for Nature and People (WWF & Wyss/Campaign for Nature with others)

Objective: a 2-hour hybrid event to take place on the week of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly and feature presentations by world leaders and live hybrid panels with government leaders and partners on their transformative initiatives, policies, and financing to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Host in-person panelists at the Scandinavian House in Manhattan (NYC), from where they would participate in panels with remote panelists. To have simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and French.

Audience: Global, open to anyone who wanted to learn about what needs to be done and what is being done. The event was streamed to the UNDP event Nature for Life Hub. Live audience: >2000 unique viewers On-demand audience: ~5000 unique viewers.

Speakers: World leaders, presidents, and prime ministers of many countries, including H.E. Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP and H.E. Dr. Angela Merkel, as well as representatives of world renown foundations, whose primary focus is biodiversity, like Bezos Earth Fund and Wyss Foundation, presented by Dr. Musonda Mumba as Master of Ceremonies (MC).

Agenda: The MC participated live presenting each segment, some segments were a sequence of pre-recorded speeches, there were 2 hybrid panels with remote and in-person panelists. All in-person participants were invited for a breakfast served at the Scandinavian House.

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, but remotely, under the direction of the Kolektive Program manager. For this hybrid event, we scouted the venues and catering, decorated the physical stage with panels, had a camera director, 2 cameramen and 2 audio technicians, and a supervisor on location. We also helped prep the speakers, organized the venue movement logistics (including 2 secret service visits), plus 2 TV monitoring screens outside the shoot were available for the participants and their staff.