Event and Video Producer
Our team had the privilege of supporting a special event for Mental Health Awareness Month. With little time to spare, we swiftly responded to the event production request and I was assigned as a co-producer, tasked with mentoring a new producer, Iris. To keep within the client’s budget, we reduced the number of crew members, but ensured that everyone involved was highly experienced to support Iris in her role.
Continue reading “Mental Health Awareness Month with Dr. Ali Mattu”
Google’s International Women’s Day event brought an exceptional guest speaker to the stage, Bozoma Saint John, whose presence and words left an indelible mark on all who attended.
Her story resonated on multiple levels, serving as an inspiration to all who had the privilege of hearing her speak. I felt a deep sense of gratitude toward my client, Elise, for her efforts in securing such an extraordinary speaker, despite the numerous date and scope changes.
Continue reading “Celebrating International Women’s Day with Bozoma Saint John”
The Android Dev Summit (ADS) 2022 brought developers together for an eagerly awaited hybrid event. ADS had three product tracks: Modern Android Development, Form Factors, and Platform. The Platform Track, being the final event, allowed the client to address previous pain points and collaborate closely with our team.
I had the opportunity to work on my first external-facing project with the REWS Event Production Team since joining last December. Typically, our team focuses on supporting internal executive-sponsored events, which involve confidential content. However, this particular event stood out in many ways.
To begin with, the event had to be rescheduled multiple times due to concerns surrounding the Omicron variant. Given that the event revolved around health, the client placed great emphasis on ensuring the safety of the presenters and crew members. As a result, we planned the event without a live audience at Google’s MP7 Event Center in Sunnyvale, which has a capacity of 650 attendees. Instead, we transformed the event space into a large sound stage, allowing the presenters to address the cameras directly and engage with a virtual audience. This required significantly more planning than our usual MP7 events.
This was my third event to produce for the second half of 2021. I helped the last two Chrome Dev Summits with many session recordings, but the stakeholders decided to switch up the event format this year and focused on two deliverables: one keynote and one live Q&A. Yet, my project engagement lasted for three months.
Keynote Session (pre-recording)
This event was the first of the three virtual events that I produced in the second half of the Year 2021. I was so excited to be a part of this important initiative for Google to recruit and promote female engineers in the AI/ML field.
Joana Carrasqueira, Developer Relations Lead for TensorFlow, and her team led the efforts. The stakeholders were able to secure 20 amazing speakers, including Google VPs and industry experts from different organizations and countries.
The promo video boosted the event registration number. It was the first shoot we did at Google Developer Studio’s brand-new studio on the Sunnyvale campus. I could not believe how much we missed high-quality recording that was hard to achieve with home rerecording. Continue reading “Women in Machine Learning Symposium 2021”
It was a fast and furious four-month journey to be deeply involved in Google I/O. Our department, Google Developer Studio (GDS), has traditionally provided ENG style video crew on site as well as video editing of technical sessions. But this year was nothing like the past in-person events. GDS’s primary assignments were to pre-record 100+ technical sessions at the presenters’ homes and to live stream 50+ coding or Q&A sessions from home. I led cross-functional teams plus collaborating closely with developer marketing.
Android Product Keynote (pre-recorded)
We often brainstormed how to execute these deliverables in terms of production timeline, staffing, home recording equipment, live streaming show flow, and VOD publishing schedule. I might have communicated with more than 500 different people during the project. My primary responsibility is to provide execution strategies and timelines. I did briefings weekly to various groups and created playbooks, trackers, and FAQ’s so that I did not have to run a call center 24/7.
This is my first time for me to work for Client S. Agency I booked me six months ago, but the majority of my work happened a month leading up to the event. My role was to manage live streaming and video-on-demand for the 3-day general sessions. Managing two new vendors took me a while to figure out their process. Because the venue (Orange County Convention Center in Orlando) is huge, I chose comfort over fashion and wore running shoes most of the time. Who cares? I was in the dark backstage as you can see.
The venue was Tokyo International Forum which is very impressive architecturally. This is my fifth time working as a live-streaming producer for Client O. I had already visited the venue for a location scout last summer, which was a big help. Unlike a similar event I did for the same client three years ago in Tokyo, we had good pre-production in place as some lessons were learned from past experience. Live streaming went well without any technical glitches thanks to my supervisors, John and Tim as well as the client and the local production company on the Tokyo side.
The only disappointment is that I missed cherry blossoms by one week.
