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Google I/O 2024

I am thrilled to be back to Google I/O. Agency G approached me last year because I was the production team lead for the same event in 2021 and I was available as a freelancer.

While Google has not returned to a 100% live event this year, the main keynote sessions and 50% of breakout sessions were live at Shoreline Amphitheatre and its adjacent venue in Mountain View. This is a significant change from 2023 when all breakout sessions were pre-recorded. I was impressed to see a solid workflow Agency G created.  They were able to bring back many producers, production crew, and video editors. This helped ramp up the project quickly without much training.

post-production team in Sunnyvale

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Mental Health Awareness Month with Dr. Ali Mattu

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.

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Celebrating International Women’s Day with Bozoma Saint John

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.

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Snug San Jose Convention Center

This is my 6th year to work on this prestigious event for Client A through Agency D. I like San Jose Convention Center.  It is much more comfortable and convenient than the previous venue, Moscone West.  Maybe, the warmer temperature made people happier.  At least, I was not frozen with four layers of clothes.

As usual, our client helped us tremendously to improve production process and solve technical issues.  This is very different from my typical role which I am responsible (i.e. blamed) for everything.  Despite almost brand new video crew this year, my team published 120+ session videos in five days successfully. 

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Live Streaming from Orlando

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.

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Year in Review – 2016

I was kept rather busy at Duarte this year and did not have a chance to post any blogs for a while.  Here are my top three memorable projects that I worked on.

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Project: Videos On Demand for Developer Conference
Reason:  It is simply a pleasure to work with this passionate client for five years in a row.  I was also lucky to hire many veteran members to my post production team.  Here is a photo of my crew.  I managed to stand on one foot despite the lack of sleep.

 

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100 Videos On Demand in 5 days

Nothing is more fun than working on a project when the client is passionate about their project. This event falls into that category. This is my 4th consecutive year to work on this prestigious event for Client A through Agency D. Because this is a developer conference, I am fortunate to work with the finest programmers and engineers. They set up and troubleshoot software and hardware that they created. It is a dream environment as a vendor.

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My role was to hire, train and supervise a team of video post production crew. It was certainly aggressive schedule to edit and publish over 100 breakout session videos on demand (or 76 hours of video) in five days, but we did it again … successfully. A lack of sleep daunted me, but I was able to keep my energy up with the help of Odwalla juices (thanks to Steve Jobs’ legacy).