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AMRS
The team delivered nearly 580 events - a combination of digital, onsite, and hybrid experiences.
The 2nd annual Food for Thought event brought together over 300 thought leaders from leading consumer packaged goods and restaurant brands worldwide to explore the future of the industry. Special guest Dominique Ansel, the creator of the infamous “Cronut,” delighted attendees with an abundance of Cronuts. Guests interacted with demos that displayed innovation in the food and beverage industry. This was one of the first major events hosted at the Pier after opening last year. It was great for the team to come full circle and host the event in its second year for an incredibly happy client.
The team hosted Made on YouTube, where the client unveiled all the latest tools that are coming to the YouTube platform. We welcomed 150+ creators to the Pier and had the opportunity to celebrate creativity and innovation. Special guest, Charlie Puth spoke as well as the CEO of YouTube, Neal Mohan. Our team collaborated with the client to build a custom stage, production, and demos. The team worked tirelessly on this ever-evolving event to ensure its success!
The Learning Hub hosted Aruba’s Prime Minister, Evelyn Wever-Croes, for A Global Alliance Powering AI for Good Launch. The AI Forward Alliance is focused on empowering 25 million girls and young women to become AI innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs with the launch of the AI Forward, which is committed to equipping 25 million girls and women with skills so they have AI proficiency and the mindsets of entrepreneurs to adapt and thrive in an ever-changing world, and the capacity to adjust to new tools, technologies and creatively adopt those tools into their solutions.
EMEA
The team delivered 795 digital, onsite, and hybrid experiences across Europe.
Google officially opened the first phase of its Bolands Mills development in Dublin, The Flour Mills. The historic Flour Mills building has been restored and adapted into a dedicated collaboration space for Google. The official launch was supported by The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Google's Global Chief Marketing Officer, Lorraine Twohill, and Head of Google Ireland Adaire Fox-Martin.
The FIRST team supporting Google in London delivered a series of events celebrating Google’s 25th Anniversary. The week started with a town hall including updates from Matt Brittin, Debbie Weinstein, and Andrei Popescu. The room was full to 180 capacity and had 1520 viewers on the livestream. Following that, in 6PS, Google welcomed 80 external guests for a journalist evening reception to highlight Google’s 25th anniversary. Activities were held in a casual café, including a Spice Girls tribute performance group paying homage to the 1990s, a dance machine, a balloon wall and a DJ. Finally, the sitewide TGIT social was taken over with the 25th Anniversary celebrations, hosted across 6PS, CSG & BEL in EP spaces. Each venue had a DJ and a Flash mob and was decorated with bunting. EP created and displayed graphics to match the theme and party atmosphere, such as this video, which was played sitewide. Every venue saw a large intake of attendance and everyone seemed to have a great time.
Paris hosted two events with a public-facing impact. The first took place for Heritage Day, for which the team welcomed almost 400 guests for a discovery visit of the buildings’ histories and a few secrets. The second was the inauguration of the new 25C building in conjunction with Google's 25th anniversary. On this occasion, the team welcomed at least five VPs and the deputy mayor of Paris to cut the ribbon.
APAC
The team delivered 345 events in September, including 175+ onsite, 145+ Hybrid, and 15+ Digital.
Google SG Next 25 - The Kampong Fair was a fun fair-style event, with teams from different product areas manning 13 booths of traditional Singapore local game booths, photo booths, a talent show, and swag giveaways. The 4-hour event was a success and the attendees had a blast exploring booths and games during the event.
Thomas Kurian, SVP of Google Cloud, was visiting India and attended a fireside chat with Karan Bajwa, the Vice President of Google Asia Pacific. It was a high-profile digital event supported from Singapore with an extremely short turnaround time (3 working days). EP Sydney was activated to support the event from the technical aspect and the event went flawlessly with close to 3,000 employees and interns viewed via livestream.
The Sydney office also celebrated Google’s 25th Anniversary with many fun activities that Google employees could participate in, from monogramming to a drum beats workshop to jet boat rides on the harbor!
The celebrations concluded with SYD Family Day, where Googlers brought their families to the office so they could experience some of the Google Magic. This included many activations across the Sydney campus. The entire Event Management team came together to assist on the day with really great results. All event spaces across SYD were used with different activations, from magicians, to balloon twisters to painting. The event saw over 220 in person internal attendees and 540+ external attendees
Client Kudos
What the client has been saying:
In September, we received an impressive 70+ FIRST Kudos forms! While we would love to feature all of them, we've randomly selected some to showcase. Keep up the amazing work, team!
Marni Wexelman & Lilian Khoo-Miller: FIRST Supporting Google, NYC
I want Lilian and Marni for the exceptional work they've been doing over the past few weeks. In Cloud Space | New York, we are a small, tight-knit team, and we rely on each person onsite to get things done. Unfortunately, I've been WFH for 6+ weeks with an injury, leaving our team down a player. Marni and Lilian have done a stellar job stepping up to the plate. They have owned the guest experience as well executing on a new workflow that has reconfigured tasks and responsibilities. Although all of this has presented challenges, Marni and Lilian have consistently delivered a world-class experience for guests, taking ownership of their tasks and responsibilities, and been reliable teammates for Cloud Space. I can't thank them enough! And thank you all for such a great partnership!
Nina Johnston: FIRST Supporting Google, NYC
Nina is one of the BEST event managers that we have worked with at pier 57. Nina leads with passion, understanding, & a high level of productivity. We owe a MASSIVE portion of our event's success to Nina & this dream team. Joelle Quah: FIRST Supporting Google, Singapore
For always bringing in ideas to help with team bonding and running extra miles to make things happen - by making sure everyone in the team is involved.
Ester Leung Wong, Taylah Griffin, Rebecca Joseph: FIRST Supporting Google, Sydney
The event's success would not have been possible without the dedication, professionalism, and foresight displayed by the team, particularly Rebecca, Taylah and Estefania. Rebecca, Taylah and Estefania truly stood out for their unwavering commitment to ensuring every detail was meticulously attended to. Their keen ability to identify potential gaps and promptly address them played a pivotal role in the seamless execution of the event. Their proactive approach and attention to detail helped us avoid any last-minute hiccups, allowing everything to run smoothly.
Berlin RDS Team: FIRST Supporting Google, Berlin
I want to thank each of the team for their proactive, out-of-the-box thinking last Thursday at our event with our customer. As our office was heavily overbooked, we needed to switch to the YouTube campus to make it possible to meet the customer. It was a unique opportunity to have all decision-makers in a meeting and it would have been very sad if we had missed that opportunity. Daniela, Helmut & Philipp were one of the success factors. Their positive engagement and creativity made it possible to make the event happen. THANK YOU!
Lucas Simon, Fabien Viaut-Noblet: FIRST Supporting Google, Paris
Lucas is a stellar production professional. On top of solid project management skills, he demonstrated in two recent projects customer obsession, which has allowed to engage well with our customers and partners and increase the value of the outcome. Super can-do attitude, it really is a pleasure to work with him.
Fabien rocks at his job. He made our customers comfortable with the setup, briefed them really well and allowed them to feel confident when recording their content. Brilliant post prod, and solid outcomes as a result. Thank YOU!
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