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AMRS
The team delivered nearly 520 events - a combination of digital, onsite, and hybrid experiences.
A highlight for the Pier 57 team was delivering the Pier 57 Collective Capstone event. The Pier 57 Collective is a global six-month onboarding program that delivers community and developmental experiences for Black+ Googlers as part of Google's Racial Equity Commitments. The program's closing event was a hybrid experience designed to build community, network, and better understand Google's business and leadership context. The event consisted of a welcome party, a full day of content, and a farewell reception. Special aspects of this event include a headshot station, barista station, volunteer activity, a custom catering menu, and an interactive on-site activation with an in-person artist in real-time.
Over at Chelsea/Hudson ("Chel/Hud"), the team delivered The Learning Hub - Black Girls Code Summer Camp. The two-week camp provided hands-on, project-based instruction, where campers aged 12-17 engaged in tech instruction. The camp met from 9am-4pm with lunch breaks, community building, field trips and, of course... coding! The camp offered a space where girls could learn computer science and coding principles in the company of other girls, with mentorship from women they could see themselves becoming. View this event link for more information.
EMEA
The team delivered nearly 820 digital, onsite, and hybrid experiences across Europe.
The Paris team hosted the Mazda Motors & Google Executive Meeting. The exclusive meeting was attended by many VIPs, including 14 executives from Mazda Motors, and senior Google executives.
The team in London produced Alphabetical, the annual music festival for Googlers. Google welcomed over 600 in-person attendees to event studios, hosting 2 live music stages and 1 DJ room, coinciding with TGIT in the café.
The Event Management team also held a drop-in event clinic for Googlers to meet and learn more about the Events Solutions Team and the support the team offers. The team added enhancements, using the Digital Studios for a photo opportunity while showcasing the capabilities as an additional event space.
APAC
The team delivered nearly 350 events in August, including 150+ onsite, 175+ Hybrid, and 20+ Digital.
Sydney held the LGTM: Adaire Fox-Martin Global Town Hall, a quarterly Town Hall streamed to Googlers all around the world. The team spent countless hours working with local and international Googlers as well as external agencies to pull this together.
Sydney also hosted the Digital News Academy Annual Event. This event is a face-to-face event for all Digital News Academy cohorts to meet with their peers SMEs over interactive activities and experiences. The event utilized 5 of the Sydney event spaces and was a huge success for everyone involved.
The Singapore team hosted the National Youth Tech Championship Finals, an event co-organized by Google Cloud and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). This is an AI drone competition for secondary school students in Singapore, and they are trained by Google Engineers to develop AI skills. The finalists engaged in thematic challenges designed by Google Engineers. Senior Minister of State, Janil Puthucheary, attended and presented prizes to the winners. The event was captured by Titan Media and made into an online reality show, Final Showdown.
Singapore also held the Town Hall with Selin Song, President of Google Customer Solutions, The event attracted 110+ in-person internal attendees and was supported by an external agency, for lighting and camera services.
Client Kudos
What the client has been saying:
Avita Tarachand and Marli Caplan: FIRST Supporting Google, NYC
What a great pleasure it was to work with both of them on delivering a super successful event last week. They made my life SO much easier to help facilitate the ins and outs of the event.
Angel Lee: FIRST Supporting Google, Singapore
Reaching out to express my gratitude for Angel's assistance with today's event (for HSBC). This was the second event I have held with Angel - both running extremely smoothly. It is so nice to partner with such a positive individual, bringing a 'can do' attitude and ready to help wherever possible.
Jabie Chan, Jeremy Chua, Leisha Kuah: FIRST Supporting Google, Singapore
We are writing to express our sincere gratitude for your collaboration with the APAC Google Workspace Marketing and APAC Google Workspace Program team. All of you are very professional and efficient and covered different segments for each webinar. It was a joy working with the 3 of you. Your contributions were essential to the success of this project. Your expertise and insights were critical in developing engaging and informative content that resonated with our audience. Your professionalism and dedication were also exemplary, and we are grateful for your willingness to go above and beyond to ensure the success of this project.
Olivia Lightfoot, Eva Dedieu, Kevin Bone: FIRST Supporting Google, London
Just wanted to say a big thank you for all your help with organizing the Intersectional Disability Pride Panel, it was really great to work with you all, and we really appreciate your hard work on making the event a success. Hope to get to work with you all again sometime soon.
Event Production and Event Management teams: FIRST Supporting Google, Dublin
Sharon and the wider Foundry event management and event production team could not have been helpful in the organization and live support of our GCS Retail Peak kickoff @ The Foundry. They were on hand to help every step of the way, and could not have been more accommodating with our requests from Christmas decorations, to stage set up, live streaming support and speaker rehearsals. The quality of the event was second to none.
Maddie Rose AND Jimmy Sammon: FIRST Supporting Google, NYC
Both Jimmy and Maddie graciously helped me with some building-specific questions that I had this week to make sure that my upcoming events go smooth! They're always willing to help and are wonderful team members. Thank you both!
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