Conference video and run-of-show

LIVE EVENT PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT

AWS OpenSearch

August 2022 – present

With less than a month until OpenSearchCon—the inaugural meetup for AWS OpenSearch partners, developers, maintainers, and contributors—the AWS team needed support with event production and management. Bar-raising was the goal, which meant elevating attendee experience beyond a standard developer event and giving fun, unique content to create the appropriate atmosphere. 

Over the next few weeks, Steyer’s creative project manager helped ideate, brainstorming different graphical assets with the AWS OpenSearch team to serve as a coherent throughline creating a consistent look and feel from start to finish. This included building more than twenty unique motion graphic videos, which welcomed delegates, introduced sessions, highlighted sponsors and contributors, and helped segue to breaks, meals, and networking time. 

Once the conference’s graphics package was complete, Steyer’s event manager oversaw the run-of-show. This proved to be an invaluable contribution, not only keeping the program on-time and correctly sequenced, but also helping to troubleshoot technical difficulties at the venue.  

During morning setup, it became clear that the venue had not correctly wired the stage, which would have made it impossible to display presentations, video packages, or allow speakers to click through slides. Fortunately, Steyer’s event manager brought their own equipment and was able to quickly route cables and displays, giving the AWS OpenSearch team the exact conference experience they were looking for.