The Economist’s Global Energy Conversation

Summary

A Live Wavecast® on two occasions of a distributed global panel of energy industry leaders debating the future of energy via Cisco’s Telepresence. Panellist were situated in Shaghai, Singapore and London for the first event and Washington, Sao Paulo and London for the second.  By all accounts the event was a huge success with participation and engagement reaching over 50 different countries during the live broadcast.

Video Broadcast

Cisco’s Telepresence allows for HD real time video conferencing and was an integral part of the solution. The panellist “met” in a virtual space for the discussion and the master video feed was re-broadcast online for the global audience of online participants in a variety of formats compatible for viewing in adaptive bitrate flash players, iOS devices, Android and Blackberry devices.

Technology

A range of components from The Wavecast® platform were used to deliver a rich interactive experience. This included fully featured feed including colour coding & styling for different groups (a sub-group of online participants classed as “experts” were recruited and ear marked by The Economist); extensive use of the “Auditorium” event view across a range of Universities and full use of the contributors component where research papers and other useful material was published into the feed in real time.