Virtual Events & Conferences – AV Hire Conference & Event Management
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First Network is a leading Live Event Production and AV Hire company. With 3 decades of experience, we have an outstanding reputation for event design creativity, customer service and reliability.
Event Production
With a wealth of experience and a proven track record we offer total technical event management.
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We love a challenge and pride ourselves on bringing your vision to life, whatever it may be.
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We were delighted to be back on site and working on a live event once again last night. Our team was delivering the Morningstar Annual Investment Awards 2021 at the fabulous @barbicancentre Gallery. It really felt like watershed moment with 100 attendees and a palpable sense of excitement from both team and client.
Now in their 15th year, the annual Fund Manager of the Year Awards recognise and celebrate the best of the UK fund management profession, as selected by Morningstar’s Manager Research analysts.
We have always been very proud of the strong working relationships we have our longstanding clients. Looking through our archives to write this post, we were struck by the fact that our involvement with Morningstar dates all the way back to 2008.
Audio equipment included #D&B E8, D6 Amps. Shure K4E radio mics, transmitters, DA and paddle kit. #Yamaha Ql1 desk and lectures mics
Video kit was two #Samsung 75” screens connected to a Barco 902 switcher and a Kramer HDMi 4K. We used source 4 lighting with #Avalolite lighting desk and a logo gobo to add the finishing touch.
Whilst we’re enjoying all the virtual and hybrid events we’ve been working on this year, it’s great to be back with real delegates in a real venue again. Here’s to many more to come as confidence in live events continues to grow.
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It’s a wrap!
We’ve just come to the end of a 2-day hybrid event for world-leading, specialist administration services company, Intertrust Group.
Our clients spent several days working with us in the studio to pre-record sessions. These were then live streamed to an online audience with a live studio presenter element too.
In addition to the studio services, our clients enjoyed full use of our office facilities, which provided them with plenty of room to work in comfort, plus a green room and catering spaces.
We use VMix software to stream our virtual events. If you’d like to find out more about VMix please do call us to arrange a demo. The software is very versatile and has multiple functions. In this case we used it to livestream Panasonic vision mixers, cutting between the three cameras. Absen 2.9 High Resolution LED displays provided a striking backdrop with Barco E2/EX advanced video processing and presentation control systems for picture management.
June was a busy month for First Network, with a flurry of Virtual and Hybrid events running out of our West London studios.
This event for investment company, Invesco, saw the culmination of weeks of pre-recording, editing and the video content creation in a 1-day live event.
Speakers included Invesco CIO Stephanie Butcher and Nobel Prize Winner Esther Duflo.
Duflo is a French economist who received the prize in 2019 for her research into the best ways to reduce global poverty.
Throughout the presentations there was a strong focus on Environmental, Social and Governance practices, sustainability and climate. Invesco pride themselves of their application of ESG in all dimensions of business, from the products they offer and their investment processes, to corporate behaviour.
This was a fantastic event to be involved with and we thoroughly enjoyed working with such a dynamic and progressive company.
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vMix Racks with BlackMagic Capture Cards now in stock
Why vMix?
vMix is the perfect event companion, putting all your inputs conveniently in one place.
Join cameras, run videos, control PowerPoint, and encode for web, effortlessly.
For Dry Hire or with Operator
First Network’s team of experienced operators are on hand as required to engineer or mix your production, with quality guaranteed.
FEATURES:
VMix Server & Configuration
Intel i9-10900X (air cooled)
32GB Corsair RAM
Asus motherboard (X299 Chipset)
NVIDIA Quadro RTX4000
700W PSU
240GB NVMe drive (OS)
1TB NVMe drive (Record)
2TB SSD (Media)
Windows 10
Pro4U Rackmount case
Blackmagic Decklink Duo 2 (4x 3G-SDI)
Blackmagic Decklink Quad HDMI (4x HDMI)
Asus 10GB ethernet card
USB Front panel
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We have several virtual events taking place in our studios this week.
Where there's a will there's a way!
Though the face of events has changed dramatically this year, companies the world over are finding new and innovative ways to communicate with clients and colleagues.
Onwards and upwards
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Some stills from the virtual conference running from our West London HQ this week.
This is one of a number of digital and hybrid events running concurrently over the next few days.
Digital Events have evolved at breakneck speed since the onset of the pandemic, as the whole industry has had to adapt to the new way of working.
We're seeing some truly exciting innovation and would love to show you more. Get in touch if you're planning an event would like advice about taking it online.
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Live on set today, direct from First Network HQ!
We’ve been working on a 3-day hybrid event for a Global Investment Company client in our West London studio this week.
Today we filmed a TV style broadcast which was then streamed to to a virtual audience via our bespoke online interactive virtual event platform.
Live presenters on set were able to interact seamlessly with external guests who joined remotely.
With the current restrictions in the events industry, our virtual and hybrid solutions will deliver your online event in an engaging and professional way.
Give us a call on 020 8842 1222 to find out how we can help get your event online.
For this set-up we used a 10 m x 3m @absenled curved screen backdrop, a 4-camera set up @sonyhxc 100 production cameras with 2 on-camera prompting, #BarcoE2 Image Management, @yamahaproaudio digital audio board RYS hardwired and @clearcom wireless, @panasonicuk 450 vision mixer and @ajavideo recorders. Streaming and recording was by @VMixhd and lighting featured @avolitesltd Quartz
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Fantastic Hybrid Virtual-Live Event at First Network this week. The event combined real-time presentations filmed professionally in our West London studios, with #Live-Streamed presentations and delegate participation.
We used #Vmix to stream to the clients preferred platform, #BarcoE2 for the on screen image management, and a curved high resolution @absenled backdrop with @novastartech 4k processing.
Presenters included #andrewmarr and @declancurry
The pandemic has been hugely restrictive for the events industry.
So it feels good to be delivering virtual solutions which enable us to continue to run events for our customers - albeit in a different format.
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Introducing our FN-Live Mix Streaming Service. With our new state-of-the-art technology we can turn any event into its online equivalent. Talk to us about how we can Make Your Vision A Reality.
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First Network #lightitred tonight in support of #wemakeevents Global Action Day. Our goal is to raise awareness that the Live Events Industry urgently needs support from the UK government to survive the Covid-19 crisis.
In solidarity with all those skilled people in our sector whose lives have been affected.
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