2010 Supply Chain Summit

2010 April 13

by admin

Another Supply Chain Summit has come and gone. For those who don’t know, this is my company’s annual user conference and was held this year in sunny Orlando, Florida. Here’s a link to the micro site I built for it a few month’s ago.

My role was basically the same as years past which is, in a nutshell, art director, lead production artist and event photographer. Usually I do most/all of the large format printing, but this year I had some outside production help which was great because I had about 1 month less production time than I usually do. There’s no way I could have produced (by myself) everything that was created for this show. Instead of babysitting our inkjet printer, I used an outside company called Endpoint Direct to help produce most of the signs and banners. This helped me to not only make sure that everything was produced, but allowed me to focus on things I hadn’t in the past.

The theme this year was Your Challenge. Your Chance. Your Legacy. I really wanted to go with a more classy look and we thought having a museum feel would be nice. We decided to profile past figures in health care who had left a lasting legacy as well as current people who were building theirs.

Outside the conference area we put displays highlighting the likes of Clara Barton and Louis Pasteur. I know, it still looks like the inside of a hotel, but we got some great comments on the overall look and feel of the event.

We tried to carry the same feel to our “GHXcellence” winning customer’s displays.

Inside the general assembly room were banners of current industry leaders. These I printed. I created a total of 11 40″ x 13′ banners for this room. I also created (on site) pockets in each end of the banner and cut lengths of rigid hollow conduit so they could be hung. The lesson from this year’s Summit is: when you do your site visit, make sure a qualified av/rigging person is on hand to answer your questions.

Out in the main hotel lobby we were able to put up some gobos and 6′ x 10′ banners which looked great at night.

I think the main stage turned out well. An outside production company took my graphics and put it all together.

And there was plenty of event photography going on. I snapped the shutter 1030 times over 3 days (including all the photos you see in this post).

That’s about all I have to say on the subject at the moment. I don’t have any nice shots of the agenda booklet I created this year, so that will give me an excuse to put up another post in the near future.