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Conference
Global Data Festival × KSEC 2026
A four-day festival running parallel tracks to an international audience, with a 7:00 AM delivery deadline every morning. Full plenary and main-stage coverage, three partner programmes with their own deliverables, and an on-site edit suite running from day one.
Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Nairobi, Kenya
4-day festival
CLIENT
LOCATION
FORMAT
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The brief
A four-day festival with parallel tracks, an international delegation, and three partner programmes — MIDN, the AfriCAN Fellows and the Inclusivity Pavilion — each carrying its own deliverables inside the wider agenda.
The comms team needed daily material published while the festival was still running, and a permanent record that would survive the week: opening and closing ceremonies, selected speeches, more than fifteen interview edits, and a post-event film. Multi-track events punish thin planning.
Whatever isn't scheduled doesn't get shot, whatever isn't logged can't be found when the report is due, and a 7:00 AM deadline leaves no room to work out the workflow on the day.
The approach.
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We planned against the agenda before we planned the crew. Every plenary and main-stage session assigned, community and showcase sessions triaged with the client into full coverage or highlight, and a recce of the venue with the agenda in hand to map movement, light and hand-off points before day one. On the ground, the team ran in defined lanes. A lead photographer moving across priority moments with assistants deployed by track, and a dedicated DIT backing up, cataloguing and pushing selected photos out during every break.
On video, a lead directing coverage, assistant videographers on sessions, vox-pop and atmosphere, and a dedicated interview room crewed for seated, long-form conversations for the full festival period. An on-site editor cut the day into the next morning's highlight video — the 7:00 AM deadline met four times, not once.
Vertical was locked on day one and built on through the week, so the social layer never became an afterthought. Everything landed in a shared client workspace, structured, so the archive arrived organised rather than as a drive full of frames.
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The outcome.
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The festival stayed visible for all four days — published live, not once editing finished. The permanent layer landed behind it: opening and closing ceremony films, selected speeches, an interview library, and a post-event film that carries the festival to the audience that wasn't in the room.
Each partner programme left with its own edit — MIDN, the AfriCAN Fellows and the Inclusivity Pavilion — assets those teams could take into their own reporting and channels rather than waiting for a share of the festival's.
1,000 +
Participants
100+
Sessions Covered
27
Videos delivered
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Delivered.
Daily highlight videos, delivered by 7:00 AM
Opening & closing ceremony films
Selected speech edits; 15+ vox-pop & seated interview edits
Post-event festival film
Partner programme edits — MIDN, AfriCAN, Inclusivity Pavilion
Session-logged image library; Same-day photo selects, delivered at every break