Work: Yale University For Humanity Virtual Event

I led digital strategy and development on this virtual event helping Yale University launch the For Humanity campaign in October 2021. The event platform has since been archived, but elements of it can be seen on August Jackson’s website here. The project included two websites launched together, one based on the Swoogo platform to carry the livestream and the other was an immersive site for visitors to view a virtual campus during the Pandemic. The online experience was build to be WCAG compliant and included a portal to house 15 separate streaming broadcasts, a content recommendation engine, a custom photo booth, 360-degree video campus tours and private social networking platform. Some of the results from the project included:

33,000 visits to the campaign website
5,000 attendees from around the world
An equivalent of 71 days of content viewed during the 3 hour event

The project recently won Best Live Streaming and Video Production from Event Technology Awards. Here is a link to Yale’s Office of Development team talking about the project where you can also see elements of the site.