SCOPE – The DSV Group Business Festival, Cologne, October 2024

The DSV Group is the Stuttgart-based central service provider of the Sparkasse Finanzgruppe and, taking “re:define tomorrow” as its slogan, the organisation hosted its SCOPE24 business festival in October 2024 at the new “Confex” conference and exhibition centre situated on the grounds of the Koelnmesse trade fair site. Over a period of three days, more than 8,000 attendees took in inspiring keynotes, while numerous workshops delivered valuable insights into trends affecting the key issues of digitalisation, artificial intelligence and payment. 

We were hired to equip the Center Stage and the two stages in the foyer with Audio, Lighting and Video. 200 speakers delivered keynote speeches and entertained audiences during the three-day event. We set up media hubs to create one central platform for managing speakers’ presentations. We also designed a "Silent Conference” system so that audience members could concentrate on the presentations. A total of 2,800 radio receivers were provided so that speeches could be heard in peace and quiet. This was a complex undertaking in terms of frequencies and required a set-up equipped with 16 different channels. 

The visual highlight of the main stage was a moving LED wall. Consisting of three elements, each measuring 6 by 5.50 m, it was realised using our new Topaz LED panels from ROE Visual – with Brompton Technology processing and a 2.60 mm pixel pitch at 36,864 pixels/module. Our colleagues from the on-site team were once again amazed by the short time needed to install and set up the system as well as by the visual result – which also met with our client’s full approval. In the middle, we constructed an element measuring 2 by 2.5 m. Suspended from trusses and with an appropriate substructure, this could be moved to get protagonists’ on-stage appearances off to a perfect start. 

Partner enterprises of the DSV Group also had the opportunity to showcase their activities at the business festival: the exhibitors created exciting theme-based worlds and presented innovative tools that visitors were able to experience in the form of guided tours. For these tours of the booths, we configured 100 iPads and programmed specific applications on the tablets. To ensure a trouble-free user experience both here and in the entire event area, our ICT team set up a holistic, converged network to enable broadband WLAN. The high-powered infrastructure we put in place was also used by exhibitors in the expo area for their exhibits while also serving us as a means of totally integrating our various technical systems.