This week, SAP TV is broadcasting from the Middle Kingdom where several Board-level events are under the spotlight: an all-China employee meeting, a board meeting, keynote presentations at a premier customer event and two press conferences. Preparations are well-underway and here’s a quick progress update:
Due to bandwith challenges in China, we’ve decided to run the internal employee event with live audio only, but we will provide a video recording to our Chinese colleagues afterwards. For one of the the press conferences, during which the Board will provide to the APJ media with further insight to our acquisition of Sybase, things have proven a little more challenging. Also for this event, we struggle with the external Internet bandwith. We had planned to have two internal streamings (one for back up) and two external streamings (the other also for backup). As far as the internal broadcast is concerned, things are looking good; we have a dedicated 20 Mbit line (up and down), same is installed externally. However, we’re just finding out that internet signals leave China very s-l-o-w-l-y. We’re going to see if we can sort this out tomorrow. Pull a rabbit out of the proverbial hat perhaps?! We’ll keep you posted! And one more thing; we’ll have top TV networks on-site on Friday – Reuters, CCTV and Bloomberg….
Some pictures of the setup in the Regent Hotel we took today:
