e-Crime Wales
e-Crime Wales Summit 2008
MultiStream was contracted by the Welsh Assembly Government to undertake the live webcast transmission of the fourth annual e-Crime Wales Summit, which took place at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales. 
BBC television presenter Jamie Owen hosted the days events which included ten presentations with simulcast slides delivered as a live webcast though out the day.
Over 70% of the delegates were from the private sector, with other attendees from public sector, law enforcement and academia.
Delegates attending received keynote presentations on the importance to business on implementing the correct policies, processes and procedures to protect themselves from the ever increasing threat of e-Crime.
The Deputy First Minister Ieuen Wyn Jones, delivered the opening to the conference on a presentation about the threat of e-crime to Wales, followed with presentations by Thomas Karlsson, a leading ICT security specialist for Microsoft and Martin Smith, Founder of The Security Company, who delivered a presentation on the importance of staff awareness of ecrime.
The live webcast was watched by a global audience and is available as on demand content on the e-Crime Wales website.
The Celtic Manor offered excellent broadband connectivity which allowed MultiStream to deliver the primary and back up streams, thus providing resilient encoding for reliable live coverage.
MultiStream delivered the proceedings simultaneously in windows media format with the live video / audio being synchronised with the ‘pushing’ of the PowerPoint slides, geared to giving the virtual attendee as close to an ‘in-the-room’ experience as possible. Multiple bit rates or speeds of video were provided seamlessly to only give the viewer a ‘size’ of video that their equipment and video connection would support.
Content for the live webcast was produced by Saville Trison, a leading audio visual company. MultiStream seamlessly integrated with Saville’s Production team using the main video TX from the two camera crew manned by a team from the Eclipse Creative.
Full archive coverage of the e-crime Wales summit is available on the e-Crime Wales website.