Capital
Markets
Days
From first sketch to show day. Featuring Sandoz.

Everything on the day, one team

Presentations and templates
Keynotes, investor presentations and a robust template every speaker can use.
LED and projection visuals
Artwork built to every screen’s spec, from 16:9 to 320° walls.
Film and animation
Openers, recap, montage, AI and avatar videos, divider animations and timers.
Print and brand
Invites, banners and backdrops, artworked to your printer’s guidance.
Moments people remember
Animated quizzes, PIPs for speakers on screen and bespoke music tracks.
On site, start to finish
At rehearsals and the live event, alongside your AV team and show caller.

CMDs at a glance

69
events for 54 different clients
8
clients have come back for another CMD
23
months: the typical gap between a client's CMDs

Why CMDs need a specialist

CASE STUDY
Sandoz
24 jobs, one client, twelve months. The CMD was the turning point.
18
jobs around one CMD
8
months from first logo sketch to show day
Then
a leadership meeting in Türkiye

Sandoz: one CMD, 18 jobs

Presentation
Video and motion
Print and brand
18
presentation, video and print jobs around one CMD
8
months from first logo sketch to show day
SANDOZ SLM · EVENT SPECIAL

What we made

300
slides
50
LED visuals
12
projection walls
6
print banners
AI video
Recap video
Montage video
Avatar video
Timer video
Divider animation videos
Animated who wants to be a millionaire quiz
PIP’s for speakers on screen
Bespoke music tracks
Sandoz SLM
They went for our
Gold
package.
€45.8kGold package plus AI opening film
Enhanced PowerPoint template, optimised for the venue’s LED environment
Design of up to 150 presentation slides
Animated transitions across masters and session dividers
30-second animated conference opener
Animated looping intro slides for up to 15 speakers
A dedicated onsite designer for 3 days (three of us ended up attending)
Project management throughout
Plus: a 90–120 second AI-themed opening film

The setup

3D render of the Sandoz SLM venue with two stages
Stage 1
1× 320° LED Visual screen + 16:9 presentation on top
Stage 2
1× 320° projection screen (net) + 2× 16:9 presentation screens
OUR PROCESS · 1 OF 3

Set up to succeed

01
Kick-off and weekly calls
Weekly calls with the core client team, and anyone else who wants to join, keep actions and progress clear on both sides.
02
Technical discovery up front
Before design starts, we lock down screen sizes, pixel specs, frame rates, file formats and file organisation with the AV team, and they test files along the way.
03
Readable from every seat
From the tech discovery and room plans, our designers set font sizes and content levels for each screen size.
04
Look and feel, then a robust template
Once the creative is approved, we build it into a template with guidance inside: images, icons, layout and how much text to add.
05
The right team for the timeline
On a short turnaround, a multi-skilled team joins early, knows the screens, creative and brief from day one, and can jump in wherever needed.
OUR PROCESS · 2 OF 3

Making it

16
Sections, built one by one. Each briefed by its owner and sent back for their review, so ready sections kept us moving.
1
Central tracker. Every deck, print, video, animation and AV request logged with the client’s notes and assigned. Every day starts with a clear action list.
Video
Storyboard→Animation snippet→Soundtrack and voiceover→First draft→Amends→Final edit
Print
Concept→Approval→Artworked to the printer’s guidance
LED and projection
Concept→Approval→Artworked to each screen’s spec
Final pass: once every section is in, our lead designer checks brand and layout for consistency, then applies the final animations.
THE SANDOZ TEAM

Nine people, one brief

Emma
Account Manager, on the ground throughout the event
Azarra
Lead Creative, also covering PM on site
Rowan
Second in command on creative, covering PM on site
Dave
On the ground creative support, AV go-to and animator
Ally
On the ground creative support
Melly
Supporting creative, and cover for the Lead Creative
Nadia
Supporting creative
Chloe
Animator
Luke
Animator

300 slides

A wall of Sandoz SLM presentation slides
The SLM presentation
Slides from the animated who wants to be a millionaire quiz
Animated who wants to be a millionaire quiz

LED screens

LED screens in action

Double Impact visuals on the 320° LED screen Night skyline visuals around the audience 100 Billionaire visuals behind a speaker on the round stage Our Delivery visuals on the LED screen Forest visuals wrapping the room What would you decide? interactive visuals

On screen

The 320° LED screen in action
The AI avatar on screen in front of the audience
AI avatar video

Print elements

Double Impact print banner Team posing in front of the Sandoz backdrop Sandoz backdrop going up during the build Sandoz Double Impact backdrop in the venue lobby
OUR PROCESS · 3 OF 3

Show ready

01
Organised for AV
Files on a drive and a shared point. Every supporting visual has a matching hidden background slide with the same name, so the AV team can follow the show seamlessly.
02
Scope you can always see
As new requests came in, we kept the scope updated, so the client always had full visibility of where things stood.
03
On site
At rehearsals and the live event, alongside the AV team and show caller: last-minute changes, the right files, and everything handed over ready to run.

The result

FROM THE SANDOZ TEAM
“Our best SLM so far!”
“It was so amazing, best visual experience I had in events, including those not managed by me!!! Great job”
“OMG this is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cool!!! I love it.”
“100 people filled in a survey following the event, and the visuals and slides were rated mostly excellent by all!!! The client also really appreciated how thorough you all were, with no mistakes, grammar issues. Internally, their feedback is that they’ll only do this again if Emperor is on board”

Plan early

29 of 69CMD events started September to November
A second wave runs February to May (21 events).
Next steps
Let’s plan yours.
01
Kick-off call
02
Technical discovery with your AV team
03
Look and feel
Daisy Tyszkiewicz · daisy.tyszkiewicz@emperor.works · emperor.works
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