On September 3rd 2021, more than one month before the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), we sent a professional conference service team of 24 people to the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Kunming, China, to start the conference system installation and related preparatory work. For the successful preparations and smooth running of the conference, all TAIDEN people were on standby 24 hours in case of any emergency. The project lasted 43 days, covered 6 halls and 22 sessions.

The COP15 started on 11, October in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China with the theme of "Ecological Civilization: building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth". This conference is the most important international conference held in China last year. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron and other heads of states attended the leaders' summit via a remote video link. There were more than 5,000 delegates from more than 140 parties and 30 international institutions and organizations participating in the conference through a hybrid conferencing.

Keen to know what TAIDEN has prepared for the COP15, for the 6 halls and for the 22 sessions of conference?

1. Tailored-made conference system

TAIDEN Fully Digital Congress System, which is a highly spoken of its ultra-pure sound quality, ultra-high stability and superior multi-backup, once again served the COP15 after the COP13 conference in Ordos City, China, in 2017. In response to the requirements of the conference, the speech request system was also customized. It enabled up to 300 people to apply for request to speak. It was of great help to those who had to manage the speaking process in an orderly manner. At the same time, a new speech countdown function was added to help spokesmen reasonably control the time.

In the conference emergency plan, TAIDEN Digital Congress System features the main unit hot spare, computer redundancy, wired simultaneous interpretation backup etc. The system could guarantee smooth conference flow and unchanged speaking requests even if the system failed. In addition, if the venue had a power failure, TAIDEN multi-backup digital congress system could be recovered immediately when the the power was restored, without changing the order of request. When a single "closed loop-daisy chain" microphone failed or hot swapped, the entire venue would not be affected.

2. Paperless Multimedia Congress System

The Paperless Multimedia Congress System pioneered by TAIDEN in 2010 once again contributed to the success of this high-profile conference. Multiple tailored-made functions like viewing documents, meeting control, multilingual interface, etc., greatly facilitated the communication between delegates from different countries.

3. Simultaneous Interpretation System (dual backup of digital infrared SI and wired SI)

At an international conference where guests came from all over the world, multilingual communication is indispensable. One of the core requirements at this conference is to transmit the high-quality sound from interpreters to the delegates. TAIDEN Digital Infrared Simultaneous Interpretation System, as tried and tested "undefeated army", has shown its outstanding performance at COP13, annual meeting of IMF and World Bank and ITU Plenipotentiary Conference and other international events, which gave the COP15 organizer sufficient confidence. The COP15 conference adopted a combination of rmote and on-site conference. TAIDEN Simultaneous Interpretation System fully demonstrated the features of remote SI + on-site SI connected to the system at the same time, and provided mutual backup of digital SI and wired SI.

4. Camera tracking

In order to transmit the image of spokesmen to the large screen of the venue in real time, the organizer of the conference chose TAIDEN camera auto tracking system which can be combineed perfectly with TAIDEN conference system. It can automatically position the spokesman and then display the close-up image in real-time and record the conference. TAIDEN camera tracking system also has still frame function and smart on-screen menu setting.

5. Real-time AV recording

TAIDEN conference speaking system, camera tracking and AV recording system are connected via TAIDEN specialized digital transmission protocol to trigger an automatic and lossless recording.

6. Audio distribution

The press center had 150 seats with computers equipped with bilingual operating system and multi-channel conference audio channels. Using audio distribution function of TAIDEN conference system, journalists could listen to and record the required language channel whenever necessary.

TAIDEN provides not only rental products but also on-site technical consultancy and services for organizers to present a flawless conference!