Case study

Innovation Hour 2024

Leadership and expert perspective built for a distributed workforce.

Client

Isuzu

Year

2024

Industry

Automotive / Aviation

Solutions

Event

Overview

The brief

Innovation Hour Vol. 3 needed to work as an internal engagement operating system, not a one-off talk. We produced a hybrid event experience that connects leadership intent with expert perspective, supports bilingual participation, and delivers broadcast-grade reliability so engagement discussions could scale across the Isuzu Group.

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Challenge / Transformation / Impact

The work

01 / Challenge

Employee engagement becomes abstract when leadership messages are delivered without a clear dialogue structure or a delivery system that genuinely reaches a distributed workforce. Isuzu needed Innovation Hour to function as a repeatable engagement operating system with lasting internal impact.

02 / Transformation

YF designed the program flow and run-of-show for a hybrid executive session featuring internal leadership and an external expert, including cueing for camera states, presentation modes, and live interaction segments across both in-room and remote participants.

03 / Impact

Isuzu gained a repeatable hybrid event blueprint for internal alignment that can scale engagement initiatives across group companies. The bilingual production and interaction layer improved accessibility and gave leadership a format they can run consistently going forward.

What we made

Deliverables

Hybrid event program design and run-of-show script; Real-time interaction design (polling / Mentimeter flow and prompts); Bilingual delivery infrastructure:; - Simultaneous interpretation booth and audio relay; - Separate Japanese and English audience lines and reporting; Broadcast production system:; - Multi-camera capture and switching workflow; - Lighting and audio routing setup; Streaming platform setup and operation (Teams); Physical and digital brand assets:; - Stand banners (design, DTP, production); - Stream overlays and screen compositions; Event intro video production; Event after movie production; Post-event documentation:; - Attendee reports (JP and EN); - Event recordings and delivery package

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