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The digital series that is Microsoft Envision this year
is the conduit for speaking to business decision makers
from Microsoft and Accenture and Avanade this year.
Now moving into the digital space
and things being so much more cinematic
rather than theatrical,
it's increasingly clear to us
that what we're really doing
is we're building an interactive television network here,
far more than, kind of, staging an event
or creating even a show.
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Welcome everyone, and thank you so much
for joining our America's broadcast
of the first episode of Envision.
My name is Stephanie Mehta
and I'm Editor-in-Chief at Fast Company,
and I'll be your host today.
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Envision is an event series that we've been working on,
really, for the last several years
as a journey for Microsoft to be able to connect
with our customers and business leaders around the world.
Envision is the place for business leaders
to come together and get practical insights
they can apply immediately in their organizations.
Accenture has rich consulting expertise
to understand the business impact that can be really driven
through the use of technology.
And Avanade and the practitioners
that we jointly invest in there are world class
in terms of the delivery capabilities they have.
The idea of a co-hosted event
seems like such a natural step
when I think about the closeness of our partnership today
and the strength of the three organizations coming together.
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When we started looking at Envision
and the digital version of it,
it gave us a chance, like
every other one of these translations,
to really step back and see if we could do it better.
One of the sets of teams that we had admired
over the last couple of years while we worked on Envision
was the Accenture and Avanade team
and the way they constructed
business decision maker content,
the way they spoke to executives around the world.
And so, rather than be, kind of, a broadcaster
or a producer and a sponsor,
we decided to be co-producers together,
and it's really been a great collaboration.
We really wanted to have this be relevant
to what's happening in the world right now,
which is why the event is live.
We wanted it to be, you know, almost like news happening.
And so, again, thinking about what content we want to have,
what speakers do we want to have,
who's relevant right now,
was really important for us to kind of come together
and think through that.
Clients out there need to understand
how they can advance their business priorities
in this very difficult global pandemic environment.
And with a theme of resilience,
we've cultivated all this content.
This opened up an opportunity for us
to access so much more people.
There's just so much great content,
and one of the benefits of partnering with Envision is
there's multiple episodes.
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We want to be very audience-centric
and deliver what the audience wants.
We know that the global leaders, industry leaders,
they don't have a lot of time to spend in virtual events.
And so by being able to do these bite-sized episodes,
we can convey the relevant points
or information that we want,
but do it in a way that is easily consumable.
Envision is such a global audience
and we really want to make sure
that we're always being inclusive.
And so, we're thinking about even the next episode,
like, you know, this time we have Japanese translation.
Can we do other translations?
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In the past, I was able to send few dozens
of my customers to attend Envision in person.
Now, I can send much more,
probably anyone who wants to attend that.
So this is a great opportunity for us to scale.
I hear from a lot of our customers
that they are looking for new digital opportunities
to connect and network with their peers.
We were already asking ourselves
what could be a unique selling point
or a differentiator with all the masses of digital business
events out there, and hey, along came Envision.
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And, we're clear!
Nice! (people clapping)
Within 15 minutes of wrapping the first episode,
we had kind of an all-hands debrief
on how to improve, iterate, and make the next three episodes
as great as the first.
Now, we're going to be able to get even more creative
and think about this in even a more global approach.
And how can we bring in our global partners
to kind of think through the content, even.
So I think it's going to be even more creative going forward.
Until next time, thanks to all of you
for joining the first episode of Envision,
presented by Accenture, Avanade, and Microsoft.
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