APEC LEADERS’ WEEK - HANOI 2006

APEC Leaders gather at NCC, Hanoi - 12th- 19th November 2006. The APEC year 2006 culminated in Hanoi, Vietnam, where 21 Heads of States gathered for their Leaders’ week.

The National Convention Centre (NCC) in Hanoi was recently equipped with the latest digital conference technology by Brähler ICS. In total 4 conference rooms and the Main Event Hall are now fully equipped with CDSVAN conference systems, including digital microphones, voting ability, simultaneous interpretation as well as infrared language distribution for up to 32 channels. For the APEC summit Brähler ICS were requested to support the local engineers and to share their experience and flexibility during this highly prestigious event.

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Several additional conference rooms had to be prepared (sometimes overnight) to support the requirements of the APEC summit meetings scheduled and serve the short term organised conferences.

For the CEO Summit meetings, the Main Event Hall of the NCC, was equipped with 1,159 delegate units for voting and 32 channel language distribution, for the over 1,000 attending delegates with conference audio in their respective languages.

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On November 18th and 19th 21 Heads of States gathered for two conferences to share their speeches in up to 8 different languages.

21 heads of delegations attending the 14th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting:

Australia John Howard H.E. Prime Minister
Brunei Darussalam Haji Hassanal Bolkiah His Royal Highness the Sultan
Canada Stephen Harper H.E. Prime Minister
Chile Michelle Bachelet H.E. President
China Hu Jintao H.E. President
Hong Kong, China Tsang Yam Kuen, Donald H.E. Chief Executive
Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono H.E. President
Japan Shinzo Abe H.E. Prime Minister
Korea Roh Moo-hyun H.E. President
Malaysia Abdullah Ahmad Badawi H.E. Prime Minister
Mexico Sergio Alejandro Garcia de Alba Zepeda H.E. Minister of Economy
New Zealand Helen Clark H.E. Prime Minister
Papua New Guinea Michael Thomas Somare H.E. Prime Minister
Peru Luis Giampietri H.E. First Vice President
Philippines Gloria Macapagal Arroyo H.E. President
Russia Vladimir Putin H.E. President
Singapore Lee Hsien Loong H.E. Prime Minister
Chinese Taipei Morris Chang H.E. Chairman of TSMC
Thailand Surayud Chulanont H.E. Prime Minister
United States George W. Bush H.E. President
Vietnam Nguyen Minh Triet H.E. President

 

CDSVAN @ Work:

Overview of the main equipment at the NCC, Ha Noi:

CDSVAN Computer/ Control unit: 9
LCD/ Touch screen 9
DSP6 EDAT (DSP Card): 17
DOLV/E (Interpreter console): 43
DV9 (Delegate unit): 180
EDV9 (Main Hall): 1159
EDV9 (conference rooms): 60

 

The Brähler ICS Crew:

Alizah A. Aziz Brähler ICS Singapore Supervision
Ahmad Idris Sudinam (Alex) Brähler ICS Singapore Senior Engineer
Thomas Kautz Brähler ICS Germany Senior Engineer
Manuel Rumprecht Brähler ICS Germany Senior Engineer
Stephan Peter Heß Brähler ICS Germany Project Manager

 

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