The UJA Federation of New York Wall Street Dinner 2019
December 2019. New York City, Hilton Midtown UJA Federation of New York recently hosted their Annual Wall Street Dinner at the Hilton Midtown in New York City for over 1,900 attendees.
This year’s dinner honored Vice-President and Co-Founder of BlackRock; Barbara Novick – the first women to receive the Gustave L. Levy Award; and Co-Chief Investment Officer and Head of Real Estate of Angelo Gordon, Adam R. Schwartz, who received the Alan C. Greenberg Young Leadership Award. The evening also featured remarks by Keynote speaker, Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial columnist at the New York Times as well as remarks by Lloyd Blankfein, Dan Och, Suzanne Peck, David Moore, John Paulson, Michael Gordon, Stacy Bash-Polley and Rob Kapito.
Upon arrival at the New York Hilton, guests were greeted by staff holding UJA branded paddles, along with a giant LED wall featuring the evenings honorees and keynote speaker. Once passing through registration, guests entered their receptions, which showcased the UJA brand, and impactful signage featuring their “Stand Up. Stand Together” campaign. Guests then made their way into the elegant Grand Ballroom banquet hall featuring an attention – grabbing branded Dais set up at the front of the room.
Following the stage program, guests proceeded to the afterparty, dancing to a live set by DJ Taela Noemi, experiencing unbelievable slight-of-hand magic by Doug McKenzie and enjoying desserts in the transformed cocktail space. Dessert stations and candy bars lined the room while party-goers played VR games, competed in a card toss for exclusive prizes and posed in the photo booth. This year’s Wall Street Dinner raised over $31 million to tackle many of the major challenges facing people in need in New York, in Israel, and worldwide. Empire was proud to work closely with the UJA Federation and Wall Street Division to deliver a lively and memorable evening.
Guests received their first taste of technological innovation at registration, where they were welcomed by name on a reactive LED screen installation covering the full width of the entry wall. A large lunch café was created with a décor scheme that incorporated custom-built, ceiling-high steel LED frames draped with foliage to create smaller, intimate restaurant-style spaces that displayed both technology and nature.
A series of breakout sessions presented content targeted to attendees’ varied interests, while imagery displayed throughout the venue showcased real-life applications of how products designed to empower developers help to unleash the power of data and reimagine possibilities that will improve our world.
Every element of Microsoft Connect(); from registration, breakfast and keynote, to lunch and evening cocktails, were custom-designed to communicate exacting brand messaging and to deliver a high-touch guest experience to this important audience. The keynote and breakout sessions were livestreamed through an onsite studio built for this purpose and content was watched online by millions around the world.
Empire is proud to collaborate with Microsoft on this annual, top-tier business communication event.
To view excerpts of Connect(); 2017, please visit https://www.microsoft.com/connectevent
