From facilities in Belgium, a team from Gravity Media and DB Video managed distribution giving global audiences access to WEF’s meeting in China via multiple platforms and languages.
The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026 was held in Dalian, China, on 23-25 June. The event brings together leaders from businesses, governments, academia and civil society around the world to discuss innovation, technology and economic development.
Operating from facilities in Vilvoorde, Belgium, a dedicated team from Gravity Media and DB Video managed the global distribution infrastructure that gives audiences worldwide the opportunity to access the event through multiple platforms and languages. Gravity operates 13 studios in Belgium equipped with cameras, cycloramas, virtual studio and AR graphics, green screen for keying and other equipment.
As part of a long-term, multi-year partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF), Gravity Media was responsible for the delivery and distribution of the event's world feed, live streaming services, video-on-demand content, IPTV distribution and social media streams.
The partnership supports major WEF events globally, including Davos, Dalian, Dubai and the Forum's autumn meetings in New York. During the three-day event in Dalian, Gravity Media managed approximately 60 sessions, simultaneously processing and distributing up to five live sessions at any given time.
From its centralised Live Centre in Vilvoorde, Gravity Media distributed world feeds, delivering live and VoD streaming across social, IPTV and China, with integrated real-time processing, monitoring and transcoding.
Central Distribution Platform
Distribution operations centred on Webble-Cast, Gravity Media's cloud-based media distribution platform, developed with and handled by DB Video. Webble-Cast creates multi-language livestreams with AI-powered transcription and subtitling.
Its services can generate streams with multiple audio tracks in different languages to reach a global audience with localised content, and then connect to external platforms or create streams manually with the Webble-Cast tools. Direct integration with YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and others makes it possible to create and manage streams across multiple destinations.
At the WEF event, the system served as the central hub for ingest, processing, management and delivery of all live and on-demand content. For this application, the key platform capabilities included signal ingest through SRT-encoders, and live and VoD streaming services with ABR streaming up to Full HD (1080p).
Integrations included Syncwords for multilingual caption workflows, as well as Salesforce for monetisation. Automated services have also been set up such as VoD conversion, cloud-based recording and content archiving, and AI-powered closed captioning support.
AI Language Services
In particular, Gravity Media's integration of AI language services was a key component of the deployment, delivering speakers' content in six additional subtitle languages for both web streaming and on-site IPTV audiences. Webble-cast’s AI-based tools generated accurate transcriptions and subtitles automatically in real-time. This ability significantly enhanced accessibility and audience engagement for the Forum's international participants.
The platform is designed to support large-scale global audiences, handling approximately 50 terabytes of data during the event and accommodating up to 10,000 simultaneous viewers via press outlets.
Through its centralised operating model and advanced cloud-based delivery capabilities, Gravity Media continues to support some of the world's most demanding international events, ensuring reliable, scalable, multilingual content distribution to audiences around the world. www.gravitymedia.com
