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Media Matrix makes Roche Molecular a big winner at Cannes event creativestudy Client Roche Molecular Diagnostics Challenge Produce a corporate meeting in a European location with elements appropriate for an international audience Tools Video production, graphic design, live entertainment, stage design, special effects Details Roche Molecular Diagnostics, a division of the Roche Group, hasn’t begun making award-winning art films. But the recent RMD worldwide Affiliates Meeting, held at the French Riviera resort of Cannes, was certainly a smashing success thanks to the full-service capabilities of Media Matrix. And while the Roche event planners didn’t need a cinematic masterpiece, their communications objectives for the event were ambitious. Roche needed to deliver some serious, even potentially controversial, messages about competitive inroads against their PCR business. Representatives from 42 different countries, from Asia to Africa to Europe, would be on hand in Cannes to see how Roche would respond to recent challenges to their leadership in PCR technology. The Media Matrix creative staff quickly developed a colorful, cinematic spy/mystery theme with plenty of flash and media elements, including an interactive audience response system to get everyone