International summit A global summit in Malta for 381 delegates, planned in ten weeks

A US investment firm confirmed Malta ten weeks out. Colours of Malta delivered a four-day summit for delegates from more than ten countries.

Fort Manoel from the air at dusk: the star fort's walls and parade ground, a clear-roofed marquee laid for dinner, and a purple carpet running from the gate to a reception crowded with guests
Fort Manoel, laid for the closing gala

Programme at a glance

Contract to arrival
10 wks
Delegates, ten-plus countries
381
Rooms in one property
390
Evening venues
4
Room nights
1,700

Most conferences of this size are planned a year ahead. This one was contracted at the end of January for arrival in the first week of April.

We handled the hotel, the historic venues, the government permits, production and transport with one team.

All 381 delegates stayed under one roof: 390 rooms in a single five-star resort.

A plenary built for 350

The plenary had a 10-metre stage in front of a 30-metre LED wall, with eleven breakout spaces around it. We chose the LED wall over projection so that every seat had the same picture.
Before doors
A darkened conference arena with star-shaped lights projected across its angled ceiling, lighting trusses, and a long LED wall showing blue and pink waves
The resort arena set in cabaret rounds with white tablecloths and water bottles, facing a lit LED wall beneath the lighting rig
Our team, on the floor
The back of a black Colours of Malta team jacket, delegates out of focus in the resort lobby beyond
Valletta

The Saluting Battery and the Sacra Infermeria

Delegates had an aperitif at the Saluting Battery above the Grand Harbour, with a private gun salute. Dinner followed in the Sacra Infermeria, the Knights' great hospital hall, under 36-foot ceilings.
Aperitif · Saluting Battery
The Saluting Battery's gun platform from above: black cannons along the parapet, white cocktail tables, red geraniums and the Grand Harbour beyond
A pyramid of black cannonballs beside white-draped cocktail tables on the Saluting Battery
Dinner · Sacra Infermeria
Two musicians in waistcoats, one with a guitar and one with a mandolin, in front of tables dressed in red and white inside the Sacra Infermeria
A wooden weaver's loom and stacks of woven textiles set up on the stone floor of the Sacra Infermeria
The long hall of the Sacra Infermeria seen from below: a timber-beamed ceiling hung with the Order of St John's red and gold banners, walls washed in red light
A band through the streets
A trombonist in a white-topped cap leads a brass band up a Valletta street of limestone houses and enclosed wooden balconies

An evening in Mdina

Drinks on the bastion walls of Mdina and a surprise concert inside the cathedral. Then restored 1940s troop-transport buses out to a Maltese night of artisan stalls, brass band and folk dancing.
Restored 1940s buses
The front of a restored vintage Maltese bus in blue, cream and red, chrome grille and headlamps, a Kalafrana destination board above the windscreen
A restored red, cream and blue vintage bus on a country road beside a rubble wall at dusk
Dinner · The marquee
A marquee laid for dinner: white chair covers, floral centrepieces, numbered balloons over the tables, pink uplights and patterns projected on the canopy
Fort Manoel

A gala inside a fort

The closing night took over Fort Manoel, an 18th-century star fort on its own island in the harbour, with a marquee, black Chiavari chairs and gold underplates.
The gala marquee
A clear-roofed marquee inside Fort Manoel: round tables in black linen with black Chiavari chairs and tall floral centrepieces, the fort's stone arcade behind
The procession
Men of the Knights' guard in red and white tunics and steel helmets, halberds raised, walking away along the purple carpet
Drummers in magenta and blue Renaissance costume marching along the carpet in the ditch, standard bearers behind
Standard bearers carrying red, gold, blue and black banners along the ditch, the guard following
The guard
A halberdier of the guard in a red tunic with a white cross and a steel helmet, the low sun behind him on the bastion
Guards in red and white tunics standing with halberds along both sides of the purple carpet in the ditch
Musket volley
Four musketeers in brown doublets and steel helmets fire a volley on the bastion of Fort Manoel, smoke at the muzzles, the dome and spire of Valletta across the harbour
Saxophonists playing under purple light at the gala, their music on tablets on the stands

Five dietary streams at every meal, a dedicated electric sedan for each of thirty VIPs, and every group coach fully electric.

Talk to the team that ran this one

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