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We executed online streaming and streaming platform development for the 75th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, held at the Cardinal’s residence.

The white-tie event featured President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and hosts Timothy Cardinal Dolan , Archbishop of New York and Mary Erdoes , Vice Chair of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation. Both candidates participated remotely. Cardinal Dolan and Mary Erdoes were broadcasting live from the Cardinal’s residence. The National Anthem was performed by Nadine Sierra from New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

In the early years of the dinner’s existence, this event might have been the only time the candidates would share a dais during the entire campaign. By 1960 the Al Smith dinner had truly reached its zenith as “a ritual of American politics,” in the words of Theodore H. White. Many past dinners have generated front-page news items as a result of the program, i.e. joint appearances of opposing presidential nominees.

The Al Smith Dinner has come to be regarded as one of our culture’s last bastions of non-partisan unity, where the political, business, and cultural leaders come together, regardless of political affiliations, to raise millions of dollars for the most vulnerable members of society, underserved children.

A hybrid event was originally scheduled at the Wave Hill gardens in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. However, in the interest of the safety and protection of our speakers and guests, it was decided that the year’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner would be a virtual event.

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