Vineet Verma✦

07— UAE–India CEPA Council · Event identity & screen design

Brand and screen design for flagship events

Event identities and screen design for the UAE–India CEPA Council, through Envoy Strategy: the Abu Dhabi × India Founders’ Forum, and Open Majlis.

Brand & identity
Client

UAE–India CEPA Council

Year
2024–2026
Location
Abu Dhabi · New Delhi
Role
Event identity, LED content & branding
Discipline
Event identity & screen design
The Founders’ Forum stage: a curved red LED wall around a red cylinder reading “Abu Dhabi × India Founders’ Forum”, with a ring of partner logos above and a large group of delegates in front.
Event photo: the stage at the Abu Dhabi × India Founders’ Forum.Photo: UAE–India CEPA Council

Context

Two events for the UAE–India CEPA Council, through Envoy Strategy.

The Abu Dhabi × India Founders’ Forum (Abu Dhabi, 6 December 2024) and its welcome reception were part of the inaugural Founders’ Retreat, held in the UAE from 6 to 8 December 2024. The Retreat was co-organised by the UAE Embassy in New Delhi, Offline and the UAE–India CEPA Council, and brought together more than 60 Indian start-up founders with UAE business leaders, investors and policymakers.

Open Majlis held sessions in New Delhi on 2 and 16 April 2026. The CEPA Anniversary Special, on 20 May 2026 in New Delhi, was a special edition hosted by the UAE–India CEPA Council and the UAE–India Business Council to mark the fourth anniversary of the UAE–India CEPA.

My role

What I did

  • Founders’ Forum and Founders’ Retreat: the event theme and logo, the LED screen content (the stage wall, the speaker name cards and the reception screen) and the event branding.
  • Open Majlis: the identity (logo), the LED background loop, the lectern branding and the posters.

The system

The Founders’ Forum is red: LED walls with a pale petal pattern, white capitals, and a rounded label above each speaker’s name.

Open Majlis is dark: a navy field with glowing dot patterns and the Open Majlis wordmark, carried from the posters to the LED loop and the lectern.

Team & credits

Client
UAE–India CEPA Council
Through
Envoy Strategy
Design
Vineet Verma
Event photography
UAE–India CEPA Council

Abu Dhabi × India Founders’ Forum

Abu Dhabi, 6 December 2024, and the Founders’ Retreat welcome reception. Event photos. Select any photo to see it full screen.

The stage

  • The venue in the round: the audience in white armchairs beneath a curved red LED ring reading “Abu Dhabi × India Founders’ Forum”, with partner logos above.

    Event photo: the venue and the LED ring

Name cards and the reception screen

Speaker name cards on the stage wall, and the screen at the welcome reception.

  • A speaker at a lectern in front of a red LED name card: a rounded “Closing Remarks” label above a name and title in white capitals.

    Event photo: the closing remarks name card

  • A speaker at a lectern under a red LED name card with a “Welcome Remarks” label, seen over the heads of the audience.

    Event photo: the welcome remarks name card

  • Two people in armchairs on a low stage, in front of a red screen reading “Founders’ Retreat Welcome Reception, 6 December 2024, United Arab Emirates”, with an audience in the foreground.

    Event photo: the welcome reception screen

Open Majlis

The identity on the posters and the LED loop (design files), then in use at the sessions (event photos). The QR codes on the posters are blurred.

Posters

For the sessions on 2 and 16 April 2026.

  • Poster on a dark navy background with glowing dots: the Open Majlis wordmark, the session title, a speaker label, name and title, the date and time, and a portrait in a rounded frame.

    Poster (design file): 2 April 2026

  • Poster in the same layout: the Open Majlis wordmark, the session title, a speaker label, name and title, the date, time and New Delhi, and a portrait in a rounded frame.

    Poster (design file): 16 April 2026, New Delhi

The LED loop

A 12-second silent loop for the stage screen at the CEPA Anniversary Special, 20 May 2026, New Delhi.

  • LED background loop (design file)

In the room

A speaker at a black lectern carrying the Council, UIBC and Open Majlis marks, in front of the LED loop reading “CEPA Anniversary Special”.

Event photo: the lectern and the LED loop

  • Two people on stage holding up copies of a red publication, in front of the LED loop with the Council and UIBC marks above them.

    Event photo: the LED loop behind the stage at the Anniversary Special

  • A session around a long meeting table, with the Open Majlis title slide projected on the wall.

    Event photo: a session, with the title slide projected

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