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FOUNDAYO · HCP LAUNCH · CONFIDENTIAL
ELI LILLY · FOUNDAYO (ORFORGLIPRON) · HCP LAUNCH

FIRST STEP SUMMIT
THE OPEN RING

One evening. 600 doctors inside a ring that never closes. The first oral GLP-1 revealed live, in the round, and broadcast to every corner of the UAE.

19 SEPT 2026SATURDAY EVENING
MADINAT JUMEIRAHCONFERENCE & EVENTS CENTRE, DUBAI
600HCPs IN THE ROUND
900+UAE HCPs LIVE REMOTE
THE BIG IDEA

The logo carries a circle
that is never allowed to close.

Two arcs that read as a pill. Breaks that mean patients breaking the cycle of weight gain and loss. The Open Ring takes that one brand rule and makes it the architecture of the entire evening: every gap in every ring on the floor is a doorway, and every time a doctor steps through a break, they physically perform the brand idea.

The breaks are doors, and doors are access. A closed ring is a specialist's club. An open ring is a therapy the primary care physician can walk into. The geometry itself argues the positioning: the incretin for all.

600HCPs, DESIGN BASIS

420 primary care, 180 specialists. Built for the PCP's Monday morning.

360°IN THE ROUND

No back of the room. Two arcs of seating, two open doors.

4+1ACTIVATIONS

Four immersive stations around the arena, one gallery on the way out.

18:28THE REVEAL

The cycle of weight gain and loss, broken. Live, in light, in the room.

THE VENUE

One hall. One ring.
A journey with no dead ends.

Joharah Ballroom, Madinat Jumeirah Conference & Events Centre: 1,880 sqm, pillar free, with its own arrival house. The full venue is masked in navy and rebuilt as the Foundayo world: a 30 m LED ring wall around the arena, four corner activations, a broadcast dock to the south and a protocol dock to the north.

Full venue overview
THE FOUNDAYO WORLDFULL VENUE, SOUTH SECTION VIEW
Master plan top down
THE MASTERPLANONE HALL · ONE RING · ONE DIRECTION
THE GUEST JOURNEY

In one side, through the story,
out the other.

The floor plan is the run of show. Doctors enter from the west threshold into the arrival house, move through the four activations that ring the arena, take their seats in the round for the reveal, then exit east through the Next-Day Gallery and the KOL pods. Nobody doubles back. The room itself walks them from curiosity to commitment.

A

ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION

Valet to interior foyer. E-consent, licence check, NFC badge. The Lilly world: 150 years at the threshold.

B

THE 4 ACTIVATIONS

Molecule, Evidence Wall, Patient Walk, Conversation Lab. Free roam with ushers guiding, never herding.

C

THE ARENA

The summons at 17:40. Everyone through the breaks in the ring, into seats in the round.

D

THE REVEAL

18:28. Kabuki drop, pill lift, ring ignition. The keynote moment.

E

BROADCAST ALL EVENING

The Glass Booth desk anchors the livestream to 900+ remote UAE HCPs.

F

EXIT THROUGH TOMORROW

Next-Day Gallery, KOL speaker pods, toolkit card in hand. Monday morning starts here.

Arrival tunnel
THE APPROACHARRIVAL CORRIDOR INTO THE LILLY WORLD
Registration and arrival house
THE ARRIVAL HOUSEREGISTRATION · E-CONSENT · HERITAGE
THE FLOW

Even the flow is a ring.
An open one.

Tunnel, registration, then in through the east door. The activations pull doctors clockwise down one side, the reveal holds the center, and the exit activations carry them out the other side, through the west door. They come in one door and leave from the next: the flow itself walks a circle, and like the brand mark, the circle never closes.

ARRIVAL HOUSE · REGISTRATION · HERITAGE STAGE BROADCAST · GLASS BOOTH PREMIUM VIP 1 · TUNNEL 2 · REGISTRATION 3 · ENTRANCE · EAST 4 · THE MOLECULE THE EVIDENCE WALL THE PATIENT WALK 6 · CONTENT BOOTHS INTERVIEWS 1-ON-1s GOODIE BAG EXIT · WEST
 
THE FOUR ACTIVATIONS

Four corners.
Four ways to believe.

Each activation states its purpose and its emotion, holds one of the brief's five pillars, and stays open through the talks with MSL-led briefings. Every station is a room-scale argument for the science, not a booth.

The Molecule station
1

THE MOLECULE

EMOTION · FASCINATIONPILLAR · SCIENTIFIC STRENGTH

The non-peptide story told as an object: why a small molecule survives the gut when peptides cannot, why once-daily oral with no food or water restrictions changes the conversation. Suspended molecular sculpture, 4K MOA touch table, holographic orbit.

The Evidence Wall
2

THE EVIDENCE WALL

EMOTION · CERTAINTYPILLAR · CONFIDENCE

A curved LED evidence arc, badge-personalized: the data lane splits by indication and by specialty, so the PCP and the endocrinologist each meet the trial story built for their Monday morning. ISI held at reading height, always.

The Patient Walk
3

THE PATIENT WALK

EMOTION · RECOGNITIONPILLAR · ACCESSIBILITY

The gut punch: four frosted rooms, one lived story of the weight cycle, pod-guided and headset free. Dignity first, a declared no-filming zone, and an exit straight into the clinical so-what.

The Conversation Lab
4

THE CONVERSATION LAB

EMOTION · COMPETENCEPILLAR · CONFIDENCE

Acoustic booths with AI patient personas: rehearse the opening three minutes of a real 12-minute consultation, time pressure and treat-versus-refer built in. The conversation rehearsed is the conversation started.

THE CENTER

The arena: a stage with no front,
a ring with no end.

A 10 m round stage inside a full seating bowl, wrapped by the LED ring wall and crowned by the floating cloud halo. Two arcs of seats, two open doors, every chair inside the story. The 360 stage the brief asks for is this concept's native geometry, not an accommodation.

Open Ring stage wide
THE OPEN RING STAGEVIEW FROM THE WEST DOOR
Stage from the aisle
FROM THE SEATSHALO + RING + REVEAL SIGHTLINE
THE PUSH-INWALKING THE WEST DOOR TO THE STAGE
THE BROADCAST DESK

A show that is genuinely
being broadcast to the world.

At the south dock, in the middle of the room: the Glass Booth, the visible broadcast home. An anchor desk facing the stage across the bowl, camera positions ringed around the arena, a live program bug on IMAG. Doctors watching a colleague go live IS the buzz mechanic. The feed reaches 900+ verified UAE-licensed HCPs with Arabic simulcast, jurisdiction gated.

Broadcast desk
THE GLASS BOOTHANCHOR DESK · SOUTH DOCK · FACING THE STAGE
THE CRANEFROM THE DESK, OVER THE BOWL, INTO THE SHOW
PROTOCOL & VIP

Discreet, premium,
inside the round.

The VIP and government zone sits on a raised platform at the north dock: protocol seating with its own entry, seated last from the Majlis holding suite, never a separated box. The "no back of the room" rule holds for everyone, ministers included.

VIP platform
PREMIUM VIPNORTH PLATFORM · PROTOCOL ENTRY · MAJLIS HOLDING
THE EXIT JOURNEY

They leave through
Monday morning.

The exit is a designed act, not a door. Out of the bowl through the eastern break, past the Next-Day Gallery: starter cards, access answers, sample logging, follow-up opt-ins. Then the KOL speaker pods: glowing self-record studios where speakers and doctors cut their takeaway on camera before the night ends, with production support and the two-tier compliance pipeline behind every clip.

Next-Day Gallery
NEXT-DAY GALLERYTHE PRESCRIBE-TOMORROW DESKS, ON THE WAY OUT
KOL speaker pods
KOL SPEAKER PODSSELF-RECORD STUDIOS ON THE EXIT ROUTE
RUN OF SHOW · SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2026

Three hours,
engineered to the minute.

15:30

The arrival experience

Valet, interior approach, registration and e-consent, the Patient Walk pods dispatching every three minutes, the heritage threshold into the Foundayo world.

17:00

The Journey Floor

Free roam of the four activations, grazing open, the Glass Booth live and optically clear, KOL self-record windows running.

17:40

The summons

Light choreography, no announcements. Ushers guide everyone through the breaks in the ring to seats in the round.

18:28

The reveal

The cycle of weight gain and loss, broken. Frosted kabuki drop, sub-stage pill lift, ring ignition. Seven timecoded minutes.

19:05

The podcast in the round

A 40-minute dialogue format with KOLs and two patient archetypes, one weight management and one T2D, never collapsed into each other.

20:00

The afterglow

Back through the wall to the floor: commitments at the ring, the Farewell Table, last studio takes.

20:45

Out through the gallery

Toolkit card in hand, follow-up consented, first conversation already in mind.

THE FILMS

Walk it before
it is built.

ARRIVAL SHOW FINALELIGHTING MOODS, FULL HOUSE
IMMERSIVE FLYTHROUGHON STAGE, IN THE ROUND
THE CLOUD HALOSCREENS IN SHOW STATE
GUEST JOURNEY POVARRIVAL TO ARENA
ARENA ORBITTHE OPEN RING, 360
STAGE PUSH-INWEST DOOR TO CENTER
BROADCAST CRANEDESK TO SHOW
COMPLIANCE BY DESIGN

The compliance line is drawn
at the drawing board.

HCP-ONLY, ENFORCED

Licence-verified list, badge control before any Foundayo surface, invitation wording per MEA Code. No Foundayo-visible surface outside access control.

MLR · VVPM · VEM

Every claim surface clears Lilly MLR via VVPM and runs under the VEM workflow. Regulatory file built for MOHAP and DHA jointly.

70 / 30, MEASURED

Lilly at the approach and threshold, Foundayo inside. Territory and chair ratios computed, not asserted.

SCIENTIFIC TIME

74.2 percent of the stage block is scientific content (89 of 120 minutes), evidenced by the timed run of show and badge dwell data.

DIGNITY, ENGINEERED

Patient Walk interiors and Lab booths are hard no-filming zones: in the camera plan, on the signage, in the consent language.

DUAL-BUILD READY

Every claim surface exists in WM-only and dual-indication versions, switchable at T-72 hours as the T2D registration lands.

"I have never seen a pharma event like this, and I now know exactly how I will use Foundayo on Monday morning."

The cycle has always closed on patients. On 19 September, 600 doctors walk the story, see it break open, and leave with the first conversation already in mind.

XLAB · EXPERIENCE-TECHNOLOGY STUDIO · DUBAI · CONFIDENTIAL, FOR ELI LILLY