As part of the 35th anniversary celebration of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, partnership with Nanjing University in China a fireside chat was held with Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The host of the program Z, the president of C100 was filmed in Planet X’s Brooklyn studio, while Secretary Gates joined the discussion from his home in Washington state and the dean of SAIS joined from Maryland. The three participants were composted in real time into a virtual set created by Planet X and live-streamed to thousands of viewers in the US, China, and elsewhere. The program was hailed as groundbreaking by the organizers.