Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I prioritise events that focus on tangible outcomes and purpose. The number one question I will ask you in any pre-event briefing is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “How do you want your audience to feel afterwards?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n I also do many unpaid events: it depends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For internal\/group\/commercial conferences, I charge a fee (negotiable) to present (especially if it’s a keynote) and travel expenses. I run a non-profit and don’t think it unreasonable to charge a fee to support the teams that support me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gavin has created over a dozen companies, employing 100\u2019s of people, and delivering $100M\u2019s in measurable impact. He co-chaired the development of the Open Banking Standard and was the founding CEO of the Open Data Institute. He has mentored, chaired, or been a non-exec of over 40 organisations across diverse sectors. He currently runs IcebreakerOne.org<\/a> to help accelerate our Net Zero Future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find a longer biog here<\/a>. Please feel free to edit as you wish.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find me on many social media<\/a> channels and can share this link https:\/\/dgen.net\/connect<\/a> if relevant (and is network-neutral).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a mandatory requirement<\/strong> if you would like me to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In any printed or online materials related to me or my presentation, please include a link to the organisation I am speaking from, as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo<\/strong> – click for high resolution\/print version <\/p>\n\n\n\n Given much of my work is on data, open markets and interoperability, these are important points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Often, I’m asked to send slides in advance. If this is absolutely critical, I might be able to. However, having given many, many hundreds of presentations I prefer to tweak my presentations after I arrive on-site, based on seeing who is in the room and sensing the mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’d rather plug in my laptop if possible. I will also provide a PDF file.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Having run very large-scale events with hundreds of speakers, good production companies can accept slides just before going on stage. Some seem to want to ‘combine’ everyone’s slides into a single deck: this is generally a bad idea. Why? Because (a) it is supporting a monopoly position of one software company, and not an open market, and (b) practically it almost always messes up people’s formatting\/fonts\/etc (which is because of point (a)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t use Powerpoint or Keynote.<\/strong> Usually, I develop presentations as Google Slides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This enables me to instantly share the slides online (and I will usually embed them in a post on my website), and in a manner that is open to comment by anyone and downloadable. [nb. while Google Slides can “Export to Microsoft PPT”, because of the ongoing market dynamics between them, they are usually not interoperable and badly mess up formatting]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only consistent format for presentations is PDF (the Portable Document Format) and I will include a PDF copy and will also publish it online for anyone<\/em> to download. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Please make clear in advance (you’d be surprised what even ‘seasoned’ events fail to do sometimes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you for inviting me to present at your event. Rest assured that I have spoken at hundreds of events. Based on personal experience I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6709","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PfJFK3-1Kd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7418,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6709\/revisions\/7418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fees<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Conference biog – short, commercial<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Socials<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Please also note the spelling of “Icebreaker One<\/strong>” (it is not “IceBreaker” or “Ice breaker 1”) <\/li>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Gavin-Starks-2023s-744x1024.jpg\")
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