Speaking

Why speak?

Raise your profile

With senior level attendees from Fortune 500 companies you are guaranteed an audience of your peers that are as passionate about talent management as you are. This is the ideal way to reinforce your professionalism in your industry. Speakers choose Strategic Purchasing & Procurement Forum 2008 as our programmes are researched and trusted. Our speakers are chosen for excellence in their field and for showing success.

As well as being in great company as part of the speaker panel, you will on all marketing materials distributed to over thousands of HR professionals worldwide.

What sort of speakers are there, and what is their role?

Keynotes

Keynote speakers receive the highest billing in all event marketing. Their role is to open the conference with a high-level speech that sets the tone for the whole event.

Chairperson

A chairperson’s role is kick start the day with opening remarks, introduce each speaker, field questions from the audience (asking a couple of his/her) and keep everything to time. Chairperson will be asked to make announcements to delegates and they remain on the stage throughout the day.

Panelists

Panel speakers are not expected to provide PowerPoint slides for their session. They will be introduced by the panel moderator and asked a few questions. They will then be involved in a debate with the moderator, the other panel members and the audience.

Session speakers

Individual speakers are required to prepare a 30 – 40 minute presentation, with slides. They will be introduced by the chairman and then allowed to speak, free of interruption, for the allocated time slot, allowing for 5-10 minutes of questions from the audience at the end (which the chairman will facilitate).

Panel moderators

Panel moderators are required to introduce each panelist and ask them a series of pre-prepared questions in a “talk-show host” style. They also need to encourage audience participation, fielding questions from the floor, whilst keeping the whole panel to time.

Sponsor speakers

Sponsor speakers are either session speakers or panelists. They are encouraged to keep to the topic suggested to them by the conference organiser and not to lapse into sales pitches.

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