Speaker application

Our aspiration, like 2023 is to innovate, inspire and encourage meaningful connections, sharing and swapping of industry best practice, along with exceptional professional and personal development across our stages and areas of knowledge.

To give your proposal the best chance of being successful, please read all of the information below before submitting your idea.
Please note: by applying, you confirm that your presentation is going to be accessible and inclusive to our attendees.

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

OBJECTIVES

We want attendees to leave The Meetings Show with the following outcomes:

Knowledge that they didn’t know they needed
Innovation to do and be better
Connections with relevant industry colleagues
Empowerment from the experience to think, connect, plan, and live differently

The 2024 knowledge programme will be split across 4 key themes: INFORM - INSPIRE - INNOVATE - IMPACT

DEADLINES

Please complete the application form before FRIDAY 1 MARCH.

We intend to confirm content, and speakers, and publish the draft programme outline during March, so all successful applications will be informed in writing before then.

If your submission isn’t successful for our limited stage sessions, we may be in touch to connect you with partners who are hosting education, or for other forms of knowledge sessions.

FORMAT, SESSION DESIGN & SUPPORT

We appreciate that speakers are giving up their time and skills and want to make sure that this year, there is greater support to deliver on the above objectives.

Our goal is to continue to steer our programme out of echo chambers into something that truly engages our attendees. Partnering with The Attendee Experience Company, we have professional moderators, speaker coaches and meeting and design consultants ready to support your session with recommended formats, presentation coaching and moderating expertise to help us achieve these goals.

We are asking all speakers to confirm that their session has not been seen at other events to ensure we deliver fresh content for our buyer audience. This means that while you are more than welcome to talk about things you’ve talked about before (we want to hear about your amazing insights!), you have to create a custom session for The Meetings Show 2024. Re-use elements and points, sure, but make sure it’s fresh and presented in a new way, as we will be proactively selecting those sessions that demonstrate innovation in delivery and outcome, as well as content.

Thank you!

RECOMMENDED FORMATS & SESSIONS

This year’s programme is going to be split across 28 sessions over the 2 days. All will sit across our themes and must have our objectives featured and delivery format considered. The content sessions will be allotted a 30 or 45-minute slot depending on the content. Our recommendation is that this is broken down to:

30-minute sessions

15 minutes sharing subject matter
15 minutes attendee discussion, Q&A, debate facilitated by your professional moderator

45-minute sessions

Up to 20 minutes sharing of subject matter/speaking
15 minutes – attendee discussion/response to questions/debate – led by professional facilitator
10 minutes – back to speaker for final discussions, response to discussion, closing remarks etc

Panel Discussions
For any panel discussions, we will be providing a professional facilitator to work with your panellists to support attendees’ participation and discussions

DESIGN & COACHING

In partnership with The Attendee Experience Company (atex), we are offering 1:1 and group sessions with one of our design and speaker coaches, so please let us know how we can support you.

PRESENTATION FORMATS/TECHNOLOGY

We will have our onsite tech team to support you with AV. Please consider whether slides are essential for your session, or whether the power of storytelling and discussion and input might have more of an impact on our attendees.

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

Thank you for your support in changing the world of how we meet - please share the details of your proposal with us: