SPEAKER SUPPORT
Thank you so much for being part of MarketEd.Live 2023. We are looking forward to hearing you share your wisdom with our fantastic audience and appreciate the effort you are making in being part of our speaker programme for 2023.
This page aims to provide you with everything you need to know about being a speaker at MarketEd.Live. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us:
Paul Ince – paul@likemind.media – 07979 521737
Your concierge will be Jon. He will be staying at your hotel, will see you to the venue in the morning and stay on your table during the event.
jon@likemind.media 07773 717422
Key Dates/ times
Event date
Event opens
Event closes
After party
Thursday 7th September 2023
08:30
16:45
Drinks locally after the event (location TBC)
STAY & travel
accommodation
We have booked rooms at Holiday Inn Leicester for those speakers staying the night before the event.
Check in from 3pm
Check out before 12pm
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TRAVEL
If you are arriving by train, we urge you to book your tickets. Please get a receipt so you can expense them to us. Please send your expenses to paul@likemind.media
You can find more information about travel here.
speaker dinner
We are hosting a dinner for speakers the evening prior to conference day if you are available.
Venue: Sonrisa, 4 St Martin’s, Leicester LE1 5DB
Menu Choices – Please take a look at the tasy menu here and email your choices to paul@likemind.media by FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2023
After the dinner, you may join attendees at the pre-event social gathering if you wish – there is no pressure to do so, if you would prefer to retire or explore Leicester.
We will have a run through of slides so you can be happy that they have been downloaded correctly.
SESSION INFOrmation
Your session title and theme contents have been agreed with us before advertising your participation in the event. It is likely that attendees have chosen to come because of your involvement and the excitement around your talk. We ask you not to change the details without talking to us first. Of course, feel free to adapt and amend to make it as relevant to changes in the current climate as appropriate – this is a changeable time.
FACILITATED SESSIONS & DISCUSSIONS (THE HUDDLE)
MarketEd.Live aims to be more than just about listening to your expertise. We want attendees to really feel that the event has made a difference to their thinking. We encourage you to be challenging and brave in the content you deliver.
After your session, attendees will get fifteen minutes of group discussion time to talk to the people on their tables about what they have just heard and to plan actions arising from their thinking.
Each attendee will receive a workbook to document their notes and ideas. We would like to present some key questions that spark their thought processes in that workbook relating to your session. In advance of the workbooks going to print, please could you email in some things for people to consider to paul@likemind.media
We encourage you to make your session as interactive as possible. Such as:
- Audience participation
- Posing questions to the audience
- Q&A
BizPaul will use his introduction and closing sections to facilitate people’s learning and guide them through the day. If there is anything you want him to emphasise, please drop him a line at paul@likemind.media
the audience
The audience will be a mixture of people, so it’s best to ensure your session applies to as many people as possible. Typically, we attract:
- Marketing professionals (some certified, some qualified through experience, but rarely entry level)
- Business owners that have a keen interest and/or perform their own marketing for their business
- Agency owners
Presentation Requirements
Over the years we have learned what our audience prefers, what works well and what meets our ambitions for inclusivity. Here are the presentation requirements:
Sessions do not necessarily require you to present slides – you can develop your content freely. However, if you do wish to present slides, they must be in widescreen 16:9 format and PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF (.pdf). Please do not submit Keynote slides.
Slide decks can be in your branding and style. We will use our technology to present slides, so please include any specific fonts that are required when you submit your presentation, or consider submitting a PDF version of your slide deck.
Please ensure that your slides are accessible to people with visual impairments. This simply means that you should avoid colours that could be washed out when being projected. We have learned over the years that lots of pastel colours do not work well. Consider font size when using text. We will feed back on any concerns with this in ample time for amendments.
MarketEd.Live is all about meaningful discussion. We encourage you to make your session engaging and interactive.
The Venue@DMU has internet connection but we recommend you do not embed links that require you to use the Internet in your presentation. Embed core video or include media to display separately when you submit your presentation.
You will have a lavalier or handleld microphone available to use. This will be set up with you by the AV team just before your session starts.
Speakers will sit together at a table towards the back of the room. We encourage you to be accessible to the attendees throughout the day but particularly at break and lunch times.
We kindly ask that you do not reference our partners in a negative light. I know it sounds obvious, but we have had an incident in the past where a speaker criticised a partner, resulting in us losing the partner. Please understand that the event needs partners for it to be commercially viable, so we need to keep them on side. If you are unsure about any content, just get in touch with us.
You are more than welcome to include details of how you can be contacted, information about your services and offers that are relevant to the audience. In fact, we encourage you to provide something that attendees can download after the event. However, we wish for the main content to be of value rather than sales focused. Please limit any promotion to the end of your session.
We do not issue slide decks to attendees after the event. If you wish to provide them, feel free to mention in your session.
FINAL DEADLINE FOR PRESENTATION SUBMISSION: FRIDAY 25 AUGUST 2023
If you can submit before this date, that would be extremely helpful. We cannot guarantee that amendments can be made after submission, but please talk to us if a situation requires it to see if this can be accommodated (we are talking about if an example was subject to a legal case, not because an idea has been developed further).
Assets
You can access MarketEd.Live assets, relating to speaking, here.
It would be fantastic if you could promote your participation to your audience. We already know that people who have bought tickets have done so because of your involvement.
Once earlybird tickets have ended, we will provide speaker discount codes for you.