Dr
Patrick Dixon Global Change Ltd
Tel: 00 44 (0) 7768 511 390 - mobile / 24 hour messaging

Booking Dr Patrick Dixon,
Director
Dr Patrick Dixon
is available for global bookings and multimedia videoconference
presentations (see below) contracted through Leigh Bureau, the longest established speakers bureau in the United
States. For early discussions regarding
your vision for the event, audience, content or style, e-mail
Dr Dixon or phone him direct on 00 44 (0) 7768 511 390.
Each presentation is unique, customised to meet your own precise requirements. See client comments
on presentations and watch videos, list of companies
attending and client list. See also information about how Dr Dixon works with clients to create highly successful events.
Technical setup for keynote
lectures
Technical teams should email
Dr Dixon to confirm arrangements below.
Dr Dixon will bring two fast IBM - compatible
portable PCs containing the multi-gigabyte presentations and videos.
He will also bring a radio mouse and two receivers allowing both
PCs to advance simultaneously along the same presentation.
The second PC is for backup and both are placed on the podium
or a suitable table. Dr Dixon may bring pyrotechnics to create
small on-stage flashes but ONLY if specially requested by conference
organisers.
You need to provide:
Podium large enough
for two portable PCs or a suitable table.
Largest possible
high quality screen.
Powerful 1024x768
projector (true output - no compression).
Backup projector (what happens when bulb goes
or a circuit board blows up?). Backup projector can be lower
spec. Even the most powerful and reliable types of projectors
can fail during major events, much to the embarrassment of organisers
with no backup. Dr Dixon has participated in two conferences in
the last two years where the main projector failed and had to
be replaced rapidly.
Switch box on
the podium allowing instant selection of PC1 or PC2 output
to projector during presentation.
Sound cables and mini-jacks for one PC only.
Radio microphone
- preferably attached to tie.
Suitable stage area
lighting (this is important - see discussion below).
On-line access is
NOT NEEDED unless specially requested.
A couple of monitors at the front of stage showing
output are very USEFUL in larger venues but NOT essential.
Comments:
High impact, dynamic
fast-moving multimedia presentations enable delegates to "see,
hear, feel and touch the future" using the very latest technology.
Think theatre or cinema, an experience, rather than a standard
podium with lecturer glued to it. This requires careful staging
for maximum effect. The end result will be an enjoyable
event that will stimulate fresh thinking in CEOs, Chairmen and
senior executives for a long time. The following are recommended
for a standard small to medium sized auditorium. Partial
implementation may be less successful. The medium is the
message.
Larger setups are
unique, designed for each venue. Up to three hours setup time
may be needed to test PCs, switches, sound, arrange lights, rig
external communications and possible small-scale pyrotechnics.
Global Change Ltd
can provide a complete technical solution if required.
Data projector needs
to be powerful enough to produce very bright image without blacking
out auditorium. That means the brightest possible projector
for best results. Consider how dependent you are on the
data projector bulb, not just for this presentation. Remember
that these presentations are on the future and it looks terrible
to have a techno-failure. That's why most conferences now line
up a second projector as backup, even if the second one has a
far lower technical spec. Back projection is preferable for larger
audiences or long throw lens so projector is at back of hall out
of sight.
Most projectors are
bulky and noisy. Therefore the worst location is on a desk
in front of a small to medium audience. It is preferable
in such cases to house the projector out of site underneath the
presenter's table, angled slighty up towards the screen.
The image distortion is usually worth the reduction in noise and
untidiness.
Spotlights: Attention to stage lighting is very
important, so that the speaker can move and engage audience interactively
when appropriate without disappearing into semi-darkness.
A key test is how dark the screen is when the projector is off.
Ideally it should be black while the speaker is brightly
lit and the audience is dimly lit. Hiring very
directional long lens focussed spots (at least two, preferably
four), mounted either side of the auditorium will make a vast
difference, fixed, not roving, angled away from the screen, washing
the floor with light, with faders. Otherwise the multiple
video sequences can look terrible, even with a bright projector.
Two top specification
portable PCs and other technology are provided by presenter on
arrival, usually positioned well forward so screens remain
visible most of the time as presenter walks around. Lecturn
needs to be wide enough ideally for both PCs side by side.
Technical requirements for "virtual"
presentations
Virtual presentations
using videoconferencing
TV studio: Multimedia presentations for 10 - 2,000 people
using state-of-the-art TV / multimedia technology, four cameras,
digital camera positions, automatic camera tracking, videostreaming,
virtual reality and other simulations, mixed live (fades / wipes
/ picture in picture) in a highly interactive, dynamic, customised
event. The medium is the message when talking about the
future, and what better way to do so than virtually? True
eye-to-eye contact is achieved with camera-in-screen, positioned
in a five foot by four foot video wall right in front of the presenter.
Thus the presenter is able to see and interact "normally"
with the audience / discussion panel. Use of three pairs
of ISDN lines ensures minimal latency and smooth high resolution
video with broadcast quality sound. However presentations
to smaller groups will work with just one pair of lines. Contact
Leigh Bureau today to
set up a demonstration with Dr Patrick Dixon. For demonstration
and introduction see Web
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