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Dr Patrick Dixon is available for global bookings and multimedia videoconference presentations (see below). For early discussions regarding your vision for the event, audience, content or style, e-mail or phone Dr Dixon. Each presentation is unique, customised to meet your own precise requirements.
Technical setup for 2D or 3D keynote lectures
Technical teams should email Dr Dixon to confirm arrangements below.
These notes are a general guide only and need adapting to audience size, location and type of meeting – from 25 to 4,500 people - and whether you are working with ordinary screen or in 3D. Patrick presents to audiences in up to 4 countries a week, is highly adaptable and will work happily with whatever you have available. However the following notes may help create a truly world-class event. Patrick is always delighted to phone a member of the technical team to discuss how they think things will work, setup times and so on.
As a futurist, technical quality and control of media are especially important to Patrick, both to him as the presenter and to his audiences, for whom he has planned a customized and extraordinary experience.
SUMMARY for 2D Presentations - normal screen, smaller audiences:
Setup is very easy for ordinary small-scale presentations.
All you need to provide is a screen and projector plus connecting cables.
Patrick will bring a customised Powerpoint presentation on his own PC, including embedded video clips (usually without sound).
He will provide a second copy on a USB stick for backup on a technician's machine, and often brings a second computer of his own "just in case".
Technicians have almost nothing to do. He normally recommends running the presentation from his own machine (faster and video clips have multiple formats). Output resolution will be matched to your equipment - eg from 1024x768 to 1920x1200 (HDTV). He is happy for his PC to be where the technicians are based, rather than on-stage, if more convenient.
He brings his own radio mouse attached to the main PC he is using – range 30-50 metres depending on venue. Patrick does not need internet access.
He needs a clip-on microphone as he walks around a lot - often right into the audience.
A monitor onstage is really helpful so that he can see what is on the screen without needing to turn.
Advance copies of presentations? While Patrick is pleased to supply slides ahead of time as a guide for discussion and for other speakers, they are rarely the final version as he often continues to adapt messages (and sometimes make new video clips) after arrival, meeting delegates, walking around the venue, listening to previous speakers and so on. Patrick arrives in plenty of time to ensure full backup and technical reliability. Patrick always appreciates seeing other speaker’s slides to ensure all messages fit together well.
Larger events: Projectors, Lighting, Staging, Video, Sound, Slide Formats and Interpreters
Some things to consider: For groups of 200 to 4,000 plus, think of “theatre” and audience experience rather than “lecture” when it comes to lighting and setup. High impact, dynamic fast-moving multimedia presentations enable delegates to “see, hear, feel and touch the future”. 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.
Projectors. Patrick strongly recommends backup plans for all important systems including projectors. He has had recent experiences where a single huge projector has blown up seconds before start with no alternative available, and where all three projectors experienced power failures on the same cable during a presentation, where switch boxes failed to work, sound desks produced loud hums and so on. Projector(s) should be powerful enough to produce a very bright image without blacking out auditorium or dimming lights on stage. Back projection is preferable for larger audiences, and allows Patrick to get very close to the screen to point things out. It is easier to engage the audience if the presenter and slides are more or less in the same field of view. Some organisers place huge screens a long way offstage to right or left, which can make communication more difficult - audience does not know where to look.
Spotlights. Attention to stage lighting is very important, so that the speaker can move and engage the audience interactively when appropriate without disappearing into semi-darkness. Conference venues such as hotel ballrooms often have lighting which is not designed for stage / performance. 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. It is often the case that audience lighting also throws unwanted light onto screens. Directional long lens focussed spots (at least two, preferably four), mounted either side of the auditorium can make a vast difference, angled away from the screen, washing the floor with light, with faders. Otherwise video sequences can look terrible, even with a bright projector. Patrick will walk into the audience so in larger venues where lighting is a challenge, and especially where you want to track Patrick with a camera, it is worth considering a small roving spotlight.
Staging. It is increasingly common for event organisers to give elaborate, creative effort to staging. Patrick will want to make maximum, appropriate use of every metre of whatever you build, to add to audience experience - whether using onstage features, raised walkways into audience, lighting changes and so on.
Example above is video for 4,500 people on a huge screen - you can see from this how Parick interacts with images, videos etc.
Ultra-large screens. Patrick is delighted to work with huge screens or multiple screens if you are building them, eg 40 metres by 10 metres - he designs his own content to make the most of every metre of each screen area, and will send files in advance that can be built into your own data servers.
Live video feed. In larger venues, many conferences use cameras to project an image of the presenter, alternating with images of slides, or using multiple screens. Patrick will work with camera operators to help them deliver great video. However, because his presentations are very visually rich and fast-changing, it can be hard for event teams to know when to switch to video without missing important slides. If you are filming, consider video and slides on different screens. Patrick is always happy to work closely with event producers to work out these things.
Permanent recording. Patrick is always delighted for conference organisers to make video of his presentations and to use them however they wish , including publishing online, with one condition only which is that he receives a copy as soon as possible after the event which he can use in the same way (he edits out confidential information).
Sound. Mains hum is a common problem from a PC onstage in larger rooms where different equipment uses different power cables (mains loop). This is easily prevented by using a Direct Injection Box (DI Box) between PC sound cable and the main sound desk, but in any case is rarely an issue since it is unusual for Patrick to use video clips with sound.
Slide templates: Some organisers like to impose the same slide template on every slide. Patrick is delighted to incorporate the event logo and house style into his opening slide, and to adjust all slides to fit screen shape and resolution, but many slides are single images or video clips and do not lend themselves to rebranding with a standard template.
Interpreters: Patrick speaks clearly in “international English”, sensitive to multi-language audiences. He works closely with interpreters, sitting down beforehand to go through slides. He does not provide printed slides since they change so fast, and he prefers eye contact with the interpreters. He uses very few technical terms and is easy to translate.
3D Journey into the Future - no special glasses needed
Patrick can present a completely customised, 3D FUTURE experience using the Musion system. This audience experience is created using a special screen which can be anything from 3m by 3m to 20m high and 100m wide. No special glasses are required. Solid-looking objects, video and images appear in front or behind the speaker, manipulated as part of his unfolding story about tomorrow’s world and the impact on your corporation. Multiple elements can twist and float mid-air, towards or away from the audience. Other virtual people can join him onstage, appearing life size. You can watch an excellent example of the power of Musion technology on the largest screen ever used (different speakers).
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Hello Dr. Patrick Dixon
i am a student at "jordan university of science and technology" .I am very appreciate your efforts in quality.these days am working in a leadership project and i have watched your video about " Leadership, Motivational Management Training - Great Events - keynote at conference for 4,500 "..deeply i liked your presentation and espically the idea of the radar screen...i would be grateful if you send me your slides for that lecture to my e-mail
Best Regards,
Manar
Regards
Sandeep kumar(journalist)
Dear Dr. Dixon,
I am a freshmen Psychology and Sustainability major at Arizona State University. Our school is one of the first to offer a go-green major and I am privileged to be able to take advantage of it. Sustainability is really the study of the interconnectedness of all things. I admire your views on the future of technology in relation to population trends and primarily the $40 trillion climate change business. I know my purpose in life is to serve others and see myself innovating different from the rest in a way that consists of perpetual emotion that will impact the world in a way we've never dreamed. My school is offering a month-long trip to Australia this summer to understand the human dimensions of Sustainability. It unfortunately is a costly $9,000 and my financial aid will not cover it nor do I have time to obtain a job with my double major. I have exhausted many options and begun writing to politicians and organizations whos seminars I have attended, to obtain the funding. My positive optimism and motivation keeps me viciously learning new things from morning until night and the thought of not attending this learning experience is not an option. If you have any recommendations of those I should write to that share my sincere, sympathetic dream and persistence for a better future it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Jake Atchoo
cloning should be banned
Hi Patrick,
Great site - I have followed much of it since hearing you at New Wine back in the late 90s. Fantaastic!
I am surprised to find that the RSS feeds dont work in Google Reader. From the front page of global change - in the URL bar you are given the option of RSS2.0 or Atom1.0 both links take you to an identical copy of the front page - but if pasted in to Google reader both feeds are unknown?
Regards
Ian Clark
Sorry - we are going to fix it very soon - may have been damaged in conversion to the new format site. Glad you enjoy these pages. Patrick Dixon
Dear Dr. Dixon,
I have rarely spoken in public, yet I would consider myself to be a great keynote speaker.
I grab attention, have provocative ideas which last, give people hope and boost morale, change the lives of those I meet, communicate the most complex ideas in a single phrase, take the wider view - setting the tone and perspective for everything that follows, entertain as well as inform, create a buzz, and boost conference morale; intensely interested in other people, warm and confident in what I am saying without being arrogant, flexible in that I view an event’s success to be more important to me than my own ideas, work closely with organizers to make the message fit well, good team worker, pay the closest attention to detail to get it right, and charm with my voice. Feels when the mystical point of connectivity with my listeners is being approached, and with reaching sustaining at will that delightful connectivity for the remainder of the talk.
Then why; why is it that nobody needs me to speak at any of their events? Is there something ‘wrong’ with self-designating oneself a self-publishing, rural-philosopher-poet-artist of the lyrical kind; a 21st century nuptial hermit? Would it make a difference if I were to deny who I know and believe myself to be, and to be becoming?
With gratitude and well being,
Future-ly,
Richard
Have a look at my videos on this - go to www.youtube.com - watch the MPI video on future of events, and also look at the 12 videos on how to give great presentations. Why not make some videos of your own?
hi my name is dani. i was looking for things on cloning and i got to your website in the process. i really admire your writing. you must take a lot of time to do this. im thinking of being a writer when i grow up but i dont know if that is the type of career i want. are you a writer?
Yes I have written 12 books and also as you can see many blogs, web pages etc. If you are thinking of being a writer, take every opportunity to write now. Start with a blog of your own thoughts. You may be surprised at how many will read them. Over 11 million different people have been to these pages for example since I started in an informal way back in 1995/6. Patrick Dixon
Dear Dr Dixon,
We are a highschool class from Australia who are mid-way through a futures course. So far we have studied personal empowerment, social innovation and have undertaken individual projects in our local area. During a class discussion, we discovered your youtube channel and were thrilled to see such an effective explanation and presentation of what a Futurist undertakes.
We would like to thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge. You have inspired us to continue our studies and perhaps pursue a career in this field.
Yours Sincerely,
RCC Year 11 Futures Class
Thanks for the kind comments. Please do help others by going back to www.youtube.com and ranking any videos you find helpful! Make it happen for others too. Patrick
Patrick can I share my vision with you?
I have, as you do now, travel 20 plus days a month for years all over this small planet we share all that due to the type of work I did for years ... as for the Subject on my email I hope I did caught your attention ....I would love to meet you one day and present to you the future of parcel processing it is here all the pieces are waiting for someone to put them together I simply do not have the budget.
Kind thanks for your time
Marcelo (From the future)
You are the only person that seems to be talking about the true nature of the current crisis. Here is something most people are missing.
The whole subprime crisis has been caused in large by banks trying to cash in as fast as they can to mitigate the "future" loses that the foreclosures would cause. At the same time those actions caused a snowball effect in making the crisis even deeper. These same investors then moved on the next moneymaking scheme... commodities and created a bubble there too. Now the homeowners have three problems to deal with, high fuel cost, high interests and job losses. And the US government pumps money to save the banks -sigh-...
Had the banks acted rationally and renegotiated the loans with the home owners instead of ravaging them like vultures, a lot of this would have been avoided.
The governments should have pumped all this money to strengthen small businesses and help folks keep their houses instead of helping banks continue their tantrum...
I have viewed your YouTube address on the subject of Geothermal Heat Pumps. You refer to 45% of NZ's new buildings having Geothermal Heat Pumps. This surprises me as it is almost impossible to find a firm who has any experience in the field - in standard heat pump technology - YES, but not in geothermal. Could you please confirm where your information has come from in regard to NZ?
Rgds
Paul Browne
Hi, I am a student in Middle School and for one of my classes, I was assigned to write a position paper on a controversial issue. I chose to do human cloning, and I was wondering if I could do an interview e-mail with you sometime this week.
Thank you,
Penny
Dr. Dixon,
I am a senior in high school from the United States and to graduate I am required to create a presentation on a current social issue. I also am required to interview at least one person and ask them a few short questions concerning my topic.
I have chosen to do my presentation on genetic engineering and after viewing your video on the future of genetic engineering I was wondering if I could use you as my interview source. If you could please consider this and let me know as soon as you have the time it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Jason K.
Dear Mr. Patrick Dixon
To begin I would like to thank you for your answer and support. I read the information on your website for cloning, but I don`t see my existence until my son is cloned.
Please, I would like to council with you to what steps that woud to follow.
With love and respect
Brunilda Topciu
I am not involved in human cloning and there is no practical possibility for you to go down this route without huge cost and risk to a cloned child.
Hallo Mr.Dixon,
can I find something on your homepage to this topics:
Global warming - irising transport costs mpacts on distribution and logistics
Have a look at www.youtube.com for my youtube videos on this one.
Dr. Dixon
Have you written anything on the future of the natural gas industry and if you can you point me to it please?
Dear Mr. Patrick Dixon
You have my all respect for you intellectual job, but first of all your humanity job.
I am a mother 42 years old. It has been two months that my son died, killed by a criminal hand. He was only 17 years old when he stopped breathing, and he doesn`t have the chance to live his most beautiful days of life.
His name is Mario Kuka and he was away from the family for 3 years, in Rennes of France, living with his uncles. It has been 2 months that he is reposing in the grave of Kavaja city in Albania.
I am glad that science has made a great progress which gives me hope to have back my child that I miss everyday more.
I hope you could understand and help me to contact you for further information concerning about the possibility of cloning my child.
I would like to thank you with my heart for this kind communication
I appreciate very much your help and your generosity.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely
I thanks again and congratulate you
Thanks - I am so sorry to hear about what happened. Sadly there would be huge risks in cloning - even if you could do it right now - to any child created. See www.globalchange.com
I am keen to be a professional speaker specialising in futurism. Since you are one of the successes in the field, I was just wondering what advice or assistance you can give to someone like me who desires to break into that field. Professionally, I am a Chartered Accountant with 10 years experience and based in South Africa. I also desire to establish a consultancy to assist companies with strategic planning.
Kind regards
Themba Mazibuko
have a look at my videos on this on www.youtube.com - around 10 videos on it
Dr Dixon
Just wanted to say what a great presentation on paper and pulp I just watched!
I think I want to want to carry on listening to them all now - very motivational indeed!
Adam
Thanks Adam - glad you enjoyed the paper and pulp industry presentation. There are 207 others on a very wide range of industries but also quite a few on related issues - carbon use for example. Hope you enjoy them - remember to rate what you find useful so others can find. Who knows, in the next few days you may be the person who clocks the millionth video view across the sites. And remember to subscribe to the new videos coming soon. www.youtube.com Patrick
Patrick I really enjoyed and was challenged by your seminar I attended last week at New Wine, Shepton Mallet.
We chatted at the end of the seminar and we discussed how to provide guidance and protection for my younger children from IT/the net/technology.
You kindly showed me an animated lion speaking - but you'd temporarily forgot the name of the software.... have you managed to remember it since then?
Thanks again
Andy
Thanks Andy - It was good to meet you. The software is Crazy Talk - off shelf at PC world or download from their site. Brilliant way to animate any photo easily. Here above is an experiment I made in around 15 minutes. I just spoke into it to record the sound track, chose a photo and then adjusted the eyes, mouth and facial expressions as the video played back to set the animations in place. I am sure your children will enjoy playing around with it and uploading their own creations onto their YouTube sites.
Hello Dr. Patrick Dixon,
I heard about your book a couple days ago on a local radio station here in my home town of Salt Lake City by the name of 97.1 ZHT. I have not had an opportunity to email you and request a copy of your book until now. If it is still possible I would love a copy. I am very intrigued by your take on this topic.
Thank you for your time,
Amy Funcannon
Hi there - I think the radio interview may have been about drugs and addiction. But in any case there are 6 free books available of mine online. Go go this link www.globalchange.com to read text of free books. In addition free copies of AIDS and You and also The Truth about AIDS are available to those who are in emerging nations / developing countries. Contact sheila.dixon@acet-international.org and we will send (or try to) as many copies as appropriate for your work, 23 languages available.
At the end of the interview you stated that anyone interested in reading your book that you would send them a free copy, if this is true I am very interested. please contact me at my e-mail & I will give you my mailing information. I lokk forward to hearing from you.
Thanks - I do many media interviews and they often get broadcasted long time later. What was interview about and which book? I have written 12. The one we usually give away is for emerging nations project workers to help them start programmes to prevent AIDS or care for people. AIDS and You.
Hi there - I think the radio interview may have been about drugs and addiction. But in any case there are 6 free books available of mine online. Go go www.globalchange.com to read text of free books. In addition free copies of AIDS and You and also The Truth about AIDS are available to those who are in emerging nations / developing countries. Contact sheila.dixon@acet-international.org and we will send (or try to) as many copies as appropriate for your work, 23 languages available.
Zoti Patrick Dixon
JU pershendes dhe ju uroj per punen tuaj shkencore dhe ne rradhe te pare humane. Ju uroj qe puna juaj te eci sa me mire dhe te korrni suksese sa me konkrete.
Une qe po ju shkruaj jam nje nene relativisht e re ne moshen 42 vjece, qe prej dy muajsh me ka vdekur djali , I vrare nga nje dore e nxitur per krim. Djali im ishte vetem 17 vjec ne moshen me te bukur te jetes se tij. Djalin tim te quajtur Mario Kuka e kisha qe prej 3 vjetesh larg prej meje , ne Rennes te Frances tek dy xhajallaret e tij .
U ben 2 muaj qe trupi i tij prehet ne varrezat e qytetit te Kavajes ne Albani.
Jam e lumtur qe shkenca ka ecur perpara , dhe ka krijuar nje mundesi shpresedhenese per ti kthyer nenes djalin e saj te vogel qe e ka rritur me shume dashuri , dhe qe I mungon shume.
Shpresoj qe ju te me kuptoni dhe te me ndihmoni per te kontaktuar me ju dhe per te marre nje informacion me te plote rreth kesaj ceshtje.
JU falenderoj per kete mundesi komunikimi nga thellesia e zemres
Me rrespekt per ju brunilda topciu
Sorry do not know your language.
We are a U.S. speakers bureau with a prospect who has requested a supply chain expert for their annual Sourcing Roundtable event with an extended staff of Procurement and Supply Chain professionals.
I've heard of you and knew could fulfill their specific request for:
"an energetic speaker come and discuss forward thinking and relevant topics for our industry for 2-4 hours. Some examples would include sustainability, lean process, or items that your organization is seeing as a current trend relevant to purchasing and supply chain."
I need to know your interest, availability, about work you have done in the corrugated packaging - pulp and paper industry.
Your use and production on U-Tube is excellent, you have a fan.
Regards,
Joyce
Thanks Joyce - we are now in touch directly about this.
Comment to others: for enquiries about corporate events, best to use my e-mail address in link above the comments section. Thanks Patrick
Dear Sir,
I am Sandeep kumar(journalist & cameraman)in patna(bihar). I am very appreciate your news information quality & broadcast quality.
If you need any subject story & video kindly inform me.i will sure send your address.I have a own my production company.
How can work with you kindly help me.
Regards
Sandeep kumar(journalist)
I have 11 million users of this site and huge numbers of comments / postings. I do not reply individually to people offering to sell me products or services. Please use this board to comment only on contents of the site or to contact me about corporate speaking events etc. Thanks. Patrick Dixon
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