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Thursday 9 February 2017

Keynote speakers, please try harder

Excellent comment prompting for a better preparation keynote speakers, but also speakers in general, in Nature by Judy Ford.
Best part is probably the following:

Speakers, it is likely that my registration fees have contributed to your travel, so I expect you to demonstrate that you have given a lot of thought to your talk and prepared each slide carefully rather than simply recycling it. I have come to listen to you, the expert, so I expect to enjoy a well-organized, possibly brilliant, presentation, in which creative visuals amplify your words and enhance my understanding.

But anyway, those are comments that we could all take into account.