THE SPEAKER SUMMIT 2027

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Name: VIP Day — The Speaker Summit 2027
Start: 2027-07-01
End: 2027-07-01
Location: Same Venue

Sale ends on the 4th of Oct' 2026

It’s time to Up Level.

And wait until you see who is already joining us.

TIM GARD

THE MILLION DOLLAR KEYNOTE

Yes, you read that correctly.

The Million Dollar Keynote.

Hall of Fame speaker Tim Gard has built an extraordinary international speaking career using humour to help audiences change perspective, navigate pressure and see possibilities where previously they saw problems.

Tim is one of the funniest professional speakers you’ll experience, but he isn’t a comedian. His genius is using what he calls Comic Vision to create genuine transformation through humour.

And at The Speaker Summit, we’re not simply going to tell you about world-class speaking.

We’re going to let you experience it.

Tim will deliver his Million Dollar Keynote, and if you’re serious about your craft, there is enormous value in watching somebody at this level work.

Don’t just listen to what he says. Watch the structure. Notice the timing. Study the language. See how he creates connection, controls energy, uses humour with purpose and takes an audience somewhere.

Then we’re going deeper.

Tim will also run a breakout session, giving you the opportunity to learn from the thinking and craft behind an extraordinary speaking career.

And our VIPs?

Well, Tim is doing something exclusive for them.

We’re keeping that under wraps for a little longer.

SAHAR HASHEMI OBE

WHAT CAN SPEAKERS LEARN FROM SOMEONE WHO CREATES MARKETS?

A professional speaker is ultimately in the business of ideas.

We need people to understand them, believe in them, remember them and, ideally, act because of them.

So what can we learn from somebody who has repeatedly persuaded people to embrace ideas, products and movements that didn't exist before?

Quite a lot.

Sahar Hashemi OBE co-founded Coffee Republic, helping transform UK coffee culture. She went on to create Skinny Candy and is now behind Buy Women Built, which started with a single tweet and has grown into a commercial movement with a community of more than 2,000 women-built businesses generating over £2.5 billion in turnover.

She is also the author of Anyone Can Do It and Start-Up Forever, and her work challenges some of the things that quietly stop people reaching their next level: perfectionism, bureaucracy and waiting for certainty before taking action.

There’s a lesson in that for every speaker in the room.

Because sometimes Up Levelling your speaking career requires you to stop thinking only like a speaker.

You need to start thinking like an entrepreneur.

How do you make an idea commercially relevant? How do you create momentum? How do you differentiate yourself? How do you turn what you know into something people want to talk about, buy into and share?

That’s why Sahar belongs on this stage.

MARIA FRANZONI

How to get booked more, charge more and earn more.

Growing your speaking business doesn’t necessarily require a complete reinvention. Sometimes relatively small changes can have a surprisingly big impact.

Drawing on 23 years of booking speakers, Maria Franzoni will reveal three practical ways to grow your speaking business by just 20% at a time – and show how, when combined, those seemingly modest gains can increase the value of your business by more than 80%.

A practical look at how to get booked more, charge more and earn more from the speaking business you already have.

René Carayol

René is a best-selling author and one of the world's leading executive coaches, working with Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 Chief Executives and their teams for the past 25 years. Given René’s extensive coaching experience, both at executive and non-executive levels, he has built a strong reputation for his practical and pragmatic leadership approach. His latest book SPIKE captures his game changing strengths-based leadership philosophy, whereby deeply focusing on people’s inherent strengths will bring the best of out of them.

"Extraordinary Times Demand Extraordinary Leadership" In today’s fast-changing landscape, leadership is no longer about titles or hierarchy it’s about role modelling the behaviours that shape culture and drive performance. René's keynote is a practical deep dive into how leaders can set the tone, inspire trust, and create environments where every individual has the opportunity to thrive. Through a combination of René's stories and pragmatic top tips that can be implemented straight away.

Breakout Session with

ERICA FARMER

YOUR NEXT BIG STAGE MIGHT BE A SCREEN

There is another market sitting in front of professional speakers that many still haven't fully embraced.

Virtual.

And if your virtual keynote is simply your live keynote delivered through a webcam, there is a huge opportunity to Up Level.

Having trained and upskilled more than 5,000 trainers, tutors, presenters and consultants, Erica Farmer understands what makes virtual audiences lean in rather than quietly open another browser tab.

In her Virtual Stagecraft for Speakers breakout, Erica will explore how audiences behave differently online, how visual design can strengthen engagement and retention, and practical interaction techniques you can immediately introduce into your virtual delivery.

No complicated technology. No endless polling. And definitely no awkward breakout rooms simply because somebody said online audiences need interaction.

Instead, you’ll discover practical ways to become a more engaging, memorable and confident virtual speaker.

And commercially, think about what that could mean.

New clients. International audiences. Global organisations. Opportunities that don't require flights, hotels and days away from home.

The screen doesn’t have to be the poor relation of the physical stage.

Used properly, it can become another market, another revenue stream and another stage.