2024 Virtual Speaker Showcase Will Be Quarterly

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Speakers May Only Participate Once in 2024

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2024 Live Virtual Keynote Speaker Showcases

All participants will automatically become nominees for the Cigar PEG’s 2024 Virtual Speaker Hall of Fame, to be decided by association executive & other showcase attendees in early December 2024. Additionally, all showcase participants get their own directory page following their showcase at https://virtualspeakershalloffame.org/speaker-directory/ and…

…to get this page, you must complete this Google Form: https://forms.gle/ZERjjHhYrbLerNdK9 – no form, no page! You will want to have a directory page because we promote the directory at a number of societies of association executives.

You can view Past Showcases

• Six speaking slots are available at each showcase, with Dale Irvin offering a summary at the end.
• Speaking time is 8 minutes, which includes the reading of your introduction. Speakers going over-time will have their microphones muted. This is a live event…NO VIDEO RE-DO.
• Rehearsal: Speaker needs to be available for rehearsal (actual dates listed below), a few days before the showcase & 10 minutes before on show day and then for an additional 60 minutes to complete the showcase. 
• The showcases will be viewed live by association/society executives and also recorded for later viewing.
• Practice, Practice, Practice, and practice some more…THIS WILL BE YOUR PERMINATE VIRTUAL SPEAKERS HALL OF FAME VIDEO. In three years of recording these showcases, it has become very apparent to the organizers who had practiced and who thought they could wing it. Most of the speakers that thought they could wing it, were unhappy with their showcase videos. Better to practice and be awesome.
• All participants will have a nomination page, including your showcase video, at https://virtualspeakershalloffame.org/ for your own personal promotional purposes.
• All 2024 showcase participants will become 2024 Virtual Speaker Hall of Fame nominees with winners announced early December.

• Important: Participation is first come, first served. Make your commitment to the project now. Please be sure, as you are reserving one of the very limited six showcase slots for the quarter you select.

• We have tried to accommodate everyone, however change and transfer requests have gotten out of hand and, as such, are suspended.

  (Ed feels guilty about constantly bugging volunteers for Website re-dos)

• Therefore, if you cancel, you will forfeit your payment. So sorry, but payments will not be transferred to a different quarter or to another speaker.