When Marlon James appeared at Trinidad's Bocas festival in 2013, he was the author of two novels little known outside the Americas, who used a keynote speech to decry the concept of a national literature.
The Korean electronics giant introduced the concept in a keynote by JK Shin, the head of its mobile communications business.
(Or start at college, work down and branch out) I recently discussed these and other concepts during a keynote speech for the IARSCLE conference in Baltimore, Md. My theme was the "Invisible College," a learning environment based in the community, which complements, and creates synergies with the "Visible College" of formal schooling.
In the workshop on Tumour Biology and Cancer Therapy Götz von Wichert (University of Ulm) focussed his keynote presentation specifically on current concepts and their limitations in the treatment of gastrointestinal tumours.
Michael Karin (California), the keynote speaker, used NFκβ to introduce the concept of modulating transcription factor activity to enhance the cancer cell's response to apoptosis inducing drugs.
"We discuss a lot of high-minded concepts," he said of his corporate keynote work.
Finally, the former St . LouisFederal Reserve president William Poole, now a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, gives a keynote speech arguing "too big too fail" is a concept that has done enormous harm.
At the Democratic convention, Representative Harold Ford, the keynote speaker, recalled the critical moment when he discovered the concept of kindergarten graduations as a turning point in his political career.
To address this issue, this keynote provides a framework for life cycle development and proposes the concept of life cycle planning.
One of the worst ways to wear a sombrero, I think, is to be a white keynote speaker at a literary festival, saying, "I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad".
