The phrase "kick off speech" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a common phrase used to describe the opening or starting speech of an event or meeting. It may also refer to the first speech given by a speaker. Example: "The CEO delivered the kick off speech at the company's annual conference, outlining the company's goals and achievements for the past year."
In his campaign kick-off speech Trump was also animated about his ability to resurrect the "American Dream".
"At this moment of enormous national significance there should be unity here in Westminster, but instead there is division," she said in her kick-off speech.
To the extent Bush needed a whiff of fresh air and a chance to reset his campaign ahead of his kick-off speech in Miami, his overseas jaunt may prove just the political tonic he needed.
Some of the Republicans who ran in the 2016 race made efforts to court Latinos — former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, for example, spoke Spanish in his campaign kick-off speech and talked frequently on the trail about his Mexican-born wife.
He's active on social media ― that is, until he's kicked off of it for hate speech ― and loves calling mainstream Republicans "basic bitch conservatives".
The afternoon of the 16th will kick off with a keynote speech by German entrepreneur Stephan Uhrenbacher, founder and CEO of Qype, the social networking and local review startup.
Home Affairs Editor Simon Childs kicks off the first in our "Speeching" series, asking whether things will actually turn out the way Corbyn promised.
Ms. Foster kicked off her speech by saying straight out, "I'm 50!" adding: "I already did my coming out a thousand years ago, in the Stone Age.
The future, most easily, belongs to "ultra connected people" who can embrace the future of technology, but the majority of people do not fall into that category, he said as he kicked off a speech about what he sees as the role of technology in the world today, and carefully suggested what role Google could play in the game.
He kicked off the speech by rereading all his responses to the protests in Charlottesville.
kicked off his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference by recounting the story of the 33-year-old murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
