Speaking

I never knew how much I would enjoy speaking. Until Naked Conversations, I had done very little of it. I have been a featured speaker at 60 public and private events in eight countries. The total audience attendance exceeds 10,000. To date, not a single piece of ripe fruit has been hurled at me.

I customize each talk for the attendees. Each shares three common elements: (1) I make my points based on telling the stories of social media people; (2)  I interject humor when appropriate, and (3) I am as interactive as I possibly can be.

I want people to walk away feeling they have learned something new that will be useful to them in their professions.

For information on booking me to speak, please contact Steve Gardner, by email or Twitter. <SGardner@fivestarspeakers.com>,

UPCOMING TALKS

• San Mateo County Leadership Conference, June 19
• Hewlett Packard--Global Video Livecast, Cupertino, CA, July 14
• Twitterville Book Tour-Canada. Sept 13-18
• Blog Potomac, Washington, DC, Oct 23
• Ad-Fed Houston, Oct. 21
  

SELECTED PREVIOUS TALKS

Companies & Organizations

• DowJones Conversational Corporation,  Roundtable, PA
• Intel, San Francisco & Las Vegas
  
• SAP, Palo Alto
• Dell Computer, Austin
• US Embassy, Rome
• Microsoft Corp., Redmond & Brussels
• L’Oreal, Paris
• Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco
• Hitachi Data Systems, Santa Clara
• CNET, San Francisco
• Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park
• GlobalSpec, Saratoga, NY
• Amazon.com, Seattle
• Executive & Gov’t communicators, Ottawa
• Government Communicators, Toronto
• National Booksellers Conference, Las Vegas
• Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Events (partial)

• TWTRCON, Nikko Hotel, San Francisco
• Les Blogs, Paris
• Internet 2.0, London
• Evento Blog Espana, Seville, Spain
• Community 2.0, Las Vegas
• WOMMA 2006, San Francisco
• Mesh Forum 2006, San Francisco
• Blog Orlando, 2007
• California Librarians Assoc., Long Beach, CA 2008
• SNCR Forum 2007 Las Vegas, Napa 2008, SF 2009
• WE Media, Miami, 2007,
• BloggerconCN, Guangzhou, China, 2008
• Infopresse, Montreal, 2007
• Blogworld 07, Las Vegas
• Measurement Summit, Manchester, NH
• IT Cork,  Ireland
• Office 2.0, 2006, 2007, San Francisco
• Third Tuesday Ottawa & Toronto 2006
• Silicon Vikings, Stanford University
  
• Social Media Marketing Summit, Moscone Center, SF
• Social Media Strategies Conference, Stanford Court, SF
  
• CNBloggercon, Guangzhou, China Nov. 10, 2009
• SARTA, Hyatt Hotel, Sacramento March 23, 2009