The steps
6 steps, each on a page that already exists.
- 01
Check the talk against the four criteria
A result, not a roadmap. Health, not hype (no vendor pitches from the stage). Twenty minutes, then the tables, so the talk sets up a conversation rather than closing one. Recorded in the Studio on day two. If your talk is a product walkthrough, propose a lab instead.
What we look for - 02
Choose a track
Five tracks: Clinical AI; Operations and revenue; Sovereign data and security; Workforce and adoption; Capital and exits. Pick the one the room would file your result under, not the one with the biggest audience.
The tracks - 03
Write the abstract
150 to 300 words in four moves: the problem, what you did, what you measured, what you would do differently. The working title is one line that says what the room will know afterward that it did not before. Numbers with their denominators; no adjectives doing the work of evidence.
The form - 04
Submit
Name, work email, organization, title, LinkedIn profile, working title, track and abstract. Five minutes. Submissions are read for the Inaugural Forum and for the monthly Forums that follow, so a talk that misses one month is still in the pool for the next.
Submit a talk - 05
If selected, prepare for the room, not the slide
Keynotes run in the round with eight screens, so a slide is a backdrop at most. The same afternoon a think-tank table of twelve convenes on your subject with you at it: no slides at the tables, a question, a scribe and twelve people. Badges carry name, role and track only, and the Chatham House Rule applies to everything said.
The rules of the room - 06
Record in the Studio on day two
A full episode at goLocal Studios, inside the GuideWell Innovation Center, edited, clipped and distributed to Apple, Spotify, YouTube and LinkedIn. Bring the one story you did not have time for on stage. Speakers attend the whole Forum as participants, including the working sessions and the dinners. There is no fee in either direction.
About the Studio
What happens next
After you write, this is what follows.
Every submission is read. Selected speakers hear from Aubree before that Forum's program is set, with the slot, the table question and the Studio time. The episode is published after the Forum and may be cited in the daily brief and on the Insights desk, labelled as a podcast item, never as evidence.
Reading list
- Call for talksThe criteria, the tracks, what speakers receive, the form.
- The Executive ForumThe three days, who is in the room, the six rules.
- The StudioWhere the episode is recorded and how it is distributed.
- InsightsWhat the room is reading this week; a talk that answers it lands.
Questions
What speakers ask before they write.
Is there a speaking fee?
No, in either direction. Speakers attend the full Forum as participants and record a Studio episode; nobody pays to speak and nobody is paid to.
Can I bring slides?
To the Theatre, as a backdrop at most. Not to the tables; think-tank tables run on a question, a scribe and twelve people.
I work for a platform or a vendor. Can I keynote?
Keynotes belong to operators. Propose a Solution Lab or a clinic instead, through the same form, and the room will work your problem with you.
When will I hear back?
Before the program for the Forum you submitted for is set. Talks stay in the pool for the monthly Forums that follow.