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According to ADP’s “People at Work 2026” survey, which covered 39,000 workers across 36 countries, only 22% of the global workforce feels confident their job is safe from AI-driven elimination. Among individual contributors, it drops to 18%. These aren’t fringe fears. They’re the emotional baseline your attendees are walking in with. For planners ev...

Booking the perfect speaker often comes down to one thing: timing. We keep track of exciting speaker updates so that you can anticipate the latest trends, topics, and rising stars to bring to your next event. A speaker whose story is already in the cultural conversation tends to land differently than one who isn’t; your […]

“Education speaker” covers a lot of ground. It includes the neuroscientist presenting at a national curriculum conference, the former classroom teacher making 500 school staff laugh before they cry, the Google executive who grew up in poverty and wants to talk about what learning opens up for people, and the science communicator who flew to […]

Most event planners get the speaker program strategy backward. They start by asking who’s available or famous, then build a budget around that person. That approach is backward, expensive, and usually disappointing. The real mistake isn’t choosing the wrong speaker. It’s making the choice at the wrong time. We’ve spent more than two decades watching [R...