Keynote speeches
A main-stage talk written for the audience that actually showed up. The flagship format for conferences, summits and company gatherings.
Full brief in the speaker kit
Dashiell Reed is a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, emcee and panel moderator working out of Birmingham, Alabama.
Five formats, one approach: the session is built around who is in the room and what the day has to do.
A main-stage talk written for the audience that actually showed up. The flagship format for conferences, summits and company gatherings.
Full brief in the speaker kit
A hands-on session where the team works through the material together instead of watching it from the back row.
Bring the team goalDashiell runs the day: transitions, introductions, energy between sessions and the moments nobody put on the schedule.
Share the run of showA moderator who keeps the conversation on topic, gets every voice into the room and lands it somewhere useful.
Send the panel topicThe keynote or the workshop, delivered to a remote audience and built for the screen rather than adapted to it.
Tell us your platformThe speaker kit is the short version of this page in one file — what a programmer, a committee or an event team can read, forward and bring to the meeting that decides the booking.
Short, medium and long, so the program, the introduction and the event page all match.
Plain descriptions of each format, written for a program committee rather than a brochure.
What the room needs: setup, timing and the technical details the production team will ask about.
A short intro the host can read from the podium, so the walk-on lands the way it should.
Three steps from the first email to the date on the calendar.
Tell us who is in the room, what the day has to do and the date. The inquiry form is the fastest route to an answer.
The keynote, the workshop, the emcee role or the panel is shaped around that brief before anything is confirmed.
On the day, Dashiell runs the room — main stage, breakout table, panel or virtual stage.
Send the audience, the date and the format. That is enough to start.