Steven Levy

Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes an iPod an iPod? By then - January 11, 2005 - I had staked my own claim to iPod expertise, having written a 'Newsweek' cover story about Apple's transformational music player, and I was writing a book on it.

American Journalist

Jerry Della Femina

I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.

American Businessman

Lindsay Fox

The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family.

Australian Businessman

Zach Anner

I've been a comedian, hosted travel shows, explored world religions, started improv troupes, given keynote speeches at conferences around the country, and had a milk shake named after me called the Handicappuccino.

American Comedian

Julian Castro

Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I've got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama.

American Politician

Ashton Kutcher

I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

American Actor

Annie Besant

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

English Philosopher

John McAfee

I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.

Patrick Kavanagh

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

Irish Poet

Henri Bergson

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

French Philosopher

In contexts where 'keynote' is used, it signifies what the audience should pay most attention to.

Primary Focus

A keynote often reflects the perspective or expertise of the person delivering it.

Expert Perspective

A keynote is commonly regarded as the highlight or most anticipated part of an event.

Event Highlight

'Keynote' in music refers to the fundamental note that gives the music its sense of 'home'.

Musical Foundation

The keynote helps identify the scale and can affect the mood or tone of a piece.

Scale Identifier

To 'keynote' an event means to establish the primary direction or message for all attendees.

Set the Direction

Being chosen to keynote signifies recognition of one's stature or expertise in a field.

Prestigious Role

 But the fact remains that when someone wants to put a couple of speakers in their car, if they've got the otaku or they've heard from someone who does, they go ahead and they pick this. It's really simple -- you sell to the people who are listening, and just maybe, those people tell their friends. So when Steve Jobs talks to 50,000 people at his keynote,

How to get your ideas to...

 And that's certainly been my experience with transition. From three years ago, it just being an idea, this has become something that has virally swept around the world. We're getting a lot of interest from government. Ed Miliband, the energy minister of this country, was invited to come to our recent conference as a keynote listener.

Rob Hopkins: Transition...

 keynote all over the world I keynote for medical organizations any professional organization corporations it's like anybody who has a brain would like to have a better idea of how to get your brain to do what you want it to do we do have two very different ways of perceiving the world one more open and

The right brain vs. left...

 and trust me and to listen to what I had to say they published my first book flying fingers you see it here and from there on it's gone speaking at hundreds of schools keynote and the thousands of educators and finally today speaking to you I appreciate your attention today

What adults can learn...

 It's funny, I'm an -- as I said, Apple fanatic -- and one day, about a year or so ago, I was signing on online in the morning to watch Steve Jobs' keynote, because I always do. And he came on, he was presenting the video iPod, and what was on the enormous iPod behind him?

The mystery box PIPE JJ...

 And in this remote world, we're allowing our partners to bring their families onto the camera or listen in the room as we have courageous conversations on diversity. So if Starbucks has a keynote speaker on a certain diversity topic, we invite the family in.

How to foster true...

 It makes it easier to engage with what that person has to say. So, step away from the keyboards, start conversing. And if we are to expand that notion a little bit, nothing is stopping us from pressing pause on a parade of keynote speeches,

How to disagree...

 I stopped presenting an inauthentic representation of myself or my work. And I have been tested. This is me pointing at my hoop earring in my office -- Just last month, I was invited to keynote a Latino Heritage Month event.

Museums should honor the...

 of a massive bubble, a factor of three, 300 percent in just a few years. In September 2007, I was invited as a keynote speaker of a macro hedge fund management conference, and I showed to the conference a prediction

Didier Sornette: How we...

 in some ways New Worlds is like your average conference you got your keynote addresses your expert panels your networking events but there are two things that make new