Booking international speakers and facilitators that are already coming to Asia can give you a great draw card for your event, a fresh point of view, as well as substantially reducing the cost of bringing in an International speaker or facilitator yourself.

Morris Miselowski Visiting from: AUS Dates: November 2010 Principal and founder of "Success through Focus", Morris Miselowski is in constant demand as a business futurist and consultant to some of Australia's leading companies, state and federal government institutions and provides his expertise to start-up and growing businesses. Morris also works with thousands of CEOs and key decision makers around the world, as a guide and business mentor.			Scott McKain Visiting from: USA Dates: Late October 2010 Scott McKain's business philosophy; "The purpose of any business is to profitably create experiences that are so compelling to customers and employees that their loyalty is assured." This is the cornerstone for the keynote speeches and high content workshops that he presents. Scott is an accomplished presenter and speaker who is considered among the best business speakers in the world.			Anders Sorman-Nilsson Visiting from: AUS Dates: November 2010 Generational Trends, Management Expert, Innovation and Change; Anders Sorman-Nilsson is an expert in Funky Thinking and its application as a problem-solving methodology in 21st century business. Anders is a maverick thought leader on how organisations and individuals can future-proof their business brains in a world that is just a little out of whack.			Explosive Minds Visiting from: AUS Dates: November 2010 Explosive Minds are a dynamic combination of interactive, improvised comedy, entertainment and training - with a difference! As Australia's foremost experts at engaging the nervous system of any audience, their corporate performances are tailored to fit your event every time. No scripts, no safety net, just fly by the seat of your pants fun! Every performance then becomes totally unique, as the team create each comedy scene based on characters and situations taken from your event.

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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." Barack Obama, US President, Speaker and Author. He will also be visiting Asia in November this year.

"The Happiest Refugee"

New Book Alert!

Anh Do is one of Australia's most popular and well-loved comedians. He's done over 1500 comedy performances throughout Australia and overseas and has recently entered the book world with an honest depiction of his life to date with "The Happiest Refugee". The book begins with Anh's parents meeting and falling in love in war-torn Vietnam, and follows the family's journey from their homeland to a refugee camp in Malaysia and finally Australia. Anh talks about war, escape, pirates, love, courage, racism, alcoholism, comedy, tragedy, and, above all, hope. This book is witty, charming and heart-warming, and just when you think you’re about to die from laughter, he wrenches your heartstrings so hard that you’re on the brink of crying. A great read!

Want to win a signed copy of  "The Happiest Refugee"? Simply email us your inspiring story to be in the running to win 1 of 5 signed copies of Anh Do's amazing book! 

Video Steam of our Speaker Showcase

View Our Speakers In Action

What a great year we are having! Our National Showcases held in Australia have been a huge success and you too can take part!

We had a selection of speakers presenting on various topics; ranging from leadership, to inspiration, humour, sales, relationships and social marketing just to name a few. Follow the links to register and see for yourself the array of talented speakers the Ovations team can provide that can add the finishing touch to your event or conference. Click here

Peter Baines not only continues to astound, move and motivate our clients with his keynote presentations; he helps raise funds and awareness for his charity Hands Across the Water. Pete's message was completely relevant and especially poignant when he spoke at the LJ Hooker Real Estate conference in Thailand recently. The delegates of LJ Hooker personally contributed over $100,000 to Peter's charity: Hands Across the Water. The amazing thing about this is the delegates weren't asked to support Hands, it wasn't scripted it was just an emotional response to the messages and reflected the wonderful generosity of the group. EVERY single cent raised will go to the children in the orphanages.

Hands Across the Water is Australia's fastest growing boutique charity supporting the children in Thailand who were orphaned by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami; it is currently shaking up the charity sector having raised over $2.5 million (AUD) without spending one cent of donor's money on administrative costs since its inception four years ago. All costs that are incurred in the running of the charity are absorbed by Peter and other Board members.

WHERE IS THE NEW WHEN - Presented by Mike Walsh

Once a high end military technology, GPS and other location aware technologies have become so prevalent in our daily lives half the time we don’t even notice their presence.
But in the last year, something interesting happened. Social networking, smarter mobile devices and cheap GPS chipsets have combined to give birth to 2010’s hot new trend - ‘place sharing’. The two leading platforms - Foursquare and Gowalla already have millions of users worldwide, as consumers join the craze of sharing not just what they are doing, but where they are doing it. Just this month, Facebook announced it will be supporting the consumer trend with the launch of Facebook Places. 

The real opportunity for retailers and event space managers is the data these new platforms generate. Foursquare’s new dashboard will tell you who your most popular visitors are, how often they come, at what times of the day and what percentage of them posted to Facebook or Twitter while they were there.
 

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