Event Speakers

Yves Meijsen

On behalf of KPN Getronics, Yves Meijsen will take you into the world of “The New Ways of Working”, focusing particularly on Conferencing Services.
Meijsen has been working for KPN since 1999 as a consultant in the field of technologies which enable business people to collaborate and present at a distance, such as audio, web and video conferencing and web television.

Meijsen has had various positions in the financial market in companies such as Rabobank and Euronext AEX. In the latter firm he was in charge of setting up web television for stakeholder communication in stock exchange companies.

Meijsen contributed to the development of the KPN ConferenceCard, which in December 2009 was awarded with the Telework Aspect Prize for innovative workplace concepts.
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Sylvie Verleye

This Flemish presentation coach has not only worked as a newscaster for 8 years at a regional TV channel, she has also been an author since October 2009, when her first book “Stilte, ik spreek” (“Silence, I’m talking”) was published. This book is about success factors in presenting. Currently she is doing research for her second book which will deal with PowerPoint and its use at board level. In addition, Verleye is working on the startup of a new presentation company, in which she will be collaborating with a professional presentation designer.

Zoltan Radnai

Zoltan Radnai is the Community Manager of Prezi, a presentation system that allows users to create ‘living presentations’. A former freelance writer, blogger and online journalism lecturer, Zoltan manages the Prezi community, builds interaction channels and communicates with users in every possible way.

Speech summary:
When we present, we use visual aids to our thoughts. We do this because we want to make ourselves understood better, help the audience to remember more of what we say and encourage conversation about the topic.
In our struggle to reach these goals, most of us try to impress the audience with slides. Prezi offers a new paradigm of presenting your thoughts. As a thinking tool it allows to explore the presenter’s thoughts just as we explore real spaces. This talk is about how prezi helps us to reach our main goals why we present, how we can target our presentations the best and most affective way, how we can identify our audience’s needs and most of all how can we create better presentations using Prezi.