Captivate Your Audience (Keynote and Interactive Workshop)

This session is being run in collaboration with Graduate Pathways to Success.

Keynote: 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Your work is important. Can you make something complex exciting?  Yes! How can you make your ideas and research the ones that people get excited about? How can you stand out in a world where information is readily available? How can you share your work in a way that your audience will remember after a presentation or interview? Join this keynote to learn strategies for creating a compelling narrative that engages the audience while remaining accurate about your findings and not oversimplifying. And you start changing the world  -  one audience at a time.

Interactive Workshop: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

This workshop is an interactive and hands-on journey through the core elements of impactful communication. Please come prepared with a speaking topic related to your studies, current research, ongoing work, or your thesis.

Learning Outcomes:

• Craft compelling opening and closing statements to captivate your audience.
• Simplify complex ideas for clearer and more engaging communication.
• Develop strategies to answer questions confidently and articulately
• Apply non-verbal communication strategies to communicate confidence

This will be a very interactive session, and participants are asked to come prepared with a speaking topic related to their current research or ongoing work.

FACILITATOR

Ivan Wanis Ruiz

Ivan Wanis Ruiz is a communications expert like no other. He has been a guest lecturer at not only the University of British Columbia but also the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, University of Guelph and many more. He has travelled across Canada twice as the official spokesperson for both the PanAm Games and most recently the Invictus Games.

Here are some fun facts about Ivan

• He is a top-rated instructor on Coursera with over 140,000 learners
• He is a top-rated instructor on Udemy with over 50,000 students
• He was the official host for 2021 FIFA Arab Cup
• The largest crowd he ever spoke in front of was 40,000
• He wrote a book called "End Boring"
• He can teach you how to salsa dance"

You can also check out his trailer: https://youtu.be/MeqKbFnXQT4

Visit Ivan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/publicspeakinglab/

registration

Registration in this session is required and is now open. Please email the PDFO at postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca if you would like to register in the session. Those successfully registered will receive a registration confirmation within one week of the session date.

NO-SHOW PENALTY: If you register and do not attend or cancel after 3pm on the day before the event, it may affect your eligibility to join future events. To avoid this no-show penalty, please cancel by at least 3pm the day before the event by e-mailing postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca.

Accessibility

If you have a disability or medical condition that may affect your full participation in the event, please email postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca in advance of the event.

This session will be held in-person at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on the UBC - Point Grey Campus and online via Zoom. For those attending in person, the room is located on the third floor and is accessible by elevator. For those attending via Zoom, live captioning will be enabled.

PDFO EVENT COMMUNITY AGREEMENT

The PDFO has created a community agreement for our events in order to foster an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment in which all event attendees feel safe and supported.

By participating in a PDFO event, we commit ourselves to:

• Treating one another with kindness, courtesy and respect in all interactions;
• Engaging in gracious, active listening and valuing others’ opinions;
• Not dominating discussions so that others can share during the session;
• Ensuring that any potentially confidential or sensitive information shared as part of the session is not shared outside of the session;
• Actively participating in the session; and
• In online sessions, when possible and if comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.
• if comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.