Events industry keynote speaker
Anyone can stream a session. You create the rooms people choose to travel for.
Real rooms. Real people. Real change.
Everyone now has the same AI, the same data and the same tools.
The only difference left is your people.
Recordings, livestreams and AI summaries make every session available without a plane ticket, and registrations arrive later every year.
Your profession has to prove, again and again, why the room matters.
Executives approve budgets line by line and wonder what they get in person that a recording cannot give them. Your event has to answer that question before they register.
AI now drafts RFPs, compares venues and answers attendee questions around the clock. Meeting professionals wonder which part of the job is still theirs, and the honest answer is the most valuable part.
Lectern, slides, a speaker your attendees already watched online. People remember moments, not sessions, and they talk about the ones they could not have had anywhere else.
Events and meetings organizations that trusted me, among others
Whether they plan citywides, incentives or board retreats, your members are asking one of them.
Will a machine do my job?
The better the machines get, the more your people will set you apart.
Why it lands with events industry audiences: AI is already writing proposals, matching venues and building agendas. This shows planners, suppliers and destination teams the judgment, relationships and crisis calls no tool can make, which is exactly why clients still need them.
Why does someone else get chosen?
What your people know rarely gets them chosen. What others see in them does.
Why it lands with events industry audiences: clients, attendees and sponsors decide in seconds whether an event, a venue or a planner deserves their trust. This shows your community how the five dimensions, from the registration page to the room set, decide which events people choose to attend.
For years I ran a corporate leadership academy and hired speakers myself, so I know your side of the contract: the brief that gets ignored, the rehearsal that runs late, the speaker who goes over time. I make your job easier, not more exciting.
The world’s first 3D immersive keynote shows your community what an event can become when content, technology and a human performer share one stage. Planners leave with ideas for their own next show.
Before your event, I work with your organizing committee to understand your planners, suppliers and chapter leaders, and I use your vocabulary: room blocks, attrition, RFPs, sponsor deliverables. Your audience hears its own world, not a generic talk about change.
I can lead an MPI or ILEA chapter education event, open a trade show or close an industry awards gala, live, virtual or hybrid. I adjust the length to your education credits and can add a short Q&A so your members leave with more than notes.
Events industry audiences are expert audiences: they have seen hundreds of speakers and they notice every cue. I plan for that.
No slides, no pre-recorded hologram beamed in from somewhere else.
I stay live in the room while your leaders, sponsors and theme step into the story.
How clients describe it, in their own words.
How clients make it their own.
I spent years hiring speakers for corporate programs. Now I build keynotes that make the planner look brilliant.
I’m Sylvie di Giusto. Long before anyone booked me, I was the one booking: as head of the leadership academy of Europe’s largest retail and tourism group, I hired the speakers for our programs and lived with the outcome. I know what it means to hand someone your stage. Today I’m a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker, and the events community is a room I respect more than any other. Among others, MIC Colorado, Informa Connect, RCMA or the FSAE trusted me with their people. Planners have seen it all, which is exactly why I love showing them something they haven’t.
In their words, not ours.
Having selected speakers for over 30 years, the challenge is to be relevant to your audience, be personable, easy to work with, flexible and genuine! Sylvie di Giusto is all of those! She’s among my top picks.
In 27 years of planning conferences and hearing thousands of speakers, it’s truly rare to be enlightened and moved by one. I heard Sylvie di Giusto speak recently and she blew me away.
I am still at a loss of words for how incredible, warm, real, and engaging Sylvie is. She is truly one of, if not the best, speaker I have had the opportunity to hear and engage with.
Here is what our attendees said: “I got my money’s worth for the entire conference, just for her session”, “Out of all the conferences I have been attending for this association, she (Sylvie) was the best you have had yet”, “You hit it out of the park with having Sylvie speak. She was so good!”
Her notes on 1st impressions are game changing and her entire presentation was so engaging and I’m so excited to share it with our local team. We were incredibly lucky to have her!
MIC Colorado · 3D immersive keynote
Pharma Forum, Informa Connect · 3D immersive keynote
The Power of Choice is built on my book The Image of Leadership, and its Hospitality edition, with a foreword by Matt Kyle Schechter of NYC Tourism + Conventions, belongs on every meeting professional’s desk. Destinations, venues and planners are chosen on trust long before a contract is signed.
It shows how appearance, behavior, communication, digital presence and environment decide whether clients, attendees and partners choose your event, your venue or your city. Some chapters and conferences add a copy to every attendee’s welcome bag.
AI tools now draft the RFP, shortlist venues and assemble an agenda in minutes. Forever Human shows planners and suppliers the relationships, judgment and crisis calls that make a client keep calling them.
Readers come away with a sharper answer to the question clients are starting to ask: why do we still need you? Many chapters and conferences give every attendee a copy, so planners and suppliers bring that answer to their next client meeting.
Sylvie di Giusto is a CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame keynote speaker trusted by MIC Colorado, Informa Connect or the FSAE, among others, and known in the meetings industry for the world’s first 3D immersive keynote. Her keynotes, Forever Human and The Power of Choice, are customized to planners, suppliers and destination teams.
A 3D immersive keynote is a holographic stage show in which Sylvie di Giusto performs alongside 3D projections, so the audience experiences the content instead of watching slides. Planners book it to give attendees a moment no livestream can deliver and to see firsthand what live events can become. Details are on The Experience.
Forever Human fits planners and suppliers who wonder how AI will change sourcing, registration and event design, because it shows what only humans bring to live experiences. The Power of Choice fits destination, venue and planner audiences who win business on trust, because it shows how clients decide whom to hire. Both can be delivered as the 3D immersive keynote.
Yes. Sylvie di Giusto’s Forever Human keynote speaks directly to meeting professionals about AI in event planning, from automated proposals to attendee chatbots. She shows planners why judgment, relationships and calm under pressure remain the core of the profession.
Sylvie di Giusto works well for destination and venue client events, because her keynote The Power of Choice is about how people choose, the question every DMO and venue sales team lives with. She customizes it to your destination and your planner clients, and the 3D immersive version gives your guests a reason to talk about your event long after the fam trip ends.
Yes. Sylvie partners with speaker bureaus all over the world, and her team is used to coordinating with planners, bureaus and production companies on the same event.
As early as your dates are set. The 3D immersive keynote is coordinated with your venue and production partners, so more lead time makes everything smoother. Check availability to hold your date.
I also serve audiences in association, hospitality & travel and food & beverage. See every audience I speak to.
Dates, formats, the 3D experience and logistics for your event.
