Speakers FAQ

This series provides speakers with an opportunity to present topics reflecting innovation in science, engineering, and business to a sparkly audience of fellow innovators to open discussions on technology and collaboration. Talks are approximately one hour in length including a Q&A session. The VRP Seminar Series is recorded and archived for the speakers’ reference, and for public access to a wider audience who may miss an in-person presentation.

We encourage suggestions for speakers and topics, however, the VRP Seminar Series is curated. Our speakers are by arrangement.

Once a speaker is selected, the VRP Seminar Series coordinator will work with each speaker to pick a speaking date from our available pre-published future dates. We tend to be inflexible about dates, for both speaker and audience convenience.

In preparation for your talk, we’ll need some information from you in order to send out invitations. We’ll need your name, title of your role, short biography, title and a brief summary of your seminar.

If you have slides accompanying your talk, you’ll need to provide your slides to the coordinating team at least 3 days in advance.

Yes! If speakers would like to add invited guests to the VRP Seminar Series, please provide name and email contact information for those guests 2 weeks ahead of the scheduled date so they can receive an invitation from our team. BTW - attendees get free food!

Please arrive to the site of the presentation at Valley Research Park 30 minutes early (2:30pm) for your presentation at 3:00pm. We will need to test the audio/video equipment prior to your presentation.

If your slides have been adjusted at the last minute, please plan to arrive even earlier to allow for the slides to get re-loaded.

Yes! All sessions will be recorded. After recording, speakers will have an opportunity to review the recording before it is published in our VRP Seminar Series Archive.