152. Christoffer Weiss: Becoming an Audiovisual Alchemist

Christoffer Weiss is The World’s Premiere Audiovisual Alchemist. He has produced over 300 events, in +30 countries on 6 continents. (Since 2002). He works exclusively with the world’s top speakers and trainers and runs multiple businesses in multiple countries. Christoffer trains professional speakers in how to create top-notch presentations. He is a classically educated actor with over 25 years of stage and film experience. Now an expert in voice control, event production, stage presence and keynote creation.

Becoming an audiovisual alchemist

Christoffer wanted be an actor, so graduated from acting school, went to Hollywood but things didn’t go as well as planned. Shortly later he got involved with the personal development industry, so he attended conferences. A first A-ha moment came when he saw Les Brown live on a first row and stroke him how Brown looked at Christoffer’s eyes and answered a question. Another day he analyzed the room and asked himself: which is the best job in the house? It was the event producer managing the audiovisuals. By using the storytelling and music knowledge from his acting background, Christoffer developed the skills and a system to create emotions so information sticks better. That’s how he became an audiovisual alchemist.

How speakers must work with event producers and technicians

* Send your presentation well in advance. This is the number one issue event producers have with speakers.

* Start and end your talk on time.

* Be humble with the technicians, appreciate their work. Don’t behave like a diva.

* Inform in advance if you’re going to do something else except just speaking, such as singing, asking the lights to be switched off, bringing someone from the audience to the stage, using Internet connection, etc.

Trends in conferences

Top three:

* Much bigger surfaces, blending several displays together to create a huge screen.

* Interactivity, such as a Twitter feed. Also, people can use an app to ask questions during the presentation so the moderator can pick them up.

* Ability to send presentations live to your device. If you’re in the audience,