ACADEMIC PRESENTATION

Being a MC for a seminar

Time Activity

Ladies and Gentlemen! May I have your kind attention please..

8.55am
/ Ladies and gentlemen, as we are about to begin, please have a seat.
– Call for
attention / May I have your attention, please! Our program will start in about a
minute, so please find yourself a seat to settle down. Thank you!

9.00am – opening My name is ___ and on behalf of _____I would like to welcome all of you to this
seminar. It is our privilege to have you with us today. We are now ready to begin
the proceedings of the seminar.

/ Good morning ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of _____, I would like to

extend a very warm welcome to all of you. We appreciate you taking time
off your busy schedules to join us today. We hope you will find the program
we have lined-up for you to be fruitful and engaging.

Let me first of all introduce you to the agenda.

We will set the ball rolling with ______, the ______ of _____ saying a few
words / having an opening remark

We had requested all the seminar invitees to participate in a short online

survey. That should take about 10 minutes.

At 9:15 we will have our guest speakers presenting their point of view on
the seminar theme. We are fortunate to have two very prominent industry
professionals speaking today, ______ and ______

At 9:45, ______our _____ based in Vietnam will introduce a new and

fascinating aspect of the most beautiful organ of human body … our brain.
This will be a 15 minutes presentation.

We will take a coffee break at 10:00 am.

We will reassemble at 10:15 / The seminar will resume at 10:15  and this is
when we will present to you ______, our TVC enhancement tool.

At 11:15 am to conclude the seminar we will have a panel discussion /At

11:15 we will have a panel discussion as the final seminar item of the day.
The audience can also participate in the panel discussion by asking
 questions or sharing their own point of view.

We will end the seminar at 12 noon / The seminar is planned to finish

around 12 noon

I am sure it is going to be a great 3 hours of interaction and learning for all

of us.

I will now invite  _____, the _______

Mr ________, please.
9:00 – 9:15: survey
result <<<<Welcome note

We are privileged to have as our first guest speaker today, ______, _____at
______. Let’s hear from him his experience and views on the subject…
advertising testing

<<<<________>>>>>

9:15 – 9:45: Guest Thank you ______. It was a very precise and relevant presentation. I am sure all of
presentation us in this room relate to each and every word that you mentioned. Thank you for
sharing.

I would now like to welcome our next guest speaker. We are extremely
honored to welcome _______ the ____ at ____.

<<<<_______>>>>>

Thank you very much ______. A very thought provoking and insightful
9:45 – 10:00: A presentation indeed. Your thoughts are going to stay with all of us.
beautiful mind

Ladies and gentlemen, refreshments will also be served in/at ______.

10:00 –
10:15: Coffee  The breakout sessions will start promptly after the coffee break at 10:15am.
Thank you.

<<<<Coffee Break>>>>>

10:15 – 11:15: Welcome back Ladies and Gentlemen!

___ introductio I hope all of you are enjoying the proceedings so far. There are more
n exciting things to come…
 Just before we took our coffee break, _____ had left us with a question….

Let’s now hear from him the answer to that question.

<<<<_______>>>>>

Thank you, _______

I would now like to invite on stage members of our elite panel for a
11:15 – discussion to conclude this seminar.
12:00: Panel
discussion Please welcome ______

The panel discussion will be moderated by ________

Thank you all.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you’ve found this morning’s presentations

12:00 – Closing informative and useful.

Thank you for spending time with us today.