An old mate's dad used to have an agency that recruited after dinner speaker.
A hell of a lot of money changed hands for a half hour talk.
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Wed 15 Jul 2009, 9:36,
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I went to a junket last October that had a great after dinner speaker
He spent the whole time talking about IT managers and end users, which the room full of geeky software engineers loved.
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Wed 15 Jul 2009, 9:39,
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