Digital Twins in Creative Presentations

I have been making business presentations and creating content for corporate presenters for over 40 years. My journey began in 1984 when I set up my first business called Mass Mitec, pioneering desktop presentation technologies with the first IBM PC with a colour monitor using software packages like Execuvision, 35mm Express, Harvard Graphics and Powerpoint. We created hundreds of presentations for blue chip clients, became the first company in the UK to be appointed by Microsoft as a Powerpoint Centre of Excellence, set up the National Presentation Network in 1992 offering digital imaging at over 100 retail outlets, were runners up in the BT National Education Technology Awards and ran one the very first international web conferences in 2000 with over 300 delegates.

Today, the wheel has gone almost full circle as I have returned to professional speaking, digital presentation content creation and speaker coaching using some of the latest developments in AI creativity.

One of the techniques I use is based on AI generated digital twins which I often use at the beginning of motivation talks or keynote presentations. The reasons why I do this are twofold. Firstly, as anyone in speaking or live entertainment will tell you, the first 2 minutes of your performance are critical. If you grad your audience in the first 2 minutes, they will stick with you and secondly, many audiences judge the book by its cover and as a 75 year old with grey, thinning hair. I need all the help I can get.

This is why I often begin presentations with a picture of my digital twin and explain that I do this because he is better looking and more interesting than I am. I have put together a video that explains this.

One of the other uses of digital twins is when I need to speak in a foreign language either because my audience is mainly non-English speaking or sometimes when I want to deliver a special message. I recent example of this was at a conference in Antalya when I wanted to thank the Rector of Belek University for their hospitality so I got ChatGPT to write a short thank you speech in Turkish and got another of my digital twins to deliver it in a recorded video.

My most recent discovery was in the use of dubbing and translation captioning software called captions on my smartphone. Whilst setting up a demonstration of the captioning of my digital twin opening in different languages, I was amazed to discover that AI had used its own initiative to add a web address to my audio and captions. See the examples below which use AI to clone my voice in multiple languages

The other use of digital twins I would like to share used software that can write songs for you in your chosen style with original lyrics. I used this to create a promotional video about my favourite coffee shop in Southwick. I used a combination of different packages to produce this video about Bodhis Coffee shop

If you are interested in using my services as a motivational or keynote speaker, having creative content for your own presentations or having speaker coaching, please get in touch. I also thoroughly recommend the Professional Speaking Association as a source of great speakers and services.