How to Use keynote speaker in a Sentence

keynote speaker

noun
  • Senator Williams was the keynote speaker at the convention.
  • Biden was the keynote speaker at the same event in 2017.
    Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 13 July 2022
  • As the event’s keynote speaker, Yara Shahidi was at the center of it all.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The Oscar winner was the keynote speaker at the event, held Aug. 10.
    Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Who will be the keynote speaker at the next Darwin awards banquet?
    Pat Myers, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In June, Rodgers was the keynote speaker at a convention for psychedelics.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Gore joined Tuesday night via Zoom as the keynote speaker.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2022
  • A week earlier, Mike Pence had been a keynote speaker and Trump was not on the program at all.
    Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The event’s keynote speaker will be selected by Booth and shared at a later date.
    Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The conference keeps getting postponed due to the no-show of its keynote speaker.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The event's keynote speaker was former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
    CBS News, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston was one of the 2024 conference's keynote speakers.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Lori Beninson, a past district governor and council chair for the club, will be the keynote speaker.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The group picked Amala Ekpunobi, who hosts a show for the conservative nonprofit PragerU, to be the keynote speaker.
    Samantha Chery, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2022
  • Actor and writer Hill Harper will be the keynote speaker.
    Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
  • Williams visited Cincinnati last month as the keynote speaker for Black Tech Week.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Reid, who helped make Atlanta the center of R&B and hip hop relevance in the 1990s, is returning as keynote speaker.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Mike Smogor, a former Buffalo Grove resident of 33 years who now lives in Grayslake, was the keynote speaker.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The event will have a keynote speaker, Catherine Mattice Zundel.
    Karen Pearlman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The room was the size of a conference room with a keynote speaker, and Beck’s identity as an academic returned to fit itself to him.
    Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • Dr Margie Warrell is a keynote speaker on building courage in work, leadership and life.
    Dr Margie Warrell, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • Vice President Kamala Harris was the keynote speaker at the event.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
  • Here's a list of the convention's headliners and keynote speakers.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • The keynote speaker is Hamilton native and retired Brig.
    Allison Kiehl, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024
  • William Arruda is a keynote speaker, co-founder of CareerBlast.
    William Arruda, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Former first lady Michele Obama is the keynote speaker.
    Rick Klein, ABC News, 10 June 2022
  • Crouch, who was the keynote speaker, said Indiana is in pretty good shape, with the aid of an additional $5 billion to spend on Hoosiers.
    Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2021
  • In 2019, Gendler was featured as the keynote speaker at Variety’s Power of Law breakfast.
    Katie Song, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
  • This week, ahead of Dorsey's posts, Kennedy appeared as a keynote speaker at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami.
    Ben Goggin, NBC News, 24 May 2023
  • As the keynote speaker, Parker emphasized having the confidence to view setbacks as part of the process instead of as failures.
    Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2022

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