The London Speaker

Division C Contests and Storytelling Workshops

On Saturday 13 April Division C, London Toastmasters is holding it's Division Finals for the International Speech Contest and the Evaluation Contest.

Join us and witness the best of the division sharing their speeches and evaluations as they vie for a place in the District finals.  Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-your-stories-tickets-56994715729

Discover engaging ways to shape your stories!

We will have workshops from experienced story tellers who will be sharing their insights on :

• finding personal stories to share
• structuring stories for effective impact
• delivering stories in business presentations

 

Venue: St Botolph's without Aldersgate , Aldersgate Street London EC1A 4EU
Travel: St Paul's Underground Station, Central (Red) Line

Guests: 10am for a 10:30am start
Contestants and Functionaries: 9:45AM for briefings

Lunch and refreshments will be served!

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-your-stories-tickets-56994715729

Debate: Is Gene Editing a Step Too Far? Tues 12 March

From 20`104 London Debaters

Should human gene editing be banned? Debate it Tuesday 12 March 2019 at 104 London Debaters TM.

Writing in The Guardian, ethicist John Harris claimed that all of us need gene editing to be pursued, and if possible, made safe enough to use in humans. Not only to pave the way for procedures on adult tissues, but to keep open the possibility of using gene editing to protect embryos from susceptibility to major diseases and prevent other debilitating genetic conditions from being passed on through them to future generations.>/p>

In that same newspaper, Dr Marcy Darnovsky of the Center for Genetics and Society called it an unneeded and societally dangerous biotechnology, one that could be leveraged by privileged elites seeking purported genetic improvements to ensure that their children are treated as superior to the rest of us. "Haven’t we been down the path of biologically defined hierarchies before? In a world plagued with obscene inequalities, in a time of resurgent racism, is this the road we want to travel?"

What do you think? And can you say why you think that?

104 London Debaters is the UK's first and only Toastmasters club dedicated to debate.

Our debate is on Tuesday,12 March, 2019, 6:45 gathering for 7:00 gavel, The Grange Rochester Hotel, , 69 Vincent Square, SW1P-2PA (entrance on Vane Street). Near Victoria Station and Pimlico Station. Convenient to Vauxhall Station as well.

104 London Debaters meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at The Grange Rochester GUESTS ARE WELCOME TO SPEAK IN FLOOR CONTRIBUTIONS

T.M. In I.T.? Attending Cloud Expo? Come to the Debate

From 104 London Debaters

 

104 London Debaters Toastmaster club has been invited to Cloud Expo Europe, the UK's biggest and best attended technology event on 12 March 2019 at ExCeL London to debate the motion That Big Corporations Are Stifling Open-Source Innovation. 

 

The four debating Toastmasters will be joined by two industry experts to thrash out this idea.

 

Details on the debate available here

 

https://www.cloudexpoeurope.com/seminars-programme/debate-are-big-companies-slowing-down-open-source-innovation

Technology enabled change is on the boardroom agenda for businesses of all types and sizes. Cloud Expo Europe is the UK’s leading event for connecting technologists, business leaders and senior business managers with experts, solutions and services to help accelerate digital transformation plans.

If you're a TM , in the I.T. business, or interested in the debate,  see below for free tickets to register for this event

https://cloudexpo.circdata-solutions.co.uk/rfg/publish/CEEL19/