Keynote Speaker Showreel | Watch Simon Banks On Stage

Booking a keynote speaker sight unseen is a risk. This is where you check the risk before you take it. Watch Simon Banks’ keynote speaker showreel for a real look at his work on stage: his energy, his humour and his approach to creativity and innovation, live and unscripted. No one falls asleep in the back row.

What you won’t see is a stack of slides. Simon draws live throughout his keynotes, working a room rather than talking at it, and gets the audience actively creating rather than watching someone else do it. It’s the same energy you see in the reel, just aimed at your event instead of a camera.

Simon has delivered over 1,400 events across Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. That includes keynote speaking, conference MC work, designing and running innovation hackathons, graphic facilitation workshops, and creativity and design thinking workshops. He’s helped teams at EY, Chevron, the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Sportsbet, Suncorp, NAB, Commonwealth Bank, Geoscience Australia, the QLD Government and Volkswagen bring fresh thinking into their work.

Simon lives and breathes creativity. He’s a professional artist who has lectured at the National Gallery in London and developed programs for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, and he’s written about it too: A Thousand Little Lightbulbs, his BS-free guide to kickstarting a culture of innovation.

Liked what you saw? Let’s talk about bringing this energy to your next event, workshop or online design sprint.