We go and watch.
We have seen hundreds of speakers, live and in person. That is the thing that earns the rest of it.
The keynote industry’s first A&R
We scout speakers the way labels scout bands.
Cicospace has spent years filming this industry from the back of the room. We are turning that into the job the keynote world never had. GSIA is the first to see it.
Grab a time with usFull site coming soon. This page is the early look.
In music there is A&R.
They are the scouts of the industry. They go find talent and bring it back to the labels.
The keynote world does not have that.
So we built it.
A&R is the oldest job in a record label and it has survived about seventy years, because nobody has found a substitute for it. A label sends a person to the club to sit through four bad sets and watch what the crowd does on the fifth. You cannot tell from a tape whether a room actually turned.
What we are not
Not a bureau. Not a manager.
Not a bureau.We do not book speakers and we do not hold dates.
Not a manager.We do not represent anyone and we do not take a cut of a fee.
Which is the whole reason an industry leader can take our call. We are not sitting on the other side of the table from them, and we never will be.
Why it matters now
A reel on its own proves nothing.
A demo reel used to cost thirty thousand dollars, or it came off Fiverr. Having a good one meant something. We commercialised the middle, and the barrier collapsed. Now everybody has a good reel.
It is the difference between owning your name dot com in 1997 and owning it today. Same asset, completely different signal.
On the other side, an agent gets hundreds of emails a day. There is no shortage of speakers and no way to verify a single one of them. They want to meet new talent and they cannot filter.
Think about how a booking usually happens. Somebody watches a reel. Somebody else vouches. A rate card gets passed around. Not one person in that chain was in the room on the night.
That is the job.
How it works
Discover, produce, distribute.
Nothing about the production side changes.
We still cut the demo reels. We still film the events. Same building, same crew, same standard everybody already knows us for. The scouting sits on top of that work, it does not replace it.
We put it in front of the people who book.
Agents, association presidents, managers, publishers. Sometimes a warm Zoom intro, sometimes a live audition on the screen in our studio.
Watched live
232
speakers seen
Updated monthly. Not one of them from a tape.
Name anyone on the list and we will tell you exactly how it went. It is not a client list and it is not an endorsement.
- Jessica Abo
- Sharmin Ali
- Dr. Shahana Alibhai
- Brick Allen
- Stephanie Arnold
- Naren Aryal
- Sean Astin
- Joey Aviles
- Jennifer Azzi
- Nikolas Badminton
- Simon T. Bailey
- Traci Schubert Barrett
- Anish Batlaw
- Ian Beacraft
- Kim Becking
- Nicole Bianchi
- Hilary Billings
- Andre Bradford
- Adam Braun
- Jonathan Brill
- Julie Brown
- Alex Brueckmann
- Liz Brunner
- Tucker Bryant
- Alison Canavan
- Andrea Cardona
- Harrison Chad
- Ram Charan
- Carey Chronis
- Captain J. Charles
- Debra Clary
- Brittany Cole
- Kim Coles
- Karen Conway
- Magie Cook
- Quinn Coyers
- Jonathan Crawford
- Ashley Davis
- Rachel Mahoney (DeAlto)
- Joe Delagrave
- Rick Denley
- Stephen Dietrich
- Jon Dorenbos
- Rachel Druckenmiller
- Susan Drumm
- Brian Dubow
- Shawn DuBravac
- Ray East
- Dr. Shai Efrati
- Matt Emerzian
- Kenton Epard
- Paul Epstein
- Lisa Evens
- Shane Feldman
- Tom Fishburne
- DeeDee Fisher
- Dr. Glaucomflecken (Will Flanary)
- Tony Franklin
- Laura Fredrickson
- Harald Friedl
- Angela Gargano
- Rocky Garza
- Julissa Germosen
- Mandy Gill
- Trent Gillepsie
- Danny Goldberg
- Abhi Golhar
- Ruben Gonzalez
- Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan
- Cecilia Gorman
- Mark Gottfried
- Margaret Graziano
- Alan Gregerman
- Steve Gross
- Anton Gunn
- Steve Gutzler
- Des Hague
- Nathan Hall
- Grant Harris
- Jason O. Harris
- Minda Harts
- Lauren Hasson
- Sterling Hawkins
- Kenston Henderson
- Jamie Hess
- Alyson Van Hooser
- Chelsea Husum
- Dr. Delatorro McNeal II
- Jesse Israel
- Sheri Jacobs
- Jessica Janzen
- Carla Johnson
- Michelle Ann Johnson
- Cher Jones
- Elissa Kalver
- Rob Kalwarowsky
- Paul Katami
- Jay Kiew
- Ethan King
- Marc Kirshbaum
- Frank Kitchen
- Lucia Knell
- Urs Koenig
- Sara Kranz
- Victoria Labalme
- Laura Lawrence
- Joe Lazer
- Justin Hasard Lee
- Mike Lee
- Dan Lier
- Jennifer Lier
- Antwon Lincoln
- Amanda Lindhout
- Josh Linkner
- John Livesay
- Lauren LoGrasso
- Joan Lunden
- Randy Lyman
- Jeremy Macliver
- Carole Mahoney
- Patty Malcom
- Kate Manning
- Jen Marr
- Bob Marsh
- Dan Martell
- Tony Martignetti
- Seth Mattison
- Dr. Kenrick McDonald
- Joe McNamara
- Keith Mecurio
- Christoph Merrill
- Bruce Mezan
- Shira Miller
- Alden Mills
- Paul Mobley
- Cameron Mofid
- Arel Moodie
- Katie Mooney
- Portia Mount
- Steve Multer
- Jessica Neal
- Ben Nemtin
- Natalie Nixon
- Rick Nunley
- John O'Leary
- Eric O'Neill
- Miren Oca
- Apolo Ohno
- Frank Olivier
- Mark Ostach
- Laura Gassner Otting
- Sarah Ouis
- Lethia Owens
- Dev Patnaik
- Shelley Paxton
- Tareaz Pegues
- Matt Phillips
- Oskhar Pineda
- Nina Sossamon Pogue
- Jeremy Poincenot
- Smiley Poswolsky
- Henna Pryor
- Laura Putnam
- Phil Putnam
- Scott Ramey
- George Randle
- Rashmi
- Corliss Rassyle
- John Register
- Tami Reiss
- Garry Ridge
- Anne Robie
- James Robilotta
- Eric Rodriguez
- Mike Rose
- Theresa Rose
- Rick Rosenfield
- Traci Ruiz
- Ashley Russo
- Frankie Russo
- Krista Ryan
- Jeff Salzenstein
- Keith Sampson
- John Sanei
- Ray Santerini
- Michael Saraille
- Chris Schembra
- Josh Seiden
- Bobi Seredich
- Rob Shanahan
- Judd Shaw
- Rachel Sheerin
- Robert Siciliano
- Kristy Siefkin
- Kristina Skierka
- David Starbuck Smith
- Sara Smith
- Shane Snow
- Cecily Sommers
- Erin Stafford
- Mark Stiving
- Debby Stone
- Peggy Sullivan
- Kevin Surace
- Mari Tautimes
- Eric Termuende
- Seb Terry
- Robert "Cujo" Teschner
- Angel Tucker
- Dee Ann Turner
- Britt Turpack
- Steve Tusa
- Igor Vainshtein
- Nicole Van Valen
- Kate Vitasek
- Waldo Waldman
- Dr. Jason Wersland
- Matt West
- Dr. Carol Wheeler
- Charlene Wheeless
- Jay Wilkinson
- Rick Williams
- John Winsor
- Rosalind Wiseman
- Jerry Won
- Jevon Wooden
- Todd Woods
- Dr. Worden
- Cassandra Worthy
- Justin Wren
- Adrienne Youdim
- Heather R. Younger
If you book speakers
Ask us about anyone on this list.
We will tell you how it went.
Ask us about a speakerIf you speak
Want to be on this list?
Book us to film your next event. That is how everyone on this list got on it, and you keep the footage whether anything comes of it or not.
Have us film your next eventThe Ethical Production Promise
Four promises we do not move on.
As footage got cheaper and AI got easier, a reel stopped being evidence of anything. This is what we put in front of every desk we sit down with.
No hired rooms.We have never paid for a crowd and never will. If a room was full, it was full.
No generated footage.Not in the cut, not in the b-roll, not anywhere. What is on screen is how the night actually went.
Nobody unseen.Live, on a real stage or in our own room, before a camera is commissioned.
We tell the desk the truth.Before any introduction we say privately where we think the speaker actually is. An audition is called an audition.
