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Monday, October 5, 2015

David's Homeowner Power Station Conference



So after seven years of preparation, my very first self-organised conference is Live and you can buy tickets.

"David's Homeowner Power Station Conference". With a twist. You decide its content. I make topic recommendations and I start the conference with a 40 minute keynote speech, titled, "Load Shedding and What we can do about it".

David's Homeowner Power Station Conference: preparing for a world without jobs.

We all have our own power stations. We have power. We have internal power which makes us who we are. And we can also generate power and save power. And energy. Hence "my power station". Say it aloud. "My Power Station". :) Feels good, doesn't it.

The conference is at the Belmont Square Conference Centre in Rondebosch, Cape Town, on the 28th November 2015. I'd like to thank the Belmont Square team for helping me to make this conference a reality and for their help and flexibility. And I'd like to thank the Webtickets team for helping me with the set up and for not complaining about the numerous changes that were needed as I learnt how their platform works.



We also have potential venues in Paarl and other parts of South Africa and if you'd prefer to attend elsewhere, in South Africa, Africa or anywhere, please let me know?

Registration is from 8am and the conference is from 9am to 5pm. Breakfast and lunch will be provided and teas, coffees, biscuits and fruit will be available all day.

There will also be special presents such as bags, USB sticks, and some special guests have asked to attend. Note that in order to cover our costs the bags and USB sticks will probably be sent to participants after the conference, but watch this space. Any sponsors are welcome.

The basic idea behind this conference is that I attend very many conferences and due to my knowledge in energy and my contribution to renewable energy in South Africa, I am given tickets to the conferences and I speak at many of them. Some of these conferences cost R7,500 per day.



I want to transfer this knowledge to homeowners and small business owners, who have limited time and limited resources. I am very good at taking complex, technical issues and explaining them in plain English. And I intend to help you along your path to developing your own power station and retiring sooner than expected.

I have chosen to make this conference especially for home owners and small business owners and to charge only R750 for the day. To cover the conference costs, pay myself, and make a small profit, so that I can organise the next conference(s), and so that I can devote more time to the Research and Development I do in Renewable Energy and Energy Storage (batteries).

Every participant will be able to ask one question. Some of the questions will be answered at the conference and all will be answered on my BLOG. We will have discussions at the conference and perhaps we will change ourselves, and maybe even South Africa and Africa, and who knows, maybe the world.

Early bird R550 for the day. Early bird available until 7th November.

After that the full R750 fee is applicable.

The early bird fee allows us to get everything up and running, pay deposits, get the handouts, make sure the food is provided, etc.

Including VAT and you get an invoice made out to you or your company. We are a PTY Ltd company and we are VAT registered and our company started in November 1994, so we have been around and we have credibility.

Buy Tickets at Webtickets or email me if you want to pay by internet transfer or if you need an invoice first.

Topics to follow.

Thanks to my brother Steve Freedom for the logo and photographic manipulation work.


2 comments:

  1. A "homeowner power station" conference with a difference.

    You run most of it and decide its content!

    We all have our own power stations, with internal and external energy. Hence why David has called his life and business "My Power Station."

    We will start with a 40 minute keynote speech by David Lipschitz. The topic is Load Shedding and what we can do about it. David will then take questions directly related to the content of this speech for 20 minutes.

    The rest of the day will be dictated by questions received from the audience or from direction given by the audience. This makes each conference unique.

    Conference topics can include:
    * Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Smart People
    * Community Power Stations
    * My Power Station: Internal and External Energy
    * Prosumers
    * Energy Storage (Batteries) and Electric Vehicles
    * Designing the Homeowner Power Station
    * Economics for high school leavers
    * Life Orientation for school leavers
    * Life Orientation for adults
    * Inventing your job
    * Why your best investment is yourself
    * Why the 40 hour work week is designed to keep you poor!
    * What is an inverter? What is AC and DC? What is a PV panel? Jargon busting solar-electrical systems. Become an expert at talking to suppliers.
    * Dealing with information overload
    * Tai Chi
    * Meditation
    * Mind Mapping
    * Governance
    * Eskom's 1,200 Nkandas
    * Staffing the (South) African Renewable Energy Revolution
    * Being a great software developer
    * How to get published in the newspaper or on the radio
    * Blogging
    * Finding time to do everything you want to do in life
    * David's retirement plan
    * How to save yourself (with help)

    David will attempt to magically answer each question you ask in 15 minutes or less. You will be entertained. There are over 100 slides you will receive in the information pack.

    You will feel like you are at big conference that David has the honour to attend, and that cost up to R7,500 daily to attend. But this conference's price is only R750 including VAT, and the early bird rate is R550.

    If you pay R550 or more, you will get a name badge, a USB stick with interesting information, a special bag made of the event, and perhaps other interesting things.

    In fact David is organising this conference so that he can bring the technical information he has learnt at so many conferences to you in a non-technical way.

    More at http://www.keynotespeaker.global/public-speaking-history/

    Breakfast and lunch will be provided and there will be continuous tea / coffee / water / biscuits / fruit / available all day. So if you need a break and want to pop out you are welcome to. Of-course there will be tea and lunch breaks as well.

    Every person will be allowed to ask one question. Depending on how many people there are on the day, there might be some luck involved in who asks a question. Everyone will receive a unique number in their pack. Numbers will be drawn out of a hat. Everyone who can't ask a question will be given an opportunity to email David their question and these questions will be collated and either answered on David's BLOG.

    Note that we reserve the right to cancel the conference if there aren't enough people and you will receive a 100% refund. If you want a refund before the event, then you will receive a refund less our transaction costs, i.e. the commissions we need to pay to the banks and credit card companies and to webtickets.

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  2. 2 billion (50% of) jobs to disappear by 2030. What should we do about it? Come and learn at my conference. http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/02/2-billion-jobs-to-disappear-by-2030/

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