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Key Note Speaker.
A voluntary speaking role for people who have finished a course like the BlueDot Impact Biosecurity course: take the keynote at a GEBI webinar or seminar, and put what you learned in front of the next cohort.
This is a voluntary role. There is no salary and no stipend — it is a short commitment of your own time, offered to the network because you want to be part of it.
Send your CV and a short note about your interest, with “[Key Note]” in the subject line, and we’ll take it from there.
Who this is for.
This role is intended for people who have graduated from a course like the BlueDot Impact Biosecurity course. You already have the framing, the vocabulary and the evidence base — what you need is somewhere to use them. It is a voluntary role: unpaid, temporary, and small by design.
- You have completed the BlueDot Impact Biosecurity course, or a comparable program in biosecurity, pandemic preparedness or global health.
- You are willing to be one of the first voices an early-career audience hears on a topic — clear, honest, and plain about what is not known yet.
- You are offering your time rather than applying for a job. There is no pay attached to the role, and no expectation that there will be.
- You can take on a temporary commitment: a small run of sessions, agreed with us and scheduled around your own work.
What you’d do.
GEBI hosts webinars and seminars for its course cohorts, chapters and wider network. As a Key Note Speaker you would take one or more of those sessions, then step back out — it is a temporary role, not an ongoing post.
- Deliver a keynote at a GEBI webinar and/or seminar, on a topic drawn from your own work.
- Shape the session with the GEBI team: a talk, a Q&A or both, and who in the network it is for.
- Keep it readable for people meeting the field for the first time — the same care you would have wanted from the speaker you first heard.
- Agree the dates directly with us. The commitment is a handful of sessions, not a standing one.
What it gives back.
It is unpaid and it is small, so it has to be worth your time as well as ours.
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Network
Meet the people in the room
Sessions bring together course cohorts, chapter leads, mentors and our advisory board, across 110+ countries. Speaking is the fastest way in: people come up to the speaker afterwards.
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Your work
Put your work in front of people
Most biosecurity work is invisible until someone explains it. A keynote is a place to show what you are already doing, why it matters, and where it connects to GEBI’s mission.
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Your skills
Test what the course taught you
The BlueDot course hands you the concepts — risk, governance, evidence, communication. A live audience makes you defend them, in plain language, against good questions.
Part of the mission.
GEBI exists to turn interest in biosecurity into people who work on it. Most of that happens in courses, chapters and mentoring — but hearing, in someone’s own words, what the work is actually like is often the moment it clicks.
Taking a keynote puts you on that side of it: showing the next cohort what the field looks like from the inside, and helping build the ecosystem you came up through.
Send your CV and a short note about your interest — the course you finished, what you work on now, and the session you would want to give. Or write to hello@gebi.info.
Voluntary and temporary: a small number of sessions, no salary, and nothing asked of you afterwards.