PRESS CONFERENCE – 2:00 PM Saturday, July 19, 2014

@ The Lyceum, 201 South Washington, Street, Alexandria, VA

Full Buffett included – followed by portrayals of historical figures

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Platform Collapses: Speakers Group Scraps Name Change after Outcry

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IPA will host 100 of America's top Speakers at the Mayflower Hotel on August 7th to ratify the charter for a new non-profit they will control!

Top Ten Reasons to Pre-Register for the @PlatformGate Press Conference. 

Call Mitchell P. Davis at:  (202) 333-5000.    Or go to www.FYI.org and get ticket online free.

1. Reserved desktop, with position based on a first call basis.  See Lyceum seating chart here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/234158056/Press-Conference-Floor-Plan-Lyceum-July-9-2014
2. Complete printed press kit with:
   1. Suggested Names for the new sponsored Speaker Society project.
   2. Complete list of website names for release, including www.SpeakerSociety.org
   3. Current list of the Top 100 USA Speakers already selected.
   4. Printed copy of 20 page IPA speaker by year from the 1990 decade including:

i.Celebrities from Cheney to Cavet, Fabray to Liddy

ii.Most with contact info or speaker bureau relationship.

1. PDF copies of the two key archive documents:

i.IPA History, as written in

ii.Archive Manifest of holdings at GW University Gelman Library  

1. Excel data bases with current contact info via WIKI as updated for:

i.The Time Magazine Top Influential with contact info

ii.The IPA Speakers

1. Guaranteed Press Credentials for the August 7^th event at the Mayflower.
2. MP4 video and transcripts, ASAP.
3. Copy of the compiled list of names of both the subjects and the interviews from the Time Magazine Top 100 Influential list from May, 2014.   http://time.com/time100-2014/
4. Access to Wiki data base of #PlatformGate event media resource contact database.
5. Pre-certification for the IPA Database of journalists – see the project at www.APJ.org
6. Copy of the IPA Public Service Printed State Department Diplomatic list. (first 6)
7. Copy of the 30^th Annual printed Yearbook of Experts, Authorities & Spokespersons® (first 6)
8. Invitation to Arnold Sanow's "How to Break into the Big $$$ Speaking Market" Session at the Mayflower on to be held on the afternoon on August 7. 

@PlatformGate Press Conference  Info:     

• Mitchell P. Davis, CEO and Director General of the IPA, who will take questions.
• The historical presenters including Vishani Miller to portray Sarah E. Goode -- The very first African-American woman to receive a United States patent.  See YouTube of her here: https://twitter.com/IntlPlatform/status/489373559853416448
• …and perhaps the 100 leading Washington area journalists who were mailed the original news release on July 16^th.  As you are on the, you make up our top 100 journalist list.

What:  Announcement of the Top 100 Speaker Convergence for the IPA's 184^th annual convention of August 7, 2014 at the Mayflower, release of addition website names for the benefit of the project.

When:  2:00 PM to 4PM, Saturday, July 19, 2014.  Why on a dog-day mid-summer Saturday?  It just might be slow news day, and a full buffet and live entertainment, is the kind of things the sound truck die for.

Where:  The Lyceum, Alexandria History Museum.  

https://www.alexandriava.gov/Lyceum

The lecture hall opened in 1839.  Speakers in the hall have ranged from John Quincy Adams to Tom Thumb.

201 S. Washington Street,

Alexandria, Virginia 22314.

South on GW Parkway from DC.

How to get there on Metro:  King Street Station, Then the Dashbus Trolley http://www.dashbus.com/Trolley  gets you one block away.

Parking:  The Lyceum has about 20 free parking places.

Or Central Parking, three blocks away

418 Cameron St

Alexandria, VA 22314

Why:     There is so much information, that can't fit into a tweet, and IPA knows the value of the spoken word.

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  PRESS CONFERENCE – 2:00 PM Saturday, July 19, 2014 by Mitchell Davis