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[kee-noht] / ˈkiˌnoʊt /


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His title is head of growth marketing, but he updated his LinkedIn profile to say “marketing engineer” before the keynote was over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

“This is the real-deal version of AI that we’ve always imagined for ourselves,” Altman said during his keynote at OpenAI’s annual conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

At Meta’s campus, crowds lined up outside for the keynote speech as people snapped photos with a furry mascot called Jolly for the company’s AI agent Muse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Vice-President JD Vance, who is widely viewed as a top contender to succeed Trump, offered his a party a glimpse of its potential future during his keynote address on Thursday night.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

A keynote speaker was Charles W. Colson, the born-again Watergate felon turned evangelical thinker.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The festival features independent debate within the television industry, with more than 60 keynotes, debates, and masterclasses.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

"We design the keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation," Forstall said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

He plays a key role in the creation of company keynotes, which used to be live, but since the pandemic have been taped.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

The adjacent Content Summit takes a diverse approach to the current state of the industry with workshops, keynotes, and networking events.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

From campus visits to conference keynotes, I was getting invitations from all across the United States.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Earlier this month, Zhora keynoted the Cyberwarcon cybersecurity conference outside Washington.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

Booker’s two-day swing – where he keynoted a state Democratic Party 2018 midterm election victory celebration and headlined three jam-packed house parties – appeared to be a tune-up for things to come.

From Fox News ● Dec. 28, 2018

He has keynoted more than a dozen of its events this year, traveling under its banner to states including Iowa and New Hampshire.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2018

A little bit later, at a luncheon keynoted by Gov.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2011

The organization decided to launch partnerships with groups like the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities; Kopp keynoted the council's 2010 conference.

From Time ● Jun. 1, 2010

A: I was keynoting a large financial services conference, and the panel before mine was something about loan syndication, far outside my domain expertise.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Biden also spent the 1970s and 1980s traveling the country and keynoting Democratic functions.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2022

Senator Kamala Harris of California is in Ohio this weekend, where she is keynoting the Ohio Democratic Party’s state dinner.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2018

Fittingly, Trump seems to have developed his fixation on ratings while working on The Apprentice, a connection he acknowledged while keynoting a 2014 National Press Club luncheon.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2016

In the last 18 months alone, the elder Cruz has spoken at more than 60 pastors’ conferences, not including keynoting dozens of local Republican chapter dinners, home-school events and official campaign stops.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2015




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