Stand Out as a Speaker
The biggest advice to a speaker giving a fixed speech is: PRACTICE!<p>People never put in enough practice on a speech.  When I build a new speech, I practice it with a clock and record myself.   And then edit the speech.  And then deliver the speech again.  And do it again.  And again.  And again.<p>By the time I'm done, you can take my slides, destroy my computer, put the room in a war zone, and I can still deliver that speech cold and make it at least passably interesting to the audience.<p>Yes, making a good speech is a ton of work.  I don't do it often, and when I do I try to make sure I can give that speech multiple times to amortize some of the work.