William Simpson
‘The Conference Speaker’ £60
“I recently worked front of house for a healthcare management conference at the
EICC and almost exactly at the same time saw the call for submissions for the
exhibition. I thought that the image of a speaker at this conference would perfectly
fit the title ‘all talk’ as to be perfectly honest I don’t think anything much was
achieved at this conference. Apart from a huge wastage of funds that should have
been spent on front line healthcare that was instead piled into; flying over 1000
delegates to the conference, putting them up in hotels, paying their swollen salaries
for the time they were here, and lavishing them with fine food, drink and posh
receptions at cultural sites in the city. I hope you excuse my cynicism, but I worked
in the NHS as a phlebotomist and also came across a wastage of funds while
doing a biomedical science degree in London, and hope this picture can in some
way show the worthlessness of the empty words spoken at the conference. I have
picked lots of typical managerial jargon and meaningless business speak to spiral
out of control, and down the drain at the front.”