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10-minute presentation
The club
A low-stakes place to actually say it
OUTLOUD is a public speaking and debate club based in Dubai, built around one idea: most people have something worth saying, and almost no one gets a low-stakes place to actually say it.
Every session follows the same shape. We open with an icebreaker to get people out of their heads and into the room. Three people get ten minutes each to present on anything they're genuinely into — no set theme, just a topic they actually care about. We close with a live, structured debate: two teams, timed rounds, rebuttals, and a moderator's final call.
We're not a speaking academy and we're not a formal debate league. OUTLOUD is for the people in between — anyone who's had the better idea in a meeting and said nothing, frozen on an easy interview question, or just wants to get louder without needing a stage that feels like a stage.
Format
Every session follows the same shape
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01
Icebreaker 30 minutes to warm up and meet people.
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02
3 short talks 10 minutes each. This is the presenter's stage — any topic they care about.
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03
Live debate two teams, structured rounds, a moderator's final call.
See the full format
- Icebreaker — 30 min
- Presentations — 3 presentations, 10 min each
- Break — 10 min
- Debate prep — 10 min
- Debate:
- Team A first speaker — 3 min
- Team B first speaker — 3 min
- 2 min gap for rebuttal prep
- Team A rebuttal — 3 min
- Team B rebuttal — 3 min
- Team A conclusion — 3 min
- Team B conclusion — 3 min
- Moderator gives judgment and reasoning — 3 min
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