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How to structure a conference talk, plan your slides and handle the Q&A with confidence. Plus an overview of formats such as keynote, panel and Pecha Kucha.
A talk needs one slide for every one to one and a half minutes of speaking time, so roughly 10 to 15 slides for 20 minutes, 15 to 25 for 30 and 20 to 35 for 45 minutes. The calculation is based on the time you actually …
Yes, you can have a conference talk developed by an agency: it shapes the topic and the structure for a specialist audience, you supply the expertise and approve the …
The Q&A is the five to ten minutes after your talk in which the audience asks questions, and it matters because it shows who in the room has an urgent problem. Anyone …
Pecha Kucha and Ignite are short talk formats with exactly 20 slides that advance automatically, after 20 seconds in Pecha Kucha and after 15 in Ignite. A Pecha Kucha …
Stage fright is the physical activation before an appearance your body has classified as significant, and it happens whether you asked for it or not. Your pulse rises …
A checklist for speakers has three parts: coordination with the organiser before the conference, your bag with tech and documents, and the day of your talk up to the …
An expert audience draws the line at the point where a talk describes the problem only as far as the speaker's own solution reaches. An expert talk describes a problem …
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You moderate a panel discussion well when you clarify the goal and the panellists' positions beforehand and, on stage, lead the questions, the speaking time and the …
You build a good talk for the stage in a fixed order: first the audience and the core message, then the evidence, then the dramaturgy and only at the very end the …
As a speaker you clarify slot length, format, audience, tech, recording, slides, travel, deadlines and your contact on the day with the organiser. There are weeks for …
Almost everything except your expertise can be outsourced: a speaker agency develops the talk and its structure with you, and a designer turns the slides into finished …
A leadership team reaches conference stages as a programme when each person gets their own topic and abstracts and the topics together form a profile. Corporate speaking …
The audience at an industry conference consists of decision-makers, professional peers and mixed attendees who have come for five different reasons and listen …