The Presentation Summit, Oct 7-10
Schedule of Seminars and Events
Here is the schedule of seminars for 2012. Times and topics are always subject to change, but just between us, we think we’ve got it nailed. Click the titles to open fully-formatted outlines in separate windows.
| Sunday | |||
| Optional Crash Courses: These introductory workshops on Sunday are the perfect complement to the main conference program. Prices are as marked. | |||
| 10:00a – 2:00pFour-hour course: $195 |
Being Heard in a Sea of Voices — an accelerated delivery skills coaching workshop: A powerful four-hour small-group coaching experience, in which participants receive up to four personalized videotaped coaching experiences, individualized guidance, and supportive group feedback. Leverage strategic eye contact, master more purposeful movement, use meaningful gestures. (Led by Jim Endicott) | ||
| 12:30 – 2:30p$125 | PowerPoint Survival Skills: If you are like most people, you learned PowerPoint in just an hour or two, picked up the basics pretty quickly…and have not really taken the time to go beyond those basics. As your job evolves, the demands placed on your PowerPoint skillset increase. Now it’s time to answer that bell — this workshop will get you to and through the fundamentals you glossed over, help you understand the finer points you never got around to learning, and give you context for understanding the more advanced elements of the software. It’s the perfect jump-start for the conference. (Led by conference host Rick Altman) | ||
| 2:45 – 5:00p$125 | Taming Templates: Complementing the 12:30p Survival course, this comprehensive two-hour+ course will show and tell you everything you need to know to understand the power, capability, and value of a good template. Most PowerPoint users have a general sense of the importance of global controls but only a few have achieved mastery over them. This is your chance to be one of those lucky few. (Led by Echo Swinford) | ||
| 5:00pm | Welcome Reception for all patrons | ||
| Monday | |||
| 8:00a | Breakfast for all patrons | ||
| 8:30 | This is Your Brain on Comedy: Opening Keynote Address by Chris Bliss | ||
| Tracks | Design It: This track is devoted to helping you visualize effective messages, design impactful slides, and ultimately tell powerful stories. | Build It: Best practices, fundamentals, techniques, shortcuts, workarounds, and all the wonderful tips and tricks that make your time with software more productive and rewarding. | Deliver It: A celebration of all of the ways that you can reach audiences with your message, from the conventional to the cutting edge. |
| 9:45 | Design 101: Principles of visual design that anyone can learn (Connie Malamed) | The Art of Motion: PowerPoint animation can be used as if it were a video game, but the more important skill is to learn how to use it appropriately. (Altman) | Audience Engagement in Web Presentations: How do you work the room when you can’t see the room? (Ken Molay) |
| 10:45 | Mid-morning break | ||
| 11:15 | The Makeover Maven: Julie Terberg spins her magic on projects submitted by our patrons. | Build-a-Slide Workshop: We turn the audience’s biggest challenges into successful slides. (Mike Parkinson) | One Story, Many Outlets: The idea of blended presenting to accommodate different audiences (Simon Morton) |
| 12:15p | Lunch for all patrons, included with registration. Near the end of lunch, the now-famous Prize Train will make its first stop at the conference. | ||
| 2:00 | Say What?? Speaking Your Audience’s Language (Jim Endicott | ||
| 3:00 | Afternoon break | ||
| 3:30 | Lessons from Laughter: The role of comedy in communication (Bliss) | Bending PowerPoint to Your Will: This session explores techniques for modifying the software to look and act the way you want. This session will be led by the person who invented many of the features being discussed. (Ric Bretschneider) | Broadening Your Role: The value of adding delivery skills to your skillset (Endicott) |
| 4:30 | The Annual Trivia Contest. You won’t want to miss this — we even close the Help Center for it… | ||
| 6:30p | Group dinner activities TBA | ||
| 9:00p | The Guru Session: Come back from dinner and join Ric Bretschneider for a free-wheeling hour (or four) of discussion about any and all matters PowerPoint. | ||
| Tuesday | |||
| 8:00a | Breakfast for all patrons | ||
| 8:30 | Hey Good Lookin’… Keynote address by Carmen Taran | ||
| 9:45 | Real-World Makeovers: For the Busy Professional (Altman) | Under the Hood: If you thought that XML editing was only for programmers, let us show you how wrong you are! (Swinford) | Spotlight on Version 15: New features for presenters |
| 10:45 | Mid-morning break: Summit Expo begins, and stays open all day. Digital Photography Field Trip commences | ||
| 11:15 | Dealing with the Numbers Folks: Making financial information clear in a presentation (Paradi) | In the Trenches: Real-World Solutions to Corporate Presentation Challenges (Nolan Haims) | Author, Author! Tools for building winning eLearning content (Malamed) |
| 12:15p | Lunch for all patrons. Expo continues through lunch, and the Prize Train makes its usual stop at 1:55pm. | ||
| 2:00 | How to Write Good (Altman) | ||
| 3:00 | Afternoon break | ||
| 3:30 | It’s All an Illusion! Can you learn to see what’s really there? (Taran) |
The 12 Principles of Animation: Our resident animation king puts it into high gear (Glen Millar) | Catching up with the iPad: Is everyone’s favorite toy ready for prime-time presenting? (Bretschneider) |
| 4:30 | The Expo continues until 5:00pm, with prize drawings every 15 minutes. | ||
| 6:30p | Reception for all patrons | ||
| Wednesday | |||
| 8:30a | Jedi Mind Tricks for Presenters: Keynote address by Kristin Thompson | ||
| 9:45 | Fade to Black: The diminishing returns of gratuitous visual effects | PowerPoint on Steroids: Cropping, video edges, text effects, time lapse…all the juicy things you’ve never known how to do (Millar) | Camera Ready: Video conferencing, webcams, and webcasts are changing viewers’ expectations for remote presenters (Molay) |
| 10:45 | Mid-morning break | ||
| 11:15 | The Digital Darkroom: Techniques to make your photos better (Rikk Flohr) | Spotlight on Version 15: New features for builders | How do the Pros Make it Look so Easy?? Tips the top speakers use (Paradi) |
| 12:15p | Lunch, on your own | ||
| 2:00 | Encore Performances: We will repeat two sessions from earlier in the conference. You vote on which ones. | ||
| 3:00 | Afternoon break | ||
| 3:15 | Five Minutes or Fewer: Favorite short tips and tricks from staff and patrons | ||
| 4:00 | Conference Ends | ||
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