The Presentation Summit, Oct 7-10
Schedule of Seminars and Events
Here is a tentative lineup of seminars for the 2012 program of keynotes and seminars. We will announce presenters within two weeks…
| Sunday | |||
| Noon | Registration | ||
| Optional Crash Courses: These introductory workshops on Sunday are the perfect complement to the main conference program. The two-hour crash courses cost $125 each. | |||
| 10:00a | TBA | ||
| 12:30pm | 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 | 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 | |||
| 8:00am | Breakfast for all patrons | ||
| 8:30 | Opening Keynote Address | ||
| 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. | 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. | Audience Engagement in Web Presentations: How do you work the room when you can’t see the room? |
| 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. | Author, Author! Tools for building winning eLearning content. |
| 12:15pm | 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 | General Session | ||
| 3:00 | Afternoon break | ||
| 3:30 | Basic Cartooning for the Artistically-Challenged: Most people learn visually and the presenter who can cater to that gets a leg up. | 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. | King of the Cloud: Cloud computing, cloud collaboration, cloud presenting—what does it all mean? We bring in a group of developers with a lot of skin in the game. |
| 4:30 | The Annual Trivia Contest. You won’t want to miss this — we even close the Help Center for it… | ||
| 6:30pm | Group dinner activities TBA | ||
| 9:00pm | 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 | |||
| 8:00am | Breakfast for all patrons | ||
| 8:30 | Keynote Address | ||
| 9:45 | Real-World Makeovers: For the Busy Professional | Under the Hood: If you thought that XML editing was only for programmers, let us show you how wrong you are! | 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 | LET’S TALK: What does it mean to “design” a presentation? | LET’S TALK: When do tools become too important? | LET’S TALK: Should you add delivery skills to your resume? |
| 2:15pm | Lunch for all patrons. Expo continues through lunch, and the Prize Train makes its usual stop at 1:55pm. | ||
| 2:00 | General Session | ||
| 3:00 | Afternoon break | ||
| 3:30 | Dealing with the Numbers Folks: Making financial information clear in a presentation | The 12 Laws of Animation: Our resident animation king puts it into high gear | Catching up with the iPad: Is everyone’s favorite toy ready for prime-time presenting? |
| 4:30 | The Expo continues until 5:00pm, with prize drawings every 15 minutes. | ||
| 6:30pm | Off-site reception for all patrons | ||
| Wednesday | |||
| 8:30 | Keynote Address | ||
| 9:45 | Spotlight on Version 15: New features for designers | PowerPoint on Steroids: Cropping, video edges, text effects, time lapse…all the juicy things you’ve never known how to do | Camera Ready: Video conferencing, webcams, and webcasts are changing viewers’ expectations for remote presenters. |
| 10:45 | Mid-morning break | ||
| 11:15 | The Digital Darkroom: Techniques to make your photos better | Spotlight on Version 15: New features for builders | How do the Pros Make it Look so Easy?? Tips the top speakers use. |
| 12:15pm | 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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