The Presentation Summit, Oct 7-10
Schedule of Seminars and Events
Here is our 2011 lineup of seminars — hyperlinks are to fully-formatted descriptions that open in separate windows. We will roll out our 2012 schedule over the course of Q1 2012.
| 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 | Building Your Presentation Business with Online Marketing: You have a web site and you use social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. But are you getting the volume of leads you want from your online efforts? In this session, we will examine how to leverage some of the key tools, such as your web site, blog, video and others, to better position your services to web visitors. We will also discuss how to measure your results in order to refine your efforts. This will be a practical session with easy-to-implement steps that you can use to increase the number of qualified leads in your business. (Dave Paradi) | ||
| 12:30pm | Understanding Animation: No doubt about it, one of the qualities of a presentation that can truly separate it from others is its use of the animation of elements. Transitions, bullet entries, objects that hide, well-crafted ordering of appearances. But equally obvious to us is how ill-conceived and poorly-executed animations can also stand out. This course is designed to help you ensure that your animations earn your presentations the good kind of attention. (Rick Altman) | ||
| 3:00 | Visual Design for Presentations: Are you designing slides and presentations without a foundation in graphic design and visual communication? Are your slides less than what they could be? Liberate your inner designer! In this two-hour course, you will explore how to use visual language to bring your ideas to life. You will learn about visual hierarchy, layout and grids, white space, typography, balance and harmony, imagery, and more. (Connie Malamed) | ||
| 5:00pm | Welcome Reception for all patrons | ||
| Monday | |||
| 8:00am | Breakfast for all patrons | ||
| 8:30 | Hot dogs, shadows, and helium: Keynote address by Nigel Holmes, former Executive Art Director for Time magazine and principal of Explanation Graphics. The master of visual communication shows once again how effective it can be for audiences to see it with their own eyes. | ||
| 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 | The Art of Storytelling: Using personal stories to create strong connections. (Jon Thomas) | Freshman (dis)Orientation: If you want your audience to be on the same page as you, stay on the same page yourself! (Wayne Michael) | Stand and Deliver: Why is public speaking so scary? What can you do to not freak out so much? We’ll tell you… (Altman) |
| 10:45 | Mid-morning break | ||
| 11:15 | The Makeover Maven: Julie Terberg spins her magic on projects submitted by our patrons. | Normal shapes, extraordinary icons: Use PowerPoint’s tools to create some of the most popular artwork today. (Sandra Johnson) | Excuses, Excuses: How to overcome the 1001 reasons why we might not be at our best. (Taran) |
| 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 | I Can’t Remember %#&$! Keynote address by Carmen Taran. The fascination and frustration of what audiences might remember about your presentations. | ||
| 3:00 | Afternoon break | ||
| 3:30 | Why Johnny Can’t Present: What do most presenters do wrong, and more important, do you do them too? (Olivia Mitchell) | In the Trenches with PowerPoint Add-Ins: Invaluable tools to help the earnest slide-maker. (Troy Chollar) | Engagement! Today’s audiences demand greater interactivity. How do you engage an audience and keep them from checking their email every five minutes? (Lisa B. Marshall) |
| 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 | Live from Osaka Japan: Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen | ||
| 9:45 | Real-World Makeovers: For the Busy Professional (Altman) | The Greening of Presentations: Presentation pros need to do their part with environmental awareness. (Paradi) | High-Def: Designing for wide screens and large impacts. (Chollar) |
| 10:45 | Mid-morning break: Summit Expo begins, and stays open all day.Digital Photography Field Trip commences | ||
| 11:15 | How to Create a Presentation in One Hour or Less: This session not only shows how to do it, but proves that it can be done by doing it. (Olivia Mitchell) | Template Repair Shop: Under-the-hood fixes for patron-submitted templates (Terberg) | Catching up with Pecha Kucha: This new craze is becoming a business tool. (Bretschneider) |
| 12:15pm | Lunch for all patrons. Expo continues through lunch, and the Prize Train makes its usual stop at 1:55pm. | ||
| 2:00 | We Are All Presenters Today: Jim Endicott, delivery skills coach | ||
| 3:00 | Afternoon break | ||
| 3:30 | Every Presentation is a Project: Boost your success with project management skills (Glenna Shaw) | The iPad Opportunity: Is everyone’s favorite tech toy also a viable presentation platform? (Bretschneider) | Broadening your role: Adding delivery competence to your resume of skills (Endicott) |
| 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 | It’s not the Slides, It’s the Journey: Keynote address by Nick Morgan | ||
| 9:45 | Steal from Yourself: All that great content you used in your last presentation can also make it into notes, Facebook posts, slide-sharing sites, and your blog. No reinventing the wheel allowed! (Marshall) | Intelligent Presentations: The art and science of crafting more flexible slides. (Altman) | A Recipe for Self-Running Presentations: Content marketing and online learning are powerful ways to attract and keep customers. Learn how the pros analyze, design and develop self-running presentations that are available 24 x 7. (Malamed) |
| 10:45 | Mid-morning break | ||
| 11:15 | The Digital Darkroom: Techniques to make your photos better (Rikk Flohr) | Chart Smarts: How to create elegant and painless graphs, charts, and pies. (Echo Swinford) | Beware the second conversation: Every communication is actually two conversations: content and body language. (Morgan) |
| 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. |
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| 3:00 | Afternoon break | ||
| 3:15 | Patron Showcase & Farewell session | ||
| 4:00 | Conference Ends | ||
