[icon name=’clock’]9:00am – 4:00pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Pre-Conference Workshop

Certification Prep Boot Camp

To help you pass with flying RGB values

As our industry evolves and matures, so does the need to demonstrate proficiency and value to organizations that seek to employ or hire you. The Presentation Guild is taking a leadership position in this growing opportunity and is introducing Professional Certifications, a set of tests to enable you to demonstrate your knowledge and acumen and earn a credential for them.

The Presentation Summit is partnering with the Guild to offer an extraordinary opportunity to prepare you for and help you pass this comprehensive test. Our Certification Prep Workshop will take place the day before the conference begins, Sat, Aug 8, at our conference venue. Those who want to earn their stripes in the presentation profession need only come in one day early.

For complete information about this course (which opens in its own browser window): CLICK HERE.

[icon name=’clock’]10:00am – 12:00pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Pre-Conference Workshop

Engagement!

The secret sauce of connecting with audiences

You have great slides and a good feel for public speaking. Now you’re thinking, “What can I do to get my audience involved in the presentation? How can I break up lecture and demonstration sessions so that the audience is doing something active?”

This course will show you WHY, WHEN, and HOW to involve audiences in your presentations. You’ll experience about a dozen no cost/low cost ways to engage audience members, for presentations ranging from five minutes to full days. You’ll come away knowing how to get audience members talking, walking, writing, interacting, and learning from each other.

For complete information about this workshop and the other two offered on Sunday: CLICK HERE.

[icon name=’clock’]12:30pm – 2:30pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Pre-Conference Workshop

Farewell to Death by PowerPoint

Everything you need to know to start creating wonderful presentations

You learned PowerPoint years ago and think you have decent instincts for building an effective presentation for your boss, client, or co-worker. But something inevitably derails you. The story gets changed, the boss wants an extra graph, and it all needs to be done by tomorrow. It is times like these when your job is no fun. You don’t like these changes but you lack the confidence to explain why. And your PowerPoint skills will be challenged by all these extras, so you go on auto-pilot and do what most do: you stuff it all onto the slide and hope for the best.

You can stop this madness! This two-hour crash course is the perfect jumpstart to the conference, guaranteed to get you off on the right foot by helping you craft, design, and strategize through the process of creating first-rate presentations.

For complete information about this workshop and the other two offered on Sunday: CLICK HERE.

[icon name=’clock’]3:00pm – 5:00pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Pre-Conference Workshop

Data Visualization

Creating effective charts and data stories for presentation

As data becomes more important than ever for organizations, the ability to visualize that data and create effective charts on slides has become an absolute necessity for presentation designers. The designers who understand best practices for data visualization will see their professional stock rise as they can offer more than tired pie charts, offer solutions for spaghetti line charts, and know why clustered column charts are so ineffective.

Nolan Haims trains organizations all across the country in how to better communicate their data, and in this session will share the core of that training to help you create better data stories.

For complete information about this workshop and the other two offered on Sunday: CLICK HERE.

[icon name=’clock’]9:00pm – 11:00pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Late Night at the Summit

Business Round Table

Ready to hang out a shingle or connect with like-minded entrepreneurs?

Do you own a presentation business, speak professionally, or work freelance? Or do you hope to do one of these things one day? Being an entrepreneur is exciting, but also challenging when you don’t have an opportunity to gather with others and share best practices. On Sunday evening at the Presentation Summit, gather with others in similar situations to talk shop.

Veteran Summit presenter and entrepreneur Nolan Haims will moderate a free-flowing discussion focused on sharing best practices, solutions to common challenges and the latest tools and workflows. Our philosophy is that there is more than enough business to go around, and by making the pie bigger, we all get a bigger piece.

Come prepared to share what is working for you, whether it is a marketing idea, operations technique, or personnel approach. If you have a particular challenge in your business, bring that too and the group will help with ideas and experiences from our own businesses.

[icon name=’clock’]8:30am – 9:30am      [icon name=’map-marker’]Keynote Address

From Danshari to Kamishibai

The Zen of Presentation

A lot of practical tips based on concept in the Zen arts and other Zen-related simplicity ideas applied to presentation design.

[icon name=’clock’] 9:45am – 10:45am

[icon name=’clock’] 11:15am – 12:00pm

[icon name=’clock’]1:30pm – 2:30pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]General Session

A Survivor

One woman’s story

[icon name=’clock’] 2:45pm – 3:30pm

[icon name=’clock’] 3:45pm – 4:15pm

[icon name=’clock’] 4:30pm – 5:00pm

[icon name=’clock’]5:00pm – 6:00pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Special Event

The PowerPoint Trivia Contest

The intersection of creativity, ingenuity, and foolishness

You haven’t lived until you have watched, or played in, our PowerPoint Trivia Contest, conducted exclusively within PowerPoint, explicitly about presentations, and entirely with an open bar. Three teams will square off in this all-for-fun competition that can be charitably described as a cross between Jeopardy and Family Feud, with a variety of ripped-off components from various other games and nonsensical challenges.

The contest takes place right after seminars conclude.

[icon name=’clock’]8:45pm – 10:00pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Late Night at the Summit

Women in Business

For women, by women, about women

[icon name=’clock’]8:45pm – 10:00pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Late Night at the Summit

The Future of Presentations

Stay on the cutting edge

Emerging technologies on the horizon will soon unlock new tools for visual communication and storytelling. In this interactive session, we’ll discuss the latest tech trends (with cool examples) around stage presentations, slide design, video content, and remote collaboration.

You’ll walk away with a broad view of the changing presentation landscape and the new skills needed to stay competitive.

[icon name=’clock’]9:45pm – 12:00am      [icon name=’map-marker’]Late Night at the Summit

The Guru Session

Drop in and chat with your tribe

Moderated by a guy who started on the PowerPoint team back in the beginning, stay up and learn with us, and maybe teach us a thing or two. This legendary session features things you won’t get anywhere else.

[icon name=’clock’]8:30am – 9:30am      [icon name=’map-marker’]Keynote Address

Master of None

How to engage in the art of trying successfully

Take a look into the life of any great entrepreneur, artists, or leader and pick the one thing that they’re great at. It’s never one standout attribute that we all don’t possess. It’s often just that they’re highly inquisitive. They shun the norm and are often in search of what’s possible, without fear of the unknown.

In a country where we have access and ability to search out and become anything, everyone possesses the tools necessary to become renaissance artist, capable of being great in multiple areas. All that’s needed is a willingness to try a case of higher sensitivity.

[icon name=’clock’] 9:45am – 10:45am

[icon name=’clock’] 11:15am – 12:15pm

[icon name=’clock’]1:30pm – 2:30pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]General Session

Presentation Rap

We dish with Garr

Join us for an inclusive and participatory rap session on all matters presentation. Garr Reynolds returns to the ballroom to share his thoughts and to hear yours.

[icon name=’clock’] 2:45pm – 3:30pm

[icon name=’clock’] 3:45pm – 4:15pm

[icon name=’clock’] 4:30pm – 5:00pm

[icon name=’clock’]6:30pm – 10:00pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Special Event

Tuesday Night Celebration

[icon name=’clock’]8:30am – 9:30am      [icon name=’map-marker’]Keynote Address

On the Seattle Streets

When you can’t take a roof for granted

[icon name=’clock’] 9:45am – 10:45am

[icon name=’clock’] 11:15am – 12:15pm

[icon name=’clock’]1:30pm – 2:30pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Special Event

Encore Performances

Reruns…by request

One of the greatest joys of this conference is the abundance of excellent presentations from which to choose. Of course, one of the biggest frustrations is having to make those choices. Here is your chance to catch a repeat performance of the one that you just hated to miss. In the scheduling section of the app, you will find a ballot for voting. Complete it before you leave for lunch on Wednesday. We will announce the encores at the end of the lunch break, both in Conference Central and through the conference app.

[icon name=’clock’]2:45pm – 3:45pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Special Event

Five Minutes or Fewer

Tips to match your attention span

The type and volume of tips, tricks, and advice that our team of experts could dole out is never-ending. But by the end of the day on Wednesday, our respective attention spans promise to be trashed. We’re probably not capable of paying attention for more than about five minutes, so that is precisely how we’ll end the conference: with five-minute tips on a broad range of subjects. These tiplets are brought to you by more than just our presenting and Help Center team—we’ll solicit the participation of any patron who feels he or she has something to contribute to our conference story.

[icon name=’clock’]5:00pm – 6:30pm      [icon name=’map-marker’]Special Event

One Final Happy Hour