Many of our patrons arrive at the conference on Saturday for better airfare and/or more relaxed travel. As a result, one of the most popular parts of the event has been our optional crash course program. These two-hour workshops are designed to jump-start your conference experience, offering primers on the fundamentals and on topics with which you might not be familiar or feel you might need a bit more grounding. These courses carry a modest extra fee; they are the only part of the curriculum that is not covered by your registration fee.

You can add one, two, or all three of these courses during registration. To add any of them to an existing registration, return to the registration page, enter only the required contact information (name and email), and choose Other at Main Conference. Of if you prefer, just email us and we’ll take care of it for you.

10:00a
Engagement!
The Secret Sauce of Connecting with Audiences
Whether to educate, inform, persuade, or move, the key to persuasion is to actively involve audience members. This course shows you how.
$169

12:30p
Farewell to Death by PowerPoint!
Everything you need to know to start creating wonderful presentations
Can a two-hour course arm you with all of the fundamentals for effective presentation work? This one will try with a tour of all four of the key tenets to good presentation: message, design, PowerPoint, and delivery. It is the perfect jump-start to your conference experience. This is normally an $895 workshop and is offered here only to conference patrons; no day passes available.
$169

3:00p
Data Visualization
Creating effective charts and data stories for presentation
Learn the best practices and techniques to telling effective data stories and creating killer charts for presentation.
$169