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Shufflrr demonstrated its presentation management technology that’s loaded with features. Sendsteps showed off an interactive polling technology that lets audience members send real-time survey data through their mobile phones and can feed that data into a live presentation. Logitech exhibited a super-cool presentation remote, the Spotlight. There were also many terrific vendors on hand. Thanks to Dan and the rest of the PowerPoint team for your tireless work over there. Microsoft’s new subscription model has been a game changer for keeping users on a consistent platform, and in the last 18 months or so they have rolled out some exciting new features, including zoom, the morph transition, and 3D capabilities. My impression is that Microsoft is taking a constant process improvement approach to PowerPoint, and is doing a good job actively seeking feedback to root out bugs and consider ideas for new features. Dan Swett of Microsoft led the deep Ask Microsoft 'guru' session with his team, with hosting duties played by Ric Bretschneider. I have a lot of respect for Microsoft for being present at this event and for listening closely to its power users. On the topic of speaker authenticity, I will never forget Carmen Simon’s advice: “1) Be yourself, 2) Be your best self, 3) Be your best self in the service of your audience.” Carmen Simon's advice for presenters: 1) Be yourself, 2) Be your best self, 3) Be your best self in the service of your audience.Ī wide-ranging panel discussion with Carmen Simon, Nolan Haims, and Sally Koering Zimney (of the This Moved Me podcast) considered issues facing the industry.

Sam Horn taught us her approach to designing brilliant 10-to-20 minute talks.ĭr. Fifteen-year-old internet mogul Caleb Maddix explained strategies for entrepreneurship and social media also on hand was his dad, Matt Maddix. Nick Morgan abstained from PowerPoint in favor of a flip-chart, and showed us how presentations can change the world. Nolan Haims hosted the Entrepreneur’s Round Table that focused on the business-side of freelancing and running a studio. Carmen Simon explained her research on the cognitive science of memorability. Presentation Summit featured a varied lineup of speakers and presenters. At one point I met up with Echo Swinford and Julie Terberg, who quite literally wrote the book on building PowerPoint templates, and inquired, “Could I ask you a PowerPoint question?” to which they replied, in unison, with an upbeat “YES!” It was my first time attending Presentation Summit, and as a newcomer I was delighted to find a welcoming environment of like-minded peers. He is the consummate conference host, and he and his team of staff and volunteers deliver a fun and well-run conference. This is the fifteenth season Rick Altman has run this event the first one was in 2003. There is a collegial vibe, with many attendees returning year after year, from around the country and around the globe. There was also a strong showing by the Presentation Guild, the leading membership organization for presentation designers, which also held its annual meeting during the conference. There were bloggers, authors, and podcasters whose work I had already long admired, like the team from Presentation Podcast - Nolan Haims, Sandy Johnson, and Troy Chollar.

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Software and hardware developers exhibited new tools.

Microsoft had its own squad of PowerPoint engineers and reps there. Many PowerPoint MVPs were at the event (MVP is Microsoft’s highest civilian honor). I met information architects, educators, trainers, master story tellers, filmmakers, and speaker coaches.

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Some run large operations with in-house departments at corporations and law firms, consulting firms, and other professional service firms. Attendees include freelance designers, like me. Here’s a brief dispatch of what I saw and heard there.Īttendees at this event are mainly presentation pros who want to connect and reconnect with peers, sharpen their skills, stay on top of the new technology, and enhance the effectiveness of their clients’ messaging. I am excited to report back from sunny skies and beautiful oceanside at the annual Presentation Summit 2017 in Clearwater Beach, where I spent a few days with some of the leading technical and creative folks in presentations.