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Presentation Tips & Techniques

David Dahan

SNUG Israel Technical Committee

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Presentation Planning

• Follow a Simple Outline

– Introduce your problem. What led to your work? What were your goals? – Describe your solution. Tell how you did it. – Why is your solution a good one? What are its disadvantages or limitations? – Suggest other applications. – Do you recommend further development along the lines of your work? Why?

Or why not? – Summarise what it all means. – Tell your story in a straight line, and make one point lead to the next.

Comprehension is better when the subject is organised simply.

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Presentation Guidelines

• Emphasis your key message

• Make it clear and focused

• Keep it technical and not marketing

• Foot-notes are mandatory (if you do not have a written a paper)– Someone may need to understand it in the future

• Add metrics and GIFs, to emphasize your findings or conclusions

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Presentation Guidelines (Cont.)

• The presentation is a description of the material you presented in your paper. Having said that, avoid to copy and paste your paper to Power Point

• How Many Slides?– You have 25 minutes for your presentation. – Experience tells us that most SNUG talks do well with about 15 slides.

• SNUG Israel Author's Kithttp://www.snug-universal.org/authorkit/akit_israel/authorkit_israel.htm#4

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Suggested Slides

• These four slides should be included in your presentation:

1. Title Slide -- The first slide in your presentation must contain the title of the paper (as printed in the SNUG Proceedings), and the author name(s) and affiliation(s).

2. Purpose Slide -- The second slide should state the purpose of the work you will describe (i.e., the problem you have addressed).

3. Outline Slide -- The third slide should present a concise outline of your presentation.

4. Conclusion Slide -- The last slide in your presentation should state your major conclusions.

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Feel and Look

• Keep trace with SNUG template – Microsoft PowerPoint template

• Use max up to 2-3 colors in each slide and keep it consistent

• 4-5 bullets per slide

• Add figures – text only is pretty boring

• Add foot-notes explaining the slide

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QA Your Slides

• Last moment before submitting your Power Point

– Review you slides with Slide Show– Check the colors with projector

Some colors look different in projection and on your PC

– Print out your slides and make sure that all the figures and text are printable

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The SNUG Support Group

• You should think of the SNUG conference attendees as a big

support group

• The conference attendees aren't looking to catch mistakes – The attendees want to learn from your presentation

• There is one exception– If you plan on doing a marketing presentation ...

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Before the Presentation

• Practice your presentation ! ! ! – Dry run with “real” audience

• Practice your opening– This is the critical to gain audience confidence and interest

• Make sure you remember the conclusion phrase. This is your landing, make sure you land well!

• Dress For Success– Conference presenters are never over dressed– Suit and tie are appropriate– Nice shirt and slacks are appropriate

• Use the restroom before your session

This is an engineering Conference !

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Good Luck!!!

You are going to do great!!!