Schedule of Seminars and Events
Click the titles to open fully-formatted outline pages, offering details on each session.
Times and topics subject to change.
| 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 $115 each. | |||
| 10:00a | Starting and Building Your Presentation Consulting Business: If you have chosen to go out on your own or are interested in learning about what it’s like, this workshop is for you. You will hear strategies on deciding what type of business you may want to create, how to promote it, and network with others who are on the same path. This is your opportunity to connect with others to learn and share best practices on serving customers who want to benefit from the skills you have in creating effective presentations. (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 | Templates and Layouts and Themes, oh my! The most powerful tools for global formatting with PowerPoint are also the least understood. In this intensive and comprehensive session, you will learn exactly how to bring more control, power, and efficiency to your work and discover how PowerPoint’s trifecta of global formatting resources work together. (Echo Swinford & Julie Terberg) | ||
| 5:00pm | Welcome Reception for all patrons | ||
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Monday |
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| 8:00am | Breakfast for all patrons | ||
| 8:30 | The Art of Visual Communication: Keynote address by Nigel Holmes, former Executive Art Director for Time magazine and principal of Explanation Graphics | ||
| Tracks | Tools and Techniques An exploration of the best practices, fundamentals, techniques, shortcuts, workarounds, and all the wonderful tips and tricks that make your time with the software more productive and rewarding. |
Presentation Design This track is devoted to creating the story, designing the content, and building the presentation. |
Special Delivery A celebration of all of the ways that you can reach audiences with your message, from the conventional to the cutting edge.. |
| 9:45 | Corporate Calling: What happens to all of your great ideas when everything is due yesterday and you know the boss is going to change everything on the plane, anyway?? (Terberg) | Your Brain on Graphics: Amazing things happen when people are provided visual information instead of just bullet points. (Connie Malamed) | 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 Unbearable Lightness of Simplicity: Creating graphics that are “simple” is usually very complicated…and worth the effort. (Wayne Michael) | The Makeover Maven: Julie Terberg spins her magic on projects submitted by our patrons. | Are you better than your handout? A primer to delivering killer webinars (Carmen 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 | Enough Already! What troubles presentation developers the most? This session tells all, and offers solutions every step of the way. (Altman) | ||
| 3:00 | Afternoon break | ||
| 3:30 | Spotlight on 2010: Our team’s favorite new features of the new version of PowerPoint. | The Timeless Presenter: Is your pace of life making you a better or a worse presenter? (Taran) | Don’t Just Stand There, Sculpt Something! Learn one of the most interactive tools you will ever use as a presenter. (Scott “Q” Marcus) |
| 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. | ||
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Tuesday |
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| 8:00am | Breakfast for all patrons | ||
| 8:30 | Live From Osaka: Once again, we wake up Garr Reynolds in the middle of the night. The author of Presentation Zen will speak to us from a coma…um, from his home in Japan…at 12:30 in the morning. | ||
| 9:45 | Your Own Smart Art: Essential content management strategies for the overworked (Michael) | Set Yourself on Fire! Tracking the energy flow of a successful presentation | Stand-Alone: How can a presentation that arrives by email have the same impact as one you deliver in person? (Paradi) |
| 10:45 | Mid-morning break: Summit Expo begins, and stays open all day.
Digital Photography Field Trip commences |
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| 11:15 | Straight Out of Toontown: Using PowerPoint to create animated entertainment…you won’t believe your eyes… (Justin Massingale) |
Real-World Makeovers for the Busy Professional (Altman) | Telling the Story: An interactive audience-participation workshop on capturing your audience immediately (Jerry Weissman) |
| 12:15pm | Lunch for all patrons. Expo continues through lunch, and the Prize Train makes its usual stop at 1:55pm. | ||
| 2:00 | The Psychology of Absence: How Nothingness can be Attractive (Taran) | ||
| 3:00 | Afternoon break. Expo open. | ||
| 3:30 | Spotlight on 2010: Our team’s favorite new features of the new version of PowerPoint | Picture Perfect: Are you overwhelmed by bullet slides? Play Presentation Pictionary and turn your ideas into powerful visuals. (Mike Parkinson) | Honey, I Shrunk the…Everything! The road warrior’s toolkit continues to get smaller. (Ron Galloway) |
| 4:30 | The Expo continues until 5:00pm, with prize drawings every 15 minutes. | ||
| 6:30pm | Group dinner activities TBA | ||
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Wednesday |
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| 8:30 | Resonate—How Presentations Transform Audiences: Keynote address by Nancy Duarte | ||
| 9:45 | Video Heaven—the 2010 Pipeline: Version 2010 of PowerPoint completely redefines how you can import and export movies. This session tells all. (Glen Millar) | Think Like a Designer: Six design principles to make you a presentation rock star (Nancy Duarte) | |
| 10:45 | Mid-morning break | ||
| 11:15 | Intelligent Presentations: The art and science of crafting more flexible slides. (Altman) | The Digital Darkroom: Simple techniques to make your photos better (Rikk Flohr) | Going Mobile: When both you and your slides can travel as much as they do, you need some smart tools and devices. (Jeff Vyduna) |
| 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 | Farewell session | ||
| 4:00 | Conference Ends | ||
