Trend: Speed Presentations

Whether you are a creative professional or a manager, brevity is the key for your next presentation.

Trend Description:
The new motto when it comes to PowerPoint presentations: keep it short. If you can’t say what you need to say before the attention span of the audience runs out, you don’t need to say it. Luckily, online resources and advancing technology make expediting complex presentations increasingly easier.

Cases:

Slideluck Potshow
Sideluck Potshow is a forum for creative types. These events are potluck dinners where artists, designers, and architects can present slides of their latest work. Participants get a chance to mingle with like-minded people and see what everyone else is up to creatively in a relaxed and casual setting. Presenters can be amateur or professional, but they must keep their slideshows to under five minutes. First organized by photographer Casey Kelbaugh for a group of friends in Seattle, Sideluck Potshows have become a global phenomenon. The next shows will be in Seattle at April 19th, in Rome on April 22nd, in Stockholm on April 26th, in Berlin on May 5th, and in Moscow and Portland on May 10th. The organizers are currently looking for outdoor venues in NYC to hold events this summer.

Pecha Kucha
Invented by the two Tokyo-based architects Mark Dytham (British) and Astrid Klein (Italian) to save their struggling performance space, Pecha Kucha (Japanese for “chatter”) events are now a big success all over the world. Whether in Amsterdam, New York City, Tel Aviv, or Zilina, the rules are everywhere the simple same: each presenter can display 20 powerpoint slides for 20 seconds each . That gives every participant equal time and opportunity to show their work.

Lightning Talk
Lightning Talk is exactly what it sounds like. Wikipedia states that Lightning Talk “may have originated at the Python conference in 1997, where they were simply called short talks.” Now these short talks, which usually have a time limit of five minutes, are often used at all kinds of conferences and meetings, where several of topics are discussed in quick succession.

Trend Impact:
Short presentations force presentors to relay information quickly, efficiently, and creatively, and allow more time for discussion or other presentations. Now, as ever more information is instantly available to us via the Internet, the need for long, detailed lectures is waning.

Sideluck Potshow

Pecha Kucha

How to make a Lightning Talk

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