reviews

This repository contains a set of best practices for reviewing the content.

do's

• speakers must engage with the audience at least few times during the speech
• speakers must answer questions (including those asked by moderators) by looking at the audience
• all slides must be relevant to the audience and challenged with the following questions:

1. why you are telling / showing this?
2. why is this important to the audience? (ok, it's a nice slide and story. So what?)
3. is there a better way to convey the same message?

• speakers must cut down all the words said to the bare minimum and leave only the essentials. Once done, repeat.

• speakers must never expect audience to read the slides (except schemes, algorithms, where speaker is explaining it step by step)

• speakers must design minimalistic slides. An ideal slide has a single buzzword or a short sentence. All supporting information should be spoken.

• avoid "true, but useless" ideas, concepts and statements. There are many good ideas out there. We have to preserve only useful ones.

dont's

• speakers must not read from the transcript

hints for speakers

• tell a story to inspire and "touch" the audience
• read Tips for Public Speaking
• read On Conference Speaking
• read An Open Letter To Speakers
• watch Top Tips for Terrible Tech Talks