I was asked to give a short talk in my Departmental Proseminar yesterday on the topic of giving presentations, and specifically about making slides effective. There is more than one way to give a good talk, and there is more than one way to make “good slides” or—better—make good use of slides and other material you might want to show people. So the things I’ll talk about and especially the specific techniques I’ll discuss are selected from many good ways to present yourself and your work. Presenting is a two-sided process, where you should be comfortable with what you are saying (and how you’re saying it), on one side, and where your audience should be able to follow along and understand your message, on the other.
How to Give a Great Research Talk
Presentation Design 101: Hottest Design Trends to Keep Your Slides Fresh | The Beautiful Blog
Presentations have come a long way people: Gone are the days of special effects, gifs, and bullet list fatigue. We’ve also waved goodbye to ClipArt; s...
Becoming unLLMable
slides + transcript of my presentation at the Sana AI Summit in Stockholm
presentations/optimism.md at master · raganwald/presentations
Conference Talks and Proposals. Contribute to raganwald/presentations development by creating an account on GitHub.
3 tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
Ever wish you felt like creating that presentation? Felt like doing that research? Felt like doing the dishes?
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On Conference Speaking
I’ve seen quite a bit of the world thanks to being invited to speak at conferences. Since some people are under the impression that serial conference speakers possess some special talents, I’d like to demystify my process by walking you through my latest talk from start to finish.
How to give a good research talk
Giving a good research talk is not easy. We try to identify some things which we have found helpful, in the hope that they may be useful to you.
The Art of Slide Design
Note: These are the slides from my DevRelCon Tokyo talk from July 29th. I've started writing this up as a blog post on MissGeeky.com: https://missgeeky.…
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning …
How to turn small talk into smart conversation
Tips from a comedian and a journalist on the art of going from small talk to big ideas. Try these out at the next summer wedding reception.
Faces: Slides worth presenting
Faces is the AI presentation tool where every slide uses the full power of the web.
Thank you @steefjan.bsky.social for this nice write-up of my keynote at QCon London this week: infoq.com/news/2026/03/qcon-local-first… My slides are now up as well: speakerdeck.com/ept/mitigating-geopolitical-r…
QCon London 2026: Kleppmann on Mitigating Europe's Cloud Dependency with Local-First Software
www.infoq.commade some basic slides to organize my thoughts, even though there's no AV in the room! (may not make sense without me actually talking through what's on them though lol) docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VBGTPl6Jh4D_A…
This Talk Is Not About Bluesky: Building on the Atmosphere with ATproto, PDSes, and DIDs
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I've grabbed the Saturday 5 PM slot at @hope.net to give a talk: This Talk Is Not About @bsky.app - Building on the Atmosphere with ATproto, PDSes, and DIDs wiki.hope.net/index.php/Unscheduled_4th_Tra…
Slides from my @wrocloverb.com #atproto conference talk are here: speakerdeck.com/mackuba/building-on-blueskys-… (click download button in the bottom-right if you prefer a normal PDF)
Building on Bluesky's AT Protocol with Ruby
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