How to prepare a Pecha Kucha or Ignite presentation
October 22, 2009
Photo by Olly Barrett
This week I went to my first Pecha Kucha night in Wellington, New Zealand.
Pecha Kucha and Ignite are two time-limited and slide-limited presentation formats. Pecha Kucha was developed as a presentation format to allow design and creative types to share their passions and show off their work. The format is very tight. You have to present with 20 slides and each slide is shown for 20 seconds. Ignite is the equivalent for geeks (20 slides in 5 minutes , 15 seconds per slide). Both these format have the great advantage of keeping presentations short and concise – perhaps accounting for it’s popularity around the world. However, it’s challenging to prepare a good Pecha Kucha or Ignite presentation and even more so to deliver it well.
Four tips from five-minute presentations
August 19, 2008
Networking events which group together a number of short presentations are creating a buzz.
There’s Pecha Kucha Night, which started out to allow young designers to showcase their work:
Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.
There’s Ignite which has more of a geek flavour: [Read more]
