How to Enter the Contest

• To participate in the World's Best Presentation Contest 2009, your presentation should have been uploaded to SlideShare after Monday, 3rd August 2009, 9:00 PM PST and entered into the contest by Tuesday, September 8th 2009, 12:00 PM PST. (The decision of SlideShare regarding eligibility of contest presentations will be final and binding for all)
• To enter, create a SlideShare account (or login if you already have an account) and add your presentation to the contest. You can enter your presentation in two ways:
  1. Upload your presentation to SlideShare (single or bulk upload). Check the "Enter Contest" checkbox and select "World's Best Presentation Contest 2009".
  2. Alternatively, upload the presentation as usual. Later, you can enter the contest by going to the presentation's "Edit" page.
  3. While entering your presentation into the contest, choose one of the categories for your entry. There are five categories- Business, Education, Technology, Creative/Offbeat and About Me.
• Please note:
  1. The presentation must be your original creation. Please do not upload the work of others. It will be disqualified. Read our copyright policy here.
  2. You can enter up to 10 presentations into the contest.
  3. Slidecasts and presentations that have videos are also eligible for the contest.
• You can upload PowerPoint (PPT, PPS, POT, PPTX), OpenOffice (ODP), PDF, Adobe PDF Portfolios and Keynote or zip (for Mac users).
• To be eligible for a prize, please complete your account profile on SlideShare. Add your full name, correct email address, gender, contact details, country, city, etc.
• The contest is not open to residents of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Sudan, Puerto Rico or the province of Quebec. Sorry, this is due to contest law issues (make sure to read the contest rules for eligibility).
• Voting for the contest entries will be between between Monday 3rd August 2009, 9:00 PM PST and Tuesday 15th September 2009, 12:00 PM PST.
  1. The judges (Padmasree Warrior, David Armano and Guy Kawasaki) will choose winners from top voted entries.
  2. The decision of SlideShare regarding winners is final and binding for all.
  3. You can ask your friends to vote for you. But please do not attempt to rig the voting. Your entry will be disqualified if we find any evidence of rigging. The decision of SlideShare in this regards is final and binding for all.
• There are special prize for contest entries made using Adobe^® Acrobat^® 9.
  1. To enter your Acrobat 9 PDF portfolio for the special prize, upload your A9 file using bulk/single upload. In the "Enter Contest" section, choose the option "Best Acrobat 9 Presentation". Your Acrobat 9 portfolio will now show up in the seperate list of Acrobat 9 entries, which will be voted by the SlideShare community (N.B. Do not choose "World's Best presentation Contest 2009" while entering your Acrobat 9 portfolio, as A9 entries are not eligible for this)
  2. The Acrobat 9 entries will be voted in their own set and will compete for the Acrobat 9 prizes only. The top voted A9 entries will be judged by a different set of judges- Julie Hansen, Scott Belsky and Harry McCracken.
Please read the contest rules before entering the contest.

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Voting Mechanism & Winners

Any registered SlideShare user can vote for the contest entries. Entries should be voted/judged on the basis of their creativity, visual design, and effectiveness in getting message across. The top voted entries will be referred to the panel of judges. Winners will be announced within a week after the end of the contest. For details, read the contest rules.

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Judges — Acrobat 9 Contest

Julie Hansen is Publisher and COO of The Business Insider, a new business site with deep financial, entertainment, green tech and digital industry verticals. Julie has a decade of experience monetizing vertical web businesses. Prior to Silicon Alley Insider, she launched the new NCAA.com web site at CBS College Sports. Previously she ran the magazine branded web sites at Condé Nast and built the #1 web site for golfers at Time Inc.

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Scott Belsky believes that the greatest breakthroughs across all industries are a result of creative people and teams that are especially productive. As Founder and CEO of Behance, Scott overseas the Behance Network, the world's leading platform for creative professionals, ActionMethod — a productivity application and product line, and the company's research efforts associated with the annual 99% conference. Scott is also the author of an upcoming book published by Penguin in 2010. Previously, Scott focused on leadership development and client service at Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Harry McCracken is editor of Technologizer, a Web site about personal technology which he founded in June, 2008. An eighteen-year veteran of tech journalism, he is the former editor-in-chief of PC World and has appeared on ABC, the BBC, CBS, the History Channel, NBC, NPR, and many other broadcast outlets. McCracken was the winner of American Business Media's 2008 Timothy White Award for Editorial Integrity and was named to Folio's 2008 Folio:40 list of media industry movers and shakers.

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Judges — World's Best Presentation Contest

As CTO of Cisco, Padmasree Warrior helps define Cisco’s technology strategy and helps drive innovation and major initiatives across the company, working closely with the senior executive team and board of directors. Warrior joined Cisco in March, 2008. Prior to that, she was the CTO at Motorola. Recently, Fast Company Magazine selected her among the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and the Wall Street Journal recognized her among the “Top 50 Women to Watch” in 2008. Warrior holds a M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India. In 2007 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from New York's Polytechnic University.

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David Armano is both an active practitioner and thinker in the worlds of digital marketing, experience design, and the social web. Author of the popular Logic + Emotion blog, he has been invited to speak at events hosted by organizations such as Google, Microsoft, O’Reilly and Ad Age. David is currently a founding member of The Dachis Group, a social business consultancy. David worked in the digital agency space for over 10 years with clients such as P&G, HP, WW Grainger, Allstate, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Fifth Third Bank. He also writes industry perspectives for The Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek and is best known for his distinct brand of visual thinking, which can be found both on the Web and in presentations all over the world.

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Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

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