This document provides tips for technical presentations. It emphasizes the importance of body language, vocal variety, and well-prepared content and demos. The key points are: - Body language is important to connect with the audience and show confidence. Good tips include making eye contact, smiling, avoiding distracting mannerisms, and standing in the "hotspot". - Using vocal variety, silence, speaking conversationally, and repetition helps engage the audience. Reading slides should be avoided. - Technical content should be targeted to the audience and demos should be well-practiced following guidelines like anticipating questions and issues. Backups are important in case of demo failures.

1. Chris Leong Technical Presentations

2. What is a Tech Event?

3. The Foundation of Presentation

4. Why Most of your message is done through your body Show Confidence Align with your speech Connect with your audience Importance of Body Language

5. Good Body Language Tips Start with eye contact Smile! (with a good posture) Avoid distracting mannerisms Playing with any object Walking too fast Stay true to your personality Stand in the hotspot

6. Why Show Confidence Align with your speech Connect with your audience Say It and Mean It Importance of Vocal Variety

7. No Vocal Variety With Vocal Variety “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting me to share my topic with you. I look forward to our time together.” “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for inviting me to share my topic with you. I look forward to our time together.” See the difference

8. Good Voice Tips Use Silence to grab attention Speak like you are talking to a friend Repetition to highlight importance

9. Technical Content Content

11. .NET Framework

12. VB.NET/C#/LINQ

13. Visual Studio 2008/2010

14. SQL Server 2008

15. Virtual PC

16. Open

17. Windows Vista

18. Office 2007

19. Windows Live

20. PhotosynthPopular Expression Studio WPF/Silverlight ASP.NET AJAX Windows 7

22. Preparing Your Tech Demo Follow Guy Kawasaki (10-20-30 Rule) Avoid too many jargons and wordings Don’t read from the slides Use pictures as much as possible Survey the area to do the speech Practice, Practice and Practice

23. Guidelines Core objective Understand your material Overprepare Anticipate questions Recover from problems

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26. Loud & clear Audio

27. Space

28. Demo system

29. Network Infrastructure

30. LAN connectivity

31. Internet connectivity

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