The document provides guidance for giving an effective technical presentation. It recommends determining the key messages before creating slides, motivating the work and providing background/results. Visuals like images and graphs are encouraged over walls of text. Presenters should make eye contact, avoid pointing at their laptop, and be prepared to thoughtfully answer questions beyond what is directly in the presentation. Rehearsing and getting feedback on practice talks is also advised.

1. Giving a technical presentation
● There are many good references
regarding how to give an effective talk,
just check them.
● The goal of a talk is to let audience know
that what you have done is valuable.
● Determine what your talk should say
before you create the slides.

2. The goal of Presentation
You have done some research, and you
need to convince the audience that the
research is worthwhile. If any of these
three pieces is missing, your talk is much
less likely to be a success. So be sure to
provide motivation for your work, provide
background about the problem, and
supply sufficient technical details and
experimental results.

3. Rules of Talk
● Start your talk with motivation and
examples.
● Don't try to tale to much in a talk: you
shouldn't speak for more than a minute or
so without having new information appear.
● you should not dwell on the title slide for
very long, but should present a picture or
text relevant to the problem you are
solving.

4. About the slides P1
● Write a title with some explains.
● The last slide should remind the audience
of the take-home message of the talk.
● Start your talk with motivation and
examples.
● Don't put too much text.
● Keep fonts large and easy to read from the
back of the room

5. About the slides P2
● Images and visualizations are extremely
helpful to your audience.
● Avoid a presentation that is just dozens of
pages of text. Use images, tables or graphs.
● It's good to use outline slides throughout
the talk

6. During the Presentation
● When giving a presentation, never point at
your laptop screen, which the audience
cannot see.
● Make eye contact with the audience.
● If you get flustered, don't panic. Taking a
drink of water is a good way to cover this.

7. Answering questions
● It is a hard work to answer questions,
because you can not figure out that what
they will ask.
● When you were asked a question that you
don't know, it is not a good solution to say
“I don't know.”only. But maybe it's not
about you presentation. So you may just
say like that.
● You also can prepare some materials,
which is not written on your slides but still
important.

8. Practice talks
● Even if you know what you want to say, it
takes several revisions to figure out the
best way to say it.
● Sometimes, speaking loud even may be a
difficult work.
● Consider videotaping yourself to see how
you come across to others. This
information can be a bit traumatic, but it is
invaluable in helping you to improve.