1. Types of presentations
   1. Paper presentation
   2. Workshop
   3. Master's thesis presentation
   4. Job talk
2. Goals
   1. present results of existing research
   2. infect others with ideas
      1. solutions
      2. problems
   3. get the job
   4. get the degree
   5. attract collaborators
   6. convince your audience that it was an important problem that was not yet solved, but you solved it
3. Audience
   1. general audience
   2. experts
   3. examples
      1. Software Engineering conference
         1. software engineering professionals
         2. experts in some narrow field
   4. attitude
      1. hostile
         1. too many questions
         2. bashing and rude
      2. polite
         1. sometimes you cannot figure out what they really think
   5. tips
      1. present ideas in a way that reasonates with your audience
      2. be interesting without being alienating
      3. you have 2-3 mins to grab attention, otherwise people will tune out
4. Content
   1. structure
      1. purpose of structure is to help with keeping audience interested
      2. start with something that grabs attention, with a "punch"
         1. personal story
         2. motivating example
         3. bring everything important upfront
      3. distribution of info for different audiences
         1. ~30% for general audience
         2. ~30% for experts in the field
         3. ~30% for experts on the topic
      4. presentation is your 'interface'
         1. use as short presentation as possible
         2. think about user experience
   2. flow
      1. why?
         1. convince that the problem is important
      2. what?
         1. what is the solution?
      3. how?
         1. how do you solve it?
      4. are you sure?
         1. evaluation
         2. evidence
         3. did you solve the problem you described in the beginning?
   3. story
   4. rule of thumb
      1. 1min per slide
   5. backup slides
5. Presentation
   1. styles
   2. animation
      1. minimize number of animated elements
      2. it is appropriate
         1. when you need to manage information that is already present on the slide
         2. when information on the slide is too dense
            1. highlight parts one by one
   3. fonts
      1. it is good to make all text bold and large size
      2. be consistent
      3. use coloring to emphasize
         1. but carefully - some projects don't handle all colors
         2. use contrasting colors
            1. black on white
            2. white on black
   4. graphs
   5. large tables
      1. don't put large tables into the presentation
   6. details
   7. title of slides
      1. put description of actual slide content as a title
      2. keep it short
   8. bullet points
      1. try to avoid bullet points
      2. sometimes it is appropriate
      3. it is usually bad if bullet (or blob of text) contains more than 2 lines of text
   9. logos
      1. it is generally good idea to use logo of the institution you are affiliated with on all slides
   10. page numbers
6. Human factors
   1. if there is too much information, how to emphasize important material
   2. don't show what is not important
   3. how to deal with code snippets?
      1. use simplified version of code snippet
   4. don't put something you don't want to provoke unnecessary questions
7. Related work
   1. option 1: do not include it at all
      1. highly discouraged
   2. put related work at the end
      1. advantages
         1. you can skip it
         2. or spend as little time as possible
   3. put related work at the beginning
      1. advantages
         1. starts with history of research
         2. emphasizes context of related research
   4. mention related work of people you expect to be in the audience
   5. try to mention seminal work
8. Conclusions
   1. does not have to be repetition of what has been said
   2. another approach - what is the most surprising finding?
   3. conclusion is not a result
      1. result is a fact
   4. tell me something more than I knew before
      1. "so what?"
      2. what can we tell about the world?
   5. futrure work is a boring way of ending the presentation
   6. conclusion is the most powerful slide
      1. you can talk about it even for 5 minutes
      2. it's an opportunity to spread your ideas
9. Delivery
   1. practice it several times
   2. don't read from your slides
10. Handling questions
    1. types of people
       1. interested in your work
          1. how does it apply to xyz
             1. can't say "I don't know"
             2. think on your feet
             3. try to come up with your ideas/insights to address the problem
       2. jerks
          1. turn question back on him/her
             1. ask to give more insights
          2. say that you know about this work
          3. or say that you will look into this work
       3. mix of both
    2. type of respond
       1. don't know
          1. take it "offline"
       2. answer is clear and concise
       3. backup slide
    3. identify heart of the question
       1. sometimes there is no question
       2. if there is, identify it, rephrase it, ask whether you understood it correctly
       3. sometimes you might want to ask audience to rephrase question for you
    4. read your paper in advance
11. Other tips
    1. poise
    2. dress
    3. powerpoint
    4. keynote
    5. open office
    6. electronic helping devices
       1. presenter
    7. toastmasters club
12. sidenotes
    1. often people remember presentations better than papers
    2. sometimes general advice on presentation does not apply to scientific presentations
13. questions
    1. how much convincing should presenter put into his/her presentation?
    2. tips on handling the audience?
    3. how do you define what is necessary?
       1. it depends whether it is required to achieve your goal