Video Description
Conferences abound in most industries, and being a speaker at them can be valuable for anyone’s career advancement. This video is about how to market yourself if you want to speak at these events, rather than just sit in the audience. It contains a wealth of tips from two seasoned presenters, from understanding your audience, to finding unique ideas, creating an abstract, crafting a biography, choosing a title, understanding the three parts of a conference proposal, and organizing and structuring content. Speaker Camp Workshop brings alive visual and dynamic examples reinforcing the coverage in the book. Viewers will be able to see what works in real presentations, how to handle practice sessions, manage different types of audiences, the mechanics of presenting material on a stage, and how to control questions and answers — whether friendly or hostile. And it doesn’t stop there: it goes on to make suggestions for evaluating and improving your presentation for the next time, incorporating what you've learned from feedback, whether live or through social media.
Table of Contents
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Brainstorming Your Big Idea
- Welcome 00:01:30
- Why you need a big idea 00:04:35
- Brainstorming and refining your big idea 00:06:16
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Writing Your Presentation Proposal
- Parts of a conference proposal 00:01:52
- The Title 00:02:49
- The Write-up 00:06:16
- The Bio 00:05:39
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Structuring Your Presentation
- Start with you 00:03:19
- Build a narrative 00:04:34
- Develop an outline 00:02:24
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Creating Your Presentation
- The slide deck 00:04:37
- Hone your communication skills 00:04:28
- Practice your presentation 00:03:22
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Presentation Day
- Pre-Game: Before you hit the stage 00:03:24
- Game Time: On stage 00:03:45
- Q&A: Handling the audience 00:04:42
- Iterating your presentation 00:02:46