Giving Good Talks - Materials & Advice

Get the NEW 2026 Version of my talk

 

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This slide deck is a revised version of the 2019 talk. I held this as a short talk (30min) on 2026-07-01 at AAU. The slide deck contains all slides, though. The ones I did not show during the talk are hidden.

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2020: Tips and Ideas for Online Presentations

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This slide deck gives some additional ideas for online presenatations. Online presentations pose different challenges than real-life presentations, so go take a look!

NOTE: since I use animation, you need to download the presentation. Animations do NOT work in the online viewer.

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Get the 2019 Version of my talk

DOWNLOAD "Improve Your  Talks! - How to Stand out at Conferences"

Note: I DO use animation, which is why there is no .pdf. Animation also does not work well in the online viewer, so please download to view them. Note also that these are slides for a *presentation*, NOT lecture notes.
Note2: There is additional information in the slide notes and in blind (backup) slides at the end of the presentation - check it out!

given on Wed, 15th May 2019, 15:00 at

Lakeside Labs,

Lakeside Park B04b / 1st floor

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DOWNLOAD my talk "Improve Your Talks & Slides" (7.5MB .pptx)
given on Thu, 14th June 2018, 15:00 at
Lakeside Labs,
Lakeside Park B04b / 1st floor

Note: I DO use animation, which is why there is no .pdf. Animation also does not work well in the online viewer, so please download to view them. Note also that those are slides for a *presentation*, NOT lecture notes.

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My talk "Create Inspiring Talks" took place on

Wed, 24th Sept. 2014, 15:00 at
Lakeside Labs,
Lakeside Park B04b / 1st floor

You can DOWNLOAD the slides (1.8MB .pptx).

Note: I DO use animation, which is why there is no .pdf.

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Blog Posts by me

• Improving Diagrams - WiFi Measurement Example

Other example Slide Decks by me

• Talk for HHÖ - Austrian Hamster Rescue Org, in German
• Netlogo Tutorial - 2 sets of slides for 1.5 day workshop

Note: these slide decks DO use animation, you have to download them to watch them in their full glory. The online viewer does not work well with animation.

 Online Resources

• Simon Peyton Jones: How to give a good research talk
• Garr Reynolds: Presentation tips
• Nancy Duarte: Resonate (free online version)
• TED-Talk: Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
• TED-Talk: Julian Treasure : How to speak so that people want to listen
• TED-Blog: 10 Tips for better slide decks
• PLOS Biology, Weissgerber et al: Beyond Bar and Line Graphs - Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm 

Useful Books

• Traci Nathans-Kelly, Christine G. Nicometo: Slide Rules: Design, Build, and Archive Presentations in the Engineering and Technical Fields (IEEE, 2014)
• Garr Reynolds: Presentation Zen
• Nancy Duarte: slide:ology
• Roger C. Parker's: One-Minute Designer