Tag Archive for: presentation

Mind-Blowing Presentations with PowerPoint—Really!

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PowerPoint can do far more than most people ever see. In this session, Richard Goring shows how bold visuals, smart motion, and creative thinking can completely transform how presentations look, feel, and perform. Expect big ideas, astonishing techniques, and moments that challenge what you think PowerPoint can do.

This session focuses on possibility. See how engaging slides come together quickly, how interaction and movement sharpen a message, and how small creative shifts create massive impact. Leave energized, inspired, and ready to push PowerPoint far beyond the expected.

You will learn how to:

  • See PowerPoint in a completely new way
  • Build bold, visual slides that demand attention
  • Use motion to enhance meaning, not distract
  • Turn simple ideas into high-impact moments

PowerPoint: Your Swiss Army Design Tool

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PowerPoint might be the most underestimated design tool on your computer. In this session, Amanda Dalton shows how to turn a familiar app into a surprisingly powerful instrument for real-world design. Learn how to create polished layouts, simple graphics, and fast visual mockups. Amanda focuses on practical techniques that work with PowerPoint’s strengths.

With humor, clarity, and high energy, Amanda makes designing in PowerPoint feel approachable and genuinely fun. You’ll leave with a fresh perspective on what’s possible, and new confidence when using PowerPoint for design work that goes far beyond the slide deck.

Key takeaways:

  • Rethink PowerPoint as a practical design tool for real-world deliverables
  • Design polished layouts and graphics using PowerPoint’s built-in strengths
  • Create quick mockups and visuals without over-engineering the process
  • Share designs with your colleagues when PowerPoint is the only tool they have

Serious Animation for Seriously Fun Presentations

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In this session, Jole Simmons shows how animation can be bold, polished, and genuinely fun when it’s used with intention. You’ll see how motion in PowerPoint can guide attention, control pacing, and add clarity and personality to your slides—without feeling gimmicky or overdone.

Expect a fast-moving, design-first session filled with playful experimentation and “wait… that’s PowerPoint?” moments. Jole treats animation as a creative tool for storytelling, not decoration, showing how small, thoughtful moves can make a big impact.

You’ll leave inspired to push PowerPoint further, experiment with confidence, and create slides that feel polished, engaging, and seriously fun.

Key takeaways:

  • Turn ordinary slides into memorable moments with smart motion choices
  • Add polish and playfulness without crossing into “too much”
  • Have more fun building slides—and make it obvious to your audience

Pro Tips for Stunning, Innovative, and Fast Presentation Design

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In this fast-paced session, the Design Doctor shows you how to transform blank pages, messy slides, and lackluster layouts into stunning, professional designs—quickly. Using a mix of timeless design principles and modern techniques, you’ll learn practical “pro hacks” to elevate your work in minutes, not hours. Whether you’re stuck with a blank canvas or a design in need of an emergency fix, you’ll leave with the skills and shortcuts to diagnose problems fast and prescribe fixes that wow every audience.

You will learn how to:

  • Diagnose weak layouts and apply fast fixes that instantly improve balance and flow
  • Transform blank slides into professional designs using proven visual structures
  • Apply color, contrast, and typography hacks that elevate any design in minutes
  • Use classic design principles to simplify cluttered, confusing content
  • Create stunning, innovative visuals quickly—no matter what tool you use

Cinematic Presentations: Creating Dynamic, Immersive Content

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The best presentations make a lasting impression on your audience and change their behavior. To do that, you need to engage, inspire, and motivate. PowerPoint offers some terrific techniques to do just that.

In this session, you’ll see how to create dynamic and immersive content, suitable for viewing anywhere from a small laptop to a huge ballroom. You’ll see how to deliver mesmerizing experiences for your audience by coordinating with presenters, camera teams, and graphic ops. Pick and choose the techniques to apply to your own content and adapt them to your brand.

All roads lead to PowerPoint, but where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

Key takeaways:

  • Transform your slides with techniques for dynamic and immersive content delivery
  • Think outside the slide to create unique effects
  • Incorporate external elements such as cameras and staging into the presentation

PowerPoint’s Vector Toolkit: Built for Designers

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Leave aside your pixels, your JPEGs, and your PNGs, and dive into all that PowerPoint can do with vector content. In this session, you’ll shift your mindset from pixels to paths and learn how to build graphics that stay editable, scalable, and lightweight.

Explore how PowerPoint handles shapes, illustrations, icons, charts, and type as true vector objects. This session will get you using PowerPoint more like Illustrator and less like Photoshop to create dynamic and editable graphics while keeping file size to a minimum. You’ll walk away with concrete techniques for creating cleaner, more flexible graphics that hold up in real-world PowerPoint workflows.

You will learn how to:

  • Draw and refine custom shapes using Bezier curves and PowerPoint’s shape-editing tools
  • Combine, subtract, and intersect shapes using PowerPoint’s pathfinder-style commands
  • Gain more control over type, SVGs, and charts by converting them to pure vector shapes
  • Learn the best techniques and file formats for icons, logos, and illustrations

Transforming Wordy Slides into Clear Visual Stories

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Text overload is a presentation killer and the #1 frustration for designers and communicators. In this energizing session, you’ll learn five pro techniques to fix cluttered slides fast. Discover how to go from wordy to worthy, maintain credibility, and satisfy even the most text-committed authors while improving clarity and engagement. Perfect for anyone who wants slides that look great, read well, and win audiences over.

You will learn how to:

  • Turn text-heavy slides into clear, eye-catching visuals that audiences actually want to read
  • Get buy-in from authors who insist on “more text” without losing their trust or message
  • Design slides that shine on screen and double as effective handouts

Microsoft Sponsored Breakfast Session: Mastering Copilot in PowerPoint for Next-Level Presentations

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This session is sponsored by Microsoft

Ready to level-up your slide game? In this interactive session, we’ll unlock the full potential of Copilot in PowerPoint and its latest AI-powered features.

Whether you’re a designer, marketer, or communicator, you’ll walk away with proven strategies, creative tips, and hands-on demos to save time and elevate your work. Join us to cut your production time, boost creativity, and deliver impactful presentations—every time.

From Bland to Grand: Slide Design Makeovers

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Watch average, “been there done that” designs be transformed into visually stunning slides in real time! This session walks you through a step-by-step process, revamping poorly designed slides into clear, compelling visuals that captivate audiences and elevate your messages. Learn practical tips and techniques to turn bland slide decks into grand designs.

You’ll learn:

  • Practical slide transformation techniques
  • How to jump-start creativity and find inspiration quickly
  • How simple design elements create interest and value

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How to Take Your Presentation From Bland to Grand

Awesome Animation

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Stop making boring, static slides and bring your presentations to life with animation! In this fast-paced, fun presentation, Jole Simmons will show you how to use animation to keep your audience engaged, make your story more compelling, and take your presentations to the next level. From basic text and object animations to more advanced motion paths and timing techniques, you’ll learn how to build a rhythm in your slides to keep things moving without overwhelming your audience.

Topics include:

  • Master PowerPoint’s animation and motion path features to create smooth, dynamic slides
  • Learn how to control timing and sequencing to build a narrative with your animations
  • Use triggers and layers to add interactivity and make your presentations stand out
  • Discover ways to animate graphs and charts for better visual impact
  • Avoid common animation mistakes and create polished, professional presentations