This session is sponsored by Microsoft

In a world where attention spans are short and we can’t always meet in person, video has become a vital way to land your message with impact. Video can be composed and layered with diverse content to create stunning effects. Within PowerPoint, we’ve seen the increased customer need in this space and have created a class of new experiences focused on video, including Recording Studio and Cameo. Come and learn about these recent innovations and how you can use video in your next project to create impressive results.

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Learn the tricks the pros use to get audience agreement and sell a product, solution, or idea. Use the latest behavioral psychology and neuromarketing techniques. Use what you learn during class to make a clear, compelling presentation that gets buy-in and improves your success rate. It’s easy—when you know how to do it.

PowerPoint has a reputation for being boring, and its functions really haven’t changed since flint was the cutting edge tool. But things have been really different since Office 365 came along. Now, there are new tools added every few weeks, and there are tremendous gains to be had from a whole host of functions. There are also a few stunning features hidden away that are really old.

So come to this session and learn how to get the most out of PowerPoint and give your presentations a real boost. You’ll see amazing things with AI-driven design ideas, 3D models, custom video cropping, ink drawing tools, interactive Zoom links, live subtitles, live presentations, and the terrific Morph transition.

In this session, you’ll learn to:

• Do more with PowerPoint than you ever have before
• Create sophisticated visual stories in seconds using a variety of tricks and hacks with Morph
• Incorporate amazing AI functions to dictate, design, transcribe, and translate content

For decades, most institutions have standardized on PowerPoint for presentations. However, in the last 10 years, some presentation designers have found themselves using Google Slides, and not always by choice! Perhaps your company has decided to use the Google Workspace suite of apps; or perhaps you felt you needed to use it to collaborate with a team.

Today, Google Slides is used by millions of people, and although it is juvenile in many ways compared to PowerPoint, it doesn’t mean you have to hate the experience of working with it. Internationally renowned designer Mark Heaps has worked on hundreds of presentations using Google Slides, and in this session, he’ll share some of the techniques he’s learned to deal with the transition.

Topics include:

• Fundamentals to help you navigate from the language of PPT to Google Slides
• Tricks and tips to make production a little less stressful, including important quick keys
• Hacks to make life with your collaborators a little bit better
• …and the ultimate question: “I know how to do it in PowerPoint, but how do I do it here?!”

It’s time for our speakers to share their best tips and tricks for presentation design in under 3 minutes. This fast-paced and fun session is always full of mind-blowing tips and laughs. Don’t miss it!