The Art of Effectively Communicating Complex, Highly Technical Work in Three Minutes Slides

Given three minutes, you have to present your complex, highly technical work to an audience that is educated, but that has specialized neither in your personal niche nor even in your broad field of endeavor. Is it even possible? Can you capture the non-specialist imagination and inspire them to ask for more? Sheer enthusiasm is not enough to hold people’s attention for any length of time. To engage them, it takes practice and empathy. First challenge you have to kill the jargon. In this webinar we address the art of brief, effective live communication of complex technical material in language suited to a non-specialist audience. We draw on actual 3MT® experience, including organizing, mentoring and hands-on competing. Much of what we discuss is applicable to regular technical presentations: the importance of first impressions, subtext, authenticity, articulation, stage presence, slide composition, metaphor, story-telling, authenticity, articulation, and much more.