Give a Great Tech Talk
*Excerpt
Why do so many technical presentations suck? Make sure that yours
doesn't. Josh Berkus and Ian Dees will show you how to share your
ideas with your audience by speaking effectively and (when the
situation warrants it) showing your code.
Description
While a terrific presentation may take talent, making a good one is a
matter of science and practice. As generations of Toastmasters have
proved, anyone can do it. Veteran conference presenter Josh Berkus
will go over his tech talk tips in detail in order to help you improve
your presentation skills. Programmer and slide-slinger Ian Dees will
take on the specific topics of showing code to an audience and
composing your slides.
- How to prepare for a talk
- Nobody cares about your slides
- … but make good ones anyway
- 7 terrible habits of ineffective presenters
- Audience interaction 101
- When your demo crashes
- Curate your code examples
- The audience outside the lecture hall
Speakers who are giving talks later in the conference are especially
encouraged to attend.
Tags
tutorial, presentations, meta, talks
Speaking experience
Speakers
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Project- Website: http://www.pgexperts.com/
- Blog: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup
- Twitter: fuzzychef
Biography
Josh Berkus is best known as a Core Team member of the world-spanning PostgreSQL project. He is CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. and in his 12 years as a database consultant he has worked with CouchDB, MySQL, Oracle, and MSSQL Server as well as Postgres, and is heavily involved in many OSS communities, including BIRT, OSCON, OSfA, Noisebridge and more. He’s also a potter and a mean cook.
Sessions
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- Title: Give a Great Tech Talk
- Track: Culture
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
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Excerpt:
Why do so many technical presentations suck? Make sure that yours
doesn’t. Josh Berkus and Ian Dees will show you how to share your
ideas with your audience by speaking effectively and (when the
situation warrants it) showing your code. - Speakers: Josh Berkus, Ian Dees
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- Title: Relational vs. Non-Relational
- Track: Cooking
- Room: Morrison
- Time: 2:30 – 3:15pm
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Excerpt:
What kind of database do you need?
Thanks to new database projects like CouchDB, TokyoCabinet, Solr and others, there are more non-relational database options available than ever for developers. Yet good information on how to choose what kind of database you need is still scarce. We’ll cure that in this talk.
- Speakers: Josh Berkus
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- Title: Introduction to PostgreSQL
- Track: Cooking
- Room: Broadway
- Time: 1:30 – 2:15pm
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Excerpt:
Interested in using PostgreSQL for you next project, or migrating to it? This tutorial will go over the basics of PostgreSQL administration and database application design.
- Speakers: Josh Berkus, Christophe Pettus
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- Website: http://www.ian.dees.name/
- Twitter: undees
- Identi.ca: undees
- Favorites: View Ian's favorites
Biography
Ian is a Portland-area software utility player who spends his (heh) “spare time” recklessly concocting music, teaching his rug rats how to bicycle, and composing lists in threes.
He is also the author of Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby and co-author of Using JRuby, both published by the Pragmatic Programmers.
Sessions
-
- Title: Give a Great Tech Talk
- Track: Culture
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
-
Excerpt:
Why do so many technical presentations suck? Make sure that yours
doesn’t. Josh Berkus and Ian Dees will show you how to share your
ideas with your audience by speaking effectively and (when the
situation warrants it) showing your code. - Speakers: Josh Berkus, Ian Dees