Presentations: Madison’s High Tech Happy Hour and the Sony Technical Symposium

Late Wednesday afternoon my coworker Markus asked me to give a presentation for him about Sony on Thursday at a Pecha Kucha event in Madison.  It’s held as part of  High Tech Happy Hour – a fantastic networking / free drinking opportunity that’s definitely going on my schedule for next month.

Pecha Kucha is a pretty cool concept – you get 20 slides that auto advance every 20 seconds.  Markus had already submitted a deck for me, which meant that I needed to take his script and make it work for me at that pace.  Given that I only had a few hours to do that, I’d say it went pretty well.

About a month ago I submitted a paper to Sony Electronics’ annual Technical Symposium. Out of the 50 or so papers that were submitted mine was chosen as one of 5 finalists, so I got to go to San Diego to present it in front of about 250 engineers and managers. I did such a good job of presenting that the audience chose mine as the best paper!

Given that I did so well at the presentation, I really want to try Pecha Kucha or Ignite again sometime!