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by bastijn 2895 days ago
- Don't put too much on your slides.

- Don't put too much on your slides.

- Don't put too much on your slides

See if you can do without any bullet list. Now you are forced to talk from your experience in a natural form. You'll be fine.

More serious:

- don't go into the trap of too much introduction and theory before getting to the actual matter. E.g. when doing a talk on GPU image processing don't spend 30 minutes on how a GPU works.

- Know your audience experience with the matter if possible (see above)

- If possible, do demos. If have demos, consider if it makes sense to run them _before_ the tech slides. They tend to make more sense after seeing a live demo.

- If you have demos, rehearse them. Make sure you get the timing right.

- leave room for questions.