Speaker Instructions

If you have been chosen to speak at IgniteRaleigh2, congratulations. Now what? You sold the community on your idea, now you have to plan how to convey it to a large audience at the Lincoln Theater. It is time to prepare your talk and your slides. Here are the instructions and some helpful hints.

Requirements:

1. Create 20 slides to illustrate and support your presentation. The title slide counts as one of the 20.

2. Use this IgniteRaleigh Title Slide (in powerpoint) to begin your presentation. This is the only format requirement. There is no template for your interior slides.

3. Create your presentation in Powerpoint or Keynote.

4. Each slide will show for only 15 seconds and automatically advance.

5. No animation, video or other moving parts on individual slides.

6. No transitions between slides. We will build large presentation decks grouping presentations in order (to be determined) and set auto advance (every 15 seconds).

7. Slides are due Friday, February 26 by 8pm. Speakers will be contacted how to submit slide decks.

Suggestions:

1. Outline your talk and develop your 3-5 main ideas before creating any slides.

2. Create visual slides that illustrate your points.

3. Avoid bullet points. The audience wants to hear what you have to say, not read it from the screen.

4. A tightly scripted talk that requires you to hit slides when they switch requires lots of practice.

5. Practice, practice, practice.

And here’s a video from Ignite Seattle that provides some helpful hints for preparing your presentation.