Posts tagged "presentations"

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AWS re:Invent 2014 conference slide showing Constantin in a light blue shirt standing on stage. The slide title reads “What you'll get out of this session” with five bullet points: A lower AWS bill, A more scalable, robust, dynamic architecture, More time to innovate, Real-world customer examples, and Easy to implement. A mountain with a flag icon appears in the bottom right corner of the slide.

3 slides everyone uses (but you should delete)

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In 2014, I was preparing my AWS re:Invent presentation on “Running Lean Architectures.” I had my slides ready: agenda, bio, resources. Then I stopped. Why was I presenting this in the first place? The answer: to help people save money on AWS. Not to check boxes on a corporate template. Not to prove …

Silhouette of a woman on stage with arms outstretched in a confident pose, backlit by golden and blue stage lights with a blurred audience in the background.

Before you present: 7 critical checks for tech speakers

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February 1998. Munich. Sun Microsystems. My first customer presentation. I stood in front of a roomful of IT professionals with a marketing deck about our “newest, better workgroup server.” I hadn’t rehearsed beyond flipping through the slides a couple of times. I didn’t know who these people were o…