Pecha Kucha

Again, I find how far I am behind the times by discovering things that I have been saying about presentations (and in particular, presentations using MS Powerpoint) have been being said all around the world for donkey's years.

I just didn't know ... but now I do !! Wired Mag reported on it in September.

Pecha Kucha even has Wikipedia page which explains everything, I think.

Conceptually clear and should be adopted ( Perhaps it has been) world wide !!

The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise, the interest level up and to have many presenters sharing their ideas within the course of one night. Therefore the 20x20 Pecha Kucha format was created: each presenter is allowed a slideshow of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each. This results in a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds on a stage before the next presenter is up. Each event usually has 14 presenters. Presenters (and much of the audience) are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art and creative fields, but recently it has also streched over to the business world. ref: Wikipedia