How to be a Good Presenter and Actually Enjoy It!

Session Category General Open Source Sessions Room 1085 Audience All Attendees Time Slot Sat 1:00pm to 1:45pm (11/2/24)

There's a lot of resources out there on how to give a good conference presentation, but how many are actually geared towards putting you truly at ease with the process?  Come and learn about presenting from a web developer with over twenty years of presentation experience who is also a twenty-year veteran professional puppeteer, giving him unique insight into public speaking from the theatrical perspective as well.  Learn how to set yourself up for success by making yourself as comfortable as possible from the time you submit your proposal to the time you conclude your presentation.  Who knows?  Maybe next year you'll be the one at the podium!

This session is for anyone who's ever remotely thought about giving a presentation, yet has hesitated to do so.  However, even if you have a few presentations under your belt, you can learn how to improve your craft while reducing your anxiety. 

[This presentation will be based on an outline available at https://webdev.iac.gatech.edu/training/be-good-presenter-enjoy-it]

[An archive of my past web development presentations is available at https://webdev-pres.iac.gatech.edu/]

About the Speaker

Kevin Pittman

Web Services Architect at Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Atlanta, GA

Kevin is a Web Services Architect for the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech, supporting all of the websites in a college made up of six schools and more than a dozen project centers. He has been working with Drupal for over seventeen years, going back to Drupal 5, and in his spare time, amongst other creative pursuits, Kevin is a professional puppeteer and puppet builder.