For decades, meeting rooms and conference halls have been dominated by one-way presentations. But in today’s world of smartphones and unprecedented access to information, passive content broadcasts will most likely fall flat. The ability to effectively facilitate presentations and meetings will be a critical skill for any business leader in the future. By ditching traditional linear slides, conversational presenting allows the speakers to focus on the most burning areas and provide the answers much more quickly. This way, all stakeholders can maximize the time spent in the meeting or conference. During the session, you’ll learn the techniques and best practices that we picked up along the way of working with conferences like SXSW, Adobe Summit, IMEX, and Startup Grind that push the boundarie of meeting design. The session will be both highly interactive and practical so the participants will have the chance to experience the “conversational presenting” first-hand.

1. The Rise of
Conversational
Presenting.
Juraj Pal, Head of Strategic Partnerships

2. Using one word, describe a session
that made an impact on you.
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4. What does a usual session look like?
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6. 55-min presentation.
5-min Q&A.

7. “Interaction needs to be at the heart of how
we organise events. If you want to stay
competitive, you need to make your events
interactive.”
~ Luke Stallard, The Economist

8. What you will experience today.
Experience
conversational
techniques.
Discover
interactive
formats.
Learn
from
each other.
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9. 1. Break the traditional presentations
2. Energizing panel discussions
3. Participant-driven formats
4. Engaging online participants
5. Interactive opening and closing
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10. Which examples do you want to hear
about today?
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12. Break the
traditional
presentations.
WEC, Gainsight, SXSW
Don’t make them present, have a
conversation instead
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Mark Cooper

15. How to pull this off?
● Ask speakers to inject interaction moments into the flow
● Have a moderator to help the speaker tell the story
● Ditch the slides and have a (fireside) chat only
Extra Tip
● Use these formats to change the dynamic of your agenda
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17. Energizing
panel
discussions.
Panels can be interactive too.
Conference Summit, Collision,
World Economic Forum
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19. @peterkomornik | @juraj_holub

25. How to pull this off?
● Create a storyline for the panel and divide it into 3-4 sections
● Set the context with an opening poll
● Ask the panellists to comment on the results
● Integrate the audience questions into the flow early on
Extra Tip
● Let the audience pick the topic that they want to discuss
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26. Participant-
driven formats.
Your audience knows what’s the
best for them.
IMEX: Exclusively
Corporate
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27. @peterkomornik | @juraj_holub

31. How to pull this off?
● Crowdsource the topics at the start of the session or conference
● Let the audience pick the most burning ones
● Arrange tables of 6-8 and assign one topic per each table
● Let people choose their table and discuss for 15-20 min
● Repeat 3x and then do a debrief in the whole group
● The Solution Room (variation)
Extra Tips
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32. Engaging
online
participants.
Convene, ICCA World
They are as important as your
onsite attendees.
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35. How to pull this off?
● Have a dedicated online facilitator
● Prepare pre- and post-studio content
● Bring the online audience on stage
● Create room for audience interaction
Extra Tips
● Don’t stream all of the sessions
● Embed Slido next to the video
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36. Interactive
opening and
closing.
Web Summit, Money20/20
Engage your participants right
from the start
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40. ● The key to creating better connections, is facilitation
● Design polls to capture relevant event data
Extra Tips
● Insert interaction points during low-energy moments
How to pull this off?
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41. What was the most innovative
session you have organized?
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42. How we designed the interaction
1. Interactive opening
2. Selection poll
3. Feedback poll + room comments
4. Group work

43. Looking for more inspiration?
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