Presentation Training Stand Crew

Rationale

 Each year, guided tours are organised for small groups of visitors (i.e. Public Authorities, keynote speakers and journalists), to see "short presentations" of the projects present at the exhibition.

The ITEA 2 Office gives the opportunity to be supported on how to present in three - five (3 - 5) minutes the key message and business value of the project. Professional training 45-minute training sessions are organised on Monday 25 October. Every participating project at the exhibition is invited to subscribe.

This training will not only be useful for the presentations during the guided tours, but will help you prepare a short, strong presentation which can be presented to all visitors of your booth (see also feedback quotes below).

Subscription
If you wish to improve your presentation and your presentation skills, please subscribe for the training. You can send an email to loes.van.den.borne@itea2.org. Below you will find an overview of the different time slots. If you want, you can us give 3 preferred slots (see timing below). We will do our utmost to take your wishes into account.

Presentation Guidelines

The training will be based on the PowerPoint template, designed for the presentation of your project in your booth. For the template and guidelines please see Powerpoint Presentation. Read the guidelines carefully!!

Furthermore, the overall presentation should:

• aim at a three (3) minutes duration and, by no means, exceed five (5) minutes;
• present the purpose of the project (innovative aspects);
• highlight the business value of the results/achievements;
• address in a high level manner the techniques being used and/or developed;

Some tips:

• The presenter does not necessarily have to be the project leader
• Don't use (precious) time presenting the partners involved; if necessary just mentioning/showing the partners and/or countries is enough. 
• Keep your story positive, limit criticism.  

IMPORTANT: Extra training day
Due to the interest and effectiveness of the training, we decided to organise an extra training session for the ITEA & ARTEMIS Co-summit. This training session is planned on Wednesday 20 October at the ITEA 2 office in Eindhoven.

We may have a few more slots in the evening (between 17:00 - 20:00), but that is still to be determined.

Training format

• Training is based on voluntary participation. The final selection is made by the ITEA 2 Technical Management Team.
• Training slots of 45 minutes, in which two (2) project representatives can be trained. We recommend that other members of your project are also present to watch.

A few feedback quotes given by people who attended the training previously:

• CAM4Home / Juho Perälä (2009)
  “Especially good thing about the training was that it highlights issues on how to give presentation to common public. In my work I am normally in contact with persons who are very technically oriented and we deal about issues related to the technical solutions. With the help of the presentation, I am now able to prepare more understandable presentations also for non-technical audiences”.
  
  
• PRISMA / Jim Rotherham (2009)
  “I have been fortunate to attend several other presentation training sessions before, however I strongly believe in continual evaluation of your personal performance and openness to feedback.”
  
  
• ParMA / Jean-Marc Morel (2009)
  “Being used to make detailed technical presentations does not help in writing public-oriented presentations. This training helps in making the step. It was worthwhile because all visitors to whom we presented it were very satisfied.
  
  
• 3D-Testbench / Andy De Mets (2009)
  “The training was very useful. It provided a very good basis to improve the presentation to be given on the booth. It was a definite asset. 
  All that need to speak during the symposium (presenters in the sessions or on the booth) would benefit of this training. Actually, I would even recommend this to persons (e.g. WP leaders) that need to present the project (or parts of) during ITEA reviews or on the booth at the symposium as well”. 
  
  
• MoSiS / Hans Petter Dahle (2008)
  “We got a much better presentation. We really learned to focus on what is important”.
  
  
• Tecom / Barbara Raither (2008)
  “Ellen de Vries was very good.  She really knows her subject and knows how to teach.  She can tell you that you did something all wrong without humiliating you, and then help you improve it.”
  
  
• GGCC / Arnaud Laprevote (2008)
  “It was again very useful. We had it in 2007, and thought it would be a good idea to have it in 2008 with more people (we were 3 this time). We always learn a lot. All the people that think that they do not need it are wrong. It is very, very useful, and communication skills are too rare in technical people”.
  
  
• GGCC / Arnaud Laprevote (2007)
  “It is very necessary for technical oriented people. Even those who had communication training.  It was better than everything I did till then, because it was applied to a concrete case”
  
  
• Gene-Auto / Tõnu Näks (2007)
  “Very good! She noticed very quickly good and bad points of the given presentation and gave feedback very effective way. The comments were fair and always supported with suggestions on how to improve the weak parts”.
  
  
• €-CONFIDENTIAL / Guillaume Meier (2006)
  “Yes, the training was very useful for understanding what was expected and to define the most valuable items for the presentation.”
  
  
• AGILE / Pekka Abrahamsson (2006)
  “Although I have given many talks in my career, I found this training very useful since nailing down the project’s message in very short time has proven to be difficult. This is even truer when you have been involved in the project for few years and have sometimes difficulty in seeing the big picture. The training was very worthwhile training, with useful tips and hints.”