The Essence of Lighting Talks

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Lightning Talks are not only a great opportunity to start out in public speaking but also a most wonderful way to distill a presentation down to its core messages. In this workshop, lead by Michael R. Lorek, we will look into all the ingredients required to create and deliver a memorable...

Tech Speakers Clinic

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

With the summer break nearly coming to an end, many of you already began work on inspiring forthcoming talks and workshops scheduled for autumn …

Tech Speakers London

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Do you recall those awkward moments when you have forgotten what you wanted to say while your audience in great expectations looks at you? Or have you had confidential doubts even far before you have entered the stage.

Planning and Structuring a Talk

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

A great talk always impresses its audience in a structured well thought through manner, making it delightful to follow the spoken and making the presented most memorable.

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Getting into Tech Speaking: Challenges & Opportunities

Featuring Antonio Cobo Cuenca, Alex Lakatos, Srushtika Neelakantam, Dylan Beattie and Michael R. Lorek

A tech speakers journey is always a story worth telling, from individually inspired circumstances of entering this art form, the appearance of personal challenges and obstacles that needed to be conquered, up to all those wonderful opportunities that arose as a result of reaching visibility.

What Makes a Great Talk? - What Makes a Great Speaker?

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

What Makes a Great Talk? - What Makes a Great Speaker? In this highly interactive and most insightful workshop, lead by Michael R. Lorek, we will discover and identify the necessary ingredients making a tech talk a truly memorable experience to an audience.

Becoming Confident with the Unexpected

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Fear in public speaking is mostly based on dealing with the unexpected, the unknown side aspects of a talk. You may forget what to say, or you might get interrupted with an awkward question while everybody is stares at you.

Facilitating a Workshop

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Having chosen your teaching techniques, prepared all your session material and announced your workshop in a most attractive way, it finally comes the time to run the experiment. Mostly built on assumptions and of course your personal knowledge and experience, we truly need to understand that...

Building a Workshop

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Workshops in their interactive nature are simply great at going beyond a usual talk, they are straight applicable. And in case you have given a few talks on a particular subject, developing a more practical approach in learning, a workshop for certain will be the next logical step.

Tech Speakers Clinic

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Beside our regular topic related events, the particular aim of this session facilitated by Michael R. Lorek is to provide a save space for anybody in need of support on his Tech Speakers journey.

Where is the pertinent information located?

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Participants to the workshop will announce their area of interest and will work together in identifying useful information.

Speaking Purposefully

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

When being asked to give a talk on a specific subject, for sure we feel some sort of empowered. But do we actually feel confident enough to deliver it as desired in a most appropriate manner?

Talking Tech to Non-Techies

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

As an aspiring tech speaker you might heard it before: ‘If you can’t explain it to a 6 year old, you probably don’t understand it yourself’. Or have you ever noticed a speaker with a wealth of knowledge, aiming even unconscious to impress the audience and at the same moment overlook those novices...

Prepare Yourself - Public Speaking for Beginners | Part 2

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Come and learn how to take your talk subject and prepare it to become an engaging and memorable talk!

Conquer Yourself - Public Speaking for Beginners | Part 1

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

When realising for the first time the need to deliver a talk, or even being asked to give one, straight away there is a feeling being awkward when visualising yourself in front of a crowd of people and this can be extremely drowning.

The Value of Visual Aids

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

In this workshop we will look into the visual components that make a talk most memorable. Beside side presentations (it doesn’t need to be death by PowerPoint), we will also look into utilising flip chart and white boards, and the so often overlooked prop.

Key Principles in Slide Design

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

In this brief talk Michael R. Lorek will take us into the world of cognitive load and being memorable to an audience by using a slide deck. Beside a graphical and psychological foundation, for sure pitfalls and best-practice will be mentioned, so aesthetic slides become a storytellers enabler.

The Essence of Lightning Talks

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Lightning Talks are not only just a great opportunity to start in public speaking but also a most wonderful way to distill a presentations message down to the point.

In this session we will look into all the ingredients required to create and deliver a short-form talk with a message that sticks.

Improvisation

Featuring Michael R. Lorek

Do you recall those awkward moments when you have forgotten what you wanted to say while your audience in great expectations looks at you? Or having had confidential doubts even far before you had to enter the stage. A good preventive remedy I identified are improvisational exercises to keep the...