Checklist for presentations

• Behaviour:
  • Know what you are talking about
  • Check in advance with the technical people what system they have and you can use
  • vShow up as early as possible to confirm its working. Make yourself look competent.
  • Set up an account on your computer that you use only for presentations.
• Physical:
  • two printouts of your materials. When doing a decisive presentation to an important client give them the printout with space for their notes.
  • laptop, charger, power adapter if abroad.
  • cellphone that can be a wifi hotspot
  • long hdmi cable.
  • hdmi to vga/DisplayPort adapter.
  • laser pointer.
  • dry erase markers
  • When you are somewhere with high heat and/or humidity bring a spare shirt.
• Data:
  • file saved on hard drive, in cloud and on memory stick.
  • have the presentation saved in different formats: PPTX, PPT, ODP, PDF, each slide individually in JPG.
  • have a separate saved copy of any videos/audio embedded in your presentation on the same device that has your presentation.
  • Create multiple versions of your presentation. Some with the videos, some without. Some formatted 16:9 some 4:3.