PechaKucha Competition

Participate and win prizes!

Speakers

Vijay Chandiramani , “In Control with Morphology”
James Ward, “Distributed Adversarial Multi-Robot Patrol”
Emanuelle Pulvirenti, “The Next Small Step”
Mazvydas Gudelis, “Developing a Computer Vision Pipeline for Automated Marine Animal Analysis”
Helen McGloin, “Robots as WEEE”
Ridhi Bansal, “Can we combine Cells to form Robots?”

What is PechaKucha?

PechaKucha is a style of short presentations that requires a speaker to deliver 20 consecutive slides that automatically advance every 20 seconds. Therefore, the total presentation time for a PechaKucha is 6 minutes and 40 seconds. PechaKucha, which means “the sound of conversation” or “chit-chat” in Japanese, is a popular social event and a novel way for companies and educators to help employees and students sharpen public speaking skills.

Why participate?

Good communication skills are a key to success in academia and industry. Being a better communicator will give you an edge in job interviews, help you to deliver great talks and excite and inspire people to come and work with you. The specific format of PechaKucha forces you to think about the “soul” of your research. You can’t hide behind formulas or complex graphs, but rather you have to think about what is behind all the technicalities. When you have gone through preparing and giving a PechaKucha presentation, you will have a much better understanding of your own research. In addition, you will have a set of boiled down core messages that can communicate your research to a wide range of audiences.

What can you win?

We will have a jury of three people who will judge all talks. The first three places will receive Amazon Vouchers:

Place: £ 100
Place: £ 50
Place: £ 25

What are the rules?

The rules are simple:

20 slides (Powerpoint) that switch automatically over every 20 seconds
Maximum 6 words per slides (exception is title slide)
No videos
Topic has to be about your research

Getting some help

We are organising a Q&A session next Wednesday (June 8th) at 1 PM [Zoom link].

Watch other PechaKucha talks
Think about what is your key message
Thinks about your key points to support your message
Derive a structure
Use powerful images (good source of royalty free high quality pictures is Unsplash)
Don’t use formulas - There is no time to explain!
Don’t show data plots - There is no time to explain!
Don’t think of a PechaKucha talk like a conference talk - PechaKucha is about communicating principles and ideas not results!
Therefore, don’t present results, but rather ideas and insights!
Your main goal should be to inspire people
Write down your talk and learn it by heart
Practise, practise, practise - one talk takes only 6m40s
If you are not sure about a rule or how to approach the talk, ask me: helmut.hauser@bristol.ac.uk