IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - April 2017 - 7

Flying Animals and the Art of Presentation

W

hat do you do when your
IEEE Young Professionals
(YP) event at an IEEE conference goes kaflooey? Call
in the flying animals! At the 2016 IEEE
International Conference on Consumer
Electronics (ICCE) Berlin, we had a different kind of YP event. In July 2016,
Tom Wilson (the conference chair) and
Tom Coughlin (chair of the CE Society
Future Directions Committee) met at the
IEEE Panel of Conference Organizers in
Montreal and were inspired by discussions of nontraditional events to try and
pull off something different for the YP
session in Berlin.
Coughlin went out and purchased a
collection of small flying animals (a
monkey, a chicken, a duck, a frog, a
pig, and a cow). An invitation was sent
out to the YPs asking them to participate in a special session that used the
flying animals (and did we say they
screamed when they flew?) to provide
suggestions to attendants at the conference on how to give more engaging
and informative presentations.
The invitation that was sent out read
as follows:
Have you ever wondered how
interesting-or boring-audiences find your presentations?
Do you think in the 21st century that the "facts will speak for
themselves?" Think again; the
biggest impact in a presentation
for most listeners comes from the
delivery of the content. If you are
going to be an effective presenter,
you need to know how to make an
impactful presentation.
Whether you need to convince
other scientists, grant agencies,
investors, bosses, or potential
employees, this YP seminar is
your chance to gain frank feedback from the audience. On the
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2016.2640521
Date of publication: 15 March 2017

Toy animals were tossed when audience members had some tips for the presenters' talks.

From left: Tom Coughlin and Tom Wilson lay out some of the flying animals (inside
the black oval).

A special session
used the flying animals
(and did we say they
screamed when they flew?)
to provide suggestions.
other side of the podium, audience
participants will learn by counterexample how to communicate and
persuade effectively.
Selected speakers will present
a ten-minute version of a conference paper, a technology idea, or

a business startup proposal to a
group of their peers as well as
industry professionals. Their presentation will be judged by the
audience members who will have
an opportunity to express their
opinions using flying toy animals!
Sign up to be a speaker by
writing to Abdullah, CE Society
YP chair. Don't miss this opportunity to participate in an informative and entertaining session!
The session started out with Coughlin and Wilson providing tips on how
to give different types of presentations
for various types of audiences. These
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