Developing Successful Technical Presentations
Howard Goldstein, President, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc. (HGAI)

IS/IT technical staff and managers, integrators, systems engineers and technical marketing personnel
Anyone who wants to understand more about how one can create and present technical topics effectively from someone who has learned making every mistake in the book yet maintains a successful storage networking education business.

Description:

Soft Skills Development for the Technical Professional is often overlooked and underestimated in terms of the critical skills needed by technical professionals for success. Like a computer system requiring both hardware and software to provide system benefits, technical professionals need hard skills and soft skills in their Professional Development.

This seminar provides an entertaining and informative set of practical tips and tricks that technical presenters can incorporate and addresses traps that they can fall prey to. This as a practical approach to integrating commonly used tools and improving both the presentation creation and delivery of technical topics that will appeal to a large segment of SNW attendees. The ability to build clear technical messages and to communicate those messages is as important as the message itself.

Syllabus includes:

• Technical people do it backwards!
• Gathering acorns!
• What makes an "atrocious" presentation?
• Key tips and tricks for building successful presentations
• Avoiding presentation delivery traps
• Answers vs. Questions Presentations
• Creation and Delivery
• The role of the brain
• Useful Presenter Tool bag items
• And much more

What's exciting about it, why it's important, where it's going?

• It provides training aimed at technical professionals to improve their presentation creation and delivery skills
  
• It's given by a practicing technical professional with teaching and presentation experience
  
• It provides real world, personal examples of "what to do" and "what not to do"