Lightning Talk
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A Lighting Talk is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers.
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[edit] History and format
Lighting Talks appear to have orginated at the YAPC 19100 Conference in June 2000 [1] and gradually spread to other technical conferences.
Formats vary between venues. Most conferences will give over a speaking slot ( 30 to 90 minutes ) to them and arrange several talks one after the other during the session.
The length of talks are usually between 1 and 10 minutes with a 5 minute limit being common. In order to allow rapid changes between speakers slides may either be discouraged or a single computer running a Presentation program (such as Microsoft PowerPoint ) is used by all speakers.
[edit] See Also
- Pecha Kucha - A similar presentation format.
[edit] References
- ^ Talks that were presented at YAPC 19100. Retrieved on 2007-01-27.
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